SOUTHFIELD – A new water runoff control system in a parking lot at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield is among the water quality improvement projects that will be showcased at the White House Water Summit Tuesday, March 22. LTU professor Donald Carpenter received word of the project’s inclusion in the Water Summit on Wednesday. “This
SOUTHFIELD — Early spring means that it’s Robofest season – all over the world. Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students – from fifth grade to college – to have fun, while learning the principles of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), along with computer science. Students design,
ANN ARBOR — A nonprofit organization and a board of directors have been formed to handle operations for the new American Center for Mobility. The center, located in Ypsilanti Township at Willow Run Airport, is intended to help accelerate the development of autonomous and connected vehicles, as well as lead to economic development in Michigan.
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University is ranked 17th on the Princeton Review’s just-published list of 2016’s top 50 undergraduate schools to study game design. The Princeton Review chose the colleges and universities based on a survey it conducted in 2015 of 150 institutions offering game design coursework or degrees in the United States, Canada, and
LANSING - Michigan has been named the No. 6 state in the nation for major new corporate buildings and expansions in 2015 by Site Selection magazine, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced. Site Selection verified 217 projects in Michigan that met capital investment, job-creation or size standards as part of its annual Governor’s Cup ranking.
ANN ARBOR - The Watson Health business unit of IBM announced this week plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a provider of healthcare data analysis. The purchase price would be $2.6 billion. There was no immediate word on the future of Truven’s Ann Arbor headquarters staff. Truven will bring more than 8,500 clients, including U.S.
SOUTHFIELD - The scientific world was rocked last week by news that researchers had, for the first time, detected gravitational waves — ripples in the very fabric of spacetime itself. Albert Einstein predicted these waves almost exactly 100 years ago — that they would be caused by the collisions of massive objects in space. In
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A city of the future called “Egabrag,” engineered by students from St. John Lutheran School in Rochester, took third place Tuesday at the 2016 Future City National Competition. St. John Lutheran School receives a $2,000 scholarship for its STEM program, sponsored by IEEE-USA. Earlier versions of the St. John team won the
ANN ARBOR - The defense and security products developer Arotech Corp. said it has received a $720,000 grant from Israel’s Office of the Chief Scientist toward research and development for its grid storage flow battery system. The grant will cover 40 percent of the planned R&D budget for the system in 2016. Arotech’s iron-iron flow
DETROIT - Asterand Bioscience says it has been awarded a five-year, $6.5 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to provide oncology specimens with associated clinical data to the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium. The CPTAC is a coordinated effort to accelerate the understanding of the molecular basis of cancer by systematically identifying proteins
