NSF backs SBU’s quest for AI-controlled power grid
By GREGORY ZELLER // Handing control of the national power grid over to artificial intelligence? What could possibly go wrong? Remain calm, humans. What sounds like the opening of every…
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No. 627: A real M*A*S*H-up, featuring a curvy dark-side mistress, fried ham and the Road Runner (meep meep!)
Rock step: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, as we wrap up this very-late-summer workweek and look forward to another well-earned weekend. It’s Sept. 17 out there – International Country…
At Spellman’s electricity lab, everything’s under control
By GREGORY ZELLER // A regional manufacturer of custom high-voltage power systems and one of Long Island’s top research institutions have teamed up to advance the next generation of power…
No. 626: A saga of survival, ‘extinct’ beasts and delish double cheeseburgers, directed by Oliver Stone
Striking the proper atone: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and the midpoint – for some – of another exciting week of socioeconomic innovation. To our readers of the Jewish…
No. 625: Millions for biotech, six decades of TV dinners and 20 years since the world changed forever
In memoriam: Welcome, dear readers, to the end of an abbreviated workweek, and the eve of a momentous anniversary. It’s Friday, Sept. 10, and before we get back into…
Albany pumps $40M into biotech commercialization
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news for Long Island’s impressive biotech-research corridor: New York State has opened a new Biodefense Commercialization Fund designed to speed promising life-science research to market….
Dual verticals help additive-manufacturing ace add on
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two distinct additive-manufacturing solutions are keeping a 3D-printing pioneer in growth mode, despite the pandemic’s lingering drag. Chem3 LLC (dba ChemCubed) produces “jettable nanocomposites” that can be…
No. 621: We take chances, explore the Middle East and feel the force, just because
You’ve been warmed: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and a muggy one at that, as another late-season heatwave bakes our cakes here on Long Island. Our intrepid weather prognosticators…
No. 620: On moon men, Rachael Ray and banana splits – and why the LIA is needling the unvaccinated
That was close: Henri changed course just in time – and thank goodness for that, dear readers, because these busy workweeks are trying enough. Instead of cursing doom-and-gloom forecasters…
Major federal grant powers SBU, BNL battery program
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Stony Brook University’s newer scientific institutes – focused on the future of electric vehicles – has been supercharged by a major U.S. Department of…
No. 617: On 3D imagery, strangely balanced baseball and carnivores – perfect, on National Filet Mignon Day!
That happened fast: Forget everything we said earlier this week about Long Island’s temperate climate – it’s hot as blazes out there, dear reader, as we wrap up what…
SBU startup earns top honors in SUNY ‘summer school’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A data-mining and machine-learning expert with a key job at Stony Brook University’s Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology has earned critical commercialization support…
No. 616: Mayan calendars, brave balloonists and instant coffee – plus, the intrepid Vaxmobile rolls on
No rest for the busy: Welcome to Wednesday, dear reader, as we reach the midpoint of another summery workweek. It’s Aug. 11 out there, so Happy Flag Day to…
Life’s a beach with SBU’s inclusive water-quality app
By GREGORY ZELLER // Come on in, the water’s fine. That’s the promise of the Long Island Beach and Water Quality App, a unique public app designed by Stony Brook…
Sun rises on CEBIP’s ambitious Nordic accelerator
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University is now on the Nordic track. On Wednesday, the university’s Clean Energy Business Incubator Program and Nordic Innovation House NY – an online…