Events
Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: First Monday of the month
at 3:30 iber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus - The Office of the Vice President of Research will be hosting a talk by a distinguished Rutgers faculty member on the First Monday of the month. Talks will be begin at 3:30 pm in the Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus.
Nov 2: Carolyn Maher: Leaning and Teaching: “Video Mosaic Collaborative for Improving the Learning and Teaching of Mathematics”
Dec 7: Paul Falkowski: Marine & Coastal Sciences: "Who to thank for the air we breath?”
Feb 1: Richard Riman: Material Science & Engineering: "Greening of Ceramic Manufacturing”
Mar 1: Thomas Nozkowski: Visual Arts-Painting: “Alone Together: Solitude and Collaboration in Contemporary Art”
April 5: Joanna Burger: Behavioral Ecology: "An Aleutian Expedition: Risk, Radionuclides, Mercury, Aleuts and our Northeast Food Supply"
May 3: John Harris: Paleoanthropology: "Paleoanthropology Meets Primatology: New Insights into Bipedalism, Tools and Foraging in the Early Stages of Human Evolution”
November 19, 2009 - Faculty Pitch Forum/Venture Fair
Multipurpose Room, College Avenue Student Center, New Brunswick, NJ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm (Registration begins at 10:30)
Academic entrepreneurs from Rutgers, NJIT, Princeton and UMDNJ looking for seed money to finance a technology/start a company will be making speed pitches to Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors. A networking event will follow. This half-day event is sponsored by The Office of Technology Commercialization.
AGENDA
10:30 am – 11:00 am Registration
11:00 am – 11:30 am Welcome and Keynote Speaker – Mir Imran – Inventor and Entrepreneur
Best known as the inventor of the first federally approved implantable cardiac defibrillator, Mir Imran holds over 140 patents. He is Founder and Managing Director of InCube Ventures and has formed 19 companies since the early 1980s.
11:30 pm – 12:30 pm Investor Panel – What do investors really want? Moderated by Nick Leiber, small business channel editor at BusinessWeek.com
Ilan Kaufthal, Senior Advisor at Irving Place Capital, a private equity firm.
Larry Chaityn, President of the New York Chapter at Keiretsu Forum and the CEO of True North Global Partners
Shahram Hejazi, PhD, Venture Partner at BioAdvance, responsible for device/diagnostics and life sciences.
Gregory G. Mario, Gregory G. Mario, M.B.A.is the President and CEO of TAXIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Karen Kerr, PhD, US Head of Business Development, Invention Development Fund, Intellectual Ventures.
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Buffet sponsored by KEG Capital LLC
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm University Faculty 2-Minute Pitch Sessions by faculty of Rutgers, UMDNJ, Princeton and NJIT
2:15 pm – 3:30 pm Posters Session/Inventor-Investor Networking
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Small Business Innovation and Research Grants (SBIRs) - Errol Arkilic, Ph.D. Program Director, Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, National Science Foundation.
NSF Career Workshop: New Brunswick Campus
Wednesday, March 4, 2009; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET
Office of VP for Research & Graduate and Professional Education
CoRE Rm 701, Busch Campus - CoRE Building, Rm 701, Busch Campus
NSF Career Workshop: Newark Campus
Wednesday, March 6, 2009; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET
Office of VP for Research & Graduate and Professional Education
Conklin Hall Rm 449, Newark Campus - Will be teleconferenced to the Dean's Conference Room, Armitage Hall
Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: 4:00 PM First Monday of every month
Speaker: Joan Marter, Art HistoryTopic: The Perils of Progress: Artists Respond to Advances in Science and Technology of the 1930s—1940s, March 2, 2009; 4:00 pm (Refreshments at 3:30 pm) Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch CampusBroadcast live on RU-TV http://rutv.rutgers.edu/ruiptv.shtml
Introduction by Catherine Puglisi.In recent years scholars have been exploring the visual languages of painting and sculpture not just "as a formative tool for political struggle," but as a "location for ongoing political conflict" [David Craven] Sculptural themes of the 1940s suggest that this art production is more divergent ideologically than has been previously recognized. This paper will introduce themes that appear in sculpture of the 1940s, and the historical factors that problematize these works. Sculptors are revealed as both subverting American attitudes toward technological developments, while serving her cultural ascendancy. Advances in technology which had evoked positive responses among artists of the 1930s, now assumed sinister connotations. The promise of a world of peace and prosperity based on the successful utilization of scientific progress was irrevocably broken.
Professor Marter is the author of books on sculptors Alexander Calder (Cambridge) and Theodore Roszak (Washington) and many articles and essays. She has organized numerous exhibitions and written catalogue essays, including Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-63, and she was co-author of American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, volume II (Yale). Her recent publication is Abstract Expressionism, The International Context (Rutgers). Marter has been editor of the Woman's Art Journal since 2005.
Directions to Fiber Optics Building - http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?133 Parking is available in Lots 54 or 68.
Next talk Monday, April 6, 2009: Putting the Breaks on Alzheimer's Disease, Karl Herrup, Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Technology Watch Seminar: DNA Based Diagnostics - Perspectives on emerging technologies: Wednesday, September 10, 2008; 4:30 pm -6:30 pm ET Princeton University, Office of the Dean for Research "Great Room" 91 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, NJ
Parking:
please use the parking garage across from 91 Prospect. Metered street parking is also available.Confirmed Panelists
Johannes Dapprich, Ph.D., President, Generation Biotech
Fred Russell Kramer, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics New Jersey Medical School
Eli Mordechai, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer, Medical Diagnostics Laboratories, L.L.C.
David Botstein, Ph.D., Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
This program is part of the White Rose Health Innovation Partnership, funded and organized in the Yorkshire region of the UK, with partners at the leading New Jersey research universities. For further information about the Partnership, see http://www.wrhip.org
Please RSVP to tzodikov@princeton.edu. Please call Laurie Tzodikov at 609-258-7256 with any questions.
Workshop: SBIR Faculty Seminar - June 26
When: Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:00 am - 12:30 pm.
Where: CAIT Auditorium, Busch Campus, 100 Brett Road, Piscataway
Directions: http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=1087
This seminar is intended to provide participants with an introduction to and overview of the SBIR and STTR programs followed by instruction on how to search for solicitations and topics that may fit their technologies and core technical competencies. Participants will also receive instruction intended to help them prepare competitive grant proposals. SBIR and STTR proposals are somewhat different than other research proposals prepared by faculty because the ultimate goal of the programs is commercialization of the grant developed technology. Consequently commercialization must be addressed in Phase I proposals and a commercialization plan must be submitted with Phase II proposals.
Topics include:
-Overview of the SBIR Program
-Overview of the STTR Program
-Solicitation/Topic Search and Selection
-Preparing Competitive Proposals
-Proposal Format and Structure
-Defining the Feasibility Study
-Crafting the Abstract
-Proposal Evaluation
-Introduction to Cost Proposals
Presenters:
-Randy Harmon, NJSBDC Technology Commercialization Consultant, SBIR/STTR Training Coordinator for NJCST, and co-founder of Foundations Business Development Group, LLC and
-Roger Cohen, Principal of Cohen International and an NJSBDC consultant specializing in government procurement and proposal development
View their presentations:
Patents 101 Seminar Monday, April 14, 2008 9:00 am - Noon.
The Office of Corporate Liaison and Technology Transfer (OTC) will be hosting a Patent Seminar on Monday April 14th from 9:00 am to noon; the event will be held at the CoRE Bldg, Main Floor Auditorium, Busch Campus.
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Some Topics that will be covered during the seminar include:
An Overview of Intellectual Property (IP) including Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets and Patents
Mechanics of the Patent System
Keeping a Notebook
Working with OTC
The Disclosure Form
Prosecution of the Application
Agreements Respecting IP
Publication or Presentation of Your Work
For directions see http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=88
Please email Izzo@ocltt.rutgers.edu with any questions.
Adobe Acrobat version of the presentations:
Patent 101 Seminar presentation.
65 Attend 7th OTC Patent Awards Dinner
OTC hosted the 7th Biennial Patent Award Dinner on April 3, 2008. This invitation-only event honored Rutgers faculty and students who have received a patent over the past two calendar years. Patent recipients were recognized from all areas of the university including pharmacy, engineering, food science, marine science, physics, etc.
Speakers at the event were Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Philip Furmanski; Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education, Michael Pazzani and OTC Director William Adams, who read accolades from a number of state dignitaries including Senators Lautenberg, Menendez; and Smith as well as Congressman Rush Holt. Emcee for the evening was Christopher Izzo, Associate Director, Intellectual Property who presented the awards to the recipients.The event was held at Trayes Hall, Douglas Campus Center.
Technology Watch Seminar: Tissue Engineering - Perspecitves on emerging technologies: Panel and Discussion organized in coordination with the 5th Annual NJ Biomedical Engineering Showcase Friday, March 14, 2008; 2:30 pm -4:00 pm ET Room 120, Rutgers University Busch Campus Center
Confirmed Panelists
Sheila Macneil, Professor of Tissue Engineering, University of Sheffield in the UK
Ewa Herbst, President and CEO, Herbst Research, Edgewater, NJ
Michael Jaffe, Research Professor Biomedical Engineering, NJIT
Ramsey Foty, Assistant Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS
Charles Gatt, Chair of Orthopaedics, UMDNJ-RWJMS
This program is part of the White Rose Health Innovation Partnership, funded and organized in the Yorkshire region of the UK, with partners at the leading New Jersey research universities. For further information about the Partnership, see http://www.wrhip.org
For further information about the Technology Watch Seminars, write to admin@njbiomaterials.org.
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Creating and Funding University Startups - WebConference Series: First Seminar, Wednesday, January 30, 2008; 12:30 pm -2:00 pm ET ASB III Building, Cook Campus, New Brunswick. Register Online.
Funding University Startups with SBIRs
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2008, 12:30-2:00 ET (9:30-11:00 PT)Jo Anne Goodnight (Acting Director, Division of Special Programs, Office of Extramural Programs, National Institutes of Health) Kesh Narayanan (Director, Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, National Science Foundation) Charles Wessner (Director of the Program on Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, The National Academies) Location: ASB III, 3rd Floor Executive Conference Room
Alumni Funded University Commercialization Funds
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008, 12:30-2:00 ET (9:30-11:00 PT)Daniel Behr (Director Business Development, Harvard) Melissa Carrier (Director of Venture Investments, University of Maryland, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship) Leon Sandler (Executive Director, MIT Deshpande Center) Location: ASB III, 3rd Floor Executive Conference Room
What Do Early Stage Investors Really Look For In Startups (I)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 12:30-2:00 ET (9:30-11:00 PT)Cali X. Tran (Principal, North Bridge Venture Partners) Constance Freedman (Cue Ball) David Beisel (Vice President, Venrock) Location: ASB III, 3rd Floor Executive Conference Room
What Do Early Stage Investors Really Look For In Startups (II) Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 12:30-2:00 ET (9:30-11:00 PT)
Jura Zibas (President, Clear Springs and Executive Vice President, S.N. Phelps & Co. ) Dan Gordon (Director of Research, Valhalla Partners) Stephen Ringlee (Managing Director, Cimarron Capital Partners)
Location: ASB III, 3rd Floor, Room 341The Commercialization Continuum – Creating IP to Creating Companies
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 12:30-2:00 ET (9:30-11:00 PT)Tracy Warren (General Partner, Battelle Ventures) Alex Fischer (VP of Commercialization, Battelle) Glenn Kline (General Partner, Innovation Valley Partners)
Location: ASB III, 3rd Floor Executive Conference RoomWhat Do Corporate VCs Really Look For In Startups
Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 12:30-2:00 ET (9:30-11:00 PT)Don Clark (General Manager, NEC Corporation of America) Paul Cummings (Principal, Honda Strategic Venturing) Julie Gerstenberger (Director, External Alliances, Eastman Kodak Company) Location: ASB III, 3rd Floor Executive Conference Room
What Do Early Stage Investors Really Look For In Startups (III)
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 12:30-2:00 ET (9:30-11:00 PT)Thomas L. Churchwell (Managing Partner, Midwest Venture Partners) Mark Grovic (Founding Partner and Managing Director, University of Maryland, New Markets Fund) Matt McCooe (Founding Managing Partner, Chart Venture Partners) Location: ASB III, 3rd Floor Executive Conference Room
ECE Corporate Day: Friday, October 26, 2007; 9am-1pm Busch Campus Center
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is happy to announce our first annual ECE Corporate Day. Join us on
October 26, 2007 from 9am- 1pm in the Busch Campus Student Center and meet with the ECE department and our affiliates. The ECE faculty and students will present various ongoing projects that span the gamut from wireless networks, semiconductors, software engineering, computer vision, virtual reality, visualization, multimedia and biometrics. The attendance is free and all alumni, faculty, students are welcome. Dr. Fred Mintzer (Rutgers ECE Class ’70), Director of the Blue Gene Program at IBM Thomas Watson Research Center, will be giving the keynote lecture, entitled, "The information age redefines the artist, historian, biologist and engineer".Please RSVP to Professor Richard Mammone (mammone@ece.rutgers.edu) as soon as possible to reserve a place for the number of employees that would like to attend from your organization. There are also a limited number of corporate sponsorships remaining. See also http://www.ece.rutgers.edu for more information..
The agenda is as follows:
9:00 a.m.- Breakfast
9:45 a.m.-Welcoming Remarks
Dr. M. Pazzani, Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional
Education
Dr. M. Klein, Dean of Engineering
11:00 a.m.- 1:00 pm Posters
and Lunch
Tech Transfer 101:
Sept 21, 2007 - Busch Campus, Fiber Optics Auditorium
The Office of Technology Commercialization will hold a workshop on
Friday, Sept 21, 2007 from 8:45-12:30 in the Fiber Optics auditorium.
Parking is available in Lots 54 or 68 with no permit. http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=1085
The workshop will focus on interacting with companies for research funding,
licensing and forming new companies. The agenda is as follows:
8:45 - Registration
9:00 - Overview of Tech Transfer at Rutgers: Michael J. Pazzani, Rutgers University
10:00 - Starting a company with Angel Funding: Katherine O’Neill, Executive Director for Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network
10:45 - Funding Opportunities at Johnson and Johnson:
Robert Zivin, Corporate Director, Corporate Office of Science & Technology- Johnson and Johnson
11:30 - Selling your ideas to the VP of Business Development: Michael Schuler, VP of New Business Development,
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
12:00 - An overview of Yahoo University Programs: Ron Brachman,
Vice President of Worldwide Research Operations, Yahoo!
Future Tech Transfer Workshops will focus on SBIR/STTR funding and on Patenting.
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