LANSING - Instate students at the University of Michigan's main campus in Ann Arbor will see tuition rise by 2.8 percent for the 2012-13 school year after approval Thursday by the U-M Board of Regents of the school's budget. The board also approved a 3.6 percent increase for U-M Flint and 3.7 percent for U-M
GRAND RAPIDS - A discovery by Van Andel Institute researchers has identified a potential drug target for NK/T-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer responsible for claiming the life of a close friend and fellow researcher. A study, authored by Bin Tean Teh, M.D., Ph.D., and published this week in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the
DETROIT ? A million dollars in cash awards are up for grabs in the 2012 Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, one of North America's largest business competitions. The winner gets $500,000 alone, runner-up wins $150,000 plus there are business in-kind awards to later stage, entrepreneurial businesses that have the potential to have an immediate and positive
DETROIT ? If you have a great business idea, TechTown, Wayne State University's business accelerator, a pitch competition Aug. 3 that pays the winner $1,500. But you need to register by July 1. A panel of judges will select finalists to present at Startup Soup. Each finalist will have five minutes to pitch their business
ROYAL OAK ? Attend the June 28 Check Point GAiA Technical Brief Webinar on June 28 and receive up to four tickets to the Detroit Tigers game on July 6. The webinar is presented by Sequris Group. Quantities are limited. Check Point GAiA Technical Brief will be roughly 30-40 minutes in duration, leaving 10-15 minutes
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Thursday announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of loans of up to $6.8 million for five growing Michigan companies through the Michigan Business Growth Fund Loan Participation Program. ?The Loan Participation Program will allow these companies to move forward and continue to grow, which in turn brings jobs and
WASHINGTON D.C. - According to several sources who spoke with the Washington Post, Flame helped "prepare the battlefield" for other cyberattacks, including Stuxnet. The Washington Post reports, citing sources, that Flame was the brainchild of the U.S. National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Israel's military. The focus of the malware was to surreptitiously
ANN ARBOR - EDUCAUSE and Internet2 are implementing a new series of pilot efforts to evaluate technologies and business models in the fast evolving migration from traditional textbooks to electronic content. For the fall 2012 term, the pilot is being conducted in partnership with McGraw-Hill Education and Courseload, through which more than 25 colleges and
KALAMAZOO ? BioStar Ventures and the Michigan Accelerator Fund led a $5.3 million preferred stock investment in Ablative Solutions Inc., a Kalamazoo-based medical device company with a new technique for fighting high blood pressure. ASI says it is developing a ?significantly different? approach to renal denervation, a new therapy for high blood pressure and other
LAKE ORION ? A field next to General Motors' Orion Assembly Plant, home of the Chevrolet Sonic and Buick Verano, will soon hold a solar array with enough capacity to annually power 45 homes in Michigan. The energy from the 350-kilowatt array owned by DTE Energy will be sent back to the grid for use