FLINT ? Three high school robotics teams ? from Pontiac, Allen Park and Saginaw ? combined to win the 2005 Kettering Kickoff robotics contest Sept. 17 in Flint. Team Phoenix from Saginaw led an alliance with Chief Delphi of Pontiac Central High School (Team 47) and the Robocards (Team 5) of Allen Park to win
LANSING ? Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Republican legislative leaders will meet Monday to discuss the House Republican plan to overhaul the Single Business Tax, according to the House GOP. Matt Resch, spokesperson for House Speaker Craig DeRoche (R-Novi), said Granholm's office contacted the speaker's office Friday to request the meeting. Senate Majority Leader Ken
ANN ARBOR ? Stephen Forrest, distinguished professor at Princeton University and a noted optoelectronics researcher, has been named vice president for research at the University of Michigan, effective Jan. 1, 2006, pending approval of the U-M Board of Regents. Forrest will serve as an executive officer of the University and will oversee a research enterprise
KALAMAZOO ? Configuration Solution has completed its acquisition of Helix Technology Group of Rochester. With the addition of Helix?s automotive expertise, Configuration ads engineering change and project management software for automotive suppliers. Terms were not disclosed. Configuration provides enterprise-wide product configuration and selling solutions from quote to delivery. "Combining our expertise and software capabilities with
GRAND RAPIDS ? GLIMAWest is hosting a panel discussion on RFID technology and how it will make business leaner and faster. The event RFID ? Tag, You?re IT - is scheduled for Sept. 22 at 5:45 pm at Dr. Grins, a comedy club in the B.O.B. The RFID panelists are: Gary Burns from RF Identics
KALAMAZOO ? A Canadian pharmaceutical company has agreed to purchase Kalamazoo-based Afmedica, a drug device company, for an undisclosed amount. Angiotech Pharmaceuticals will move Afmedica to Vancouver, British Columbia. But the pending departure of Afmedica won?t be a loss for Kalamazoo?s life sciences industry, said Afmedica CEO Don Parfet, rather it will be a victory
LANSING ? The months-long effort of a work group and committee testimony produced a tentative decision Wednesday in a Senate committee on a bill to serve as the basis of rewriting Michigan's telecommunications law, which is set to expire December 31. But the Michigan Technology and Energy Committee postponed for a week action on possible
KALAMAZOO ? Medical devices will get a lot more money from the Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor Fund in 2006, a Michigan Economic Development Corp. executive said Tuesday at the MichBio Sprouts event. John Shallman, Life Sciences Business Development Manager, said medical device start ups will get more focus than in year?s past when the awards are
GRAND RAPIDS ? In the past seven years, $360 million in research labs and hospital wings have been built in the Grand Rapids SmartZone, with another $500 million in new life sciences facilities coming on line, David Van Andel, CEO of the Van Andel Research Institute, said Wednesday. Trouble is, Michigan's high schools and colleges
TROY ? The Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan has renewed a $126,000 grant used to fund the Walsh College Adams Entrepreneurial Fellowship, which develops the entrepreneurial skills of two promising Walsh College business students or alumni by matching them with two local entrepreneurs for one year. Waterford, Michigan, resident Monica Smith, a Walsh College master?s