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Plans by Washington, D.C.-based D'Arcinoff Group to manufacture wind turbines in an idled plant in New Castle could create
1,800 jobs in the next two years.
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IU president plans aggressive building campaign
In a speech Tuesday, President Michael McRobbie said IU is gunning to construct at least 12 buildings on its Bloomington
and Indianapolis
campuses in spite of the economy and falling state funding.Schools decry funding disparity in lawsuit
Hamilton Southeastern will see its per-pupil spending of $5,000 drop about $100 in 2010 despite a projected 900-student increase,
the lawsuit says. Indianapolis Public Schools, which has lost more than 1,000 students a year for the last five years, will
receive $7,500 per student in 2010.Schools decry funding disparity in lawsuit
Hamilton Southeastern will see its per-pupil spending of $5,000 drop about $100 in 2010 despite a projected 900-student increase, the lawsuit says. Indianapolis Public Schools, which has lost more than 1,000 students a year for the last five years, will receive $7,500 per student in 2010.
IU, Purdue try to preserve research despite budget cuts
The president of each school will update budget-cutting progress in state-of-the-university speeches Tuesday.
Lilly, Merck, Pfizer starting research center
Three major U.S. drugmakers said they have formed a not-for-profit company in Asia to focus on cancer research and treatments.
Growing Indiana schools districts suing over funding
Hamilton Southeastern, Franklin Township and Middlebury Community Schools of Elkhart County say the school-funding formula
unfairly penalizes districts with growing enrollments.WellPoint gets tax delay in Obama health plan
Insurers WellPoint Inc. and others would get a delay in taxes on premiums and high-cost medical benefits, along with additional
funding for expanding Medicaid, under a White House proposalState funding cuts a setback for public stations
The state's eight public television and radio stations, including WFYI in Indianapolis, will not receive their final two
installments of public funding for fiscal 2010 because of Indiana's budget crisis.Bayh’s exit may pinch federal funds going to Indiana
Sen. Evan Bayh brought home the bacon—more than
$1.4 billion in federal appropriations and grants in just the last 12 months.MAURER: It’s time to dump township government
In Indiana, one institution rife with nepotism and political favoritism stubbornly persists:
township government and, more particularly, its delivery of emergency poor relief.FEIGENBAUM: Sen. Bayh’s call for civility reverberates at Statehouse
In the most significant retirement decision announced in Indiana since Reggie Miller hung up his sneakers, Democratic U.S.
Sen. Evan Bayh said Dec. 15 he would not seek a third U.S. Senate term. That decision also sent shock waves through
the ranks of Democratic lawmakers in Indianapolis, none of whom had any advance word.NASCAR stars spew venom at Danica Patrick coverage
TV ratings for the stock-car races Danica Patrick has been in this year are off the charts. Still, a handful of NASCAR stars
aren't happy about the exposure she's stealing from the regulars.Cultural Trail snags $20.5 million stimulus boost
The funds will be used for construction on the remaining 4.5 miles of the $62.5 million project, officials announced Wednesday.
Purdue to get $12M to help small health providers
Stimulus 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.
Company news
Forget venture capital. Forget selling the firm outright. ImmuneWorks, an Indianapolis-based biotech firm,
is taking a different route to get early-stage funding for money-sucking biotech drug development. The company signed
a joint development agreement with Lung Rx, a subsidiary of Maryland-based United Therapeutics Corp. Lung Rx will fund ImmuneWorks’
research and development operations with the option of acquiring the firm. ImmuneWorks, based on the research of Dr. David
Wilkes at the Indiana University School of Medicine, is trying to develop treatments for orphan lung diseases, which affect
fewer than 200,000 people nationwide.Looks like the changing of the guard in Indianapolis-based
Eli Lilly and Co.’s research operations is going beyond Dr. Steve Paul. In the
same month Paul retired, his top lieutenant, Dr. William Chin, has taken a newly created job at Harvard
Medical School. Chin was Lilly’s senior vice president for discovery research and clinical investigation.
Paul was replaced by Jan M. Lundberg, former head of global discovery research at London-based AstraZeneca
plc. Looks like Lundberg will be bringing in his own team.Indiana University School of Medicine
researchers have identified a mechanism by which tuberculosis evades the body’s immune system
and have identified a compound that blocks the tuberculosis bacteria’s ability to survive. Those
insights could lead to new drugs to treat tuberculosis. Zhong-Yin Zhang, a professor of biochemistry
and molecular biology, was the lead author explaining the discoveries in in this week’s online
early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Zhang’s team also described
an anti-tuberculosis compound they have synthesized, A09. The compound is now being evaluated in animals at Johns
Hopkins University School of Public Health.Indiana part of national medical school surge
Marian University’s planned medical school is one of two dozen nationally, but budget cuts are forcing Indiana University to retreat
on enrollment expansion.Ivy Tech, IPIC snare $10M in job-training grants
Programs will bolster job opportunities for some 1,700 Indiana workers in sectors including health care and advanced manufacturing.
East-west rail line could boost Indianapolis’ core
With traffic congestion growing, the idea of sending streetcars zipping down Washington Street—from
far-east-side Cumberland to Indianapolis International Airport on the west—is making a return. And
the route could offer the best bang for the buck in spurring transit-oriented development.Census expected to show Hamilton County tops in coveted demographics
Hamilton County is poised to become the demographic all-star of the decade. Its 269,785 residents make up the fastest-growing,
most educated and wealthiest county in the state, according to estimates from the Indiana Business Research Center.