September 15, 2010
Associated PressPurdue's enrollment figures show that it has 74,759 students at its five campuses and various technology program sites around
Indiana.
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September 1, 2010
J.K. WallUniversity will spend nearly $70 million to construct health and life science research facilities, including a drug-discovery
lab, in West Lafayette.
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August 28, 2010
J.K. WallIn the last 10 years, Indiana’s major research universities—Indiana and Purdue—have nearly doubled their
science-based research budgets, to a total of $895 million. Yet Indiana’s public universities still run in the middle
of the pack nationally.
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August 24, 2010
Associated PressA university committee said an early-retirement offer could reduce salary and benefit costs, and eliminate the need for layoffs.
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August 14, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinPurdue University will join the quest for cheap solar-generated electricity with an initiative aimed at speeding up research
across the industry. The Network for Photovoltaic Technology will launch this fall, focused on creating computer models to
eliminate costly and slow trial-and-error research in the solar industry.
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August 7, 2010
IBJ StaffThe Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute awarded $750,000 to 10 teams of researchers.
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July 24, 2010
Scott OlsonMoniker reflects ownership change years earlier, better description of company's focus.
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July 10, 2010
Associated PressThe Higher Education Opportunity Act requires schools to fight illegal distribution of copyrighted material and educate campus
communities about the issue. Schools that don't comply risk losing their eligibility for federal student aid.
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July 9, 2010
Associated PressThe board on Friday approved a $20.6 million construction contact for the First Street Towers project.
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July 1, 2010
IBJ StaffFormer chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities among IU appointments.
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June 17, 2010
After 10-month search, Purdue University officials broaden quest for new permanent dean for Krannert School of Management.
School officials hope to have position filled by spring.
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May 1, 2010
J.K. WallThe university is hoping to find a private company to take over the 5-year-old facility, which formulated and manufactured
small batches of drugs used in clinical trials.
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April 28, 2010
J.K. WallPurdue University’s decision to close the Chao Center in West Lafayette is a setback for Indiana’s effort to grow
a vibrant contract drug manufacturing sector. But it’s just the latest in a series of unexpected changes—not all
for
the worse—since Indianapolis-based BioCrossroads launched a contract drug manufacturing initiative in late 2007.
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April 15, 2010
IBJ StaffThe Kelley School of Business' "Evening MBA" program at IUPUI finished 10th overall and fourth among public
business schools in U.S. News & World Report's inaugural ranking of part-time MBA programs.
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April 12, 2010
J.K. WallStimulus dollars from the National Institutes of Health expected to spark 30 to 40 new research jobs by 2013.
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April 12, 2010
J.K. WallFederal money will help create programs at community college and Purdue University to offer skills in smart-grid technologies.
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April 2, 2010
IBJ Staff and Associated PressPurdue announced Friday that the new contract gives Matt Painter a $1.3 million base salary, plus up to $1 million of incentives
for academic, athletic and attendance performance.
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March 27, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinThe IU Foundation recently cut 18 of 201 staff members but nonetheless is looking at adding reinforcements in fund raising.
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March 20, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinThe peanut-borne salmonella outbreak of 2009 raised awareness about the risk of illness from unlikely sources. Unfortunately,
that wasn’t the last time a seemingly innocuous ingredient made people sick, and prompted recalls.
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February 23, 2010
J.K. WallThe president of each school will update budget-cutting progress in state-of-the-university speeches Tuesday.
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February 16, 2010
IBJ StaffStimulus funds will help university's technical assistance service show doctors and nurses in small groups and in medically
under-served areas how to adopt medical-records technologies.
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January 25, 2010
Purdue University's Krannert School of Management MBA program ranked 54th worldwide and ninth among U.S. public institutions.
The program at Indiana
University's Kelley School of Business ranked 57th and 10th, respectively.
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January 22, 2010
Associated PressUniversity will cut employee benefits, retirement contributions and information technology services to partially close a $67
million budget deficit for the West Lafayette campus
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January 16, 2010
J.K. Wall
The
Indiana Commission for Higher Education late last month slashed college budgets based on key performance
measures.
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January 2, 2010
IBJ StaffOver the past four years, Carrier has donated $71,000 for the purchase of equipment and software that will
allow mechanical engineering students at IUPUI to do more advanced work.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.