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.
Purdue among 37 U.S. and international universities competing in first $1.5 million autonomous race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in fall 2021
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.
Purdue University Northwest professors awarded $526,000 grant to further particle physics research
Two professors from Purdue University Northwest secured more than $500,000 in grants to further their research in particle physics.
Efforts to improve, streamline care by Community Healthcare System and provider network contributes to $2.6 million in Medicare savings
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.
Ivy Tech Community College faculty and students’ opioid crisis mobile app earns prize in AT&T FirstNet Hackathon
An idea by Ivy Tech Community College faculty and students could help first responders deliver aid faster to people dealing with an opioid overdose.
Making their own way
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 […]
A spark for launching ideas
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 […]
Northwest Indiana Innovators
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 […]