Collaboration with Industry

Entrepreneurship Club students help transfer Princeton biotech research to business ventures

Friday, Aug 9, 2019

by Wright Señeres, Princeton Entrepreneurship Council

In front of a collection of industry representatives, Princeton faculty, staff and fellow students in early June, a new sub-team of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club named Alimtas BioVentures capped a year of unprecedented entrepreneurial work at the University. Alimtas, a self-managed team of Princeton undergrads, formed a multidisciplinary team to perform due diligence and develop a fundraising pitch deck for a technology developed by Princeton faculty.
SmartDriving Car Summit focuses on mobility for all

Thursday, May 23, 2019

by Steven Schultz, Office of Engineering Communications

As autonomous vehicles approach widespread adoption, it’s critical that diverse groups collaborate on policies and other measures that ensure the technology benefits people most in need of transportation, according to participants in a conference at Princeton last week.
Coping with growth: Conference presents ideas to shape future cities

Thursday, May 9, 2019

by John Sullivan and Amelia Herb, Office of Engineering Communications

Any attempt to address challenges of the future, from clean energy to a sufficient food supply, must grapple with the issues raised by the planet’s rapidly growing cities, speakers said Monday during a conference at Princeton University.
Google AI lab formally opens in downtown Princeton, bolstering innovation and invention

Friday, May 3, 2019

by Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications

Google’s newest AI lab — located across the street from Princeton University’s Nassau Hall — officially launched on Thursday, May 2, with speeches and research presentations by state and local officials, Google executives, and University executives and students.
Research collaborations with Adobe Research and Qualcomm Technologies selected to receive Dean for Research Innovation funding

Thursday, Apr 18, 2019

by Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research

Two projects that bring together faculty researchers and industry to transform discoveries into real-world technological applications have been awarded support from the Dean for Research Innovation Fund for Industrial Collaborations.
TigerTalks in the City: ‘Pathways to Entrepreneurship’

Monday, Apr 15, 2019

by Wright Señeres, Princeton Entrepreneurship Council

At the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council’s TigerTalks in the City event March 28 at the offices of Silicon Harlem in Upper Manhattan, attendees were treated to a powerful, candid and occasionally lighthearted discussion on entrepreneurship by a panel of black Princeton alumni founders and investors.
Symposium marks growth for Princeton’s materials institute

Friday, Apr 5, 2019

by John Sullivan, Office of Engineering Communications

Materials science is an "enabling discipline,” Dean of Engineering and Applied Science Emily A. Carter told the audience gathered for the annual symposium of Princeton’s materials institute last week. It allows researchers, students and entrepreneurs from widely different fields to come together to create new technologies and solutions to difficult societal problems.
Princeton faculty to test new Microsoft Station B platform toward goal of boosting production of lifesaving biological therapies

Tuesday, Mar 12, 2019

by Princeton University

UPDATE March 11, 2019: A post for Microsoft’s Innovation Stories blog describes the Station B platform, which researchers from Princeton will test to investigate the formation of biofilms — surface-associated communities of bacteria that are the leading cause of microbial infection worldwide.

A Nov. 28, 2018, announcement of this collaboration between Princeton and Microsoft is below.
DataX effort jumpstarts demonstration data science project at Princeton

Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019

by The Office of Communications

Princeton University researchers will push the limits of data science by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning across the research spectrum in an interdisciplinary pilot project made possible through a major gift from Schmidt Futures.
Princeton Catalysis Initiative fosters research innovation

Wednesday, Jan 23, 2019

by Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications

Through the Princeton Catalysis Initiative (PCI), scientists, engineers and scholars are reaching across disciplinary boundaries to create and explore new research areas at the intersection of what were once separate fields. PCI held its second annual symposium on campus Jan. 15-16, bringing researchers together to help fan the sparks of innovation and collaboration.