ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan's spring commencement ceremonies will celebrate the bicentennial-year graduates with a unique Michigan Stadium event that features voices from the past and the present, Oscar-winning musicians and special alumni awards. The April 29 event will celebrate the graduating Class of 2017 and honor the university's 200-year history. "Our bicentennial
ANN ARBOR - The National Science Foundation has selected a University of Michigan mechanical engineering professor to serve as head of its Directorate for Engineering. Dawn Tilbury is a professor of mechanical engineering and former associate dean for research at U-M's College Engineering. NSF's Directorate for Engineering is charged with supporting engineering research and education
ROYAL OAK - Sibrina Nichelle Collins, executive director of Lawrence Tech University’s Marburger STEM Center talks about reaching out to attract more students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The shortage of STEM talent has reached a critical state in Michigan. More recently, the STEM center hosted the boy scouts and cub scouts to show
ROYAL OAK - Social media expert Melih Oztalay from SmartFinds Marketing in Birmingham explains inbound marketing and social media marketing, website marketability, content marketing and much more in this edition of M2 TechCast. In this podcast, Oztalay explains: What is inbound marketing? How Website Marketability, Content Marketing and Social Media Marketing intersect. Customer behavior has
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Monday March 27, Keith Brophy will interview an entrepreneur helped by the MISBDC. Amy Butler will talk about the upcoming Innovation Weekend at Oakland University's Incubator. Michael Rogers will update news and events from the Small Business Association of Michigan. While Melissa Sheldon from the Workforce Intelligence Network will
TROY - Walsh College is offering a Fundamentals of Automotive Cybersecurity course in this upcoming Spring Term that starts the first week of April, the first academic program in the country teaching automotive cybersecurity. The 11-week long, three-hour class, will be taught by Sam Abbott-McCune, an expert in automotive and military vehicle technology. The first
AUBURN HILLS - The Michigan Alliance for Greater Mobility Advancement is hosting an Advisory Council meeting March 31 at the BorgWarner Technical Center to discuss the ongoing talent development projects related to growth in the automotive industry. The meeting, from 8:30 to 11 am, will be held at 3800 Automation Ave., Auburn Hills, 48326. Featured
LANSING – Michigan Celebrates Small Business has named more than 60 businesses, including the 2017 Michigan 50 Companies To Watch, to this year’s crop of growing companies. Winners will receive their awards May 4 at the Thirteenth Annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business Awards dinner. “The companies selected this year give us an understanding of Michigan’s
LANSING - The Institute For Public Policy and Social Research is hosting an event March 29 briefing to provide an update on what’s happening with the development of autonomous vehicles in the Great Lakes Region. Called “Autonomous Vehicles: Where Research and Innovation Hit the Road,” researchers and manufacturers in the business and transportation industry, policy
DETROIT - Real-time video surveillance solutions provided in a pilot program by Comcast Business through its SmartOffice suite has been credited by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan for much of the success of Project Green Light that uses the high-definition video feeds from nearly 120 partnering businesses to fight crime. "Without the complete video technology system
