WEST LAFAYETTE – Rakesh Agrawal, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University, will receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama. The award is the highest honor for technological achievement. Agrawal is the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering. He holds 116 U.S. patents, […]
HAMMOND – The South Shore Convention and Visitor Authority will hold a Tourism Tech Summit from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, at the Indiana Welcome Center. The summit will provide information on marketing through social media technology. Participants from support organizations, private industry, academic institutions and IT groups are invited. Partners in
HAMMOND – Brian Harris, business development manager with Amex Nooter LLC of Hammond, will take part in The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel: 101 program, hosted by the Association for Iron & Steel Technology in St. Louis. “The industry we take part in and complete jobs for is primarily steel,” said Harris. “It is
CROWN POINT – Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point has announced it is adding an open magnetic resonance imaging system which will be the only one of its kind in Lake and Porter counties. Installation of the Oasis, the Hitachi company’s open MRI, will begin soon at St. Anthony’s Outpatient Health Complex. Unlike closed units, the
Building a company website involves a lot of hands. When I was a young boy, my father would remind me, “John, you have only one chance to make a lasting, first impression upon someone about yourself.” Although I am sure that I have squandered many first-impression opportunities throughout my life, my father’s sage advice has
HAMMOND – The Hammond Academy of Science and Technology will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony at 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, at 33 Muenich Court in downtown. Mayor Thomas M. McDermott Jr., the Hammond Urban Academy Board of Director and officials from HAST will take part in the ceremony, which includes placement of two
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University is developing a program in energy storage technology in cooperation with the Naval Surface Warfare Center based in Crane, Ind. The effort could eventually lead to a master’s degree in chemical engineering and help in the development of electrical vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, solar cells, wind turbines and diesel
VALPARAISO – IVDiagnostics Inc., a biomedical technology company focused on research on the early detection of cancer, has been selected as a Top 50 Innovator at the New York Venture Summit. The summit was presented by youngStartup Ventures, which brings cutting edge startups together with venture capitalists and angel investors. “IVDiagnostics exemplifies a biomedical technology
CROWN POINT – A problem plaguing the refrigerated trucking business has been addressed by a Crown Point entrepreneur. Russ Edwards of Coolway Refrigeration took on the safety issue of truck driver pulling their cabs away from the trailer without unplugging the electrical power source. Edwards created the patent-approved Electrical Power Interruption Control (EPIC) device. So
Northwest Indiana emerging as a great place to turn research into products. by Rick A. Richards The buckle of the nation’s industrial belt is firmly cinched in Northwest Indiana. Steel and its affiliated suppliers and businesses have been a part of the region’s landscape for generations. And just a few miles south, Indiana’s cornbelt begins.
