CROWN POINT – Franciscan St. Anthony-Crown Point’s Sports Medicine Institute recently gave back to the community by donating to Crown Point High School the proceeds from an enhanced student physicals program. Some 300 middle school and high school student-athletes received physicals at the high school from a volunteer team of doctors, physical therapists and athletic […]
WEST LAFAYETTE – The Purdue University Society of Professional Engineers recently shattered the Guinness World Record for the largest Rube Goldberg machine with a 244-step juggernaut that destroys the planet several times over before restoring hope and growing a flower. The “time machine” traces world history from the Big Bang to an apocalypse triggered by
HAMMOND – Northern Indiana Public Service Co., Methodist Hospitals, the City of Hammond and the American Heart Association are teaming up to facilitate CPR training for seventh and eighth graders in four schools. NIPSCO is providing $30,000 for 1,000 American Heart Association CPR Anytime kits that will be used in the classroom. Training will be
WEST LAFAYETTE – The 2011 Adventures in Computer Science Summer Camp for students in grades 6 to 8 will be June 19-24 at Purdue University. Sponsored by the K-12 Outreach Program of the Department of Computer Science, the camp will offer an in-depth look at computer science concepts such as programming and robotics and how
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University and HVM Racing have partnered for the Indianapolis 500. The relationship will bring the HVM team advanced engineering technologies in aerodynamics, manufacturing and advanced materials, providing opportunities for Purdue students and faculty to participate in motorsports with HVM. “HVM Racing is one of IndyCar’s leading competitors with 2010 Indianapolis 500
HAMMOND – A public hearing on the proposed Purdue University tuition and fees to be paid by students in the 2011-12 and 201-13 academic years will be Friday, May 27, and can be viewed by videoconference at Purdue University Calumet. The hearing begins at 11:30 a.m. in Room 150 of the Student Union and Library.
HAMMOND – Researchers from Purdue University Calumet have completed a study of the Great Lakes that could be used to reduce mercury and other metals discharged into the Great Lakes by industry. Purdue Calumet researchers joined with scientists from the Argonne National Laboratory in the project, which began in 2007. “Our research teams have conducted
WEST LAFAYETTE – Three Purdue University professors have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are Leah H. Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electric and Computer Engineering; H. Jay Melosh, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Physics; and Ei-ichi Negishi,
VALPARAISO – Discoveries Unlimited, a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring middle school girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), will hold an informational meeting about its mentoring program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 17. The meeting, for incoming sixth, seventh and eighth girls and their parents, will be at United Way of Porter County,
MERRILLVILLE – The University of Phoenix is offering a nine-month, 18-credit transition to teaching certificate beginning in July at its Northwest Indiana campus, 8401 Ohio St. The class is for those who already have a degree in another field and want to teach at the secondary level. “The university has established agreements with a number
