HOUGHTON - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has appointed Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz to the board of the Michigan Education Trust. MET is a prepaid college tuition plan that enables families to pre-purchase tuition based on today's tuition rates. The plan then covers the future cost of tuition when the child reaches college. "Glenn has
DETROIT - NextEnergy and RecoveryPark Wednesday announced Light-Speed USA as the winner of NextChallenge: Lighting, a lighting technology competition. Light-Speed USA was awarded $80,000 in cash and in-kind services to support the development and demonstration of a next generation greenhouse lighting technology system for RecoveryPark. "NextEnergy developed NextChallenge: Lighting to source ideas to drive technology
TROY - Davenport University is offering a 20 percent tuition discount to employees who work for organizations that are members of Automation Alley. If the organization is also a member of a Chamber of Commerce, those employees will also qualify for up to $1,500 per year in scholarship funding. In addition, the application fee is
BOSTON - A Michigan State University College of Engineering professor who developed break through solar cell technology and a University of Michigan Ph.D. candidate in computer science who developed a scanning system to spot security flaws online both earned places on the 2015 Innovators Under 35 list published by the MIT Technology Review. Lunt, 33,
LANSING - Rooftop solar generation costs are nearly twice as high as large- or utility-scale installations and utility-scale projects emit about 50 percent less carbon emissions than an equivalent amount of rooftop capacity, a study has found. The study was prepared for and commissioned by a solar group, First Solar, with support Edison Electric Institute,
ANN ARBOR - Maker Works will offer the next Makerspace Operations Bootcamp October 12-16. This 5-day deep dive puts you in the middle of an established makerspace and using the tools for running a sustainable makerspace. This course will be valuable to anyone who will be operating a makerspace, whether for-profit or non-profit, or within
ANN ARBOR - Join Maker Works for Fix-It Friday, where members of our community bring in their damaged or broken items and fixers examine and try to repair them. Maker Works had a spectacular turnout at the past few Fix-It Fridays, and the event has gained more attention. If you enjoy taking things apart and
LANSING - A combination of steep reductions in the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's corporate revenues and a major cut to its business attraction support from the Legislature mean the MEDC will be slashing jobs as the 2015-16 fiscal year approaches in October. One of the sources of corporate revenue shortfall was attributed, in a statement
DETROIT - What happens when you have four world-class accelerators in one location? Demo Day turns into Demo Week. On September 9 to 11, Detroit Venture Partners,Techstars Mobility, Coolhouse Labs, and DesaiAcceleratorwill collaborate to host Demo Week. Each organizationhasattracted companies from across the globe to join anintensive program designed to give them thefoundation togrow and
LANSING - The sudden momentum for the Michigan House to pass a revised plan to raise $1.2 billion for roads, half through new revenue, half through cutting spending from other programs, has spurred optimism the Republican-led House could pass the plan this week, but it also appears certain Republicans will have to scrounge up some