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Woodmere resident Geoffrey Girnun pleaded guilty to stealing government money and will make restitution in the amount of $225,000.

Woodmere resident pleads guilty to $225,000 theft

Woodmere resident and former Stony Brook University associate professor Geoffrey Girnun pleaded guilty on Jan. 14 to one count theft of government funds as part of a plea deal. He stole $225,000 in federal and state money that was earmarked for cancer research. more

By Jeff Bessen | 1/23/20

Geoffrey Girnun, a Woodmere resident and Stony Brook associate professor, allegedly stole more than $200,000 in federal and state money.

Woodmere resident charged with stealing more than $200,000

Woodmere resident and Stony Brook University associate professor Geoffrey Girnun allegedly stole more than $200,000 in federal and state money, according to a seven-count indictment that was unsealed on Sept. 12. Girnun, 48, was arrested on that Thursday. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/12/19

Hewlett High School seniors Samuel Bogdanov, left, Julia Grossman and Siyuan Yue are among the 300 high school students selected as semifinalists in the 2019 Regeneron Science Talent Search.

Three Hewlett High seniors are Regeneron semifinalists

Samuel Bogdanov, Julia Grossman and Siyuan Yue, all Hewlett High School seniors, were among the 300 semifinalists in the 2019. Regeneron Science Talent Search. more

By Jeff Bessen | 1/9/19

Lawrence High School senior Yehoshua Auerbach was one of students from Five Towns schools to present high-caliber science research at the Materials Research Society meeting in November.

Five Towns students present high-caliber science research at the Materials Research Society meeting in Boston

A trio of students from a couple of Five Towns high schools presented their research projects at the Materials Research Society meeting at the Hynes Convention in Boston on Nov. 25 to 30. more

By Jeff Bessen | 1/3/19

Touro College of Pharmacy named Abraham Jeger, from Lawrence, its new chief operating officer and associate dean for student affairs.

Touro College hires Lawrence resident for dual positions

Abraham Jeger, of Lawrence, is the new chief operating officer and associate dean for student affairs at Touro College of Pharmacy in Manhattan. Jeger was previously the dean for academic outreach and site development at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury for more than 40 years. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/14/18

Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists.

Inside the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Part seven in an ongoing series. Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its familiar playgrounds, ball fields and band shell, and lit candles for the dead. Afterward, they sat on towels on the ground and talked for hours, struggling to put into words, to understand, the massacre perpetrated by a one-time student of their school, whom the Herald is not identifying. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/2/18

Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, bottom, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists. Both are on the staff of their student newspaper, The Eagle Eye.

Inside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting

Part seven in an ongoing series.Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its … more

By Scott Brinton | 8/2/18

Lawrence High School seniors Jerry Reyes, left, Nicholas Williams and Roshan Reddy worked with a gelatin substance they used in the laboratory at Stony Brook’s Garcia Center.

Soaking up the science

Occasionally, fortune cookie wisdom is spot on. On Aug. 8, the last day of the summer research season at Stony Brook University’s Garcia Center, Lawrence High School project team members Roshan Reddy, Jerry Reyes and Nicholas Williams were eating Chinese food. more

By Jeff Bessen | 10/26/17

Soaking up the science

Occasionally, fortune cookie wisdom is spot on. On Aug. 8, the last day of the summer research season at Stony Brook University’s Garcia Center, Lawrence High School project team members Roshan Reddy, Jerry Reyes and Nicholas Williams were eating Chinese food. more

By Jeff Bessen | 10/26/17

The Long Island Association, in conjunction with Stony Brook University's Advanced Energy Research Center, the Gershow Recycling Corporation and Deepwater Wind, hosted a tour last Wednesday of the wind farm recently constructed three miles off the Block Island coastline. At center, in yellow, was LIA Board of Directors member Katherine Heaviside.

The future is blowing in the wind

New York officials say they hope to generate half of the state’s power from renewable sources by 2030. To meet this goal, officials are looking to the recently constructed Block Island offshore wind farm as a model for how renewable energy can power whole communities. more

By Tyler Marko | 10/10/17