BioPosture: Septuagenarian entrepreneurs bounce back
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Going in Style File comes Sleep BioLogics Inc., a startup from two 70-something entrepreneurs who wouldn’t take retirement lying down. Actually, Sleep BioLogics is…
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For homebound-ed answers, ask the right questions
By HARRY AURORA // The distressing fact about American education is that the deck is stacked against many children before they open their first textbook. Much of the nation’s attention,…
Adelphi honored for ‘personal’ enrollment effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // Riding a 9.7 percent spike in annual applications – pushing its total number of applicants past 13,000 for the first time – Adelphi University and its…
As PGA Championship looms, Northwell gears up
By GREGORY ZELLER // When the masses congregate on Long Island in May for one of professional golf’s crown-jewel events, they’ll be in good hands, medically speaking. New Hyde Park-based…
In innovative ‘opera,’ a new weapon in the opioid war
By GINA CZARK // How bad is our opioid epidemic? Consider these stats: In 1993, America’s peak year of gun violence, we lost approximately 40,000 people to firearms. The AIDS…
With Northwell’s new joint jobs, it’s hip to be home
By GREGORY ZELLER // A need for speed – and revolutionary, multidisciplinary approaches to pre-op education and post-op recovery – have Northwell Health kicking joint-replacement patients to the curb. Relax,…
All systems flow: StorEn batteries in critical test phase
By GREGORY ZELLER // In an energetic example of Stony Brook University’s science-commercialization system firing on all cylinders, university researchers are getting into the vanadium flow – testing a prototype…
Yes, there is life after HQ2 – if we’re smart about it
By PHIL RUGILE // With the Amazon pullout from Queens, politicians and businesspeople are apoplectic about our future. Well, hold on – when life throws you lemons, time to make…
SUNY Old Westbury sets new grad-degree programs
By GREGORY ZELLER // Three new graduate-degree programs – including the college’s first fully online degree program – will debut later this calendar year at SUNY College at Old Westbury….
At the Cradle of Aviation, STEM inspires (in a ‘Big’ way)
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s most innovative institutions is sharing some big-screen inspiration with tomorrow’s brightest minds. As part of its National Engineers Week (Feb. 17-23) observations,…
Community wellness wins in Hofstra’s 2019 ‘Challenge’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Roughly $60,000 in cash and prizes is up for grabs in an ambitious Hofstra University competition designed to improve health, wellness and socioeconomic conditions in underserved…
LICA kicks off 2019 slate with tastiest Capital Forum
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Long Island Capital Alliance always has an appetite for success, but the next installment of its Capital Forum series takes that mantra fairly literally. Scheduled…
Environmentalists cheer CCPA, blast ‘federal inactivity’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A statewide coalition rallying for “climate justice” delivered high praise Friday for some of the sharpest environmental regulations ever considered by Albany. With the New York…
In this ‘Green Mile,’ the Island has a healthy head start
By JEFF GUILLOT // It’s been roundly embraced by progressive presidential candidates and panned by conservatives as a pipe dream dripping with bongwater. But regardless of your position on the…
New licensing deal adds fresh buzz to joint venture
By GREGORY ZELLER // A partnership between a Stony Brook biotech and a Canadian pharmaceutical-solutions provider is growing like a weed. Less than a year since introducing the world’s first…