News and Events

Purchase “Shark Tank” Awards $7,000 to Students’ Startups

Grand prize winners hope to decrease global food waste and overuse of resources.
Students Attend National STEM Conference

Eleven students explore opportunities in STEM research.
Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith Visited Purchase

Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith visited Purchase on October 10 to give a lecture titled “On Proving Yourself Wrong: Learning from ‘Failed’ Experiments.”
Adan Cid-Gonzalez ’18 Economics

Adan Cid-Gonzalez ’18 has been accepted as a Teaching Assistant at John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, summer program at the University of Hong Kong, full expenses paid with a stipend!
Economic students participate in first annual Shark Tank Competition
Senior Wins First Annual Startup Pitching Competition

Contest was culmination of the economics class Entrepreneurship and Finance: Turning Ideas Into Startups.
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students

Nine students explore opportunities in STEM research.
Madeleine Wykstra ’12

Taking action on major geopolitical issues