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State Launches Historical Marker Initiative for Semiquincentennial

The New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC), in partnership with RevolutionNJ, New Jersey’s official 250th commemoration partnership, is launching a limited series of state historical markers for the Semiquincentennial. This special initiative of the State Historical Marker Program will install markers around the state sharing the whole history of American independence from its origins to the […]

Latent AI Opens Expanded HQ in South Brunswick

Latent AI has opened expanded corporate headquarters in the S&P Global Building at 1 Independence Way on the Route 1 corridor near Princeton. The company specializing in AI solutions for national security applications doubled its footprint to include a data center for edge AI testing and benchmarking. The grand opening featured a demonstration of the […]

ProBio Opens ‘Center of Excellence’ in Hopewell

Biotechnology company ProBio has launched its Plasmid & Viral Vector Center of Excellence in Hopewell. The company, a subsidiary of GenScript Biotech Corporation, is a global contract development and manufacturing organization that specializes in cell and gene therapy. In addition to its new Hopewell facility, a custom-built 128,000-square-foot space on the Princeton West Innovation Campus, […]

Plasma Physics Lab to Partner with SOSV, NJEDA on Innovation Center

New Jersey is forging ahead with plans to create a new Strategic Innovation Center for plasma research, thanks to a new partnership between the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), venture capital firm SOSV and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The NJ HAX Plasma Forge will combine PPPL’s cutting-edge […]

120 East State Awarded $12 Million NJEDA Tax Credit

“We are grateful to the NJEDA and Gov. Murphy for having faith in our vision,” said 120 East State Board President Cherry Oakley. “This major, essential milestone for the project will accelerate our success.” “This allows us to attract other funding that is critical to our ability to take a beautiful, significant but aged landmark […]

Spinner Joins PACF As Chief Philanthropy Officer

A Pennington resident with more than two decades of regional and national fundraising experience is the new chief philanthropy officer at the Princeton Area Community Foundation. Steven B. Spinner is an expert in corporate and foundation relations and major gift fundraising. During his career, he has played a key role in philanthropic work that raised […]

LISC Offers Tools for ‘Growing Leaders, Building Communities’

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) New Jersey — the Newark-based New Jersey branch of a nationwide community development enterprise — visits the Social Profit Center at Mill One on Wednesday, June 25, for “Collective Impact Tools for Growing Leaders, Building Communities.” The free event runs from 5 to 7 p.m. at 1 North Johnston Avenue, […]

Central Jersey Clubs to Participate in Amateur Radio Field Day

Two central New Jersey-based amateur radio clubs participate in the national Amateur Radio “Field Day” event on Saturday and Sunday, June 28 and 29. This annual national field day event has taken place each year since 1933 and is designed to showcase the radio communication abilities of amateur radio to the public. Field day demonstrates […]

PPPL Project to Study the Forces Behind Solar Flares

Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have flipped the switch on a first-of-its-kind device designed to unlock the secrets of one of the universe’s most explosive phenomena: magnetic reconnection. The device, known as the Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiments — FLARE for short — is a massive, gleaming barrel-like machine roughly the size of […]

Trenton Awarded $7 Million from NJEDA Grant Program

The City of Trenton has been awarded a grant from the Urban Investment Fund (UIF) Grant Program, Mayor W. Reed Gusciora announced on June 6. The $7 million award, part of a program operated by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), will support the rehabilitation of two historically significant buildings along South Broad Street […]