TROY - Brigadier General Michael A. Stone, assistant adjutant general ? Army, Michigan National Guard, a recognized expert and leader on security topics, will be the keynote April 15 at the first Walsh College Center for Cybersecurity Leadership conference. Among several important cybersecurity issues, Stone will address opportunities available to the state of Michigan as
DETROIT ? Could toll roads be in Michigan?s future? Perhaps Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday during a press conference at the LIFT Detroit offices. Snyder was participating in a roundtable discussion on the future of the nation?s aging and crumbling transportation system. Also attending the conference was U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. Foxx
EAST LANSING - Are you passionate about Electric Vehicles? Would you like to help others learn more? Greater Lansing Area Clean Cities is looking for dedicated, passionate people with an interest in electric vehicles to help plan events for Drive Electric Week 2015. The group also invites interested parties to join them for a potluck
SOUTHFIELD - Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, will speak at Lawrence Technological University?s 83rd Commencement May 9 and be awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of Business Administration. Some 800 students comprise LTU?s class of 2015. They will receive undergraduate, master?s and doctoral degrees at the 1 p.m. ceremonies held indoors at the
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University is ranked 23rd in the country for bachelor?s degree programs for computer game design in a national survey conducted by The Princeton Review and PC Gamer. Lawrence Tech offers a bachelor?s degree in game art through its College of Architecture and Design. Students can also take a concentration in game
DETROIT - Comerica Bank?s Michigan Economic Activity Index increased in January, growing 0.3 percentage points to a level of 120.6. January?s reading is 47 points, or 63 percent, above the index cyclical low of 73.8. The index averaged 117.6 points for all of 2014, three and three-tenths points above the index average for 2013. December?s
ANN ARBOR - Jeff Zhang, an undergraduate at the University of Michigan in the School of Information, also is an entrepreneur. He's mentored by Nancy Benovich Gilby, the school's Ehrenberg Director of Entrepreneurship, a serial entrepreneur herself who has guided eight companies over her career to successful exits. Zhang is developing a project that
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency reportedly contemplated curtailing its program to collect the phone records of America citizens even before whistleblower Edward Snowden spilled the beans. The NSA, which has been intensely criticized for its program of vacuuming up the phone call records of US citizens, has publicly defended the practice as a
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Bio-Industry Strategic Roadmap 2015 is a statewide effort led by MichBio to develop a five-year strategic plan for growing our biosciences industry. The initiative is being executed in partnership with the Business Leaders for Michigan and the University Research Corridor. Outreach to bio-industry stakeholders is in full swing with numerous
WASHINGTON DC - President Barack Obama issued an executive order Wednesday authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State and Attorney General to impose sanctions on cyberattackers hacking into the networks of US companies or government agencies. "Effective incident response requires the ability to increase the costs and reduce the economic benefits from malicious