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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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…
Hochul keeps it real in grounded ’24 State of the State
By GREGORY ZELLER // Mental and physical health challenges, the marijuana black market, education, the climate and New York’s ongoing affordable-housing crisis – not to mention budget-balancing – are all…
A summer of digital love for Long Island universities
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two leading Long Island universities are spending their summer vacations upping their computer-science game. The summer months might not be known for educational innovations, but don’t…
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…
SUNY scores as OWTI floats $4M in training grants
By GREGORY ZELLER // State awards for the development of an offshore-wind workforce are beginning to circulate around Long Island. The Offshore Wind Training Institute – an academic-government partnership focused…
German VCs stake distinguished prof’s anti-cancer ace
By GREGORY ZELLER // German venture capitalists have locked and loaded a Stony Brook University spinoff’s next-generation weapon against malignant tumors. Munich-based VC firm TVM Capital Life Science – whose…
No. 757: Heady dissertations, stronger coffee and, finally, East Side access (and brush like you mean it today)
Faster than it looks: Wednesday already! And just like that, you’re halfway through this latest speedy workweek – well done, racing readers! It’s Jan. 25 out there, and we’re…
As crises abound, Hochul narrows focus of annual plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // Maybe governors feel inflation’s pinch, too. While still proposing an impressive array of housing, energy, healthcare and public safety initiatives, Gov. Kathy Hochul absolutely dialed it…
No. 744: On corn fritters, the EPA and the ‘greatest show on Earth’ – and why SUNY dorms are getting crowded
Last leg: Welcome to the first Friday in December, intrepid innovators – don’t look now, but Christmas Eve is three weeks from tomorrow and 2023 is just four short weeks…
Patient FSC earns $75M computer-science award
By GREGORY ZELLER // A state-of-the-art computer center will open at Farmingdale State College by 2025 – almost a full decade after the SUNY school began lobbying for such a…
Chancellor cheers federal Internet-access funding
By DEBORAH STANLEY // It has been clear for years that high-speed Internet access is not a privilege, but a necessity that provides the key to academic, professional and personal…
With $10M start, SBU to lead LI biomedical network
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island biomedicine is about to be remade, with Stony Brook University leading the way. The flagship State University of New York institution has been selected…
In latest chancellor search, SUNY paces itself
By GREGORY ZELLER // A State University system that proudly skipped “a costly and lengthy search process” last time around is taking no chances in the selection of its new…
In Long Island first, FSC eyes ‘dreamer’ scholarships
By GREGORY ZELLER // Front-page fights over women’s rights may divide us, border security may frighten us and faith in our elected officials may be staggeringly low – but the…