Issue of May 31, 2005
By: Gwen McNamara
WorldWater gets $7.8 M contract
PENNINGTON WorldWater & Power Corp. has signed a $7.8 million contract with Farm ACW of Fallbrook, Calif., to install solar electric systems to power the avocado farm.
The contract is subject to certain conditions, including securing grid connections with San Diego Gas & Electric.
"Work on the project is scheduled to begin after grid interconnection is secured and is expected to be completed in the fall," said Quentin T. Kelly, chairman and CEO of WorldWater.
In addition, Worldwater has signed a $280,000 contract to install a solar electric generation and distribution system for a prestigious architectural model residence in southern California.
Construction of the system designed in coordination with the owner, architecture firm Ronchetti Design of Rancho Santa Fe is expected to begin in July.
Sterns & Weinroth moves office
PLAINSBORO The law firm of Sterns & Weinroth P.C. has opened an office at 5 Mapleton Road, just off Route 1.
"The opening of the Princeton office is a result of our firm’s expanded practice, particularly in the area of family law," said William J. Bigham, managing director of the firm.
The new office will be led by W.S. Geral Skey, a director of the firm with more than 30 years experience.
With another office in Trenton, Sterns & Weinroth concentrates its practice in administrative/governmental, bankruptcy/creditors’ rights, litigation and real estate/transactional law.
Residence Inn now open
WEST WINDSOR The Residence Inn by Marriott at Carnegie Center is now open.
The Landis Group, a private investment and real estate development firm, which owns Carnegie Center, hosted a grand opening ceremony May 18. After a tour of the 120-suite hotel, hotel ownership and civic officials cut a "community commitment" ribbon, donating $10,000 to the Brisol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital.
Paramount Hotel Group, a third-party, independent hotel management and ownership group, will operate the property located next to the MarketFair off Canal Pointe Boulevard.
Novo Nordisk to open research center
PLAINSBORO Novo Nordisk, a healthcare company focused on diabetes care and research, is planning to open a hemostasis research center in North Brunswick.
Scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2005, the 30,000-square-foot facility is located at The Technology Centre of New Jersey, a high-tech research park developed by the state Economic Development Authority. The new research center represents a major expansion of Novo Nordisk’s research in the area of hemostasis, or the stoppage of bleeding.
The new center will focus primarily on discovering new pharmacological targets for hemostasis and related complications, although researchers are expected to also conduct preclinical trials to support Novo Nordisk’s NovoSeven Coagulation Factor VIIa.
By year’s end, Novo Nordisk expects to create 25 full-time research positions, with the goal of building a team of 60. The company will also seek to collaborate with neighboring laboratories and clinical centers.
Sarnoff improves display technology
WEST WINDSOR Sarnoff Corp. has developed new silicon intellectual property for microchips that can improve how PDAs, cell phones and other portable devices display high-resolution video for movies, games and other applications.
"Sarnoff’s H.264 decoder IP will deliver video so vivid that portable device users will feel like they’re immersed in the experience," said Bill Mayweather, Sarnoff’s silicon-strategies business director.
The new decoder IP will allow PDAs and similar devices with the right display capabilities to show video in full resolution at normal frame rates, instead of low-resolution images with jerky motion sequences.
Universal Display expands capabilities
EWING Universal Display Corp. has created a new full-color organic light-emitting diode deposition system that can produce flexible OLED displays on both rigid glass and flexible substrates, such as metallic foil and plastic.
Designed and built by Tokki Corp., a leading supplier of OLED manufacturing equipment, along with Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., a premier Japanese trading company, and using novel features designed by Tokki and Universal Display, the ELVES020C OLED Deposition System is housed at Universal Display’s technology development center in the Ewing-based Princeton Crossroads Corporate Center, just a few minutes’ drive from the company’s research partner Princeton University, which is located in the Princetons.
The system is the latest step in Universal Display’s program to develop a broad array of technologies for conformable and flexible, full-color, high-resolution OLED displays. It is being manufactured by Tokki and sold through Hitachi.
Thomas Group gets school contract
PLAINSBORO The Thomas Group, with offices in Princeton Forrestal Village, has been selected by the Highlands Borough School District to work with the district and community committees to plan for current and new educational facilities.
The Thomas Group, a planning, design and engineering firm, has worked with K-12 school districts and higher-education clients in the past.
SCORE to hold sessions at library
PRINCETON The Princeton Public Library is the new venue for small-business counseling sessions offered by the Princeton Chapter of SCORE.
Known as "Counselors to America’s Small Business," SCORE will offer sessions Tuesdays and Thursdays between 6 and 9 p.m. in the Tower Reading Room on the second floor of the library beginning June 1.
Counseling sessions are confidential and offered at no charge. SCORE volunteers are working and retired small-business owners and corporate executives.
In addition to Princeton Public Library, SCORE offers counseling each week in West Windsor, Trenton, Monroe Township and East Brunswick. For more information, call the Princeton Chapter at (609) 520-0634 or email [email protected].
The Princeton Public Library is located at 65 Witherspoon St. in Princeton Borough.
Daune Morris has new office
HAMILTON The full-service law firm of Duane Morris LLP has opened a new Princeton office at 240 Princeton Ave. in Hamilton.
Located near Route 1, the office "serves the needs of New Jersey, national and international corporations and emerging growth companies, as well as individuals, educational institutions and other entities," according to company officials.
With 17 other offices nationwide, Duane Morris provides legal counsel and representation in all aspects of litigation as well as a broad range of corporate, transactional and regulatory matters.
To contact the new office, call (609) 631-2413.
Hall designed by local firm opens
PLAINSBORO A new 430-seat concert hall at Drew University, designed by Farewell Mills & Gatsch Architects LLC, opened in April with a performance by the New Jersey Symphony.
The concert hall, an addition to the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, represents a clear improvement to the university’s music department, which has been constrained by limited space for teaching, rehearsing and storage. Previously, the school never had a dedicated, technically programmed performance space that encouraged public participation, according to the firm.

