EAST LANSING - The state championship for VEX Robotics will be the largest ever when many of Michigan?s youngest robotic masters challenge each other on Feb. 22 at Michigan State University. Sixty VEX Robotics teams, including those from Battle Creek, Belding, Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, DeWitt, Grandville, Haslett, Pontiac, Traverse City, Utica, and other Michigan cities
WASHINGTON D.C. ? Michigan has long been known as an auto center, but in the latest Cyberstates report, Michigan is noted as a technology cluster. Cyberstates 2015 reports Michigan tech industry employed 196,100 people in 2014, ranking as the 12th most tech workers in the nation. Perhaps more importantly, the growing tech workforce earned annual
EAST LANSING - A Chicago couple, who met in a calculus class at Michigan State University in the 1970s, has endowed a professorship to support entrepreneurship and diversity in the MSU College of Engineering. The $1.3 million gift, established through their estate plan, creates the Bob Nuber and Betty Shanahan Endowed Professorship and supports Empower
DETROIT - From positioning Michigan as the Midwest hub for high-tech women entrepreneurs to networking with leading ladies of government, Inforum been busy with a year full of programs for professional women as the group celebrates its 10th year. Inforum is a Michigan organization designed to accelerate careers for women and boost talent initiatives for
ANN ARBOR - Gas mileage of new vehicles sold in the U.S. was up last month for the first time since August, while emissions of greenhouse gases per driver was down. The report comes from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Average fuel economy (window-sticker values) of cars, light trucks, vans and SUVs purchased
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder on Friday appointed Jenell Leonard of DeWitt as director of the Film Office, replacing Margaret O'Riley, who will now take on the role of the vice president of corporate affairs at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. O'Riley had just been re-appointed to her position earlier this month for a term
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Sen. Gary Peters and environmental groups are so far disappointed by President Barack Obama's budget proposal, which does not include money for the New International Trade Crossing customs station and would cut federal efforts to restore and protect the Great Lakes, both said in separate statements released Monday. Peters (D-Bloomfield Township)
LANSING ? Michigan House Majority Floor Leader Aric Nesbitt said he's never shied away from hard work, and is confident he is able to take on a potential re-write of the state's energy policy combined with his duties as floor leader. When asked how he plans to balance both leading the House Energy Policy Committee
LIVONIA ? Civionics, an Ann Arbor wireless sensing system maker, won the $5,000 cash prize at the Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship, known throughout the state simply as ACE. Nine other entrepreneurs competed in the contest, which has now become the featured event, what with the demise last year of the former Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest
ANN ARBOR - Consumer optimism rose in the January 2015 survey to its highest level in the past decade, the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers reported Friday, and that optimism extends well below households with incomes under $75,000. Conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research since 1946, the surveys monitor consumer attitudes and