Cold Spring Harbor News

Broomfield electronics engineering design firm, Advantage Electronic Product Development , has recently begun the first-phase design of an instrument that will be used initially to help protect astronauts on the International Space Station and in later phases, ultimately, astronauts venturing out on deep space flights.

The state's four public university centers and two medical campuses "are the flagships of SUNY " and should be allowed to charge higher tuition, new SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said Monday during a visit to Stony Brook University .

At the 74th annual symposium held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Svante Paabo presented a paper on the Neandertal genome.

Long Island Rail Road officials believe a broken water main may have led to the derailment near Huntington during Thursday's evening rush hour.

Microbial populations have traditionally been studied in carefully controlled, laboratory-grown cultures.

A fun and widely popular math game could make gene sequencing a faster, and cheaper, thing to do.

Those dolphins that have been hanging around Long Island Sound must like the place.

It appears the dolphins sighted last week on the North Shore have no plans to leave just yet.

Please stay away. That's the request the president of the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation made on behalf of the welfare of a group of bottlenose dolphins swimming between Cold Spring, Huntington and Northport harbors Friday.

The report will be published as the cover story in the July 1st issue of the journal Genome Research.

Here's a sampling of what people wore at the 19th Annual Wine Soiree, a fundraiser for the Junior Welfare League of Huntington, at the Vanderbilt Mansion Courtyard in Centerport, earlier this month. The event raised money for sending kids to summer camp and for the league’s “Lift Fund.”

Francis Collins , former head of the National Human Genome Research Institute, was named one of GQ magazine's rock stars of science.

A summer in India volunteering at a charitable hospital was enough to convince Shalini Pammal that a career in medicine was for her.

Huntington residents gathered Thursday morning at the Cinema Arts Centre to attend a debate on the proposal for councilmanic districts for the town, which, since 1929 has elected its town council at-large.

Participants in the drill. To enlarge, click here . Text and Photos by Steve Silverman The Centerport Fire Department recently hosted an EMS Familiarization Drill for Town of Huntington fire departments and ambulance squads.

Compiled by Virginia Dunleavy and Danielle DeBouver Cold Spring Harbor A laptop, guitar and assorted electronics were stolen from an unlocked 1986 Jaguar on Turkey Lane on June 10.

Dozens of dignitaries joined officials at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to cut the ribbon on its new 100,000-square-foot life science research center Friday.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory unveiled a $100-million complex Friday it says will focus on such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer's. The six-building, 100,000- square-foot research compound, called the Hillside Laboratories, is the largest expansion in the 119-year history of Cold Spring Harbor Lab, which is located in Laurel Hollow.

Huntingtona s Zoning Board of Appeals holds a public hearing Thursday evening at 6 p.m. to consider these applications: COLD SPRING HARBOR: Richard Buttine requests reinstatement of expired grant 19267 for an in-ground pool in side yard, on Pine Drive.

A Northwestern University freshman's death one year ago has generated a movement to teach students to call for help when someone passes out after drinking.