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Michigan Business Leaders Bullish On State Economy, Planning Return To In-Person Work

DETROIT- Michigan’s business leaders see robust growth ahead in the state’s economy during the next six to 12 months and plan a return to in-person office work in the 3rd and 4th quarters of this year, according to a quarterly economic survey completed by Business Leaders for Michigan. Approximately 92 percent of survey respondents say

By |2021-05-18T19:51:31-04:00May 18th, 2021|Featured, News|

Why Michigan’s Next 13-Seat Map Won’t Look Anything Like The Last One

LANSING - Back in the 1910s and 1920s, Michigan was sitting where it's going after the next election. It had 13 congressional seats. From 1914 to 1930, the map looked the same. Detroit essentially had its own district, Oakland anchored its own district, stretching into Genesee and Ingham counties. Macomb anchored its own district with

MCWT Names Melanie Kalmar its ‘Woman Of The Year In Technology’

SOUTHFIELD—The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation named Melanie Kalmar its “Woman of the Year in Technology.” Kalmar is corporate vice president, chief information officer (CIO) and chief digital officer at Dow Inc., the Midland-based chemical industry giant. The fifth MCWT award recognizes women in Michigan leading or driving change for other women in

By |2021-05-14T18:52:30-04:00May 14th, 2021|Entrepreneurs, Featured|

LTU Program Graduates Michigan’s Youngest Licensed Architect At Age 23

SOUTHFIELD–Trent Schmitz, 23, graduated from Lawrence Technological University May 8 with a Master of Architecture degree, a requirement for licensing as a professional architect. And sometime in the next few weeks, Schmitz, of Southfield, will become the youngest licensed architect in the state of Michigan, and possibly the youngest in the country Lawrence Tech is one

By |2021-05-14T19:06:22-04:00May 14th, 2021|ESD, Featured, STEM|

Biden Administration Approves Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project To Power 400,000 Homes

WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo Tuesday announced approval of the construction and operation of the Vineyard Wind project — the first large-scale, offshore wind project in the United States. The Secretaries were joined in the announcement by labor leaders who have been working to ensure that the

By |2021-05-11T16:13:52-04:00May 11th, 2021|Clean Update, Featured|

LTU Launching Interdisciplinary Master Of Science In Artificial Intelligence

SOUTHFIELD—Explosive growth in the use of artificial intelligence technologies in a wide variety of industries, such as automotive, healthcare, retail, finance, science and manufacturing, has led Lawrence Technological University to create a new degree, the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence. AI and big data are now being successfully used in the battle against the

By |2021-05-07T16:59:35-04:00May 7th, 2021|ESD, Featured|

Michigan’s Biggest Cannabis Companies Want Hemp-Based Delta-8 Regulated

LANSING – A group of the state’s largest cannabis companies is lobbying the Michigan state legislature to regulate Delta-8 THC, primarily manufactured from legal hemp-derived CBD, in the same way Delta-9 THC is grown by association members. On Tuesday, Michigan Cannabis Manufacturers Association Executive Director Stephen Linder testified before the Michigan House asking these elected

By |2021-05-09T18:27:55-04:00May 6th, 2021|Featured, Marijuana Business, News|

Start Garden Pitch Competition Back After Year Off For COVID

GRAND RAPIDS - After taking a year off, Start Garden is bringing back a business pitch competition that awards $1,000 to 100 contestants and $20,000 to 10 finalists. The Start Garden 100 begins accepting pitches from entrepreneurs who are asked to submit a 90-second video describing their idea. Start Garden will accept entries through July 26. Judges

By |2021-05-09T18:30:45-04:00May 6th, 2021|Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Featured|

More Compact And Efficient Vertical Turbines Could Be Future Of Wind Farms

OXFORD, England - New research from Oxford Brookes University has found that the vertical turbine design is far more efficient than traditional turbines in large-scale wind farms, and when set in pairs the vertical turbines increase each other’s performance by up to 15%. A research team from the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (ECM)

By |2021-05-05T12:30:55-04:00May 4th, 2021|Clean Update, Featured|

Ford’s Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up The Assembly Line

DEARBORN -  Ford uses technology from a startup called Symbio Robotics that looks at the past few hundred attempts to determine which approaches and motions appeared to work best. A computer sitting just outside the cage shows Symbio’s technology sensing and controlling the arms. Toyota and Nissan are using the same tech to improve the efficiency of their production lines. The technology

By |2021-05-05T12:31:07-04:00May 4th, 2021|Digital, Featured|