GRAND RAPIDS - The new Van Andel Institute Graduate School will kick off the inaugural school year with a ceremonial gathering of scholars on Aug. 20 that honors students and faculty and signals the beginning of the academic year. The ceremony will introduce faculty and the school?s pioneering students, and include remarks by VAI CEO
SOUTHFIELD - Fifteen-year-old Grayson Rosenberger, a freshman at Franklin Road Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, will be receiving the prestigious 2007 da Vinci Award for his application of a life-like surface for prosthetic legs. The idea also won the first place $10,000 prize in the Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors. The da Vinci Awards, honors
KALAMAZOO ? GLIMASouthwest will host a Tech 5:01 September 5 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Fieldstone Grill in Portage. Come join the technology group for food, drink and networking with Southwest Michigan technology people and companies. Information on GLIMA?s Shedding New Light on IT Security Expo on October 4 will be available. GLIMASouthwest
BIG RAPIDS - Verizon Wireless has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless network to Big Rapids, including the downtown area, which includes Ferris State University campus, part of a nearly $1 billion Verizon investment in Michigan. The expansion also covers US Route 131 between Paris and Sand Lake as well as the towns
DETROIT ? Former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer and Weight Watchers CEO Florine Mark have been added to Wayne State University's E2Detroit Entrepreneurship and Excellence Symposium scheduled for Oct. 1-2. E2Detroit provides resources to entrepreneurs and small business owners by bringing together regional business leaders to share ideas about the tools and relationships necessary to launch
ANN ARBOR - Although economic growth will remain weak for the rest of the year, the housing and car markets will slowly bounce back next year, providing momentum for a turnaround, University of Michigan economists said Wednesday. In their annual summer forecast of the U.S. economy, Saul Hymans and colleagues Joan Crary and Janet Wolfe
BOSTON - Congestion at North America's West Coast ports and continuing capacity problems at major European ports have complicated the China sourcing equation to such an extent that companies need to consider alternatives, experts at The Boston Consulting Group contend. While the situation is worse in North America than Europe and likely to worsen even
BOSTON - Poor infrastructure, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive labor laws have kept India?s manufacturing sector a backwater, while its services have turned red hot. But beneath the surface, things are changing rapidly, and India could become a manufacturing powerhouse within five to 10 years, says a new report by The Boston Consulting Group and
LANSING - Companies seeking Michigan tax abatements and economic development tools would be more likely to get those if they will hire all Michigan workers under a legislative package House Democrats announced Monday. The legislation, which has yet to be introduced, will be reviewed through a joint meeting of the House committees on Labor and
ANN ARBOR ? Bill Boudreaux of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, and Steve Davis of Heller Ehrman, will discuss strategic corporate legal and patent issues for early stage life sciences companies Aug. 15 at SPARK Central. The program is part of BioArbor, an educational networking events for the life sciences industry in the greater Ann