KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced that the nomination period is now open for the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research worth $35,000 over two years. The Kauffman Foundation will award up to seven Junior Faculty Fellowship grants to junior faculty members in the United States whose research has the
DETROIT - Host Michael Blicher works with MCBNetwrx, LLC, which has been showing customers "local solutions for a global economy" for 13 years. His focus is on emerging technologies of International companies seeking support in the automotive industry. Connectivity, V2X, V2V, HMI and HW/SW product solutions along with technology research make up the current portfolio.
LANSING – Can’t make it to Lansing to tour the capitol building. No worries. The Michigan State Capitol Commission has you covered with a Virtual Tour. The tour enables users to traverse the halls of the Capitol, get a peek inside the House and Senate chambers and even learn about the many portraits and other
DETROIT - The Detroit-based information technology services provider VisionIT Monday announced the opening of its new IT Innovation Center in Detroit. The 7,000-square-foot Innovation Center is part of VisionIT’s 30,000-square-foot headquarters space in the New Center One building in midtown Detroit, 3031 W. Grand Boulevard. The company says it has already hired 25 new employees
EAST LANSING — More than 50 Michigan State University engineering students joined the latest student chapter of The Engineering Society of Detroit Monday night. The MSU chapter became the seventh student chapter of ESD, the Southfield-based multi-disciplinary professional society for engineers and people in related technical fields. ESD Executive Director Robert Magee told the students
LANSING - As has been the case with numerous other utilities that had imposed a surcharge upon their customers to pay for their renewable energy investments as mandated by the 2008 energy law, the Public Service Commission on Thursday approved a settlement agreement amending DTE Electric Company's renewable energy plan to eliminate the utility's energy
LANSING - Major energy legislation cleared the Michigan House Energy Policy Committee on Thursday with some significant changes, including changes to the proposed renewable energy definitions and a "goal" for utilities to get 30 percent of production from renewables and energy efficiency. But advocates for expanding choice, or at least keeping it the same as
DETROIT – Banza, a food innovation company that uses chickpeas to make gluten-free pasta, won the $500,000 grand prize Thursday night at the sixth annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. Genomenon, a life sciences company focused on personalized medicine with simplified genome interpretation software, took second place and a check for $100,000. Other sector-specific prizes of
DETROIT – What’s up with drones and drone law now that the Federal Aviation Administration is granting special exemptions for commercial drone flights for such purposes as power line and oil pipeline inspections, agricultural surveys and much more. Drones were the focus on the Internet Advisor show on WJR 760 AM in Detroit last month.
DETROIT – Peoplemovers.Com began life in 2010 as an experiment by founder Keith Zendler, who hoped to build a website that could demonstrate how an Internet bulletin board could help Detroit connect its leaders, companies, organizations, schools and people to create economic and cultural growth. Last month, Zendler brought this project to Pune, India, known
