For 65 years, community and class have marked SCCC
By TOM MARINER // Nassau and Suffolk counties lost more than 110,000 residents between 2017 and 2022, thanks largely to the regional “brain drain.” Our leaders are looking for solutions…
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No. 866: In which we study space, stick it to Caesar, remember RBG and get a jump on St. Patrick’s Day
Shake your shamrocks: Welcome to Friday, lassies and lads, and not just any Friday but Friday, March 15, making Sunday St. Patrick’s Day – traditional death date of Ireland’s…
No. 861: Warehouses rise, snakes evolve, science and the tooth fairy coexist and ‘dord’ still isn’t a word
Logical leap: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and not just any Wednesday but the fourth Wednesday in February, with one more day still to go in the extended-but-still-shortest month…
No. 856: Down, set, hike! Offshore wind, quantum computing and LVIII other reasons to love innovation
Super-duper: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but the Friday before Super Bowl Sunday, an unofficial national holiday if ever there was one. With a full…
SBU success brings ‘quantum Internet’ a step closer
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a fundamental step! No, it’s a quantum leap! You’re both right! However you describe it, Stony Brook University scientists have cleared a big hurdle on…
No. 855: On Joltin’ Joe, world-class writers and a new Ronald McDonald House – plus fettuccine, with love
Get over it: Jump to it, dear readers! It’s Wednesday out there and we’re leapfrogging into the back half of another relatively warm winter workweek. Sorry to all the snow…
Technological tide is rising across maritime industries
By HEIDI ANDERSON // Water is as cherished as land on Long Island, and always in the news. There’s lots to talk about, water-wise, regarding the New York Climate Exchange…
No. 852: Dentists drill, seaplanes soar, wind farms wheel-and-deal and SBU scientists earn a cool million
Flight plan: Well done, intrepid innovators! You’ve soared through another red-eye workweek, with another two-day respite on final approach. It’s Friday out there, and you’ve gotta wing it for…
No. 851: Old money, new lifeforms and more resilient LI coastlines, with plenty of nice things to say about you
Soggy slog: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we splash through the midpoint of another wet winter workweek. Fortunately, this damp precipitation situation can’t stop intrepid innovators like you…
‘Green’ champion Farmingdale State rolls out new EVs
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s leading electric-vehicle champions has refueled its zero-emission mission by significantly expanding its EV fleet. Farmingdale State College has announced the addition of…
Three decades later, LIHTI still lighting biomed’s fuse
By TOM MARINER // Early in 2012, Marc Alessi – an attorney who had served three terms in the New York State Assembly – followed his entrepreneurial brain and founded…
No. 847: In which nations unite, history lives, galaxies spill their secrets – and we can’t get enough Rockefeller
Bold prediction: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we hurdle the wet and windy hump – and if you think this is bad, wait until next week, when Long…
For SBU eSports, not your father’s college game room
By GREGORY ZELLER // The latest computers, the fastest processors, premium peripherals and, most importantly, an arena of their own – Stony Brook University e-gamers, start your motherboards. The university…
No. 839: All bark and plenty of bite, with interscholastic PhDs, fake movies and real offshore-wind progress
Here’s the kicker: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and welcome to December, as we finally kick out November and kickstart 2023’s final month. To celebrate, we’re kicking up a…
PhDs without borders in new engineering consortium
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new multi-college agreement will see New York Institute of Technology and Stony Brook University engineering students attending classes at top Northeast schools including Princeton, Columbia…