DETROIT - Rachele Downs, long-time Vice President of Entrepreneurial Strategies at Inforum, has been hired by Dandelion, a community projects organizer, as the agency’s first National Director of Development and Acquisitions. This new role was created by Dandelion to support its recent expansion into Saginaw and Chicago. As National Director of Development and Acquisitions, Downs
LANSING - As part of the rollout of the redesigned Gongwer News Service website, Gongwer highlights new features so that subscribers can get the most from their subscriptions. One of the enhancements is to the Schedules page, which contains the day's legislative committee hearings, meetings of state boards/agencies/commissions and other events like fundraisers. There are
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech has updated its Virtual Private Cloud to allow users to allocate their storage, RAM and CPU resources as their workloads demand simply by clicking a button on their OTC client portals. Instead of getting locked into a cloud server with a specific amount of RAM, disk space, and CPU resources,
GRAND BLANC – Larry Bossman has joined Spud Software as the new Sales Director. He reports to Spud CEO Derek Sommer. Bossman is a highly accomplished and dynamic B2B Sales professional with almost two decades of successful new business development, competitive market expansion and sales leadership experience. He was named a Top Sales Producer with
DETROIT - University of Detroit Mercy’s new Center for Automotive Systems Engineering Education has received a major boost with a $1 million gift from William L. Kozyra (Class of 1980). “There is no doubt in my mind that today I have a fabulous career and life as a result of the great education I received
TRAVERSE CITY - Momentum for bringing fiber optic Internet to Traverse City is building as two local electric companies explore investing in the technology. Cherryland Electric Cooperative is one of five members of Wolverine Power Cooperative partnering on a joint feasibility study to consider a statewide fiber optic project. Cherryland General Manager Tony Anderson says
ANN ARBOR - For the first time beginning next month, forecasts of the regional effects of solar storms will help protect the power grid and communications satellites, thanks to a new tool developed by researchers at the University of Michigan and Rice University. Solar storms are torrents of charged particles and electromagnetic fields from the
GRAND RAPIDS - An estimated 40 or more area businesses will be participating in the West Michigan Employment Expo October 15 at the DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids. Organized by radio stations WLAV-FM, WBBL-FM, HOT 105.3 WHTS, 94.5 NASH WTNR-FM and WJRW-AM, the goal of the West Michigan Employment Expo is to bring area businesses together
FLINT TOWNSHIP – The Baker College Bachelor of Science degree program in mechanical engineering offered at the Flint campus has been granted reaccreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. The program has been accredited since 2002. ABET accredits post-secondary programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology and is recognized by the Council
GRAND RAPIDS - Grand Circus has partnered with Start Garden to offer coding workshops in October. But first Grand Circus is hosting a free Intro to Coding Workshop in Grand rapids on Sept. 27. RSVP. “We continue to see the need for developers increase throughout Michigan, and we’re excited to bring our .NET (C#) coding bootcamp
