Northwest Indiana is blessed with solid businesses guided by visionary leaders. Even when the economy has been dismal, the region’s business leaders have found new ways to succeed, better products to deliver, innovative services to offer. But business success is just part of what it really means to be an exemplary leader of the business […]
Remarkable is a word that can easily be overused. But when it comes to the accomplishments of the 2010 Fellows of the Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana, remarkable doesn’t come close to describing their vision. One wondered why a system couldn’t be set up to feed the world’s 1.2 billion hungry. Another created a
SOUTH BEND – The South Bend Symphony Orchestra will present “Masterworks II – Music from the Heart,” at 8 p.m. (EST) Saturday, Nov. 20, at the Morris Performing Arts Center. Maestro Tsung Yeh and the orchestra will present an event of music of Dvorak and Chopin with guest artist Chu-Fang Huang. The
WEST LAFAYETTE – Ei-ichi Negishi, Purdue University’s Nobel Prize winner, will receive Japan’s highest distinction, the Order of Culture on Nov. 3 from the emperor of Japan. Negishi is the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and created a method to build complex organic molecules necessary in pharmaceutical manufacturing, electronics and other
INDIANAPOLIS – Purdue University Extension will examine the business opportunities and impediments affecting rural Indiana at the Indiana Rural Summit Nov. 18-19 at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel at IUPUI in Indianapolis. Entrepreneurship, regional cooperation and rural economic policy will be discussed. “We’ll be looking out the windshield instead of the
MERRILLVILLE – The Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center has honored 12 people who have made an impact on the region at its annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Award luncheon. Small Business of the Year was presented to Rick Rondinelli of In Touch Pharmaceutical of Valparaiso. His company, started in 2004, provides premeasured and individual
VALPARAISO – The Entech Innovation Center held its grand opening Wednesday, Oct. 20, in the Eastport Centre, next to the Ivy Tech Community College campus. Executive Director Charlie McGill announced that the first floor of the business incubator is occupied by three companies. Negotiations are ongoing with a fourth firm to move into the center.
EAST CHICAGO – Jason Ham, 33, of Union Township in Porter County, was killed in the finishing department of ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor East on Wednesday night. Ham was pronounced dead at 10:58 p.m. The Lake County coroner’s office said the cause of death was blunt force trauma. A joint management and United
HAMMOND – The Indiana Welcome Center, 7770 Corinne Drive, is accepting entries for its annual ugliest lamp contest. Lamps can be dropped off from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Nov. 30. The contest is based on the 1983 movie, “A Christmas Story,” (set in fictional Hohman, Ind.) when Mr. Parker wins a
HAMMOND – Purdue University Calumet will hold its fifth annual Industrial Job and Resource Fair from noon to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, in the university gymnasium in the Fitness & Recreation Center, south of 173rd Street. The fair is for job seekers, Purdue Calumet students and alumni. Admission is free and will
