Category: Alumni

March 21, 2016

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...

March 7, 2016

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...

March 2, 2016

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...

March 2, 2016

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...

March 1, 2016

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...

February 11, 2016

ENTR Students Introduce New “Digital Handshake” App

Exchanging information for the many social media networks, emails and phone numbers can be quite a hassle, and having to look for people on each social network one-by-one gets tedious. Recognizing this problem, a group of Purdue University students have...

March 30, 2015

TEDxPurdueU

TEDxPurdueU presents MERAKI TEDxPurdueU, Purdue’s own independently organized TED conference, is scheduled to host their fourth annual flagship event from 6-10 p.m. on April 11, in Loeb Playhouse at the university’s West Lafayette campus. The theme of TEDxPurdueU 2015 is “Meraki.” An untranslatable word from Modern Greek, it is used...

March 30, 2015

Luncheon with Beth Bostwick- Successful Female Entrepreneur & PU Alum

Beth Bostwick has leveraged Fortune 100 company experience acquired earlier in her career to her startup experience in Silicon Valley. She currently advises several women founders of technology businesses and is passionate about enabling women to be successful in the...

March 26, 2015

Meet the Scientific Founder and CEO of Spin Transfer Technologies

Through the Life of a Faculty Entrepreneur Course - Meet the Scientific Founder and CEO of Spin Transfet Technologies Spin Transfer Technologies is developing an advanced magneto-resistive semiconductor memory technology (MRAM) based on its proprietary method of Orthogonal Spin Transfer (OST)...