The Princeton Propellers:  What We Do 
 

The Princeton Propellers, an initiative of the Princeton Area Alumni Association (PA3), were established in 2016 to showcase technical innovation --- across the entire Princeton Gown & Vicinity ecosystem.  Our aim was to bring together a diverse set of players whose paths would not normally cross:  faculty, students, alumni, venture capitalists, bankers, scientists, engineers, clinicians, intellectual property attorneys, policy developers and other technical innovation stakeholders in the Greater Princeton area.

Prior to COVID-19, we met at Quadrangle Club, 33 Prospect Avenue, adjacent to the Princeton University Campus, the Second Tuesday of most months (September – June) 6 – 8 P, for a cocktail party anchored by an issue-oriented talk and followed by vigorous Q & A. 

In May, 2020, we transitioned the Propellers to a Zoom format --- still on the Second Tuesday of most months, but now starting at 7 P, Eastern US Time, to accommodate a growing worldwide audience and speakers in distant time zones. 

Videos of prior Propellers may be found here

 For further information, please contact:
propellers@princetonaaa.org.

Keep the Propellers Flying!

 The Propellers are entirely donations-funded.  

Speakers & Topics
(click on dates below for details)

• April, 2022:  Donald R Sadoway, Professor, Materials Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Electrochemical Energy Storage:  Towards Decarbonization and Profitable Sustainability

• March, 2022:  Navid Redjal, MD, Director, Neurosurgical Oncology, Capital Institute for Neurologic Disease, Capitol Health; Stereotactic Radiosurgery: A Transformation in Managing Neurologic Disease --- From Operating Room to Outpatient Treatment

• February, 2022:  Robert Soler, Vice President, Biological Research & Technology, BIOS Lighting; Leveraging Advances in LED Lighting to Maximize Human Health

• November 2021:  Filipe Pereira, Founder & Head of Innovation, Asgard Therapeutics; Combining Cell Fate Reprogramming & Immunotherapy:  A Revolutionary Approach for Cancer Treatment

• October 2021:  Madelyn “Mattie” Baron & Daniel Santillan, Equipment Design & Software Verification Engineers; Joby Aviation & The Future of Urban Mobility

• September 2021:  Richard A Lang, Director Visual Systems Group, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Prevention of Myopia & Treatment of Metabolic Disorders:  Surprising New Roles for Light-Based Disease Therapies

• June 2021:  Paul P G Gauthier, Director R & D, New Products and System Innovations, Bowery Farming;  Vertical Urban Farming: 
  A Technological Solution to Farming in the 21st Century & Beyond

• May 2021:  Whitney H Huang, Embedded Software Engineer, Zipline International; Transforming Medical Logistics with Drones:
  Bringing Health Products to Africa, the US & Beyond

• April 2021:  Artur Filipowicz, Chief Technical Officer, Soterea; How AI is Empowering a Non-Collision Driving World:
  Possibilities, Limitations & Next Steps

• March 2021:  Neil Anthony Sims, Founder and CEO, Ocena-Era, Inc.; Offshore Aquaculture & World Protein Demand:  Commercial Incentives to Fulfill Conservation Imperatives

• February 2021::  Rescheduled to April 2021

• October 2020: Bora Gulari, Olympian and CEO, Flo-Hy, Ltd., and Ricardo Bencatel, Technical Director, Flo-Hy, Ltd.; Technical Innovations in Hydrofoiling: Breakthroughs in Crafting ‘The Boat That Flies’

  September 2020: Christopher W Shaw, historian and author of Preserving the People’s Post Office; and Kyle Moore, postal carrier and past president of NALC – NJ Branch 268:  American Postal Innovations: What Citizens Need to Know

• June 2020: David Herman, MD, Chair, Infection Control, Penn Medicine, Princeton Health, An Up-to-Date Briefing on COVID-19 and Dealing with this Pandemic at the Local Level

• May 2020: Steven Peskin, MD; Tom McCarrick, MD; Howard Baruch, MD; & Rod Kaufmann, MD, COVID-19 Unleashes Telemedicine Innovations:  New Paradigms for Delivering Patient Care: A Panel Discussion 

• April 2020:  Andrew Voros, CEO, PrevenTive Conservation, LLC, Photocatalysis & Pandemics:  Bringing to Light a New Approach (Postponed - To Be Re-Scheduled)

• March 2020:  Navid Redjal, MD, Capital Institute for Neurosciences, Capital HealthDirector, Neurosurgical Oncology
  Stereotactic Radiosurgery:  A Transformation in Managing Neurologic Disease --- From Operating Room to Outpatient Treatment
   (Postponed at University’s Request Owing to Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic)

• February 2020: Stephanie Thomas & Charles Swanson, Princeton Satellite Systems, Vice President & Senior Scientist, Frontiers in Commercializing Fusion Development: The New Landscape of Companies Investing in Fusion Worldwide

• December 2019: Greg Matzat, Webb Institute of Naval Architecture; *Stevens Institute of Technology, Engineer and Offshore Wind Consultant, Harnassing Ocean Winds to Generate Clean Energy for NJ & the US

• November 2019: Andrew Voros, Rutgers ’80, Senior VP, PrevenTive Conservation USA, Technical Innovations in Conserving Museum  Collections & Architectural Heritage Structures: New Roles for Sunlight & Photocatalytic Agents

• October 2019: Will Watts '09, Director, Operations Engineering, Block Renovation, “Streamlining the Home Renovation Process: A New Process that Dovetails for Homeowners AND Contractors”

• September 2019: Andrew Houck '00, Harvard *05, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Decoding the Realm(s) of Quantum Engineering: Tilting at Tackling the Computationally Infeasible

• June 2019: Clay Patterson, NE Regional Manager, iD Tech, Paul A Durst & Sharon L De La Cruz, Council on Science & Technology, Princeton University, Challenges in Next-Generation STEM Education: Connecting the K-12 Experience to College Curricula

• April 2019: Evan J Conte, MD, Binghamton ’05, Albert Einstein School of Medicine ’09 Trenton Orthopaedic Group at the Rothman Institute Pioneering Techniques in Shoulder Replacement:  Past, Present and Future

• March 2019: Andrew Voros, Rutgers ’80, Senior VP, PrevenTive Conservation USA, A Division of ExecuTREK Systems, LLC, Recent Developments in Photocatalysis for Air Pollution Abatement And Self-Cleaning Exteriors: Passive, Affordable, Green, Sustainable

• February 2019: George Powch, MIT ’69, Stanford *71 & HBS *73, CEO, VerLASE Technologies LLC, Color Technology Options in NextGen Smart Phones & Devices:, A Case for MicroLED Display

• December 2018: F J Mallen, MD, Pratt Institute ’70; M J Berry II, University of California Berkeley, ’89;  & John Frederick ’51, Assessing a New Treatment for Age-Related Macular Degeneration - A Panel Discussion

• November 2018:José Avalos, Universidad Iberoamericana ’96, Assistant Professor, CBE, Princeton, Engineering Microbes to Sustain Planet Earth

• October 2018: Jacob Loewenstein '11, The Phone is Only the Beginning: What It Will Take To Make AR Worth Wearing a Computer on Your Face
• September, 2018: Rich Hollingsworth ’71,Director of Operations, High Asset Tagging, Tego, Inc.,“Radio-Frequency ID in Aerospace, Life Sciences & Beyond:
  Collecting, Storing, Managing and Using Intelligent Asset Data”
• June 2018: Aly Cohen, MD & Clay Patterson, Equipping the Next Generation to Lead Long, Healthy Lives And Cope with the Velocity of Technological Advance
• May 2018: Jonathan Lu '18, Stakeholder Mechanics in Shaping Climate Change Policy: Weighing Carbon Fee & Dividend Options for New Jersey
• April 2018: Konrad P. Kording, Technical Innovations in Data Driven Medicine:  Cross Validating Methods in Disease Detection, Diagnosis & Treatment
• March 2018: Neil Chatterjee '15, Democratizing the Internet:  Marshaling Blockchain for Wi-Fi Without ISPs
• February 2018: Alain L. Kornhauser *71, Autonomous Vehicles: Where Are We Going & How Will We Get There? De-Fogging Your Shift from a Drive to a Trip
• January 2018: Daniel J. Cohen '08, Crowd Control: Swarm Engineering for Medicine & Biotechnology
• December 2017: Stephanie Thomas, Adventures in Astronautics:  From Fusion Rockets to Pluto – to Getting the Grants to Pay for Them
• October 2017: Devin Walsh ’11, Beyond Bitcoin:  How Blockchain is Transforming: Cryptocurrency, Commerce and the Arts
• September 2017: Christian Theriault ’07 *08, New Directions in Biomedical Screening: Adaptive Optics for Live Non-Invasive 3D Volumetric Imaging
• June 2017: Joy Meserve, Jump-Starting the Entrepreneurial Drive in Children: Giving Them Space to Do Something Big
• May 2017: Tyler Hopf *15, Remodeling Reality:  Designing for and with Virtual Reality
• April 2017: Will Watts ’09, Accelerating Into the Future: Building Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
• December 2016: Sherrie Preische *95, Harnessing Data Analytics to Drive Election Outcomes
• October 2016: Megan Partridge ’14, Rebranding Sustainability: Social Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries
• September 2016: Kevin Wong ’05, The Outsider’s Innovation Advantage  
• June 2016: Dora Mitchell *08, Talking vs. Doing: Successes in Applied Entrepreneurship
• May 2016: Mark Tanner ’12, Rapid Growth in a Competitive Sector: A Cautionary Tale
• April 2016: Andrés I. Perez-Benzo ’13, To Raise or Not to Raise: How to Capitalize Your Startup

Summer Science and Pizza returns this summer on July 10th fromm 5:30 to 7PM. This science outreach event is primarily for high/middle school students of local PA3 members and staff families. This year the scientific field is shifted from Material Science to Molecular Biology, and our topic will be Enzymes: The Biological Machines That Keep Your Body Moving! The content is fun and educational that all kids can relate to. It will last for about one hour and finished with pizza.

This event is free. However, registration is required by following the link below, which gives address:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-science-and-pizza-tickets-47537041571

Please register as soon as possible so we know how many pies to buy!

POST REUNIONS DETOX YOGA + LUNCH

YOGA SESSION 

followed by

BUFFET LUNCH

at
The Princeton Integral Yoga Community Center at the Princeton Shopping Center

Sunday, June 3, 2018


EVENT PROGRAM
12:30 - 1:30 pm - yoga session
1:30-2:30 pm light buffet lunch at IYCC

The yoga session will be taught by husband and wife team
Ron Cohen *89 S*86 and Noemi de la Puente *86 S*89
each with over ten years of teaching experience.


The IYCC is located in the Princeton Shopping Center,
upstairs from McCaffrey's next to the Princeton Ballet.

ALL SKILL LEVELS ENCOURAGED AND WELCOME!
Wear comfortable clothing for yoga.
Changing rooms available if you prefer to change attire for dinner.

Yoga+Lunch is $5/person for PA3 Dues-paying members and $10 for others

Registration via PayPal below.
Questions: contact Lydia at activities@princetonaaa.org


 

May 25, 2018 - The book club will meet on Thursday, June 28, from 7-8:30 pm in Lewis Libary 117. This will be our last meeting until September. Our June selection is:

The Control of Nature, by John McPhee '53.

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The PA3 book club meets on the last Thursday evening of each month (except July, August & December) from 7-8:30, usually in East Pyne or Frist. Selections alternate (with occasional exceptions) between fiction and non-fiction, and the authors or books typically have a Princeton connection.

A list of all books the club has discussed can be found here.

To be added to the book club email list, please contact bookclub.admin@princetonaaa.org.

It's a day of outdoor activities followed by an evening of great food, an unlimited assortment of award-winning craft brews, door prizes, and a highly competitive inter-ivy-league-school billiards tournament.

Date: Saturday, June 30, 2018

Time: 6:00PM - Food and Beverages / 6:30PM - Billiards Tournament

Place: The Triumph Brewing Company, 400 Union Square, New Hope, PA

THE ALL IVY SUMMER CELEBRATION is sponsored by The Harvard Club of Philadelphia and will be a day of varied afternoon activities of your choice in and around the quaint town of New Hope, PA, (located only about an hour's drive from both Philadelphia, PA and Morristown, NJ).  Then everyone will rendezvous at 6:00PM at the Triumph Brewing Company (click here for more information) located in the heart of New Hope.  We will then move into the evening with great food, an "open beer bar" featuring Triumph's award-winning craft brews, and a highly competitive inter-ivy-league-school billiards tournament.  "A highly competitive billiards tournament" you ask? Yes, read on...

THE IVY CUP TOURNAMENT will be a "sudden death" bracket elimination wherein after each game the losing team is immediately eliminated from The Tournament.  Initial brackets will be established by a random drawing. Each winning team will play another team in the next round, until the final match wherein the winner will be declared "The Tournament Champions".  If you wish to be a member of your school's team, you will have the opportunity to indicate that when you sign up for this event.  We will put interested parties from each school in touch with each other via email on or before June 1st (and then add any new individuals after that date).  It will then be up to each school's group how to determine the two (or four) players who will represent their school in the Tournament.

THE PACKAGE that we have arranged includes all of the evening activities described above.  We will have a private room from 6:00PM to 9:00PM (click here to see it), exclusive use of two pool tables, an "open beer bar" featuring an assortment of Triumph's brewed-on-site award-winning craft beers, a quantity of appetizers sufficient to serve as dinner, and a variety of door prizes.

IN THE AFTERNOON you will have a choice of outdoor activities consisting of:

• TUBING down the Delaware River and soaking up the sun...  Click here for more information!  Bets are this will be the favorite activity of the afternoon!

• BICYCLING along the Delaware River canal's 200-year-old smooth and shady towpath...  Click here for more information including how to rent a bicycle for the day!

• SOARING to new heights and experiencing barnstorming in vintage open cockpit aircraft...  Click here for more information!

• EXPLORING New Hope's numerous and unusual shops and cafes...  Click here for more information!

We have tried to come up with something for everyone!  When signing up for The All Ivy Summer Celebration, please indicate which of these afternoon activities you would like to participate in.  You will be contacted via email on or around June 1st and then again on June 15th regarding logistics for each activity. Naturally, the cost of these diversions will be your responsibility and will be in addition to the cost of the evening event.

A ROMANTIC WEEKEND is possible (yes, we did think of everything) as there are many hotel and B&B options in the area. Click here for information.

TRANSPORTATION to New Hope is easy!  If you are driving, just follow the GPS in your car or on your smart phone.  If training it from Philadelphia, take SEPTA's West Trenton Line to the Yardley, PA station.  Then New Hope is about a 20 minute taxi or Uber ride. If training it from anywhere in New Jersey, take NJ Transit to the Trenton Transit Center.  Then New Hope is about a 30 minute taxi or Uber ride.

PLEASE RSVP ASAP The billiard teams will want to start practicing as soon as possible! Plus, as you can see, this event requires a great deal of coordination.  The earlier we have firm headcounts, the easier it will be for the individuals listed below who are doing the heavy lifting. Finally, space is not unlimited in our room at the Triumph Brewing Company and we don't want to tell you that you are SOL.  Therefore, please respond sooner rather than later!

ORGANIZERS Karina Kovalcik (kova31@gmail.com)

Laura Sturzenegger (larsturzenegger@gmail.com)

Fred Larcombe (frederick@larcombe.us)

COST $85 per person through June 15th / $95 per person after June 15th

These rates cover a private room at the Triumph Brewing Company, exclusive use of two pool tables for the evening, an unlimited array of award-winning craft beers, appetizers, and door prizes.

REGISTRATION Go to hrcphilly.com or click here to go directly to the registration page

Once you have successfully registered, an email from webmaster_am@clubs.harvard.edu will immediately confirm your purchase.

QUESTIONS? Contact Karina, Laura, or Fred at the email addresses above.