LANSING - The statewide 4-year graduation rates for Michigan students expected to graduate last spring increased to 76.24 percent, up 1.9 percent from the 2011 rate of 74.33 percent, according to data released Wednesday by the Michigan Center for Educational Performance and Information. ?These numbers reflect the highest rates we have seen since we started
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite Anonymous' vows to block Web broadcasts of the State of the Union address, the hacktivist collective failed to disrupt the president's speech. Declaring that "there will be no State of the Union Address on the Web tonight," the loose-knit group announced earlier today its intention to block live streams of the
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers broke into several television stations' Emergency Alert Systems last week and broadcast that zombies were "rising from their graves" and "attacking the living." While a comical hoax, security consultancy firm IOActive warns that this type of behavior is dangerous and not that hard for hackers to do, according to Computerworld. This
DETROIT ? Wayne State University's TechTown announced this week its Venture Accelerator program, a highly competitive, boot camp-style program to help show entrepreneurs how to turn early stage technology-based startup into a sustainable, market ready business in just 12 weeks. Application deadline is March 15. Accepted teams will be provided with access to a $10,000
ROCHESTER - Oakland University's School of Engineering and Computer Science is once again seeking 16 academically talented students to take advantage of National Science Foundation scholarships in industrial and systems engineering, and mechanical engineering. As part of a $598,980 grant the SECS received last year to fund its OU's Product Lifecycle Management Scholarship Program, 16
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's proposal to increase the gasoline tax and vehicle registration fees is not likely to see any traction the Senate, but the idea of an increase in those areas in a different form is still open for debate. Snyder has proposed increasing the fuel tax to 33 cents per gallon from
DETROIT - Wayne State University's contract to conduct federally funded research into problem pregnancies was extended another decade through a $165.9 million deal announced Thursday. Wayne State said the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Wayne State a second 10-year contract to
TROY ? An MBA student team from Walsh College took first place in the sixth annual Association for Corporate Growth Detroit Cup hosted at Michigan State University?s Management Education Center in Troy on February 9. The ACG Cup is a case study competition designed to give students from leading MBA programs across the country real-world
DETROIT ? Compuware Corp. has developed a poison pill defense against takeover by New York hedge fund, Elliott Management that would pay senior executives big bonuses if the computer software and services company changes hands and they lose their jobs as a result. In a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commisssion, Compuware
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Friday released its report on the implementation of the state's renewable energy standard and its cost effectiveness, showing the estimated renewable energy percentage is expected to reach 4.7 percent in 2012. The state's renewable energy standard is currently set at 10 percent by 2015, and the PSC has