It’s a familiar refrain throughout much of Indiana these days — plenty of jobs to go around, but not enough skilled workers to fill them. Southern Indiana is no exception. During the Mid-Year Economic Outlook Breakfast held May 17 at IU Southeast, presenters reiterated the ongoing challenge that labor education presents for the region. Despite… Read more »
Tag: Funding Opportunities for Research Commercialization and Economic Success
National Inventors Month: May marks national and IU celebration of invention and creativity
For many around Indiana University, May means graduation, the start of summer break and the world’s greatest auto race, the Indianapolis 500. Yet it also marks a month of recognition for those whose creativity and perseverance improve the human condition, as May is National Inventors Month. As IU approaches its bicentennial, among its strategic goals… Read more »
Thriving Communities, Thriving State presentation part of next CREED meeting scheduled for Thursday at IU East campus
RICHMOND, Ind. — Thriving Communities, Thriving State, a statewide initiative of the IU Public Policy Institute, will headline the presentations on tap for the next quarterly meeting of IU’s Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development (CREED). The meeting is set for 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday (May 5) in the Community Room… Read more »
A biochemist and cancer researcher at IU Bloomington delves into craft brewing as well
Craft brewing, one could say, is the “yeast” of Matt Bochman’s worries as an assistant professor at IU Bloomington’s Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Department. Although most of his research focuses on the maintenance of genomic integrity — particularly on DNA helicases and other factors involved in how DNA replicates, recombinates and repairs itself — he… Read more »
McROBBIE: Indiana Biosciences Research Institute is positioned to drive a new wave of medical innovation and economic prosperity
The decision by Lilly Endowment and the Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation, announced two weeks ago, to pledge a combined $100 million to further the development of the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute is the latest evidence of the extraordinary commitment by many of the state’s leading institutions to making Indiana a hotbed of research aimed… Read more »
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research sets deadline for IUPUI faculty to apply for FORCES funding to develop, commercialize technology
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis faculty can submit funding proposals through March 15 to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to support the development and commercialization of their technology. Since 2011, more than 30 faculty members have received over $940,000 through two categories of the FORCES (Funding Opportunities for Research Commercialization and Economic Success) initiative…. Read more »