Jay Roberts, associate vice president of academic affairs at Earlham College, is scheduled to be a panelist at the 2018 Education-to-Employment Convergence Power Breakfast on Tuesday, April 24. The discussion will be focused on how Indiana can build a talent strategy around a more highly educated workforce. When Roberts teaches, he contributes courses to the… Read more »
Economic Development
Delegations from Crane, IU meet to strengthen partnership
By Kirk White, assistant vice president for strategic partnerships, Indiana University On Monday, March 26, Cmdr. Tim Powers of Naval Support Activity Crane and staff members from Crane’s emergency management, community planning and public affairs offices visited the Indiana University Bloomington campus to discuss expanding the Crane-IU Educational Partnership that was originally signed in 2015…. Read more »
2018 Education-to-Employment Convergence Power Breakfast: Meet the panelists — Ryan Twiss, Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership
Ryan Twiss, vice president of regional initiatives at Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership, is scheduled to be a panelist at the 2018 Education-to-Employment Convergence Power Breakfast on Tuesday, April 24. The discussion will be focused on how Indiana can build a talent strategy around a more highly educated workforce. Twiss leads the operational oversight, strategic development… Read more »
2018 Education-to-Employment Convergence Power Breakfast: Meet the panelists — Ray Wallace, IU Southeast
Ray Wallace, chancellor at Indiana University Southeast, is scheduled to be a panelist at the 2018 Education-to-Employment Convergence Power Breakfast on Tuesday, April 24. The discussion will be focused on how Indiana can build a talent strategy around a more highly educated workforce. Wallace assumed his role at IU Southeast on July 1, 2014. He… Read more »
2018 Education-to-Employment Convergence Power Breakfast: Meet the panelists — Hayleigh Colombo, Indianapolis Business Journal
Hayleigh Colombo, staff reporter at the Indianapolis Business Journal, will moderate the panel at the 2018 Education-to-Employment Convergence Power Breakfast on Tuesday, April 24. The discussion will be focused on how Indiana can build a talent strategy around a more highly educated workforce. Colombo covers city government issues, along with economic development and education, for… Read more »
Kelley School creates manufacturing research center at IUPUI to address globalization, technology
A $1 million endowed gift from alumnus Gregg Sherrill and his wife, Sabine, will help establish a new research center at the IU Kelley School of Business at IUPUI to focus on manufacturing in Central Indiana and across the nation. “The success of the American economy has been driven, in large part, by manufacturing, and… Read more »
Indiana University Philanthropic Venture Fund featured on ‘Inside Indiana Business’
Tony Armstrong, president and CEO of Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., and Teri Willey, IURTC’s managing director and fund manager, spoke about the IU Philanthropic Venture Fund with Gerry Dick on “Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick.” Armstrong and Willey spoke about the fund being a tool to turn university research into products and… Read more »
Tony Armstrong, Teri Willey of IURTC to appear on ‘Inside Indiana Business’
Tony Armstrong, president and CEO of the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., and Teri Willey, IURTC’s managing director and fund manager, will appear on the next “Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick.” They will speak with Gerry about the newly established Indiana University Philanthropic Venture Fund. WFYI, the PBS television station in Indianapolis, will broadcast… Read more »
IU Bloomington Center for Rural Engagement receives $10 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Indiana University Bloomington is strengthening existing collaborations and forging new partnerships throughout southwest central Indiana with the launch of the Center for Rural Engagement. IU Bloomington Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel announced today that Lilly Endowment Inc. has approved a $10 million grant to the IU Foundation to fund the center. The grant,… Read more »
Author, Harvard University economist to speak at Economic Club of Indiana’s March 16 luncheon
Edward Glaeser, author of “Triumph of the City” and the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will speak at The Economic Club of Indiana’s luncheon Friday, March 16. The luncheon will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Indiana Convention Center, 100 S. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis. Growing up in… Read more »