The Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships (OEVPRP) is pleased to announce the arrivals of Whitney Freeland and Jennifer Merzdorf to support divisional operations, communication, scheduling, and project coordination.
Hannah Davis will serve as an Executive Director for the Office of Industry Partnerships, working on holistic engagement and partnerships with companies in the health sector and will lead that team.
Matthew Merzdorf will serve as a Director for the Office of Industry Partnerships, joining the STEM/High-Tech team and report to Joe Krok. He will be responsible for engaging our portfolio of semiconductor and telecommunications companies.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A newly structured series of entrepreneurship competitions at Purdue University will culminate this spring with student teams competing for $100,000 in cash prizes. The inaugural #StartUp Purdue Expo, planned for Thursday (April 14), is the last in a series of events organized by the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, which this year has expanded efforts at educating student entrepreneurs across three separate events.
A new Innovation Hub program – a mentored proposal writing experience focused on the NSF IUSE program – has been announced. This is a joint venture between Innovation Hub and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships.
We’re writing to share guidance related to the potential impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on our research community. We condemn this attack and stand in support of Ukraine. Already, we have seen the troubling impacts of this conflict manifest within Ukraine and across the globe.
We welcomed last week Jake Denecke as the interim director of facilities and space operations.
We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Wagner has been hired to serve as Purdue’s Director of Export Controls within the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships (EVRPR), effective Monday, January 24.
John Glover has been hired as the executive director for Global Development and Innovation (GDI) in the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI). He will lead the GDI Division of PARI beginning on January 10, 2022.
Significant changes to the Biographical Sketch and Other Support documents as stated in NOT-OD-21-073 and NOT-OD-21-110 will be required for all applications, Just-In-Time (JIT) responses, Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs) beginning January 25, 2022.