HOUGHTON - Fall 2015 enrollment at Michigan Technological University is 7,238, the highest the school has seen in more than 30 years. Female enrollment is at a record high, with women making up 26.9 percent of the student body. Female enrollment in the College of Engineering rose to 26.7 percent, and the number of
FLINT - Roger Fischer and Dennis LaPorte, Baker College of Flint students, have each been awarded a $1,500 scholarship funded by Mi-Light, the Michigan photonics cluster, to pursue an associate degree in photonics and laser technology. Photonics is the science of using a photon, a unit of light, to generate energy or to detect or
SANTA CLARA, Ca. - America's Greatest Makers (working title) is coming to television in 2016. Are you ready to build the next truly amazing device? Bring your big ideas to life with Intel, in collaboration with Mark Burnett, United Artists Media Group, and Turner Broadcasting System and compete for a $1 million grand prize? For
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
LANSING - Road funding, energy policy overhaul and addressing a dire situation with Detroit Public Schools topped the list of priorities from Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof on Wednesday as the Senate returned to work. Meekhof (R-West Olive) said little about road funding discussions - as has been the case with all of the leaders
LANSING - After initially urging caution on a proposal to raise the Corporate Income Tax from 6 percent to 11 percent and directing the new revenue to roads, the Michigan Building Trades has now decided to endorse the proposal. There was no word from Building Trades officials, but Citizens for Fair Taxes, the group backing
ANN ARBOR - Michigan entrepreneurs have a option for getting products to market faster, thanks to a matching funds program called Small Company Innovation Program, Technology and Commercialization Assistance (SCIP/TCA; pronounced "skip T-C-A"). In collaboration with all of Michigan's 15 public universities, Michigan startups can access university resources including faculty expertise, use of laboratory equipment,
ANN ARBOR - The concept of building great things appealed to my roots as a Michigander. For generations the people of Michigan have engineered great automobiles and built magnificent office furniture. It is exciting to see how this expertise in product development is influencing a new era of technology development in the Midwest. I believe
DETROIT - IT In The D's next Pink Slip Party event is scheduled for September 17 at The Majestic Theater, where as many as a thousand people show up, including over a hundred and fifty recruiters, tons of people specifically looking for jobs, and a whole bunch of folks just looking to meet people in
DETROIT - With Labor Day past, get ready for Techonomy Detroit next Tuesday at Wayne State University - the fourth annual deep dive into the many ways tech is changing everything in our companies, our work, our cities, and our country. Today the changes come too fast for us not to study them constantly. So