AI can help, but therapy still needs a human touch
By LISA BURCH // Loneliness is no longer a private struggle. It’s a public health crisis, showing up in hospitals, classrooms, workplaces and counseling offices across Long Island and the…
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Atomic radio: SBU fills the air with nuclear options
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s most ambitious pro-environmentalism platform is taking its climate-health message on the road – more specifically, to the airwaves. Known colloquially as “C4E,” SBU’s Collaborative…
Goldsmith standard: SBU raises bar with new president
By GREGORY ZELLER // An accomplished academician and private-sector scientific star will become Stony Brook University’s next president. The State University of New York Board of Trustees voted unanimously Wednesday…
A summer of switcheroos for big Island names, firms
By GREGORY ZELLER // Across industries and sectors, an A-list of major Long Island names is updating its resumés this summer. The latest: Former New York State Chief Administrative Judge…
A half-billion-dollar boost, and that’s just for starters
By GREGORY ZELLER // There have not been many collegiate donations on this rarified level, and none – ever – for a public school. But public schools usually aren’t elite…
No. 631: On dames, NASA and hydrogen-based fuels – with fresh-baked cookies
So fast, it’s spooky: Endings and beginnings, dear readers, as another workweek whips by and we race into the month of flamboyant foliage, Bavarian beer festivals and, of course,…
Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
At New York Tech, eSports are way more than a game
By GREGORY ZELLER // A long time ago, on a campus far, far away, “Spacewar!” changed everything. In October 1972, Stanford University hosted an “intergalactic Olympics” featuring the groundbreaking space-combat…
With red flags, Green Light Law not as easy as 1, 2, 3
By MARGARET GRAY and OLIVIA HEFFERNAN // Do you know about the Green Light Law? If you drive anywhere in New York, you probably should. As of Dec. 16, New…
NYIT at the center of food/energy/water nexus, again
By GREGORY ZELLER // The food/energy/water nexus will center once again on the New York Institute of Technology, courtesy of another chunky federal grant. Principal investigator Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, an…
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…
See you in September (not): Stanley stuns SBU, SUNY
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Didn’t See That Coming file comes the sudden departure of Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley Jr., who has resigned his position and will…
In Hennessy, the grad that keeps on gifting
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Stony Brook University’s highest-achieving graduates is paying back his alma mater in a big way. Former Stanford University President John Hennessy, who earned a…
Stanford legend earns ‘Fame’ from alma mater SBU
By GREGORY ZELLER // A global computer-science legend has received top honors from the Long Island college where he earned his highest academic degrees. Stanford University President Emeritus John Hennessy…
No. 239: Clean meat, SR-71s, Uber suits and a DIY self-driving car
TG it’s F: Happy Friday, everybody. It’s Aug. 25, on which the British burned down Washington but spared the U.S. Patent Office. (If you still hold a grudge, calling football “soccer”…