SAGINAW - Saginaw Future Inc. will be celebrating its 25th Annual Awards Luncheon featuring Nexteer Automotive Mike Richardson who leads a highly skilled team of over 13,000 people and oversees 24 manufacturing facilities, five regional engineering centers and 11 customer service centers across the globe. The Saginaw Future 25TH ANNUAL AWARDS Luncheon will be held
ANN ARBOR - In the long history of ITinTHED, dating all the way back to our first events in 2001, we can, unfortunately, count on one hand the number of events that we’ve done in Ann Arbor. It’s not that we don’t like Ann Arbor…we do…it’s just that we don’t have as many contacts out
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DETROIT - Tonya Matthews PhD, president and CEO at the Michigan Science Center, kicks off a monthly segment on M2 TechCast Monday Feb. 5 when she will discuss how the center helps get young people, particularly young girls, interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math. Matthews launched the center’s STEMinista Project for girls in
LANSING - Michigan’s Chief Economist Jay Wortley is retiring effective Feb. 28, after 36 years of state government service. He will be replaced by Eric Bussis who also will serve as director of the Office of Revenue and Tax Analysis. Wortley serves as the director of the Michigan Department of Treasury’s Office of Revenue and
ANN ARBOR - Consumers expressed a higher level of confidence in January than at any other time in the last dozen years. The post-election surge in confidence was driven by a more optimistic outlook for the economy and job growth during the year ahead as well as more favorable economic prospects over the next five
DETROIT - Tonya Matthews PhD, president and CEO at the Michigan Science Center, has been appointed to Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Matthews will join the chairman and 13 other members on BOSE, a standing board that guides a portfolio of work on science education broadly conceived
GRAND RAPIDS – A recent meeting with longtime Open Systems Technologies client Herman Miller provided the inspiration that led to a strategic partnership between OST and leaders of the Grand Rapids office of Sweden-based Configura, maker of space-planning software. The collaboration agreement calls for OST to serve as a formal Implementation Partner for Configura’s CET
DETROIT - studiozONE has been named as general contractor for the transformation and renovation of the Toyota Engineering Theater at the Michigan Science Center. This announcement follows Toyota Motor North America’s $1.44 million commitment to the TET, which supports its desire to create the next generation of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) professionals.
PLYMOUTH - Nineteen Michigan nonprofit organizations expanded digital literacy, promoted the importance of community service and helped build tomorrow’s leaders thanks to $351,000 in grants from the Comcast Foundation in 2016. “I appreciate the Comcast Foundation’s continued investment in our state’s nonprofit organizations,” Gov. Rick Snyder said. “Thanks to the tireless efforts and extremely important
