HAMMOND – Two Purdue University Calumet faculty members have helped write a Purdue University equine business study that indicates Indiana’s horse-related industry has a $2 billion impact on the state’s economy. “This is the first time entrepreneurship has been surveyed,” said Susan Conners, an associate professor and director of the university’s Equine Business Management program. …
WESTVILLE – Carin Chuang, an assistant professor of computer and information technology at Purdue University North Central, has earned an Indiana Campus Compact Scholarship of Engagement Grant. It will allow Chuang and students in her systems analysis and design methods class to partner with the Westville Area Chamber of Commerce to develop a new information …
SOUTH BEND – Clint Bolser has been named CEO for the Logan Center. He will replace Dan Harsham, who is retiring at the end of the year. Bolser was most recently CEO of Noble of Indiana in Indianapolis and previously was with Green Acres in Richmond and CEO of Hillcroft Services in Muncie. He is …
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University and Indiana University are ranked among the top universities in the nation for international student enrollment. The Institute of International Education said Purdue had the fourth-highest international enrollment with 7,500 students on its West Lafayette campus, while Indiana was ranked 11th with 5,400 students. Nationally, 22 percent of international students …
CROWN POINT – Bill Gregory has been named interim director of the Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center. He takes over for LeAnn McCrum who left to pursue another employment opportunity. “I hope to continue to infuse the SBDC with the same level of energy that LeAnn gave it,” said Gregory. “Our biggest goal is …
WESTVILLE – Purdue University North Central will host the American Veterans Traveling Tribute from July 3-7, 2012. The tribute will provide visitors an opportunity to experience and 80 percent scale version of the Vietnam Wall. “It is a tremendous honor to have the opportunity to host the American Veterans Traveling Tribute on our campus,” said …
HAMMOND – Mass. Electric Construction Co. of Irving, Texas, has donated $52,000 to Purdue University Calumet to support its construction management and engineering technologies program. MEC has employed several Purdue Calumet graduates. It is one of the nation’s largest electrical contractors. The donation will be used to enhance a Purdue Calumet Construction Management and Engineering …
HAMMOND – Becky Manis has been named executive director of the Challenger Learning Center, 2300 173rd Ave. She will be responsible for promoting the center as an educational destination for corporate and school groups. She also will be responsible for selling its educational programs to schools, children’s groups, private events, civic and corporate groups. Manis …
SOUTH BEND – The University of Notre Dame has announced a $32 million renovation of its historic Morris Inn. A major portion of funding for the project came from a $15 million grant from South Bend philanthropist Ernestine Raclin. Her parents, Ernest and Ella Morris, presented the initial $1 million grant that opened the Morris …
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University’s Oncological Sciences Center and Indiana University will share a National Institutes of Health grant to launch a cancer advocacy network and advance research for systems-engineering principles to cancer prevention and treatment. The $500,000 grant will be used through the joint Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. It will fund a …
