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Bronx Times
Published 10 hours agoBlue Pearl Theatrics launches tuition-free fall performing arts program at Bronx River Art Center
Blue Pearl Theatrics began its fall semester of weekly tuition-free Performing Arts Conservatory on Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Bronx River Art Center, located at 1087 E. Tremont Ave. This semester comes after Blue Pearl Theatrics held a successful summer pilot program that gave…
Rockland County Times
Published 11 hours agoChoosing the Right Doctoral Path in Nursing: What You Need to Know
If you’re thinking about the highest levels of nursing education, the alphabet soup can get messy fast. DNP, DNAP, CRNA, APRN—suddenly it sounds less like career planning and more like a very stressful game of Scrabble. Still, the decision matters. Your choice can shape your…
Yonkers Times (Rising Media Group)
Published 12 hours agoExpert Guide: Game-Based Learning in Westchester Schools
Discover how game-based learning is reshaping Yonkers Public Schools and Westchester classrooms, plus what parents should ask about it in 2026. If you have a child in Yonkers Public Schools this year, chances are they’ve come home talking about a game their teacher had them play…
New York Amsterdam News
Published 12 hours agoDisney Dreamers Academy changes course to reach more students
After nearly 20 years of impacting the lives of hundreds of students, Disney Dreamers Academy is changing its approach to expand its reach.
Long Island Press
Published 14 hours agoConference discusses aging with HIV at Farmingdale State College
People with diagnosed HIV are living longer, but are experiencing symptoms of aging earlier than other populations. People 60 and older make up the largest population living with HIV across Long Island, at 36.6%, according to health experts from VNS Health. Jennifer McCaffrey, an…
Yonkers Times (Rising Media Group)
Published 15 hours agoEco-Ambassador Teachers Bring Educators to Five Islands Park
On September 12, New Rochelle educators gathered at Five Islands for a hands-on marine ecology workshop led by Eco-Ambassador teachers Carmen Glenn and Jonathan La Rosa. The workshop gave educators direct experience with field-based activities they can use with students,…
Yonkers Times (Rising Media Group)
Published 17 hours agoMayor Spano Appoints Symra Brandon to Yonkers Board of Education
L-R-City Council Majority Leader John Rubbo, YPS BOE President Dr. Rosalba Corrado Del Vecchio, Symra Brandon, Mayor Mike Spano Mayor Mike Spano swore in former Yonkers City Councilmember and community leader Symra Brandon to the Yonkers Board of Education. As trustee of the…
NYU researcher helps recreate cosmic ray collisions
Using a particle accelerator, an NYU professor partnered with an international team of researchers in Switzerland to recreate high-energy cosmic ray collisions. In the Sept. 14 study published by the Physical Review Letters, an international research team utilized the Large…
Tandon engineers develop worm-like robot to navigate land and water
NYU Tandon researchers introduced WorMa, an inchworm-like robot that could monitor coastlines by navigating both land and water by moving fluid through its body. Revealed to the public on Sept. 14, WorMa — a portmanteau of “worm” and “mass” — uses two balloons filled with…
Mid Hudson News
Published 19 hours agoNew law gives school districts more time to pay for clean energy upgrades
NEW YORK- School districts across New York will have more time to recover the cost of clean-energy improvements under legislation recently signed by Governor Kathy Hochul. The new law extends the period school districts can use savings from lower utility bills to pay for…
Bronx Times
Published September 28City Council distributes free unlimited OMNY cards to first 700 CUNY students under pilot program
Hundreds of City University of New York (CUNY) students now have access to free, unlimited OMNY cards under a new City Council pilot program launched Monday. The 700 students who make up the pilot's first cohort were notified last week that they were selected to receive OMNY…
Long Island Press
Published September 28Mineola school board sets goals, reviews state graduation changes
The Mineola Board of Education approved its goals for the 2026-27 school year Thursday, Sept. 24, while discussing plans for curriculum and receiving an update on proposed changes to New York’s graduation requirements. During the meeting, the board’s goals included developing a…