JACKSON–Michigan communities in Oscoda, Livingston and Gratiot counties are receiving a total of $50,000 for projects designed to make smaller Michigan communities better places to live and work after winning the Consumers Energy Foundation’s 2021 “Put Your Town on the Map” competition. Comins Township in Oscoda County received $25,000 for first place, Pinckney received $15,000
DETROIT—The Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan (WIN) is now seeking 100 civilians and companies in Metro Detroit for inclusion in the Operation Next advanced manufacturing training program. The hybrid training, developed by LIFT, the Detroit-based Department of Defense-supported national manufacturing innovation institute, combines self-directed virtual learning with hands-on lab work to provide foundational knowledge,
SOUTHFIELD—The team from St. John Lutheran School in Rochester won a fourth place finish in the national tournament of Future City. Future City is a project-based learning program where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades imagine, research, design, and build cities set at least 100 years in the future. The competition’s theme changes every
SOUTHFIELD—The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Michigan Chapter has become a sponsor of Lawrence Technological University’s team in a global competition for autonomous vehicles in which LTU is three-time defending global champion. “In our efforts to both promote STEM (Science , Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education and connect the defense industry with academia, we were
JACKSON—U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced this week that a total of $29 million would be awarded to 44 organizations as part of the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Scaling Pandemic Resilience Through Innovation and Technology (SPRINT) Challenge. This includes a $569,300 federal grant from the Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI
ANN-ARBOR—Genomenon, the genetics informatics company, has completed a $5.3 million financing round, company officials announced. The financing will enable the company to expand its commercial operations, which serve genetic testing labs, hospitals, pharmaceutical and biopharma companies. New investors in this round of financing included BroadOak Capital Partners LLC of Bethesda, Md., Green Park & Golf
NOVI—DuraMag, a brand of the Shyft Group’s specialty vehicles business unit, will engineer, manufacture, and install vocational body upfits for Boston-based EV Transportation Services Inc. and its FireFly vehicles, making the all-electric lightweight utility vehicle well suited to a variety of essential service and electro-mobility (e-mobility) functions. DuraMag, an all-aluminum truck body manufacturer, will build food
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan announced that students will, for the first time, be able to take online courses in the university’s Masters of Social Work program, ranked the best social work program in the country by U.S. News & World Report, and the first of its kind Health Infrastructures & Learning Systems program offered by the
TROY—Electric Last Mile Inc., a commercial electric vehicle company focused on last-mile delivery systems, announced a partnership with Oakville, Ontario-based Geotab Inc. to develop a factory-installed connectivity system that will equip ELMS customers with the data they need to help manage and optimize their vehicles. As part of the collaboration, ELMS plans to integrate Geotab’s
ANN ARBOR—Clinical analytics startup Fifth Eye Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted its “de novo” classification to Fifth Eye’s Analytic for Hemodynamic Instability (AHI). According to the FDA’s website, “De novo” classification means FDA officials believe the new software has “reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness for the intended use.” Fifth Eye’s
