Heading into Thanksgiving week, Indiana University is seeing a cornucopia of major developments on the innovation front. Here’s a sampling of several recent advancements, which reflect how IU and its partners are furthering a collective innovation culture across Indiana. Furthering the IU-Crane connection. Earlier this week, at a signing event that included IU President Pamela… Read more »
Wednesday marked another red-letter day in terms of collaboration between Indiana University and Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, as a “smart tech” R&D agreement was signed between the facility and IU’s School of Informatics and Computing. Research conducted under the pact will help integrate modern “smart” technology into current systems vital to the nation’s defense…. Read more »
As issues involving national security and cybersecurity increasingly intersect, both university and military researchers share increasingly common ground. To maximize the benefits of work from both areas of expertise, IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) and Naval Surface Warfare Center-Crane entered a two-year agreement to collaborate in addressing the ever-increasing challenges involved in cybersecurity…. Read more »
Research collaboration between Indiana University and Naval Surface Warfare Center-Crane continues to bear fruit, as evidenced with Wednesday’s announcement of a $450,000 grant to be used toward improving the durability of electronics used in a range of critical U.S. Navy systems. David Crandall, a professor at IU’s School of Informatics and Computing, received the grant… Read more »
Indiana University and Purdue University officials recently met with Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security representatives for an overview of each university’s capability to support applied research and academic requirements in information technology and cybersecurity. IU’s portion of the two-day visit occurred Wednesday, March 23 at… Read more »
The anticipated impact of $42 million in educational and economic development grants recently awarded by the Lilly Endowment toward initiatives in southwest central Indiana was readily apparent in Odon on Friday, March 4. At WestGate Academy, adjacent to Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, a collection of state and regional leaders that included IU President Michael… Read more »
The arrival of the Christmas and New Year’s Day holiday season brought with it three substantial gifts for people who work and live in Southwest Central Indiana. They came in the form of grants from the Lilly Endowment Inc. that totaled $42 million — all for initiatives aimed at boosting the region’s economy. One will… Read more »
A day after Wednesday’s opening of Section 4 of Interstate 69, graduate accounting students from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in Bloomington presented a consulting project to an economic development anchor on the other end of Section 4 – the Battery Innovation Center (BIC) based at WestGate@Crane Technology Park. The group provided the center… Read more »
The first project to be launched under the milestone NSA Crane Educational Partnership Agreement signed in October revealed energy savings that ranged from 4.5 percent to nearly 26 percent at three NSA Crane facilities earlier this fall. Three teams of graduate students under the supervision of William Brown, IU’s director of sustainability, spent October and… Read more »
The final quarterly meeting of 2015 for Indiana University’s Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development (CREED) is set for 11:30 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 4) at Room 1006 of University Hall on the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Scheduled presentations include: An overview of IU’s Grand Challenges initiative by Fred H. Cate, IU’s vice… Read more »
