Small and mid-sized Indiana businesses that seek to expand their operations globally can now do so through a joint program involving Indiana University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s Employment Readiness Network, also known as EARN Indiana. Companies with fewer than 500 employees are eligible for… Read more »
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IU Southeast student discovers virus in Ohio River; working to isolate, sequence its genome
Few undergraduate students can lay claim to discovering a virus, but IU Southeast’s Drew Gukeisen is one of them. In a sample of water from the Ohio River near Jeffersonville, Ind., Gukeisen recently found a bacteriophage — a virus that invades bacteria — that has since been named OHR. This particular “phage” invades a bacteria… Read more »
IU students build high-tech startups from their own IP, receive early support from university
High-tech entrepreneurs who create intellectual property as graduate or undergraduate students in the Indiana University campus system are impacting the state’s economic development by launching businesses, creating jobs and providing solutions to clients across several sectors. Tony Armstrong, president and CEO of the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., said the trend of IU students commercializing… Read more »