DETROIT - Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ is a Detroiter who was named director of the Vatican Observatory in 2015. Consolmagno is a planetary scientist who has studied meteorites and asteroids as an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since 1993. He had been serving as president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, coordinator of public relations and curator of
LANSING - The effort is not over yet for creating a new energy policy for Michigan as some 10 plants are expected to shut down over the next two weeks, Sen. Mike Nofs said Monday. "It's not dead," Nofs (R-Battle Creek), chair of the Senate Energy and Technology Committee, told Gongwer News Service. After considerable
WASHINGTON DC - The Defense Department christened the Sea Hunter, a 132-foot robot ghost ship designed to seek out and track diesel-powered submarines across the ocean. The start of the test phase for the program on Thursday signals a new dawn for autonomous systems at sea, which, Pentagon officials say, will perform an ever-wider variety
KALAMAZOO - Stryker Corp. has completed its acquisition of defibrillator maker Physio-Control International Inc. and two other major deals. The $1.28 billion cash deal was announced in mid-February and completed Tuesday. Physio-Control makes monitors/defibrillators, automated external defibrillators and CPR-assist devices. The Redmond. Wash.-based emergency medical response company also provides data management and support services. It
WASHINGTON DC - Climate change is a major threat to human health, with extreme heat likely to kill 27,000 Americans annually by 2100, according to a report released by the White House. The report, by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, outlines numerous ways global warming could devastate public health in the U.S. this century.
ANN ARBOR - The deadline to enter the $125,000 2016 Center For Manufacturing Sciences Technology Competition, designed to introduce new technologies to the Department of Defense maintenance facilities to help sustain material readiness at reduced cost, April 19. The competition is a collaboration between the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences and the Office of the
DETROIT - Detroit is ranked second in the nation in the number of women-owned businesses created over the past nine years, while Michigan ranks fourth among the 50 states and Washington D.C. for the overall growth of women-owned companies. This news comes from a new report commission by American Express OPEN, analyzing data from the
GRAND RAPIDS - Ilium Software has been designing and creating information management tools for mobile devices since 1997. While the technology has changed, the need for easy and useful ways to manage information on the go has not. They have over 18 years of experience making and supporting award-winning info managers for mobile devices. Listen as
FERNDALE - Motor City Connect Founder Terry Bean, the man of a thousand voices, Mr. Detroit himself, appears on M2 TechCast on April 4 to talk about his organization that works hard to connect entrepreneurs, businesses and tech professionals across the Metro area. His LinkedIn group is just short of 10,000 members. LinkedIn became the
FERNDALE - Rave Computer’s Stephen Couchman and Matt Moy call in live from the NVIDIA GTC Conference in San Jose to talk about the Rave Mobilebeast, one of first hard core venture into high end graphics workstation. There is a convergence happening in design and marketing to develop more advanced technology for customers. Most computer
