WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame have teamed up with state officials to offer Indiana’s first business plan competition that targets startup ventures and emerging nanotechnology companies. The Nanotechnology New Ventures Competition is March 25, 2011, and is offering prizes totaling $57,000 to top researchers or entrepreneurs developing […]
INDIANAPOLIS – From Nov. 5 to 14, participating central Indiana restaurants will ask diners if they would be willing to pay $1 or more for a class of water they usually enjoy for free. The reason is to bring attention to the nearly 900 million people worldwide who lack access to safe drinking water.
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University civil engineers studying the effects of Haiti’s earthquake have concluded that a simple system could be used to quickly decide how to modify existing buildings and build new ones that would better withstand future quakes. The system uses a priority index to rank reinforced concrete buildings according to
Alzheimer’s disease currently affects 5.3 million Americans, and one more is added to the list every 70 seconds. That’s why it’s so critical that research continue, and why it was such a blow to families worldwide when Eli Lilly and Co. announced it would halt development of Semagacestat, its promising treatment for Alzheimer’s. Phase III
SOUTH BEND – The South Bend Symphony Orchestra will present “Masterworks II – Music from the Heart,” at 8 p.m. (EST) Saturday, Nov. 20, at the Morris Performing Arts Center. Maestro Tsung Yeh and the orchestra will present an event of music of Dvorak and Chopin with guest artist Chu-Fang Huang. The
WEST LAFAYETTE – Ei-ichi Negishi, Purdue University’s Nobel Prize winner, will receive Japan’s highest distinction, the Order of Culture on Nov. 3 from the emperor of Japan. Negishi is the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and created a method to build complex organic molecules necessary in pharmaceutical manufacturing, electronics and other
INDIANAPOLIS – Purdue University Extension will examine the business opportunities and impediments affecting rural Indiana at the Indiana Rural Summit Nov. 18-19 at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel at IUPUI in Indianapolis. Entrepreneurship, regional cooperation and rural economic policy will be discussed. “We’ll be looking out the windshield instead of the
MERRILLVILLE – The Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center has honored 12 people who have made an impact on the region at its annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Award luncheon. Small Business of the Year was presented to Rick Rondinelli of In Touch Pharmaceutical of Valparaiso. His company, started in 2004, provides premeasured and individual
VALPARAISO – The Entech Innovation Center held its grand opening Wednesday, Oct. 20, in the Eastport Centre, next to the Ivy Tech Community College campus. Executive Director Charlie McGill announced that the first floor of the business incubator is occupied by three companies. Negotiations are ongoing with a fourth firm to move into the center.
EAST CHICAGO – Jason Ham, 33, of Union Township in Porter County, was killed in the finishing department of ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor East on Wednesday night. Ham was pronounced dead at 10:58 p.m. The Lake County coroner’s office said the cause of death was blunt force trauma. A joint management and United
