As the need to add more STEM-educated (science, technology, engineering, math) Hoosiers to the state’s workforce gains more and more attention, it seems only appropriate that the Big Ten Network would call attention to IU’s Summer Scholars Institute, an initiative founded by former university President Adam Herbert in 2007. The Institute is an eight-week program… Read more »

For students at Indiana University Bloomington and Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington who have an idea for a technology-related business — and want to take it to the next level — there is now B-Start. Launched by the Bloomington Economic Development Corp. and supported in part by Innovate Indiana, it involves a four-week program in… Read more »

Earlier this month, construction began on Indiana University East’s fifth campus building — a $4.7 million Student Events and Activities Center. With completion expected by fall 2016, the center — a multipurpose addition to Springwood Hall — will host a variety of events whose focus ranges from health and wellness and physical education to athletics,… Read more »

This week marks the third annual Entrepreneurship Academy at New Albany, where business leaders and industry experts will mentor 25 to 30 high school students on transforming ideas to start a business into a workable model. A collaborative effort between the IU Southeast School of Business, Purdue Polytechnic Institute and Purdue Research Park of Southeast… Read more »

The groundbreaking ceremony for a new, $45 million Arts & Sciences Building to be shared by Indiana University Northwest and Ivy Tech Community College is set for 5:30 p.m. next Thursday (June 18) in the lobby of the Savannah Center. About half of the three-story, 126,300-square-foot building will host IU Northwest’s fine arts and performing… Read more »

June 14-20 marks a statewide acknowledgement of Hoosier ingenuity known as Indiana Entrepreneurship Week. Established by the state’s Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, this event is the first of its kind in Indiana. It showcases top entrepreneurial talent, promotes entrepreneurship as a profession and educates small business owners on related issues. “The inaugural Entrepreneurship… Read more »

Every two years, the IU School of Medicine selects two Watanabe Translational Scholars, whose efforts are focused on translational research. Named after the late August M. Watanabe, an IUSM alumnus whose career spanned academia and the pharmaceutical and life science industries, the two-year award includes $5,000 for travel and mentor meetings with Dr. Carl June,… Read more »

              For the fourth year, the Indiana Health Industry Forum (IHIF) — a statewide association that represents members of Indiana’s health science community — will have a presence at the BIO International Convention, which is scheduled for June 15-18 in Philadelphia, Pa. The BIO International Convention touts itself as… Read more »

A pilot grant program for translational research established in February by the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology (JCEB) recently made its first awards totaling $104,230 to five IU Bloomington professors. The program provides funds to help researchers complete proof-of-concept projects that carry the potential to translate technology from laboratories to commercial use — usually… Read more »

Five million dollars awarded to the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) by the Indiana Economic Development Corp. will be used to launch a molecular therapeutics program, a program that connects industry mentors to entrepreneur researchers and create an academic research commercialization hub for Indiana. Some of the money also will be used to… Read more »