Ivy Tech plants tree for 50th anniversary

Ivy Tech Community College Northwest planted trees at its four campuses -- Michigan City, Valparaiso, Gary and East Chicago -- on Friday in honor of the college's 50th anniversary.

Hundreds salute chancellor at retirement celebration

The Ivy Tech Community College Northwest campus celebrated the Dec. 31, 2012 retirement of Chancellor J. Guadalupe Valtierra at Avalon Manor in Hobart.

Ivy Tech offers training for people 50-plus

GARY | Ivy Tech Community College Northwest will be part of a national effort to train 10,000 baby boomers for new jobs in health care, education and social services.

Ivy Tech training puts Griffith man on the move

GRIFFITH | Joseph Rossi worked 30 years at the former LTV Steel Co., in East Chicago, now a part of ArcelorMittal.

12 innovators from Northwest Indiana honored for their work

HAMMOND | A diversity of innovation across Northwest Indiana was recognized Tuesday at the Indiana Welcome Center.

Ivy Tech librarian one of 10 honored in New York

GARY | Barbara Weaver, regional library director for Ivy Tech Community College Northwest, was one of 10 librarians nationwide out of 1,700 nominations recognized for service to their communities, schools and campuses as winners of the American Library Association/Carnegie Corporation of New…

JOHN DAVIES: Chambers boost innovation in Northwest Indiana

What do the Crossroads Regional Chamber, Gary Chamber, Lakeshore Chamber, Michigan City Area Chamber, Starke County Chamber and the Greater Valparaiso Chamber have in common?

NWI innovation survey hopes to gauge opinions and ideas

The Times has joined with Ivy Tech Community College Northwest and The Society of Innovators in an innovation survey.

Institute to train college students for medical careers

In September 2010, Ivy Tech Community College Chancellor J. Guadalupe Valtierra introduced plans for an institute to train students in health care careers. A year later, students were enrolling in classes.

JOHN DAVIES: An annual wake-up call for innovation

Sharing his story of being a young man confined to a wheelchair who just wanted to get to work, Ralph Braun invented a vehicle wheelchair lift that has given freedom to thousands worldwide while employing 700 people at Braun Industries.

Ivy Tech alumnus honored for animated films

GARY | It's been 10 years since Anthony Thurman graduated from Ivy Tech Community College Northwest. Since then, the computer information systems major has used his love for animation to produce four short films that have won him national and international acclaim.

Gary woman makes dreams come true with degree

GARY | A Gary woman says 10 years in a federal prison turned her life around.

Innovators celebrate 'legacy of vison' at Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk

PORTAGE | Garry Traynham remembers a 1997 drive down a gravel road at the Portage lakefront that included a tour of lagoons filled with orange and green toxic fluid.