With clock ticking, SBU’s Mobile Stroke Unit gears up
By GREGORY ZELLER // Fueled by a flood of dire statistics, powered by cutting-edge science and a ready team of medical professionals, the Renaissance School of Medicine’s Mobile Stroke Units…
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Lower-tier LI consoled by $68M in 2018 REDC awards
By GREGORY ZELLER // If $68.3 million for workforce development and affordable housing programs is losing, Long Island will take it. That’s the Island’s haul in the 2018 Regional Economic…
No. 362: Sound investments, manufacturing machinations and lots to ThINC about for LI scientists
Welcome to Wednesday: You’re halfway home, dear reader, as we plow through another busy week of socioeconomic innovation on Long Island and around the world. It’s Dec. 5 out…
Microscopic imaging for any science? You better ThINC
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University is living large at one of the smallest ideas it ever had. If you’re a multinational fragrance company based on Long Island, or…
EVs OK, but ICE still have plenty of energy to burn
By BENJAMIN LAWLER // The internal combustion engine is old, inefficient and dirty. Its days are numbered. The future is electric vehicles, which are new, efficient and clean. At least,…
Ten LI scientists earn prestigious AAAS fellowships
By GREGORY ZELLER // Ten Long Island scientists have received a prestigious peer-selected distinction, selected as 2018 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The high honor,…
No. 360: Adelphi arrives, 5G makes waves and SBU sends in the marine biologists
Full speed ahead: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we speed into the second half of our busy workweek and straight toward the final month of 2018. It’s Nov….
Saving the planet from the ground up, literally
By GREGORY ZELLER // Allied Microbiata didn’t win 76West – but being a finalist in the innovative state-funded competition, which stimulates the clean-energy economy across the Southern Tier, wasn’t too…
No. 357: Dodging bullets, firing lasers, icing the heat-pump competition and remembering Stan the Man (excelsior!)
Middle march: We’re equidistant from the beginning and the end of the workweek, which must make today Wednesday. Congratulations, dear reader, you’re halfway home. It’s Nov. 14 out there, and…
Cold start: With $25M round set, ThermoLift ices test
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook-based heat-pump innovator has completed a rigorous round of prototype testing – and, in the process, crushed a series of critical U.S. Department of…
Adelphi centers creativity around new innovation hub
By GREGORY ZELLER // With several university-based incubators and centers of excellence already bolstering the Long Island innovation economy, Adelphi University is working up its own innovation hub. Coming soon:…
In next-gen cancer battle, the MART money’s on SBU
By GREGORY ZELLER // For sure, this is no Kwik-E-Mart. After more than 3 million workhours packed into years of planning and construction, the future has arrived at Stony Brook…
No. 354: Journalists’ lives matter, the wisdom of Confucius and all kinds of LI-based heart-valve news
November? Really? Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and the end of a kinda spooky, strangely warm workweek here on Long Island. It’s Nov. 2 out there, Day 3 of the…
The future of heart surgery, in the palm of his hand
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook University biomedical engineering professor has been tasked with optimizing a cutting-edge treatment that brings new hope to patients suffering from a serious heart…
Startup eyes quantum leap in ‘unhackable’ networking
By GREGORY ZELLER // Quantum-memory applications that can prevent hackers from accessing digital-communications networks? At room temperature? Pshaw, you say! Actually, you probably don’t say “pshaw” or make any other…