Calculating risks, rewards in Nassau warehouses
By HARRY COGHLAN // Nassau County has limited space to work with when it comes to the construction of warehousing facilities that allow companies to manufacture, house and distribute products…
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In e-book, innovation stories waiting to be written
By GREGORY ZELLER // Communication Strategy Group is putting its e-book where its mouth is. The Huntington-based “brand storyteller” has powered up “Brandtelling for Business,” a free e-book detailing the…
Northwell targets safety, not rights, in smart gun fight
By GREGORY ZELLER // With Northwell Health in the lead, a battalion of nationwide healthcare networks is uniting against gun violence – and it’s hoping to leave politics outside. Instead,…
Getting to the source, with health inequities laid bare
By TERRY LYNAM // The focus on systemic racism has never been more intense in the United States, with daily news coverage of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder…
Applied DNA, Northwell join hunt for COVID mutants
By GREGORY ZELLER // As humanity takes the upper hand in the war against COVID-19, the virus that causes the disease continues to mutate – and New York State’s largest…
When the laser wars raged across Long Island
By TOM MARINER // Lasers are everywhere: medicine, communications, pointers, Hollywood ray guns. “LASER,” of course, is an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation,” coined by Gordon…
Adelphi innovations eye the workforce, and the world
By GREGORY ZELLER // Adelphi University has gone on a serious innovation spree, adding new continuing-education workshops, advanced-business certificates and an ambitious bachelor’s degree program with an international mien. The…
It’s time for unity on a long-term East End food plan
By KATE FULLAM // Two years ago, the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute engaged the East End Food Institute in a research project aimed at melding data, demographics and media coverage into a portrait…
Europeans (and other earthlings) honor LI professors
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two Long Island professors have added noteworthy honors to their impressive résumés – one from Europe’s home of scientific excellence, the other from Earth’s base for…
Noting need for continued testing, Acupath steps on it
By GREGORY ZELLER // One year after perfecting the Pandemic Pivot, an innovative Plainview laboratory is doubling down on its unparalleled COVID-19 testing abilities – even as the vaccines flow….
Biden’s offshore wind plan shines bright on Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Biden Administration has announced an ambitious plan to dramatically increase the use of offshore wind power along the East Coast – and stakeholders of all…
As demand tops supply, what’s your tech-talent plan?
By MITCH MAIMAN // Long Island’s economy is recovering slowly from the COVID downturn and overall unemployment remains relatively high – but the situation is quite different in the technology…
War drums beat again as Amazon targets Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // Attempts to locate Amazon’s ballyhooed “HQ2” second headquarters in Long Island City – on paper, an unparalleled boon for the entire region, particularly Nassau and Suffolk…
Ex-Nassau film commissioner ready for her closeups
By GREGORY ZELLER // That’s a wrap for Nassau County Film Commissioner Debra Markowitz, who has officially resigned from her post. But as the credits roll on her county career,…
CEBIP marks 10 years with refined skills, fresh blood
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s hard to say who’s been more successful – the clients of the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program, or CEBIP itself. Either way, Stony Brook University’s…