2020 Program and Schedule
Date and Time
Tuesday, September 29
View the livestream on Facebook beginning at 1 pm Eastern
Schedule
1:00 pm – Opening remarks
Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science
Naveen Verma, Director of the Keller Center
Cornelia Huellstrunk, Executive Director of the Keller Center
1:22 pm – Princeton NuEnergy: Direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries
Chao Yan, Research Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
1:32 pm – High-Throughput Elicitor Screening (HiTES) ** Second Place Prize **
Maryam Elfeki, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry
1:42 pm – Improved separation using a low-turbulence centrifuge ** Third Place Prize **
Erik Gilson, Principal Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Jordan Suchow, Assistant Professor, Stevens School of Business
2:02 pm – Break
2:15 pm – Remarks by Kathleen Crown, Executive Director of the Humanities Council at Princeton
2:22 pm – Representable.org ** Innovation Forum Award **
Preeti Iyer, Princeton Alumni and Co-founder, Representable.org and Kyle Barnes, Undergraduate student and Co-founder, Representable.org
2:34 pm – Animation and graphics for justice ** Innovation Forum Award **
Laurence Ralph, Professor, Anthropology
2:46 pm – Poetrygo! ** Innovation Forum Award **
Effie Rentzou, Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian
2:58 pm – Rupturing Tradition ** Innovation Forum Award **
Brooke Holmes, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Dan-El Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor, Classics
3:10 pm – Remarks by Rod Priestley, Vice Dean for Innovation
3:20 pm – Novel therapeutics for the treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis virus infections
Alexander Ploss, Associate Professor, Molecular Biology
3:30 pm – Costly virtual rating slider
Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor, Sociology
3:40 pm – Metabolite potentiation of nitrofuran activity in drug-tolerant bacteria
Cathy Tang, PhD Candidate, Chemical and Biological Engineering
3:50 pm – Bring back the wonder
Caleb Bastian, Visiting Scientist, Applied Mathematics
4:00 pm – PoreBiome: A “porous petri dish” for microbial assays in complex environments ** First Place Prize **
Sujit Datta, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
4:10 pm – Presenter demo stations
4:40 pm – Closing ceremony
5:00 pm – Event ends
Judges
Humanities and Social Sciences Feedback Panelists
- Deborah Amos - Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence
- John Danner - Entrepreneurship Specialist; Lecturer
- Mauricio Miller - James Wei Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship 2019-2020
- Rodney Priestley - Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Tahesha Way - New Jersey Secretary of State
STEM Judges
- Lynn Bleil - Board Director of Stericycle, Inc., Sonova Holding AG and Amicus Therapeutics
- Linda Brown - Former Chair and Current Advisory Board Member, NJ Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) NJ Bioscience Center Incubator
- Nena Golubovic - Physical Sciences Director, IP Group
- Todd Laurence - Managing Director, Thimble Peak Advisors
- Aaron Price - CEO, TechUnited:NJ
- Anita Sands - James Wei Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship 2020-2021