The conference agenda also will include panel discussions with food industry leaders, conversations with successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and remarks from state and national government leaders. Lou Cooperhouse, founder of RutgersX and director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center, said each company offers an individualistic approach to its products that, he thinks, has great ...

Just imagine the value of saying you’ve had a Nobel Prize winner pass through your halls. That’s exactly what Drew University has with William Campbell, a retired scientist for Merck and an associate fellow at the school’s Research Institute for Scientists Emeriti program. Campbell was given the honor on Oct. 5 for his part, along ...

Anthony Boccanfuso promised the audience he wouldn’t open with any jokes — but he began his speech with a statement that was both so blunt and ironic that it elicited laughter from the crowd. “First, let me just say that I have a bias,” said Boccanfuso, president of the University Industry Demonstration Partnership in Washington, ...

  And two colleges from New Jersey fared well against the global competition. Princeton University ranked 13th, where it was ranked last year on U.S. News’ first global list. Rutgers University also breached the Top 100 at number 60. Because international colleges do not participate in the requiring of SAT scores, a different methodology was ...

Karen Kessler didn’t bat an eye when she told the hundreds of women (and the handful of men) attending the event that she didn’t want to meet with any of them in her office. “My intention today is to scare you all,” she said. She succeeded. That’s because those who visit Kessler at Evergreen Partners ...

But the New Brunswick Development Corp. is thinking about more than a simple facelift as it carries out the $330 million redevelopment of Rutgers University’s College Avenue campus. Instead, the developer is building with an eye toward connecting Rutgers to the surrounding community, both by bringing more students to the neighborhood and creating spaces that ...

Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno joined representatives from NJIT for the event and praised the possibilities the new facility represented for the institute’s students and businesses in the state. “Today, we break ground on a site that will host new collaborations and help NJIT continue its incredible research into innovations that sound right out of fiction ...