$200M gift, new name for tuition-free LI med school
By GREGORY ZELLER // Welcome to the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine … and don’t let the new name fool you, your money’s still no good here. But…
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For Long Island businesses, net-zero ideas abound
By BOB ISAKSEN // The urgency around global warming and climate change is increasing worldwide – and especially so here on Long Island, where rising sea levels, severe weather events…
With impressive speed, MachWall CONNECT has landed
By GREGORY ZELLER // If there’s one thing that’s going to bring society together again in the Age of Coronavirus, it’s building a wall. In fact, a whole bunch of…
No. 502: TopDocs, bottom dollars and lines in the sand, on a good day to be a millionaire
Place your bets: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as Long Island eagerly anticipates its Phase 1 reopening (not just yet) and we patiently muscle through another WFH workweek (marking,…
No. 501: On Kepler, Mickey Mouse and Joltin’ Joe – and an A+ for Farmingdale State
Almost there: Another work-from-home workweek ends, another stuck-at-home weekend begins – welcome to May 15, dear readers, exactly two-thirds through The Spring That Time Forgot. Of course, it’s a…
SBU School of Health Tech finds ideal dean (at LIU)
By GREGORY ZELLER // A veteran of health-professions education has taken the reins at Stony Brook University’s School of Health Technology and Management. Stacy Jaffee Gropack, who became dean of…
For those with ‘charging anxiety,’ a lite in the dark
By GREGORY ZELLER // This is no AAA battery – a Long Island City startup with Long Island connections is bringing its field-tested “charge-sharing” tech straight to The Show. Hoplite…
Debtless docs debut at tuition-free LI med school
By GREGORY ZELLER // Future doctors ceremoniously started their medical educations at schools around the world July 26, but the “white coat ceremony” at one Long Island institute held a…
LI schools snag $12.6M in state facilities funds
By GREGORY ZELLER // Seven-figure stipends are flowing to private colleges and universities across Long Island as part of a hefty package of state grants supporting statewide campus-infrastructure projects. All…
SUNY Old Westbury to offer a forensic-accounting first
By GREGORY ZELLER // In a Long Island first – and a New York State rarity – SUNY Old Westbury will begin offering a Master of Science in Forensic Accounting…
Alive and well, Start-Up NY adds two LI biotechs
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two early-stage Long Island biotechs are among 10 new companies hitching their wagon to one of Albany’s primary business-development efforts. Start-Up NY, the Empire State Development…