New Brunswick, NJ - New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) and the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) at Princeton University announced the signing of an affiliation agreement with the that allows both organizations to work together to develop opportunities to advance breakthrough biomedical research being conducted at Princeton.
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Trenton, NJ - Despite what the US News & World Report’s annual rankings says, New Jersey's universities offer a serious return on investment. According to a new report by the Business Insider, New Jersey has several underrated college in America with the New Jersey Institute of Technology at the top. These claims come their PayScale College Salary Report, which ranks colleges and universities based on their graduates’ mid-career earnings.
Princeton, NJ - According to Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research, "A new study has identified genes involved in long-term memory in the worm as part of research aimed at finding ways to retain cognitive abilities during aging. The study, which was published in the journal Neuron, identified more than 750 genes involved in long-term memory, including many that had not been found previously and that could serve as targets for future research, said senior author Coleen Murphy, an associate professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University."
Princeton, NJ - According to the Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research, "Princeton University researchers have built a rice grain-sized laser powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots. The tiny microwave laser, or "maser," is a demonstration of the fundamental interactions between light and moving electrons."
Princeton, NJ, December 16, 2014 – According to Princeton University’s Office of Engineering Communications, “As part of a project demonstrating new 3-D printing techniques, Princeton researchers have embedded tiny light-emitting diodes into a standard contact lens, allowing the device to project beams of colored light. Michael McAlpine, the lead researcher, cautioned that the lens is not designed for actual use — for one, it requires an external power supply. Instead, he said the team created the device to demonstrate the ability to “3-D print” electronics into complex shapes and materials.”
“This shows that we can use 3-D printing to create complex electronics including semiconductors,” said McAlpine, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. “We were able to 3-D print an entire device, in this case an LED… We used the quantum dots [also known as nanoparticles] as an ink,” McAlpine said. “We were able to generate two different colors, orange and green.” The contact lens is also part of an ongoing effort to use 3-D printing to assemble diverse, and often hard-to-combine, materials into functioning devices. In the recent past, a team of Princeton professors including McAlpine created a bionic ear out of living cells with an embedded antenna that could receive radio signals. McAlpine said that one of 3-D printing’s greatest strengths is its ability to create electronics in complex forms. Unlike traditional electronics manufacturing, which builds circuits in flat assemblies and then stacks them into three dimensions, 3-D printers can create vertical structures as easily as horizontal ones. “In this case, we had a cube of LEDs,” he said. “Some of the wiring was vertical and some was horizontal.” To conduct the research, the team built a new type of 3-D printer that McAlpine described as “somewhere between off-the-shelf and really fancy.” Dan Steingart, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center, helped design and build the new printer, which McAlpine estimated cost in the neighborhood of $20,000. McAlpine said that he does not envision 3-D printing replacing traditional manufacturing in electronics any time soon; instead, they are complementary technologies with very different strengths. Traditional manufacturing, which uses lithography to create electronic components, is a fast and efficient way to make multiple copies with a very high reliability. Manufacturers are using 3-D printing, which is slow but easy to change and customize, to create molds and patterns for rapid prototyping. For the full article, click here. Princeton, NJ, December 9, 2014 – Last month, the Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership held their third annual meeting which brought together about 200 academic experts and industry leaders in a day-long discussion on investigating long-term solutions to the world’s energy needs and investing in sustainable technologies. The Partnerships goal is to address the challenges in creating alternative energy sources, the future of energy investment, and the key areas of energy technology.
E-ffiliates is a membership-based program initiated by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment to accelerate solutions to problems of sustainable energy and the environment by bridging industry and academia. “There are inventive ways to deal with the challenges of global climate change,” said Stewart Prager, a professor of astrophysical sciences and director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. “But it’s vital to focus on the big picture and not just the short-term. When fusion enters, it’s going to be in the second half of the century when the crisis will become even more severe,” said Prager. “We cannot just wait for solutions to present themselves. We have to work on it now for it to become available.” Fusion energy is the primary focus of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy lab that Princeton University administers. Fusion is different from conventional nuclear power because it involves fusing light atoms such as hydrogen, as opposed to splitting heavy atoms such as uranium. Noting that fusion is the same process that powers the sun, Prager said fusion energy is one of the largest science and engineering challenges of this era. But the benefits of essentially limitless, universally available, safe and clean power make it worth pursuing, he said. The meeting included discussions on investment opportunities in the sustainable energy sector as well as discussions of the technological frontiers of grid-scale energy storage, sustainable building materials — projects that received competitive E-ffiliates seed funding in 2013-14. Attendees at the meeting included representatives of the six current E-ffiliates member companies: Dupont, Lockheed Martin, PSEG, Southern Company, Archewild and Power Survey Company. For the complete story, click here. |
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