Valparaiso University News

Nadine Burns and her daughter, Amie Burns-Scharnke , are taking the family's nursing tradition to the next level next weekend.

Step back in time for a moment and picture sunlight filtering through multipaned windows to illuminate a one-room schoolhouse, the dusty smell of chalk in the air, and rows of children's snow boots and winter jackets hanging near a snow-drifted doorway recently swept clear.

Physical therapy professor Victor Obajuluwa gets a hug from student Eileen Markanich just before the start of Commencement for Ivy Tech at the Genesis Center in Gary, Ind.

Work on a four-story dorm at the intersection of LaPorte Avenue and University Drive should begin this fall and be ready for the 2014-15 school year.

A facility with a price tag of more than $30 million has received the green light at Purdue University North Central.

Sheena Ramirez of Morris and Jason Stahl of Seneca are engaged to be married Saturday, May 18, 2013, at First Christian Church in Morris.

Economists told those attending the program on the region's economic trends and opportunities in the ballroom of the Harre Union on the Valparaiso University campus that the area's economy has grown in the past year and a half, as have levels of education and household earnings.

Indiana has a great reputation when it comes to college, but a new study says only a third of students are still around five years later.

It turns out that if you ask 30 different law professors, practitioners, judges and bar association leaders how to fix legal education, you'll get about 30 different answers.

Kara Kelly and Cristal Brisco have been appointed the city's director of communications and corporation counsel, respectively, according to a news release.

Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis announced that John T. Mulheran, president of HCB Heartland, Inc., and attorney J.P. Hanlon have joined the school's board of directors.