Glens Falls native Drew FitzGerald has a running joke with a friend who’s the former head of the material science department at MIT.
“If I call him and say, ‘Hey, Jeff, what are you working on this week in the lab?’ he’ll tell me that he’s fabricating nanoscale desalinating graphene meshes,” FitzGerald says. “And I’ll say, ‘No you’re not—you’re reducing gender-based violence in the developing...
In America, 35,574 veterans are homeless, 1.25 million receive food stamps, and 1.7 million lack proper health care.
“The words homeless and veteran should never be used in the same sentence,” says Diane Nazzaro, the new executive director of the Ballston Spa–based Veterans & Community Housing Coalition. “People want to help veterans, but there aren’t as many services out there as you’d think.”
Nazzaro, whose father...