As climates change, a strong case for new land laws
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // We need a new, long-range vision for land-use regulation. The land we are regulating is changing rapidly, and this presents challenges and consequences we are…
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In new Eastern Suffolk BOCES tech, the eyes have it
By GREGORY ZELLER // First Anne Sullivan, now this. Fans of historical education will recall Sullivan as the gifted 19th century teacher who helped blind and deaf student (and future…
Coronavirus and you: How to survive the bugocalypse
By ANTHONY SANTELLA // The deadly coronavirus that originated 7,500 miles away in China may have found its way to Long Island, where health officials announced last week that a…
In vagus research, the long-term odds just went up
By GREGORY ZELLER // The latest bioelectronics breakthrough from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research is a long story. Literally. But it’s a good one: For the first time, electric…
A Queens machine rules them all at VEX’s LI robo-thon
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s brightest STEM students proved no match Saturday for unstoppable robots from Queens – though the invading automatons did have a distinct advantage. Adelphi University…
Tickets, please: Tough techie Janam taps new vertical
By GREGORY ZELLER // The innovation machine keeps on cranking at Janam Technologies, which has bulked up its rough-and-tumble line of worksite tablets and punched in with a “next-generation contactless…
Dig it: ULC, British utility rolling out robotic excavator
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of the United Kingdom’s largest natural gas networks has partnered with a Long Island-based robotics ace to disrupt one of the costliest and most time-consuming…
At NSUH, a cell of the century in the Don Monti unit
By GREGORY ZELLER // That light at the end of the tunnel comes from the Northwell Health Cancer Institute, which provided hope – and bona fide bone marrowy health improvements…
As resolutions crumble, dishing on doomed diets
By AMBROSE CLANCY // How’s that New Year’s diet going? What? You’re back to Danish and bacon for breakfast, chicken nuggets for lunch and beers and pizza-with-extra-cheese (you know, with…
Island schools to run $20M institute for wind-farmers
By GREGORY ZELLER // The winds of workforce development are blowing again through Long Island’s leading academic institutions, two of which will anchor a new state-sanctioned project targeting the offshore…
Sound investments, on an Island filled with Wonder
By TOM MARINER // A “blast from the past” from your most recent newsletter: A few years after Ray Kurzweil introduced the first Reading Machine, he cranked out his first…
A simple code for collegians: programming for all
By MATTHEW WRIGHT // Has higher education gone soft on coding? Isolated in our computer science departments, it’s not reaching the wider student audience I believe it should. At Adelphi…
At NYIT, a science lab also working on the workforce
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York Institute of Technology’s brightest will multiply their minds in the university’s new Biomedical Sciences and Bioengineering Laboratory, where biology times engineering equals 21st century…
Codagenix scores big with $20M Series B round
By GREGORY ZELLER // A stellar $20 million investment round has blasted a Long Island biotech into the stratosphere, and a new tax bracket. Farmingdale-based Codagenix Inc., a 2012 startup…
Debrief: Abiding Kevin Law, as LI collides with destiny
Hard to believe, but it’s been five long years since Innovate LI last Debriefed Kevin Law, who’s now logged a full decade as President and CEO of the Long…