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Dow, MSU, Ferris State Named To Energy R&D Team
Friday, July 30, 2010 (2 reads)
July 29, 2010/GLITR, Technology
The United States Department of Energy has selected Dow Building & Construction, a business group within the Advanced Materials Division of Midland-based Dow Chemical Co., to lead a multi-year project that will combine research and residential in-home testing to develop enhanced home energy efficiency retrofit solutions and best practices. Dow will work in partnership with Habitat for Humanity, as well as Michigan State University and Ferris State University, with select contributions from Duke Energy, DTE Energy Corp. and Exelon Corp.
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Hands-On Education Knows No Limits
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (13 reads)
July 23, 2010/Michigan Tech
Second-year software engineering student Nikoli Wiens with his flugtag team's flying platypus.
The platypus is rare among mammals, laying eggs rather than bearing live offspring. Even rarer is a 200-pound platypus egg that hatches into a helicopter as it careens off a 30-foot cliff into the water.
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Wayne State University wins 2010 Campus Technology Innovators Award
Friday, July 16, 2010 (38 reads)
July 13, 2010/Wayne State University News
DETROIT - On July 19, administrators from Wayne State University's Computing & Information Technology (C&IT) office and the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) will be recognized at the Campus Technology 2010 conference hosted by Campus Technology magazine. Wayne State is one of 11 Campus Technology Innovators award winners, chosen from nearly 500 entries.
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OU-Beaumont Medical School has Hands-on Way of Training Doctors
Thursday, July 08, 2010 (51 reads)
July 6, 2010/Detroit Free Press
Students at the new Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine won't be spending most of their first two years in lecture halls listening to traditional topics such as anatomy and physiology.
Instead, their priorities will be doing mandatory community service projects, receiving lessons on nutrition and wellness and talking to patients or practicing examination skills on lifelike mannequins.
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U-M's Stem Cell Study on ALS Looks Promising
Wednesday, July 07, 2010 (96 reads)
July 7, 2010/Detroit News
Researchers hope to find spinal injections slow disease Researchers at the University of Michigan are seeing positive results from the earliest stages of experiments designed to determine whether stem cells can help patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -- better known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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CMU Geologist Collaborates with National Leaders on Mars Research
Monday, June 28, 2010 (64 reads)
June 16, 2010/CMU Media Channel
By: Tracy Burton
Scientific samples from Mars may soon be brought back to Earth for study, raising concerns over potential detrimental effects on the environment. This is why Central Michigan University geology professor Kathy Benison and a group of leading experts from around the country have collaborated on “MARS: Sample Return Missions” — a book about how to manage samples obtained from space while protecting Earth from potential threats.
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Advance Planning Puts U-M on Solid Ground
Friday, June 11, 2010 (146 reads)
June 11, 2010/Detroit News By Mary Sue Coleman The financial crisis facing our state guarantees sympathy. When I travel across the country and colleagues know I am from Michigan, the condolences flow. They may be facing a bad fiscal situation in their own states, but the University of Michigan, they assume, must be in far worse shape.
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New Aerospace Center on Campus
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 (105 reads)
June 2, 2010/Michigan Tech News
Michigan Technological University, which has been establishing a highly regarded academic program in space technology, now boasts a new center focused on satellites. The Michigan/Air Force Center of Excellence in Electric Propulsion will focus on satellite thrusters. It has received $1 million in funding for five years.
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EMU Rescues Michigan's Historical Markers Program
Monday, May 24, 2010 (122 reads)
May 24, 2010/The Detroit News
Michigan's budget crisis has left students as the caretakers of state history. When shortfalls prompted lawmakers last fall to abolish a $50,000 subsidy for the Michigan Historical Marker Program, many feared the effort that commemorates the state's noted people, places and events would itself become history. Instead, Eastern Michigan University stepped in and agreed to let students handle marker requests as part of their final project.
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Pols Trailing Public on Higher Education
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 (101 reads)
May 19, 2010/Lansing State Journal
Five years ago, polling of Michigan parents lobbed a shocker into the education debate: Only 27 percent deemed a college education "essential" for their children.
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Cross-Cultural Coursaris
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 (98 reads)
May 19, 2010/CapitalGains
By Viki Lorraine
A man of many talents—he has a B.Eng. in Aerospace, an MBA in e-Business, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems with a concentration on electronic business and mobile commerce— Michigan State University (MSU) professor Dr. Constantinos Coursaris is very familiar with navigating different cultures.
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UM Ramps up Pfizer Move
Monday, May 17, 2010 (97 reads)
May 16, 2010/Crain's Detroit Business
$200M drive to fund recruiting, research
The University of Michigan is shifting into high gear the transformation of its North Campus Research Complex into the central hub of the university's research and commercialization activities.
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$1.1 million in NSF Grants Fund GVSU Research
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 (86 reads)
May 12, 2010/Grand Valley State University News
ALLENDALE, Mich. — Researchers at Grand Valley State University have been awarded nearly $1.1 million in grants from the National Science Foundation to conduct work in biomedical engineering, math education, aquatic plant life and fossil record research in South Africa.
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UM, MSU To Study State Education Reforms With $5.9 Million Federal Grant
Friday, April 30, 2010 (120 reads)
April 29, 2010/GLITR
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University -- in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Education -- will use a five-year, $5.9 million fedaral grant to assess two education reforms designed to promote college attendance and workplace success.
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Destination Innovation: Entrepreneurs Are Key
Friday, April 30, 2010 (103 reads)
April 29, 2010/WWJ.COM
Troy (WWJ) -- What will it take for Michigan to get its economic groove back? At WWJ's "Destination: Innovation" Business Breakfast in Troy, business and university leaders agreed that entrepreneurialism is the key.
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MSU's Project GREEEN Receives $2 Million For Plant Research In Michigan
Thursday, April 29, 2010 (82 reads)
April 28, 2010/Capital Gains
By Suban Nur Cooley
Thanks to funding from MSU-based Project GREEEN (Generating Research and Extension to meet Economic and Environmental Needs), researchers at the university will receive $2.08 million for research and outreach projects to continue growing Michigan's $71.3 billion agri-food and agri-energy industries.
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Wayne State Researcher Gets $800k To Study Biomarker For Developmental Disability
Thursday, April 29, 2010 (86 reads)
April 28, 2010/GLITR
A Wayne State University researcher is investigating whether a brain pathway responsible for language development can be used as a biomarker that distinguishes intellectually and developmentally disabled children from those who are experiencing an atypical course of development and will later catch up to their peers.
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MSU Team Crowned National Debate Champ
Monday, March 29, 2010 (188 reads)
March 24, 2010/MSU News
Carly Wunderlich, of Brookfield, Wis., a chemistry senior, and Eric Lanning, of Spring, Texas, an international relations junior, hold the Larmon trophy, which they received for taking first place in a National Debate Tournament.
The 12-member MSU debate team poses with the Larmon trophy.
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Three Sleds Complete Clean Snowmobile Challenge Endurance Run
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 (221 reads)
Michigan Tech News/March 16, 2010
By Marcia Goodrich
Neither sun, nor mud, nor halcyon breezes could keep three hardy entries in the 2010 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge from completing the Endurance Run: North Dakota State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
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Famed Architect Breaks Ground on $45-million MSU Museum
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 (214 reads)
Detroit Free Press/March 16, 2010
By John Gallagher
Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid, the world’s foremost woman architect, came to Michigan State University this morning to break ground on what promises to be one of the state’s boldest works of architecture.
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MPA Student Writes Million Dollar Grant to Help Michigan Workers
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 (585 reads)
November 24, 2009/News at OU
Graduate student Bernice Kerner wrote a million dollar grant to help Michigan workers.
Bernice Kerner is putting her school skills to work in the real world in a big way. The Oakland University graduate student recently earned a million dollar grant to help older, laid off workers in Southeastern Michigan reenter the workforce.
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MSU Leads Regional Effort to Retrain Workers for New IT Jobs
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 (477 reads)
November 18, 2009/MSU News
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Nearly 40 mid-Michigan workers have gained new skills and employment in information technology, thanks to a partnership between Michigan State University, work force development agencies and area technology businesses.
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Michigan Dreams
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 (247 reads)
Fall 2009/Findings Alumni Magazine
Michigan has been hit
hard during America’s economic downturn. Like a slow-moving tsunami,
trouble began arriving here years ago, as manufacturing (particularly
the auto industry) downsized painfully. University of Michigan
economists are predicting that 2010 will close a decade represented by
nearly 950,000 jobs lost in the Wolverine State.
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U-M Plans to Launch Start-ups with New Mich Venture Center
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 (264 reads)
10/21/2009, Concentrate
The University of Michigan has created a number of avenues to allow entrepreneurs to spin off university technology or enable students to chase after their start-up dreams. The newly formed Michigan Venture Center will serve as the hub for all of that activity.
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Universities a potential source for major job growth in Michigan
Thursday, January 15, 2009 (458 reads)
Michigan's universities will not only be creating the next generation of minds to move into the state's workforce but they might be on their way to creating the work itself. Universities across the state, through various expansions, developments, and research projects, will be creating a large number of jobs in the coming years.
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