No. 28: John Nader – Positively progressive at FSC
On an island populated by multiple world-class colleges and universities, Farmingdale State College stands alone. Counted among Long Island’s top schools – and the all-world scholars who run them –…
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No. 27: Dawn Smallwood – The Mother of All Cops
Raised by strong women with long careers in professional healthcare, Dawn Smallwood seemed destined to become a doctor. She even went to college to study biology – but fate had…
No. 26: Paule Pachter – Always a Full Plate
The Herculean efforts of Chief Executive Officer Paule Pachter and his team at Long Island Cares-The Harry Chapin Food Bank cannot be overstated. The former deputy commissioner of the…
No. 25: Robert Catell – With Energy To Spare
Robert Catell is a living legend of the regional energy sector and an iconic socioeconomic innovator, across Long Island and beyond. From his days as a Brooklyn Union Gas junior…
No. 24: John Wallace – Off The Court, But Still Scoring
John Wallace needs no introduction to fans of the Syracuse Orange or the New York Knicks. But you might not know how deeply the Rochester native’s roots run throughout New…
No. 23: Donna Drake – When Talk Shows Collide
Welcome to the first-ever Long Island Multimedia Crossover Virtual Extravaganza! Drake Media Studios and Innovate Long Island proudly present this groundbreaking (dare we say mind-blowing?) collaboration – at once…
Episode 15: Susan Poser – Enter, The Lioness!
The Hofstra Pride has a new leader, and change is in the air. Hofstra University President Susan Poser, the first woman to fill the post, has completed her first 100…
Episode 14: David Hamilton – Most Energetic Innovator
David Hamilton is one of the hardest workers in all of Long Island innovation. As executive director of Stony Brook University’s Clean Energy Business Incubator Program and chief operating officer…
Episode 13: Michael Cardinuto – Ghost of a Chance
Michael Cardinuto knows what scares you. The co-founder of Long Island Paranormal Investigations – by day, a lead director at Westbury-based special-needs social-services agency Tiegerman Community Services – spends his…
Episode 12: Terri Alessi-Miceli – Industrial Strength
There are networking organizations, lobbying groups and tradeshows … and then there’s the HIA-LI. With its forward-looking committees, 1,300-plus member companies, trendsetting tradeshows and 11-square-mile industrial park – packed daily…
No. 607: Making macaroni, writing cheques, advancing New York Tech – and they say it’s your birthday, Ringo!
The days can’t be like the nights: The back of our necks (are) getting dirty and gritty, dear readers, and it’s hotter than a match head as we work…
Episode 11: Christine Riordan – Adelphi’s Secret is Out
Adelphi University is pulling back the curtain. Deep in the Galactically Underrated File sits Adelphi, a 125-year-old private institution that’s routinely overlooked on an Island heavy with world-class universities and…
Episode 9: Kenneth Bowes – Long Island is a Gale Force
Kenneth Bowes is no farmer – but he’s trying to grow Long Island’s all-time most-bountiful harvest. Exciting socioeconomic winds are blowing across the nation, and nowhere do those forward-looking gales…
Episode 8: Arthur Germain – Tell Us Another One
In a world where everything is different, this much is unchanged: Arthur Germain has some great stories to tell. The Angels had Charlie, that time-traveling dude in Quantum Leap had…
Episode 4: James Hayward – Innovation In His DNA
In auto thefts, supply chains and COVID, there is DNA – and there’s a good chance Jim Hayward’s Applied DNA Sciences created it. As COVID-19 circumnavigated the globe, scientists representing…