Josiah K. Lilly Jr.

I'll start with that first part.

Purdue Research Foundation was formed in 1930 by David Ross and Josiah Lilly.

And they formed it for the purposes of bridging the university and all of its capabilities from research labs to, most importantly, the people inside the university, the faculty, and the students with industry.

The idea was to match industry with its contemporary problems that it was working on as part of that land grant mission of Purdue with the contemporary university faculty.

And I would say that this option with Amelia Earhart brought in those early days was one of the early endeavors that has really anchored Purdue and set the foundation in its aviation prominence for the almost 100 years that PRF has been here.

The way that the Amelia Earhart and Purdue Research Foundation and the Purdue University got connected was Amelia had just completed her Atlantic crossing and had become somewhat of an international celebrity.

And she was doing speeches and giving presentations around the country and came across, at the time, Purdue President Edward Elliott, and then captured the imagination of David Ross and Josiah Lilly.

David Ross, he was an incredible Greater Lafayette resident, inventor himself, and very accomplished business person.