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FERNDALE - Rachele Downs, vice president of Entrepreneurial Strategy for Inforum, joined M2 TechCast co-Host Mike Brennan on the April 11 edition of the Internet radio show on the PodcastDetroit Network. With her was guest Julia Winter CEO, founder at Alchemie, which builds mobile games for higher education, beginning with a huge pain point, organic chemistry. This
FERNDALE - Kathleen Norton-Schock, one of three Diva Tech Talk co-hosts, joins M2 (Squared) TechCast co-host Mike Brennan on April 11 with her guest, Monica Wheat. Wheat is a multitalented tech entrepreneur and founder of several groups that promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education for young women. During this interview, Wheat explains why she
ANN ARBOR - A joint project of the University of Michigan School of Education and College of Engineering to bring sensor technology to Detroit communities has won $138,339 in the 2016 Knight Cities Challenge. The program will engage Detroit youth in grades 8-12 as the future leaders, scientists and planners of the city. An interdisciplinary
DETROIT - Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ is a Detroiter who was named director of the Vatican Observatory in 2015. Consolmagno is a planetary scientist who has studied meteorites and asteroids as an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since 1993. He had been serving as president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, coordinator of public relations and curator of
LANSING - The effort is not over yet for creating a new energy policy for Michigan as some 10 plants are expected to shut down over the next two weeks, Sen. Mike Nofs said Monday. "It's not dead," Nofs (R-Battle Creek), chair of the Senate Energy and Technology Committee, told Gongwer News Service. After considerable
WASHINGTON DC - The Defense Department christened the Sea Hunter, a 132-foot robot ghost ship designed to seek out and track diesel-powered submarines across the ocean. The start of the test phase for the program on Thursday signals a new dawn for autonomous systems at sea, which, Pentagon officials say, will perform an ever-wider variety
WASHINGTON DC - Climate change is a major threat to human health, with extreme heat likely to kill 27,000 Americans annually by 2100, according to a report released by the White House. The report, by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, outlines numerous ways global warming could devastate public health in the U.S. this century.
FERNDALE - Motor City Connect Founder Terry Bean, the man of a thousand voices, Mr. Detroit himself, appears on M2 TechCast on April 4 to talk about his organization that works hard to connect entrepreneurs, businesses and tech professionals across the Metro area. His LinkedIn group is just short of 10,000 members. LinkedIn became the
FERNDALE - Rave Computer’s Stephen Couchman and Matt Moy call in live from the NVIDIA GTC Conference in San Jose to talk about the Rave Mobilebeast, one of first hard core venture into high end graphics workstation. There is a convergence happening in design and marketing to develop more advanced technology for customers. Most computer
FERNDALE - With 11 offices across the state, the Michigan Small Business and Development Center works to provide tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses across the state. Besides providing a myriad of business training, and mentoring of would-be entrepreneurs, the MISBDC launched in innovative “Small Business, Big Threat,” http://sbdcmichigan.org/cyber-security-initiative/, that allows business to access
