ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan's Mcity, billed as the world's first controlled environment designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicles technologies, officially opened July 20 - coincidentally the 46th anniversary of the first moon landing. Just as the Apollo mission kicked off a new age of scientific discovery, speakers at
LANSING - The Michigan Celebrates Small Business Awards program opened for nominations this week for the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch Awards, honoring second stage companies that have posted minimum annual revenue of $750,000. Each year fifty companies are chosen from hundreds of applicants and this year the program judges expect to be looking at
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University announced it has received a gift to its endowment fund of $5.5 million over the next four years from the M.E. Davenport Foundation, the single largest gift in the University's history. The latest gift brings historical giving to Davenport University by the independent, family foundation to more than $15.4 million.
LANSING - Tourists will now be able to engage with Pure Michigan commercials to discover information about specific destinations with the video spots. The technology comes from Detroit-based Clickivated. When a scene of interest plays, users can click on the icon to the right of the screen and get immediate access to individual websites of
LANSING - A total of 65 full-time positions and more than $129.8 million are being cut from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's 2016 budget after its executive committee on Tuesday adopted a resolution accepting the budget as proposed. The MEDC in mid-August announced it would make major cuts for its 2015-16 fiscal year budget beginning
TROY - Altair on Tuesday announced that its PBS Professional has been chosen to manage workload for the new Cray supercomputing system to be installed at for the Australian national weather service. PBS Professional was selected as part of a Cray contract to provide the Bureau of Meteorology with a Cray XC 40 supercomputer and
DETROIT - The City of Detroit ambulance fleet is going green.Last summer, over the summer, the city partnered with NextEnergy and Navitas Systems to retrofit 31 city ambulances with auxiliary power units, saving the City money and improving air quality. The upgrades are funded by a $1 million grant from the Michigan Department of Transportation's
CHICAGO - Clean Energy Trust is calling on the most innovative cleantech startups from across the Midwest to compete in the 6th Annual Clean Energy Trust Challenge, a single-day pitch competition that will award $1 million to start-ups in April 2016 - nearly ten times the amount distributed at the annual event in 2011. The
LANSING - Using unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly called drones, could provide safety benefits and asset management benefits in monitoring the conditions of the state's roads and bridges, the results of a study by the Department of Transportation show. MDOT has released results of a study using a variety of drones in tests of state highways
FERNDALE - M2 TechCast episode one featured cybersecurity experts Richard Stiennon and Dan Lohrmann, Angel Investor David Weaver, and video game producers Jason Vazzano and Sean Hurwitz, plus Jenell Leonard, Commissioner of the Michigan Film & Digital Media Office. To listen, click on http://www.podcastdetroit.com/audio/m2techcast-debuts-on-podcast-detroit/
