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Veronica Galles pitched her idea, UPLeft, for the 2022 Burton D. Morgan Business Model Competition. UPLeft is a service that picks up leftover food from restaurants at closing and delivers it to nonprofit organizations for distribution.

Sole Solutions won 2nd place in the Burton D. Morgan Business Model Competition. The venture is an eco-friendly company that provides anti-slip spike covers for track athletes.

Trice Rias-Thompson’s energy is contagious, and she has a spirit for entrepreneurship that continues to bring her success. Trice is a 2012 alumna of Purdue’s Selling and Sales Management program, and she holds the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Today, she is a Managing Producer at a company called Studio 71 in Los Angeles and is the co-owner of Trindi Media Group. She even continues the DJ business she started while at Purdue; most recently, she did an event for the Jim Henson Company!

Students’ share appreciation and the value of guest speaker experiences in their entrepreneurship courses. Many speakers have returned to campus, but having the online option has opened up the possibility to engage with entrepreneurs and alumni of the program who live all over the world.  

Oswin is a sophomore from South Bend, Indiana. She is in the Krannert School of Management majoring in management and marketing with a concentration in International Business and a minor in Spanish. Her innovative idea to solve the world’s need...

The George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program is named in honor of former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell’s pivotal contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process. The program is designed to introduce and connect generations of future American leaders to Ireland. Though...

A junior in public relations from Hanover, Massachusetts, Jazna presented A Fresh Start in March 2015 to some of the best and brightest of the nonprofit sector—including President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton—at the Clinton Global Initiative University in Miami,...