RENSSELAER – St. Joseph’s College is among three Indiana independent colleges selected as 2012 winners of the Ball Brothers Foundation Venture Fund competitive grant program. The others are Franklin College and St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. Each will share $75,000 in seed funding for start-up initiatives to stimulate creativity and innovation and to foster competition and collaboration […]
LAPORTE – The LaPorte Hospital Foundation’s 24th annual Healthcare Scholarship Golf Tournament raised more than $30,000 at its recent event at Briar Leaf Golf Club. Since 1983, more than 250 students pursuing healthcare degrees have received more than $491,000 in scholarships. “The foundation’s golf tournament has continued to positively impact local students to achieve their
HAMMOND – The Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana will offers two shows on June 30, “Earth, Moon and Sun,” and a laser light show, “Laser Pop.” “Earth, Moon and Sun” explores the relationship between the three with the help of the amusing character Coyote. It tackles misconceptions about Earth and its close neighbors. Show
VALPARAISO – Valparaiso University has announced that beginning in the fall, it will over degrees in Master of Ministry Administration and Master of Health Administration at its new Hyde Park campus in Chicago. Classes will be available at the Lutheran School of Theology this year and in 2013, will be offered at the new Valparaiso
MERRILLVILLE – The winners of the Influential women of Northwest Indiana were announced recently at the Radisson Star Plaza. More than 100 women were nominated in 11 categories. Business Influential Woman – Violet Sistovaris, senior vice president and chief information officer, NiSource. Business Up and Coming Woman – Julie Bieszczat, vice president, Barney Enterprises Management
HAMMOND – A recently developed partnership between Purdue University Calumet’s School of Technology and Mitsubishi Electric Automation has produced a new, campus-based mechatronics engineering technology laboratory. The lab provides an environment of real world equipment designed to enable students to gain knowledge and experience that is useful to employers, said Dean Niaz Latif. “This is
HAMMOND – Purdue University Calumet has received a gift from Summit Media Group to support a $5,000 scholarship for engineering technology students. The David Harvey Memorial Scholarship is for students who demonstrate financial need. Preference will be given to those studying mechatronics engineering technology. The scholarship is established in memory of the late entrepreneur, leader
HAMMOND – A former chief financial officer-turned-whistleblower of a multi-billion dollar health care corporation will offer an insider’s perspective of corporate fraud at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 22, at Purdue University Calumet. Weston Smith, former CFO of HealthSouth Corp. will deliver his remarks in Alumni Hall at the Student Union and Library. Social hour begins
MERRILLVILLE – IV Diagnostics LLC has announced it will open an office in the Purdue Research Park of Northwest Indiana. The Valparaiso company will continue to operate its office there. The company provides research and development in measuring and monitoring cancer tumor cells in the bloodstream. Frank Szczepanski, president and CEO, said that by opening
GARY – Indiana University Northwest has announced the appointment of Patricia Nowak as campus chief of police. The appointment is effective July 2. Nowak is the first female police chief in the Indiana University system. She will be responsible for 12 officers and a team of several dispatchers. As head of the IU Northwest Police
