SOUTHFIELD — Early spring means that it’s Robofest season – all over the world. Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students – from fifth grade to college – to have fun, while learning the principles of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), along with computer science. Students design,
LANSING - Michigan has been named the No. 6 state in the nation for major new corporate buildings and expansions in 2015 by Site Selection magazine, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced. Site Selection verified 217 projects in Michigan that met capital investment, job-creation or size standards as part of its annual Governor’s Cup ranking.
ANN ARBOR - The Watson Health business unit of IBM announced this week plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a provider of healthcare data analysis. The purchase price would be $2.6 billion. There was no immediate word on the future of Truven’s Ann Arbor headquarters staff. Truven will bring more than 8,500 clients, including U.S.
SOUTHFIELD - The scientific world was rocked last week by news that researchers had, for the first time, detected gravitational waves — ripples in the very fabric of spacetime itself. Albert Einstein predicted these waves almost exactly 100 years ago — that they would be caused by the collisions of massive objects in space. In
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University is now accepting applications for its 2016 Summer Science Camps. Incoming high school sophomores, juniors and seniors have their choice of several camps in June and July. Both day and residential camp options are available. All camps are held in Lawrence Tech’s state-of-the-art laboratories on its Southfield campus. Among the
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A city of the future called “Egabrag,” engineered by students from St. John Lutheran School in Rochester, took third place Tuesday at the 2016 Future City National Competition. St. John Lutheran School receives a $2,000 scholarship for its STEM program, sponsored by IEEE-USA. Earlier versions of the St. John team won the
ANN ARBOR - The defense and security products developer Arotech Corp. said it has received a $720,000 grant from Israel’s Office of the Chief Scientist toward research and development for its grid storage flow battery system. The grant will cover 40 percent of the planned R&D budget for the system in 2016. Arotech’s iron-iron flow
DETROIT - Asterand Bioscience says it has been awarded a five-year, $6.5 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to provide oncology specimens with associated clinical data to the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium. The CPTAC is a coordinated effort to accelerate the understanding of the molecular basis of cancer by systematically identifying proteins
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University is now a co-sponsor of a news blog covering high technology in Michigan. TechCentury.com is the online version of TechCentury, the magazine of The Engineering Society of Detroit. LTU recently hired Matt Roush as managing editor of its news bureau. He had been director of communications and public relations at
UNIVERSITY CENTER — Saginaw Valley State University and The Dow Chemical Co. leaders unveiled a new mobile research laboratory during a ceremony at the univesrity Wednesday, Jan. 27. The mobile lab is a 30-foot-long recreational vehicle outfitted with scientific equipment to travel to K-12 schools in Michigan’s Great Lakes Bay Region and beyond. The intent
