WEST LAFAYETTE – The football head injury experts featured in recent Sports Illustrated coverage of Junior Seau’s brain injuries say new brain-saving helmet technology is available that would massively decrease energy delivered to the brain during impacts. Eric Nauman, Purdue University Neurotrauma Group biomechanical engineering professor, has patented a new helmet liner that reduces G-force […]
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WESTVILLE – Purdue University North Central Chancellor Dr. James B. Dworkin has been presented with the Rotary Club Foundation of Michigan City Paul J. Alinsky Excellence Award. The award is presented in honor of the late Paul Alinsky, a past Rotary Club president, former Michigan City Chamber of Commerce chairman and founder of Sentinel Alarm
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LAPORTE – Since 1983, Indiana University Health LaPorte Hospital, the LaPorte Hospital Foundation and the LaPorte Hospital Auxiliary have sponsored scholarships to provide financial assistance to students pursuing healthcare careers. Through the combined efforts, more than $160,000 was distributed to 52 students in 2012. The following Auxiliary scholarships are available in 2013: $750 Auxiliary Scholarships
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CROWN POINT – Kimberly Valich has joined the University of St. Francis Crown Point faculty as a full-time assistant professor. She earned a bachelor of science in nursing at St. Xavier University in 1989 and a master of science in nursing at University of Phoenix in 2002. She began her nursing career in intensive and
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CROWN POINT – The Gamma Theta chapter of Crown Point’s Tri Kappa sorority is making decorated chocolate Easter eggs. The sale of the eggs is our chapter’s largest fundraiser, raising over $9,000 for Crown Point area high school scholarship programs. The sorority will make more than 5,000 Easter eggs on Friday, Feb. 22, from 3:30 to 9:30
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LAPORTE – The LaPorte County Master Gardener Association, along with Purdue Extension LaPorte County are hosting “Going Garden Crazy,” the 2013 spring symposium on April 13 at Heston Hills Conference Center, 1933 E. County Road 800 North, LaPorte. The event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The day-long event fulfill the Master Gardener program
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VALPARAISO – The Indiana Master Naturalist Program is a 30-hour continuing education course for adults age 18 and over at Taltree Arboretum. The program provides participants with hands-on opportunities to learn about Indiana’s natural resources. It also offers a way for Master Naturalists to share that knowledge along with life experiences through volunteer service opportunities.
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SOUTH BEND – The University of Notre Dame has announced it will open a Center for Low Energy Systems Technology through a $30 million grant over the next five years from the Semiconductor Research Corp. and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Joining Notre Dame in operation of the center will be Purdue University, Carnegie-Mellon,
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HAMMOND – In response to a shortfall of Indiana-produced coke fuel needed by the steel industry, a team of Purdue University Calumet researchers has developed a new, less costly production process that has earned a patent. The process calls for lower cost Indiana/Illinois Basin-type coal to be blended with conventional metallurgical coals. The blending process
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WEST LAFAYETTE – Experts from Purdue University will be among presenters at the 2013 Indiana Green Expo, which will feature a variety of workshops, sessions and exhibits for horticulture, turf science and business professionals. The conference and trade show will be held Jan. 9 to 11 at the Indiana Convention Center, 100 S. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis.
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