Discovery accelerated

By bringing together driven, inventive faculty and talented, creative students, we are creating engines of innovation that drive breakthroughs and new companies and jobs to advance our economy. More than just interesting travel tales, these stories are a virtual road map of tips, tricks and resources for anyone else on the entrepreneurial path. Contact us with additional questions or comments.

Student-refined optical device a potential boon for scientists, stargazers

Web service developed by student partners could help take the pain out of buying and selling textbooks

Brother, sister alumni fuse talents to create independent media studio

Water treatment project inspires students to test market for high-impact, low-cost technologies

Technology from professor and his students helps make mobile apps battery friendly

Faculty collaborators give the venerable electric guitar pickup a makeover

Professor's device provides a noise cue to improve speech for those with Parkinson's disease

Student-created suspension system for heavy lifting, carrying tasks takes a load off

Professor founds Arxan Technologies to harden applications against cyber attacks

Current and former students develop wireless device, freeing guitar gods (and goddesses) to roam

Researchers' technology could make a healthy diet a point and shoot affair

Alumnus' smartphone apps make for smarter, cheaper parking

Cotton candy inspires grad students to develop new wound treatment and company

Students' flavor-neutral energy powder puts a 'Kyk' in any beverage

Student-founded moving service, Guys And Dollies, provides free packaging, low-cost storage for campus community

Student founds HungryBoiler to simplify online ordering process for local restaurants

Students bring big business operations savvy to small service businesses with FoundOPS

Professor's digital pharmacy app aims to improve patient care, health care costs

Students create BoilerWiki, allow peers to review and rate assorted components of college experience

Alumnus' company brings data mining for the field to the field

Former Purdue students and company solve communication problems with affordable telephone technology

Doctoral student's nanoscale protein analysis technology could help quicken development of improved cancer treatments

Professor-led expert search system is an expert at finding experts

Professor's high-tech traps, tracking pinpoint crop pests

Professor and team create 3-D holograms of living tissue to discern how well anti-cancer therapies work

Tight job market leads Purdue alumnus to Web development venture

Professor's company researches "homing" molecules to carry treatment to cancer cells, reduce side effects

Students' serial entrepreneurship aims to head off concussions, pressure ulcers

Professor partners with student team on interactive speech app for children with autism

Purdue business competition provides alumni seed money for successful "lab in the field"

Simple cancer test from alumnus could lead to earlier detection, improved treatment prognoses

Graduate student's research could improve the prognosis for arthritic knees

Purdue alumnus transforms supply chains with Tompkins International

Purdue alumni take a stab at stab-free glucose measurement device

Automated antenna tracking system enhances speed, safety for military and first responders

Programmable lab-on-a-chip developed by alumnus lets researchers tailor the device for a custom fit

Professor couples business skills with forestry heritage to breed faster-growing trees

Professor's technology can take the pressure off hose replacement

Adjunct professor creates question and answer service years after futuristic idea

Alums and faculty member solve problems, keep track of stuff with innovative software

Computer graphics grad and professor wrote the book on mobile apps, then started a company to make them

Professor discovers enzymes in termite gut that aid in biofuel production

Professor develops alternative drug-delivery method using films

Alumnus connects student innovators, hobbyists with specialized electronics

Professor's radiant heating technology puts a sunny spin on "fried" foods