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Aug 22, 2026

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Governor's OfficeTIER 1

Hochul eliminates mandatory fees for more than 7,500 SUNY graduate student workers

Announced Aug 21 (Albany). Mandatory fees averaging about $2,000 a year are eliminated for more than 7,500 graduate student workers at SUNY State-operated campuses, completing a four-year phase-out funded through enacted state budgets since FY2023-24. Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, who introduced the bill version in 2021 and chairs Senate Higher Education, noted graduate assistants were billed roughly $2,000 in fees against stipends of about $20,000. CWA Local 1104 and CWA District 1 credited years of bargaining and Albany advocacy. Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman and bill sponsor Assemblymember Solages also cited.

Governor's OfficeTIER 1

Stony Brook and Brookhaven send quantum information 13 miles through open air, a first for the state network

Announced Aug 21 (Albany). Researchers at SUNY Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory transmitted photons carrying quantum information 13 miles through open air, from Stony Brook's Quantum Watchtower to Brookhaven's Quantum Lighthouse in Upton — a free-space optical link that adds a wireless component to a fiber network the state says already spans 161 miles and eight nodes across Long Island and the NYC metro area. A third facility is under development at Yale. Builds on the $300M state investment announced last year in Stony Brook's Quantum Research and Innovation Hub, and is separate from the $60M Regional Quantum Technology Commercialization Hubs RFP logged Aug 13.