Dean machine: High honors as Adelphi scores again
By GREGORY ZELLER // Add another rising Pace University faculty member to the roster at Adelphi University, which has plucked a Pace professor for the second time in a week….
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Island environmental innovator swings in $966M deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // A hot-potato environmental innovator with a vital Great River operational hub has been acquired in a nearly $1 billion stock deal. Idaho-based US Ecology Inc. announced…
It’s summer, and educational inequities are widening
By HARRY AURORA // Everyone loves summer vacation. But it’s vital that school districts and parents acknowledge the consequences of taking an extended period of time away from learning. Multiple…
Habitat Suffolk’s milestone moment is on the house
By GREGORY ZELLER // With projects all over the county and a bevy of happy homeowners moving into new digs, busy Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk is closing in on…
Employees honor Island CEOs with Glassdoor nods
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two visionary Long Island leaders made the cut Wednesday, when digital employment hub Glassdoor named its top United States CEOs of 2019. Northwell Health Chief Executive…
Sachem scores in LI-friendly ‘Smart Schools’ round
By GREGORY ZELLER // More than $12.5 million in school-technology upgrades are coming to Long Island schools through the latest funding round of Albany’s Smart Schools investment plan. The Smart…
‘Ignored’ nonprofits rich with internship opportunities
By BERNADINE WALLER and THOMAS WARD JR. // A fine arts major creates a wall-sized mural for a seriously ill child through nonprofit organization Splashes of Hope. A political science…
With synthetic opioids lurking, DNA detector scores
By GREGORY ZELLER // With synthetic opioids increasingly implicated in the alarming number of drug-overdose deaths plaguing the nation, a stalwart Long Island biotech’s DNA-based tracking technology has received a…
Focused ‘placemaking’ would fill LI’s work/life needs
By PHIL RUGILE // Anyone who follows initiatives like downtown revitalization has likely come across the term “placemaking.” This refers to spaces created for specific purposes, usually capitalizing on a…
New home, new partners for ambitious STEAM startup
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s all coming together for slightly nomadic nonprofit We Connect the Dots, which may have found a permanent home – and has definitely identified some promising…
To spark innovation, the master becomes the servant
By MITCH MAIMAN // “Servant management” leadership techniques are not new. This leadership concept, founded in 1970 by Robert Greenleaf, is broadly based on a philosophy that says the manager’s…
In apple cider, a hard life with sweet rewards
By AMBROSE CLANCY // You know cider, right? That’s the stuff in plastic jugs you buy at a supermarket or a roadside stand out east when the leaves begin turning…
Stakeholders unite to support pharma/nutra’s future
By GREGORY ZELLER // With more than 150 companies and 9,800-plus employees, the pharmaceutical/nutraceutical industry is already a Long Island cornerstone – and some major regional stakeholders want to see…
For downtown Hicksville, the circle is now ‘Complete’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Nassau County has started the ball rolling on an ambitious effort to bring safer, more convenient thoroughfares to one of Long Island’s most densely populated downtowns….
SBU commercialization shines at Incubator Showcase
By GREGORY ZELLER // Innovation is always on display at the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology, but it truly shined this week, when the stars of Stony…