The Indiana Broadband Office has designated Pike County as an official Broadband Ready Community. The Broadband Ready Communities Program aims to encourage broadband development throughout the Hoosier State.... Read More
Bloomington-based startup Civic Champs has raised more than $600,000 in its pre-seed round. The volunteer management platform received funding participation from Elevate Ventures, Flywheel Fund, and Innovation Works, among others.... Read More
Westfield-based IMMI is transitioning its business model to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. IMMI, which manufactures safety restraints, belts and seating, has operated as a privately held company for more than 60 years.... Read More
As Indianapolis-based Anthem Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) prepares to officially rebrand to Elevance Health Inc. later this month, the company is launching its healthcare services brand Carelon and health plan brand Wellpoint. The health insurance company says the rebrand will optimize and streamline its brand portfolio and reduce complexities.... Read More
The original Big Woods restaurant in Nashville is expected to reopen as Quaff ON! Pour House in the coming weeks. Big Woods Restaurant Group LLC, which owns a family of brands that includes Big Woods and Quaff ON!, will lead operations for the brewery.... Read More
The Purdue University Global School of Nursing is partnering with Dallas County Hospital in Iowa to create a state-of-the-art simulation center. Purdue says the center will provide a more efficient and immersive learning model that meets the needs of students, hospital staff and the community.... Read More
The College Football Playoff says January’s national championship game in Indianapolis was the most sustainable championship in the event’s history. Through the CFP’s Playoff Green program, the organization says teams hand-sorted and recovered more than 117 tons of materials throughout downtown Indy over a two-week period.... Read More
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) and Incyte (Nasdaq: INCY) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved OLUMIANT as a treatment for adults with severe alopecia areata. The approval was based on Lilly's BRAVE-AA1 and BRAVE-AA2 trials, which the company says is the largest Phase 3 alopecia areata clinical trial program completed to date.... Read More
The Indiana Uplands region is preparing to launch two competitive funding programs made possible through the region’s Indiana Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative award. The programs, which are a collaboration between Regional Opportunity Initiatives, Radius Indiana, and the Indiana Uplands READI Steering Committee, include the Ready Communities 2.0 program and the Ready Housing program.... Read More
Dr. Thankam Thyvalikakath, director of the Regenstrief and IU School of Dentistry Dental Informatics program, has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The funding, which will be allocated over a five-year period, will help build on research that aims to improve communication between dental and medical clinicians.... Read More
