As a point of contact for connecting Purdue University expertise with priorities of Northwest Indiana business, industry and government, university administrator Timothy Sanders has assumed a new role as Director of Purdue’s newly-established Northwest Indiana Engagement Office. Sanders’ Northwest Indiana responsibilities include building contacts with business, industry, governmental agencies and community leaders to promote workforce, […]

For June’s Innovators of the Month, The Society of Innovators selected Supt. Barbara Eason-Watkins of the Michigan City Area Schools for pursuing a “high quality entrepreneurial approach” aimed at core instruction, choice, and career readiness.  She was inducted as a Society Member in the “2013 – 2014 Class of Innovators.” Experiencing a fivefold increase in

INDIANAPOLIS — Governor Mike Pence today named Pershing Edwin “P.E.” MacAllister as the 2014 recipient of the Sachem Award. The Governor plans to present MacAllister with the Sachem at an official ceremony in the coming months. Indiana’s highest honor, the Sachem, whose name comes from the Algonquin term given to leaders who exhibit wisdom, judgment

GARY — Methodist Hospitals recently strengthened patient safety measures by expanding its use of capnography to monitor patients using patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) to regulate their pain after surgery. Methodist Hospitals is among the nation’s leaders in the early implementation of capnography monitoring to protect patients using PCA. Long used in operating rooms to monitor patients

MUNSTER – Community Hospital’s celebration of Nurses Week culminated with a ceremony to recognize the most outstanding nurse and top patient caregiver, as voted by their co-workers. Marissa Hernandez, a patient care technician with the Mother/Baby unit, is recipient of the “2014 Patient Caregiver Excellence Award,” and Daniella Webb, registered nurse on Intermediate Care Unit-West

HAMMOND — Three Purdue University Calumet engineering students earned first place in the recent 2014 AISTech (Association for Iron & Steel Technology) Conference competition for an applied research project in which they identified a problem and solution for steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal. Hannah Amor of Plymouth, Stephen Builta of Munster and Michael Garcia of St. John

FRENCH LICK — The greatest players in LPGA history are returning to French Lick Resort in southern Indiana August 13-17, as the Legends Championship will highlight a grand week celebrating women’s golf and benefiting the Riley Children’s Hospital for Children at IU Health Foundation. Resort Charity Events, the non-profit foundation for French Lick Resort, has

PORTAGE — Holladay Properties has closed on the $2.4 million sale of Lot 29 at AmeriPlex at the Port to Merrillville, Ind.-based MonoSol, LLC. The water soluble film manufacturer will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, June 27 for the new $95 million, 300,000 square foot manufacturing plant the company plans to build on the