The Indiana District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recognized lenders that have helped Indiana small businesses. In fiscal year 2014, SBA guaranteed 1,366 loans totaling $468,426,000 for Indiana small businesses. This year the SBA Indiana District Office added a new recipient category for the SBA Lender Awards. The SBA Indiana District Director’s

Porter Health Care System will offer the following monthly support groups in January: Breast Cancer Support Group – Hope & Healing Porter Regional Hospital offers Hope & Healing, a support group for people coping with breast cancer, whether newly diagnosed or a long-term survivor. The group offers emotional support, information, education, and guest speakers. It

VALPARAISO — Valparaiso University has again been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, joining a group of select universities and colleges across the country that are honored for their support of volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. In addition to receiving distinction for general community service, Valpo was named with

WEST LAFAYETTE — An agriscience company that develops and markets precision agricultural technologies has expanded its staff for a second time this year with the addition of three professionals to help lead the company’s engineering and sales departments. Spensa Technologies Inc., a Purdue Research Park-based company, has hired Chad Aeschliman as director of engineering, Nathan

MUNSTER — Patients who have suffered a painful compression fracture of the spine now have a new minimally-invasive treatment option. Surgeon Mark Chang, MD, on staff at Community Hospital in Munster is first orthopedic specialist in the state of Indiana to treat a patient with a vertebral compression fracture (VCF) using the new Kiva VCF

The SJC Chamber and many of its business leaders, in collaboration with other community leaders, chambers and economic development organizations in Michiana, participated in the Indiana Regional Cities Forum, hosted by the area’s regional economic development group, Michiana Partnership. Eric Doden, president of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), and Rich Overmoyer, CEO of the

WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue University will partner with global leader edX, the nonprofit learning destination founded by MIT and Harvard, through a two-year agreement to begin offering a lineup of selected Purdue courses to anyone anytime with an Internet connection. The first PurdueX courses, being developed by Purdue NExT and nanoHUB-U, will roll out this