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A Big OOPS. I got the date wrong on the demo for the Keller Lab, as below. I said it was Wednesday in Princeton, but it was Monday. I missed it too. The New York version starts today (Tuesday, August 12) at 5 p.m., details here.

It is fun to read about the different companies and their technologies.

Original post below, edited to take out the wrong date.

Universal Display was the brain child of a Princeton University faculty member (see story on Julie Brown). This summer the Keller Lab at the university is also hatching tech startups from students at what is known as the ‘e-Lab.” U.S. 1 has a story about one of the startups, Solstice Intitiative. Another is Space Touch (video demo here).  Here was the program.

How They Did It: Julie Brown

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It’s always exciting to hear from folks who were on the ground floor of a successful company. Julie Brown, the speaker for Thursday’s Princeton chamber lunch, was on the ground floor (well, actually, the second floor over Hoagie Haven) of Universal Display Corporation, now with global partners and 125 full time workers in Ewing.  Your cell phone probably has UDC’s display technology.

Click here for lunch information. I’m looking forward to this — Julie was one of the most interesting people I’ve interviewed.

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From little acorns: Teams of Princeton University students are working at the Keller Center this summer to churn out tech startups. On Monday, August 11, they showcase them in an always popular event. For information on how to register, click here.

One such startup — not from a student, but from a professor, was Universal Display. Former Princeton professor Steve Forrest had some bright ideas about bright displays using OLED (Organic Light Emitting Display) technology, and his three-person startup is now 100 plus. His sidekick, CTO Julie Brown, speaks at the Princeton Regional Chamber just as these students finish their project. Her talk: Thursday, August 7, at the Forrestal Marriott.

I’ve registered for both events.

Eisgruber Bleeds Orange?

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President-Elect Chris EisgruberChristian Eisgruber, the new president of Princeton University, speaks at the Princeton Regional Chamber lunch on Thursday, May 8, at the Forrestal Marriott.

Raised Catholic, he recently discovered that he has Jewish heritage, and now describes himself as a non-theist Jew.

Another intriguing factoid: he used to teach a seminar on the Supreme Court and I’ll bet he has a strong opinion about the Court’s ruling on affirmative action. One of his missions as provost was to increase diversity on campus.

He’s the first president in 25 years to be an alumnus of the university: he is Class of 1989.

My neighbor, Shane Farrell, emailed me about events showcasing Andrew Zwicker, running for Rush Holt’s Congressional seat. Fortunately, today’s issue of U.S. 1 tells me what I need to know about him. Click here.

Tonight, Wednesday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. he will be at Princeton University’s Whig Hall Senate Chamber speaking with the Princeton College Democrats and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton.

Tomorrow, Thursday, May 1, 7 p.m. he will be one of the candidates at ACLU primary debate at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton. Registration is encouraged: Click here.

Other events are mentioned in the U.S. 1 story.

Zwicker’s opponents include two formidable women: Linda Greenstein and Bonnie Watson Coleman. But — like Holt, he is a product of Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. He is indeed a rocket scientist.

Against Racism: Princeton Students Speak

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Click on I, Too, Am Princeton.

If you look at the first photo, you can’t NOT page to the end. Please look, please think.

The introduction:

“In the wake of a post-racial ideology circulating in our society today, it is imperative that the light of the struggles that categorize this nation is not erased. With this circulation also comes the muting of the voices that make up the sound of the U.S. This is an opportunity to turn the volume back up….”

Stress Shortens Life: Study of Black Children

Stress Shortens Life: Study of Black Children

Researchers at Princeton University proved what we already knew, but had not documented: stress shortens your life. They studied 9-year-old black boys in both disadvantaged and advantaged environments.

Charles Ewen of
EastCarolinaUniversity
 Will offer a lecture entitled:
 X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy
 Monday March 31, 2014
106 McCormick Hall, 5 pm.  (Princeton Art Museum)
Doris Z. Stone New World Archaeology Lecturer for the AIA
Reception to follow
Pirates have long captured the popular imagination.  However, it has been only recently that scholars (mainly historians) have tried to separate fact from fiction and taken a pragmatic view of piracy.  Archaeology has been remarkably silent on this topic.  However, the discovery of the wreck of Blackbeard’s ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge, has raised the question with archaeologists as to “what is a pirate and how would you recognize a pirate site”?  The answers are not as apparent as one would expect, especially from an archaeological perspective.

Fathers of the Internet: March 12

Fathers of the Internet: March 12

Vincent Cerf and Robert Kahn speak at Princeton University on Wednesday, March 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the Friend Center. It’s free. Seating is first come.

Cerf’s most recent notable quote: Privacy may be an anomaly.

Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities

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Slavery shaped America’s old, elite colleges, says MIT historian Craig Steven Wilder in his book Ebony and Ivory. Wilder told NPR’s Robert Siegel, host of All Things Considered, this tidbit about Princeton: “John Witherspoon, the president of Princeton just before the Revolution, sent a missive to the West Indians promising that their sons were safer in New Jersey than they could ever be in England, where notorious and mean-spirited men preyed upon wealthy boys in the West Indies. But in New Jersey they would be protected and cared for, catered to and turned into responsible citizens.”

Here is the transcript, and here is the summary article, courtesy of Michele Tuck-Ponder. BF.