From contract review to contract dashboard: How Second Opinion evolved in the Purdue Innovates Accelerator
Purdue Innovates Accelerator is a three-month, investment-based startup program that empowers founders to transform their bold visions into disruptive impact. Second Opinion utilizes a structured multi-AI model to provide a sanity check to AI generated work products, reviewing documents, and highlighting easily verifiable areas of concern within documents in a couple of minutes, giving every […]
Ribbon cutting celebrates new upgrades to Squirrel Park in Discovery Park District at Purdue
Left to right: PRF Senior Project Manager Paul Bercot; West Lafayette Redevelopment Commission President Larry Oates; West Lafayette Mayor Erin Easter; Beck’s Hybrids CEO Sonny Beck; Glendia Beck; PRF COO Greg Deason; Purdue Board of Trustees Chair Gary Lehman; PRF Senior Vice President of Real Estate & Partnerships Emily Najem; PRF Vice President of Real […]
Vibe Robotics advances in-home humanoid robots toward market through Purdue Innovates Accelerator
Purdue Innovates Accelerator is a three-month, investment-based startup program that empowers founders to transform their bold visions into disruptive impact. Vibe Robotics is building affordable humanoid robots for education, research, and embodied AI development. By lowering the cost and complexity of humanoid systems, the company is expanding access to a broader generation of students, researchers, […]
Purdue Innovates Accelerator helps FiberX sharpen strategy and scale
Purdue Innovates Accelerator is a three-month, investment-based startup program that empowers founders to transform their bold visions into disruptive impact. FiberX is a biomass refinery that converts agricultural residue into revenue. It mechanically refines stover into fibers used as additives in plastics, rubber, and other materials. Its lignin-first biorefinery produces lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose, while […]
Why global companies choose Purdue and Indiana: PRF highlights ecosystem-driven growth at SelectUSA 2026
Taiwanese SelectUSA semiconductor delegation visited Purdue University’s Birck Nanotechnology Center during their stay in the US. (Photo credit: Purdue Research Foundation) Held in National Harbor, MD, the SelectUSA Investment Summit is the highest profile event in the United States to facilitate business investment by connecting thousands of investors, companies, economic development organizations (EDOs), and industry […]
Honoring Phil Low’s Legacy
Phil Low, Purdue University’s Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, was an icon in the worlds of biochemistry and drug discovery. His work has positively affected the lives of countless people around the globe as an entrepreneur. But his impact goes beyond ideation of novel drugs. He was […]
National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue: Amy Reibman
National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue NAI Fellow 2022 Amy Reibman College of Engineering Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering The NAI Fellows Program celebrates academic inventors whose work spans multiple disciplines and exemplifies their collaboration, dedication and innovation to transform research into real-world commercial technologies that contribute to the betterment of society. Amy […]
“A Chip Odyssey” brings Taiwan’s semiconductor story to Purdue University
Though Taiwan accounts for less than 0.02% of the world’s landmass, its outsized impact on the semiconductor industry has become an indispensable force in the era of AI and advanced chipmaking. The story of triumph was presented to an audience of around 100 on Purdue’s campus by Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) in coordination with the […]
Purdue Innovates, Boilermaker innovation win big at 2026 TechPoint Mira Awards
Purdue University’s legacy of innovation was on full display at TechPoint’s 2026 Mira Awards, which celebrate the most groundbreaking contributions to Indiana’s tech ecosystem. Many Purdue-connected companies and individuals stood out among the honorees, underscoring the university’s far-reaching impact on driving technological advancement in Indiana and beyond. One of the evening’s standout recognitions for Purdue […]
National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue: J. Paul Robinson
National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue NAI Fellow 2022 J. Paul Robinson Distinguished Professor of Cytometry and SVM Professor of Cytomics in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Basic Medical Sciences. Joint appointment as professor of biomedical engineering in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. Director of the Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories. The […]