MICHIGAN CITY – The Big R Store in Michigan City has received the Business Investment Award from the Michigan City Economic Development Corp. For the past two years, Big R owners Jerry Gibbs, Jerald Sherman and Ed Ensminger have participated in the Michigan City Area Chamber of Commerce and contributed to the Boys […]
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana CPA Society will hold its 2010 Financial Services Conference on Friday, Dec. 10, at the Indianapolis Marriott East. Speakers include Brian Wesbury of First Trust Advisors LP on the “Panic of 2008”; and Karen Woods and John Tanselle, lawyers with Kreig DeVault LLP, will discuss how financial reform will
HAMMOND – Two notable Northwest Indiana natives will have their names enshrined on the South Shore Wall of Legends. They are Vivian Carter, founder of Vee-Jay Records in Gary, and John Maniotes, a computer pioneer who taught at Purdue University Calumet for 38 years. Both will be inducted at 6 p.m. on
SOUTH BEND – 1st Source Bank has been ranked No. 1 among all banks in Indiana for the number of Small Business Administration 504 loans closed in the last fiscal year. In addition, 1st Source has been recognized by the South Bend Business Development Corp. for its SBA lending in 2010. The bank
HAMMOND – Purdue University Calumet is organizing a trip to Atlanta Feb. 24-27 that will include visits to sites and museums recounting the social, historical, political, cultural, economic and other experiences reflecting the Civil Rights movement. Stops include Atlanta’s Cyclorama, a panorama of the July 24, 1864, Civil War Battle of Atlanta; Margaret
SOUTH BEND – An annual award of up to $20,000 for researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend, will be sponsored by 1st Source Bank. The award is designed to provide an incentive to fast-track promising research. Nominations are being accepted for the award, which will
WEST LAFAYETTE – Hammond native Roland G. Parrish recently donated $2 million to help with a $4.2 million renovation of the Purdue University Management and Economics Library. When work is finished in early 2012, the library will be renamed The Roland G. Parish Library of Management and Economics. Parish, who now lives in
LAPORTE – LaPorte Regional Health System has announced that beginning in 2011, its name will be changed to Indiana University Health LaPorte Hospital. The change is part of an effort to establish a new identity that better aligns with Clarian Health, (which will become Indiana University Health), said G. Thor Thordarson, president and
Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly Magazine wishes all our readers a Happy Thanksgiving. Because of the holiday, there will be no news postings on Thursday, Nov. 25, through Sunday, Nov. 28. Business news postings will resume on Monday, Nov. 29.
HAMMOND – Purdue University Calumet’s Center for Innovation Through Visualization and Simulation has received a $749,853 federal grant to advance wind energy education. The three-year grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education. The money will support a project, “Mixed Reality Simulators for Wind Energy Education.” Five simulators will be developed to
