It’s being called the first collaboration of its kind in Indiana — one that brings higher education and the military together to grow student skills ranging from leadership, ethical behavior and civic engagement to cultural awareness, critical thinking and problem solving. Announced earlier this fall, the partnership between Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and the… Read more »
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The Shared Drive has new, temporary home after Kokomo tornado outbreak
The Shared Drive is back in business — in temporary quarters for now — after an Aug. 24 tornado outbreak in Kokomo heavily damaged the co-working space housed with Inventrek Technology Park. Now at 1763 E. Lincoln Road, The Shared Drive is one of six Inventrek tenants that have relocated to a commercial office building… Read more »
Global expert on GI microbes to be honored Tuesday with IU School of Medicine’s Steven C. Beering Award
The IU School of Medicine will bestow its Steven C. Beering Award for the advancement of biomedical/clinical science on Sept. 20 to Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon, who is director for the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. The ceremony and a subsequent lecture by Beering is scheduled for… Read more »
Friday deadline looms for applications to B-Start entrepreneurship program
Applications to participate in B-Start, a pre-accelerator program for early-stage technology companies that are run by Indiana University Bloomington and Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington students, are due Friday. Launched by the Bloomington Economic Development Corp. and supported in part by Innovate Indiana, B-Start involves sessions that begin Sept. 28 and continue throughout the fall… Read more »
2016 Gill Symposium and Award Ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 12
The Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science will hold its 2016 Symposium and Award Ceremony starting at 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 12, at Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union on the IU Bloomington campus. This year’s keynote speaker is Hugo J. Bellen, professor of developmental biology and molecular and human genetics at… Read more »
Pinterest founder and CEO Ben Silbermann among keynotes for Research Horizons event Sept. 8-9
Some of Indiana University’s brightest minds in informatics and computing will come together Sept. 8-9 at IU’s Cyberinfrastructure Building for Research Horizons. This inaugural event, designed to spark conversations on how research drives innovation, is chocked full of seminars on topics that range from artificial intelligence, security and bioinformatics to big data, programming languages and… Read more »
15th annual Entrepreneurship Lecture Series at IUSB’s Leighton School of Business & Economics begins Sept. 8
Thursday marks the start of the 15th annual Entrepreneur Lecture Series held by IU South Bend’s Judd Leighton School of Business and Economics. This year’s series of weekly lectures will be opened by Amish Shah, president and CEO of Kem Krest, who will discuss “Developing Your Entrepreneurial Skills.” Each lecture takes place from 7 to… Read more »
CREED members hear best practices in designing collaborative systems, details on $1 billion innovation plan
When it comes to best practices in collaboration and stakeholder engagement, it all comes down to “systemness.” So say members of the Columbus-based Community Education Coalition, which since 1997 has worked to build stronger links between education initiatives and economic development and, in turn, bolster the area’s workforce. At the latest meeting of Indiana University’s… Read more »
Tornado takes its toll on Inventrek Technology Park; facility to be closed at least 4 to 5 months for repairs
When an tornado outbreak laid siege to Kokomo last Wednesday, about 200 people took refuge inside Inventrek Technology Park when the building was hit — and all emerged unharmed. However, the 98,000-square-foot facility — which hosts about 26 companies, Ivy Tech Kokomo’s nursing and health science programs and The Shared Drive co-working space — sustained… Read more »
IU Health president/CEO discusses innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities presented by its Bloomington Medical Campus
The design phase of IU Health’s Bloomington Medical Campus is well under way, with groundbreaking projected for the second quarter of 2017 and about three years of construction to follow, IU Health President and CEO Dennis M. Murphy said Friday. But the impetus behind its construction, planned along 75 acres north of the Indiana 45/46… Read more »