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SOLI Scholarship Helps Transfer Students Thrive

As recipients of the 2024 Stay on Long Island (SOLI) Scholarship, Sidra Ali and Nicole McCormack are building toward careers that combine creativity, technology, and problem-solving.

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Designing for Well-Being

After earning a degree in interior design, Daisy Madaan (B.F.A. ’25) became fascinated by the ways design can influence healthcare environments. As a graduate student, she is focusing her research on designing supportive spaces for neurodivergent individuals.

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Alumni Support Startup Tech Central

Whether with time or money, alumni are offering their support to budding entrepreneurs.

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Bridging Generations, Building Great Doctors

Medical students partnered with a local assisted living community to host a meaningful intergenerational event that fostered connection, empathy, and real-world communication skills.

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Examining the Role of Inequality in Human Migration

Mathematical models fall short in their predictions of migration. Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Alain Boldini, Ph.D., seeks to improve these models by including conflicts, natural disasters, and economic factors.

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Student Wins Best Presentation in Puerto Rico

Life sciences/osteopathic medicine student Talia Lilikakis traveled to Puerto Rico for the Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Radiology, where she won Best Student Oral Scientific Presentation.

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Confidence and Community

A semester-long design studio project, where students were tasked with proposing a community theater, pushed two architecture students out of their comfort zone. What they discovered is their appreciation for community and their place in their future profession.

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New York Tech Launches Civil Engineering Degree Program

The new degree program will prepare graduates to address critical infrastructure needs that directly enhance communities and the built environment.

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Op-ed: The College Degree Isn’t Dead. But the Wrong Kind Could Cost You $2 Million.

A Fortune op-ed by President Jerry Balentine, D.O., contends that universities built for the next decade must prepare graduates to move beyond technical execution and develop skills AI can’t replicate.

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Applauding Students’ Architecture and Design Work

School of Architecture and Design students are recognized for their academic work at MIT’s Reality Hack and in Metropolis magazine’s Future100.