Category: Alumni

Global China Connection Midwest Annual Conference

The Midwest Annual Conference is the most remarkable professional event Purdue GCC hosts. The conference has one main theme and three objectives. This year our conference is designed to focus on career development for international students. The three objectives are how to...

Life of a Faculty Entrepreneur: Incubation Within and Outside of the University

 

ENTR Students Showcase Soy Products During Competition

At the recent Purdue University Student Soybean Product Innovation Competition, three Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation students were part of winning teams. The purpose of the Soybean Product Innovation Competition is to encourage Purdue students to exercise their knowledge and skills...

IFI/IFE Experience Guides Student to be an Entrepreneur

When Kurtis Sluss, a senior studying chemical engineering and chemistry, decided to apply to the Interns for Indiana/Interns for Entrepreneurship Program (IFI/IFE), a program within the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, he didn’t know it would lead him to...

Papa John’s Pizza CEO Joins President Daniels during Presidential Lecture Series

John Schnatter, founder and CEO of Papa John’s Pizza, will be featured in the Spring 2016 Presidential Lecture Series with Purdue President Mitch Daniels. The president will lead the hourlong discussion with Schnatter, which includes an audience question-and-answer session. Papa John’s is now the third-largest...

Interns For Indiana Pairs Student Talent to Growing Business

Doug Booth (MGMT ’13 and Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation recipient) and Aaron Padgett (AGEC ’01) founded Multiply Technology, an Indianapolis startup whose mission is to be the conduit that connects corporations that want to securely retire their unused hardware...

BDM Fellows Have Dinner with Daniels

The inaugural cohort of the Burton D. Morgan Fellows were selected in August. One of the group’s goals was to meet with inspirational individuals that could share entrepreneurial and professional advice. One individual selected by the group was Purdue President...

Fellows Have Dinner with Daniels

The inaugural cohort of the Burton D. Morgan Fellows were selected in August. One of the group’s goals was to meet with inspirational individuals that could share entrepreneurial and professional advice. One individual selected by the group was Purdue President...

ENTR Students Take 2nd at Business Plan Competition

The Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition was held February 23. Froyo Xpress received $10,000 for its second-place finish. Marek Davis wished there were a soda machine in the lobby of Harrison that would let him pour his own drink after...