To avoid legal pitfalls, startups need the right guides
By EUGENE BARNOSKY // Chances are, as you prepare to launch your startup company, you will be eager to attack and complete the projects on your to-do list: draft a…
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Discovery Channel joins Alda’s ‘Clear+Vivid’ cast
By GREGORY ZELLER // Decades after “M*A*S*H” and “The West Wing,” screen legend Alan Alda is still crystal clear about his vivid societal mission, which has always combined the entertaining…
Bethpage backs a new gear for Suffolk tourism
By GREGORY ZELLER // An ambitious “micro-mobility” program will look to change traffic patterns, pedestrian potential and carbon footprints in four Suffolk County communities. County Executive Steve Bellone announced this…
For secure signatures, DNA is mightier than the sword
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s busiest biotechs has (literally) inked an exclusive security deal with a leading global penmaker. Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences this week announced…
Albany energizes ‘solar-plus-storage’ across LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // State officials are once again supercharging residential and commercial clean-generation energy technologies on Long Island. With Albany having already set parameters for energy-storage technologies – and committed…
For freedom, justice and innovation, united we stand
By ERNIE FAZIO // We are about to celebrate the founding of this country, a good time to think about what we elected to call ourselves. The United States. Really? Are…
SBU space man returns for stellar SSERVI sequel
By GREGORY ZELLER // A blockbuster summer sequel will see Stony Brook University soar into space, once again. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected eight research teams to…
‘Manifesto’ destiny: colorblind economic development
By ROSALIE DRAGO // Cities across the nation are committing to an “Equity Manifesto,” not just as a matter of social fairness but a matter of economic survival. Equity and…
Caithness LI boosts science-focused Island graduates
By GREGORY ZELLER // A progressive energy provider marking a decade of Long Island energy production has provided $25,000 in college scholarships to dozens of graduating Island high schoolers. A…
For this data-driven Antarctic ecologist, it all adds up
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the bottom of the world comes Stony Brook University’s latest top scientist – a Big Data-driven ecologist with an unprecedented passion for penguins. Adélie penguins,…
At the Zucker School, zipping along the underserved
By GREGORY ZELLER // An innovative pipeline program will funnel economically and socially disadvantaged collegians into the Zucker School of Medicine. Going by the zippy acronym ZPP, the Zucker School…
Social justice shines in annual ERASE Racism awards
By GREGORY ZELLER // A civic-minded entrepreneur, a leading Long Island educator and a longtime champion of social-equality causes have been honored by the region’s most progressive civil rights group….
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….
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…