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Purdue University alumni-led startups Aerovy Mobility, in left photo, and Uniform Sierra Aerospace participated in the biannual Black and Gold Awards pitch competition. Purdue Innovates Startup Foundry, led by Tyler Mantel (at far right in both pictures), awarded $100,000 apiece to both companies. Aerovy Mobility also received $40,000 from the New Venture Challenge pitch competition,… Learn More >

Ahmad Darwish, senior research associate at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, prepares a lyophilization, or freeze-drying, experiment at the LyoHUB Technology Demonstration Facility in Birck Nanotechnology Center. Purdue researcher Alina Alexeenko has received funding from the Trask Innovation Fund to further develop lyophilization innovations and bring them to the marketplace.… Learn More >

Purdue University researcher V. Jo Davisson and CEO Diana Caldwell are the founders of Amplified Sciences, a clinical-stage life sciences diagnostic company that focuses on accurately detecting and categorically assessing the risks of debilitating diseases. The National Cancer Institute has awarded Amplified Sciences a grant of approximately $400,000 to develop a test to determine if… Learn More >

Using a robotic hand, Jinwook Baek (left), postdoctoral research assistant, and Sunghwan Lee, assistant professor of engineering technology, examine how a flexible and wearable sensor could be used to monitor health information and manipulate a small object (ball). (Purdue University photo/John O’Malley) Patent-pending technique creates sensors that demonstrate high flexibility and strain sensitivity but don’t… Learn More >

Wenbin Yu, a professor in Purdue University’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, will be the primary investigator on a project with commercial software provider AnalySwift LLC and the University of Texas at Arlington to create DATC, or Design tool for Advanced Tailorable Composites. NASA has awarded AnalySwift LLC a two-year, $799,954 Phase II STTR contract… Learn More >

Purdue-affiliated startup Adranos, manufacturer of solid rocket motors and maker of ALITEC, a high-performance solid rocket fuel that gives greater payload capacity, range and speed to launch systems, has been sold to Anduril Industries. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Adranos Inc., a Purdue-originated company that grew from a doctoral project into an impactful company, has been… Learn More >

Zixin Xiong, a Purdue University PhD candidate in mechanical engineering, studies high temperatures in the Marconnet Thermal and Energy Conversion Lab. Purdue professor Xiulin Ruan and associate professor Amy Marconnet have invented patent-pending, solid-state, continuously tunable thermal devices to dissipate heat from batteries, insulate them against cold and function across a wide range of temperatures.… Learn More >

Former Purdue University mechanical engineering students Alex Bauer, from left, Mark Ragei and Dylan Balter make a presentation during the spring 2022 Malott Innovation Awards. A research team of Purdue University mechanical engineers led by associate professor Thomas Beechem has created a tool that makes the manufacture of ultrathin semiconductors more consistent, controllable and repeatable… Learn More >

The advanced air mobility sector includes urban air mobility, which uses electrical vertical takeoff and landing vehicles. Aerovy Mobility, a Purdue University-connected startup, has developed software solutions to benefit airport and vertiport operators and real estate developers looking to establish advanced air mobility technology at existing and potential sites. (Image provided by Electro.Aero) Company’s cloud-based… Learn More >

Sean Leshney, director of digital forensics investigations at Tippecanoe County (from left) and Patrick Harrington, Tippecanoe County prosecutor, view an analysis of digital evidence created by the FileTSAR+ forensic tool. Purdue University researchers improved the original tool by simplifying its functionality and packaging to make FileTSAR+ easier and more cost effective for law enforcement agencies… Learn More >