GRAND RAPIDS - Grand Valley State University received a $1.5 million federal grant to improve nursing workforce readiness by increasing high-impact learning opportunities for students using multiple-patient simulations. Tricia Thomas, dean of the Kirkhof College of Nursing, said the three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
ANN ARBOR - Do you want to learn how to cook with cannabis? Are you a chef that uses cannabis in your cooking? Well Anthony Freed wants to talk to you. Anthony is a long-time player in the Michigan cannabis market. He helped craft some of the current laws that first brought medical marijuana to
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan economy is continuing to slow in part due to the recent United Auto Workers strike and the Federal Reserve’s rising interest rates, a survey contends. Brian Long, director of supply management at GVSU’s Seidman College of Business, said his survey shows growing pessimism among local manufacturers and businesses. Several
TRAVERSE CITY - Technology attorney Enrico Schaefer always zeros in on the top tech legal issues and now for Traverse Legal it is Artificial Intelligence law. He joins Matt and Mike on MITech TV to talk about legal issues with AI that everyone should know before they embrace this evolutionary technology. You also can check
ATLANTA - The black and yellow robot, meant to resemble a large dog, stood waiting for directions. When they came, the instructions weren't in code but instead in plain English: "Visit the wooden desk exactly two times; in addition, don't go to the wooden desk before the bookshelf." Four metallic legs whirred into action. The
LANSING — Michigan power providers would have to reach a 100% clean energy standard by 2040 under sweeping climate bills approved late Thursday and early Friday in the Democratic-led House. Legislators also voted to let renewable developers seek state permits to site large-scale wind and solar farms in communities that block the projects. The party-line
Coast listener Norman writes that he and his family were returning home from shopping in Evansville, Indiana on September 27, 2023, when they saw a brilliant pulsing red light, almost metallic in color. "At first there was one large one, then the second one came out of nowhere and stayed a moment and entered the
SOUTHFIELD - Michigan Cyber Patriot is a program aimed at grade-school students to provide them with the knowledge to surf the web safetly and not run afoul of cyber hackers. Joining Matt and Mike on MItech TV is founder Tamara Shioemaker who appealed for financial help, and mentor support, to keep the decade-old program operational.
BOSTON - MIT engineers have developed a new system using a series of sun-driven reactors to produce carbon-free hydrogen fuel, significantly increasing efficiency from 7% to 40%. Their innovative train-like reactor design could make green hydrogen production scalable and economically feasible. MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system
NEW YORK - Some 4.5 billion years or so ago, scientists believe, something big smacked into Earth and knocked it ass over teakettle. The result was a bunch of debris, hurled into space, swirling around until it formed the Moon. Of the big object, thought to be the size of Mars, and named Theia, nothing much was
