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Society of Innovators at Purdue University Northwest seeks nominations for 2021 awards

July 27, 2021 – By Larry Avila

Society of Innovators awards

Nominations are being sought by the Society of Innovators at Purdue University Northwest for the 2021 Innovators Awards.

Filed Under: Business News Bits, Education, Events, Innovation, Leadership, Quality of Life Tagged With: 2021 Innovators Awards, Around the Region, nominations, Purdue University Northwest, Society of Innovators at Purdue Northwest

Creative survival during crisis

July 29, 2020 – By Doug Ross Leave a Comment

Businesses adapt

Northwest Indiana businesses found ways to adapt during COVID-19 virus shelter-in-place orders, and kept up with increased demand for shields and other protective supplies. Many companies also made changes to keep employees and customers safe.

Filed Under: 2020-Aug-Sep, Innovation Tagged With: Al's Supermarket, Busy Bees Pottery and Arts Studio, Dave Wilkinson, Family Express, Konrady Plastics, MonoSol, Nakia Sprouse, P. Scott Bening, Paul Konrady, plastic shield, polycarbonate shields, Strack & Van Til

Purdue among 37 U.S. and international universities competing in first $1.5 million autonomous race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in fall 2021

May 8, 2020 – By Larry Avila

Indy Autonomous Challenge

Purdue University is partnering with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in a competition against other colleges from around the country and internationally in the first-ever high-speed $1.5 million Indy Autonomous Challenge.

Filed Under: Business News Bits, Education, Energy/Environment, Innovation Tagged With: Around the Region, driverless cars, Energy Systems Network, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indy Autonomous Challenge, Purdue University, racing, U.S. Military Academy at West Point

Purdue University Northwest professors awarded $526,000 grant to further particle physics research

January 29, 2020 – By Larry Avila

Two professors from Purdue University Northwest secured more than $500,000 in grants to further their research in particle physics.

Filed Under: Business News Bits, Education, Innovation Tagged With: Around the Region, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, grant award, Jim Dolen, National Science Foundation, Neeti Parashar, PNW High Energy Physics, Purdue University Northwest

Efforts to improve, streamline care by Community Healthcare System and provider network contributes to $2.6 million in Medicare savings

October 16, 2019 – By Larry Avila

Health Care

Being more efficient in care delivery has led to more than $2.6 million in Medicare savings by Community Healthcare System and its partner network of hundreds of independent care providers.

Filed Under: Business News Bits, Health Care, Innovation Tagged With: Accountable Care Organization, Around the Region, Community Healthcare Partners ACO, Community Healthcare System, health care, health care savings, Medicare, quality of care, streamline care

Ivy Tech Community College faculty and students’ opioid crisis mobile app earns prize in AT&T FirstNet Hackathon

October 7, 2019 – By Larry Avila

Ivy Tech

An idea by Ivy Tech Community College faculty and students could help first responders deliver aid faster to people dealing with an opioid overdose.

Filed Under: Business News Bits, Education, Innovation, Technology Tagged With: aid for first responders, Around the Region, AT&T FirstNet Hackathon, first responders, Indiana opioid crisis, Ivy Tech Community College, mobile app

Making their own way

February 4, 2019 – By Jerry Davich Leave a Comment

The 2018 Entrepreneurial Excellence (E-Day) Award honorees

Region’s E-Day award-winning serial entrepreneurs share experiences of business successes and failures Like most opportunistic kids, Jeff Conti not only worked on his newspaper route, he also shoveled snow and mowed lawns for his first entrepreneurial experiences. Conti explored other unconventional ways to challenge himself while growing up in the late 1970s and early ’80s […]

Filed Under: 2019-Feb-Mar, Innovation Tagged With: 2018 Entrepreneurial Excellence (E-Day) Awards; Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center, Albanese Confectionery Group Inc. Entrepreneurial Excellence E-Day Awards, Entrepreneurship, Michelle Hamstra, Small business, small business owners

A spark for launching ideas

December 3, 2018 – By Jerry Davich Leave a Comment

Past honorees of the Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana discuss how the recognition has helped their professional lives

Society of Innovators has new purpose with Purdue University Northwest The spirit of innovation is not only flying high across Northwest Indiana, it’s now piloted by a new flight crew with broader horizons. In June 2018, the vaunted Society of Innovators of NWI entered a collaboration agreement to establish itself as the Society of Innovators […]

Filed Under: 2018-Dec-Jan, Innovation Tagged With: business development, Economy, independent business, innovation in northwest indiana, jobs, small business development, Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana, The Society of Innovators at Purdue Northwest

Northwest Indiana Innovators

October 31, 2017 – By Jerry Davich Leave a Comment

INNOVATION

Innovation is invention on steroids and a catalyst for growth The word “innovation” was once hurled as an expletive, not enshrouded with reverence. A transformation began during the Industrial Revolution, when “innovation” began marching in progressive lockstep with “industry” and “science.” Today, think of innovation as an invention on steroids, the act of introducing something […]

Filed Under: Fall 2017, Innovation Tagged With: ArcelorMittal R&D Center, Arconic Power and Propulsion, Centier Bank, Charles Romberger, Chenn Q. Zhou, Chris Kraynak, Chris Mahlmann, Crown Point Community Schools, Gerald I. Lamkin Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, Hammond Group, Ideas in Motion Media, Ivy Tech, John Davies, Mike Schrage, Norm Fischer, Purdue NW, Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana, Teresa Eineman, Terry Murphy, The Fischer Group

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