Humble lizards offer surprising approach to engineering artificial lungs
Thursday, Dec 23, 2021
When it comes to studying lungs, humans take up all the air, but it turns out scientists have a lot to learn from lizards.
Engineering
Priestley, Xu honored in Newsweek for invention of cost-efficient, solar-powered water filter
Friday, Dec 17, 2021
Rodney Priestley, vice dean for innovation and the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Xiaohui Xu, a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, have been featured in Newsweek’s list of America’s Greatest Disruptors: Mind Blowers for their invention of a solar-powered water filter that could provide clean drinking water in areas with limited access to electricity.
Using light, researchers coax bacteria and yeast, usually competitors, to cooperate in producing chemicals
Thursday, Dec 2, 2021
Strains of microbes like yeast and E. coli can be engineered to produce useful chemicals and fuels, and can produce more fuel more efficiently by working together. The problem is that when grown together in co-cultures, the fastest-growing strain often outcompetes the others, causing the community to break down and stop chemical production. Now, Princeton researchers have discovered a new way to stabilize co-cultures of microbes using light.
With support of government and industry partners, researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
Monday, Nov 29, 2021
Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view.
Mona Singh is tailoring tools to crack the cancer code
Monday, Dec 6, 2021
Watch the new “Dare to Venture” video to see how Singh blends computer science and biology.
Engage 2021: Princeton’s 2-day virtual conference aimed at growing innovation ecosystem in N.J.
Monday, Nov 29, 2021
Engage 2021, Princeton University’s second annual innovation and entrepreneurship conference, will feature a long list of top speakers and panelists presenting over two days, starting Wednesday.
But don’t be confused: The event will be much more than just a college lecture.
Rodney Priestley, the vice dean for innovation at the school, said the virtual event Dec. 1-2 is meant to do as its title suggests: engage.
Tech pioneers to headline Engage 2021 conference on innovation and entrepreneurship
Tuesday, Nov 23, 2021
Engage 2021, Princeton’s second annual innovation and entrepreneurship conference, will be held online Dec. 1 and 2. The conference, which is free and open to everyone, offers opportunities to learn about, and catalyze, the transformation of discoveries into innovations that benefit society — from biomedicine and clean energy to wireless, cryptocurrency and quantum computing.
Going deep: Princeton lays the foundation for a ‘net-zero’ campus
Tuesday, Nov 9, 2021
For Princeton University to meet its energy needs, along with its goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by its 300th anniversary in 2046, a complete rethinking is required on how energy is used and supplied in every lab, every office, every dorm room, in each parking lot and garage — even on pathways and playing fields.
Corporate role in accelerating clean energy transition highlighted at 2021 ACEE Annual Meeting
Monday, Nov 15, 2021
The chair of Denmark’s largest energy company told a Princeton audience that his firm’s shift from selling oil and gas to wind and other renewable electricity showed that moving to clean energy not only was good for the planet but also good for business.
“It’s not a sacrifice, it’s an opportunity,” said Thomas Thune Andersen, chairman of Ørsted, a Danish energy multinational company that was formerly oil and gas company DONG Energy.
Princeton researchers advance knowledge of polymer fluid flows
Thursday, Nov 11, 2021
In a recent study, chemical and biological engineering professor Sujit Datta and fifth-year graduate student Christopher Browne discovered why certain fluids increase in flow resistance under pressure when flowing through porous media — a question that has puzzled researchers for more than half a century.
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