ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Venture Capital Association at its annual dinner on Dec. 1 will honor ForeSee Results with the Best Exit Award, ProNAi Therapeutics with the Financing of the Year Award, Detroit Labs with the 100 Award and Michael Finney with the Lifetime Achievement Award. ?In the most recent research report, MVCA reported
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission Monday became the first state energy agency in the nation to make energy efficiency improvements to its new office location using Property Assessed Clean Energy financing. ?Michigan state government is committed to eliminating energy waste, and is able to use a variety of tools to achieve that goal,?
EAST LANSING - Richard Lunt, whose solar energy research at the Michigan State University College of Engineering has attracted nationwide attention, has been awarded the highly competitive Camille and Henry Dreyfus Award in Environmental Chemistry, a $120,000 grant that adds a postdoctoral researcher to Lunt?s research team for two years. Lunt is an assistant professor
DETROIT - Gov. Rick Snyder unveiled the Michigan Cyber Initiative 2015 to an audience of nearly 700 information technology experts and professionals on Monday during what he billed as the North American International Cyber Summit in Detroit. Snyder, who was re-elected earlier this month for a second four-year term, outlined an ambitious plan over the
DEARBORN - The ninth annual Michigan Council for Women in Technology annual black-tie Signature Gala November 8 raised more than $300,000 and also inaugurated a new president for the MCWT. The annual event was hosted by Ford Motor Company to raise funds for the MCWT Foundation serving women in technology through all stages of education
LANSING - Though the exact costs are still unclear, Michigan growers and processors, and some non-agricultural industries, sending their products to Canada will face some additional costs in the coming year, Agriculture and Rural Development Director Jamie Clover Adams told the Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development at its meeting Wednesday. Canada is planning retaliatory
ROCHESTER - Use of social media can have legal consequences, both personally and professionally. Is your brand being ?hijacked? on social media? Can an employee be fired because of a social media post? What does your favorite social media platform do with your personal information? Could social media be used as an alibi? Kathy Ossian
LANSING - Legislation that would make permanent the Michigan film incentive program, simplify the incentives and make taxable some of the post-release income generated by the productions cleared the House Commerce Committee on Wednesday. The committee made no major changes to the legislation, SB 1103 , a top priority of Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville
LANSING - Long-stymied efforts to increase funding for Michigan's battered roads won a momentous victory Thursday in the Senate with the passage of legislation that hopes to eventually raise more than $1 billion through doubling the gasoline tax. It took several attempts on an updated version of the bill it last attempted to pass in
ANN ARBOR - ONL Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for preserving sight in a range of retinal diseases, Wednesday announced it has been awarded a $1.37 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract from the National Eye Institute to advance development of ONL101, the company?s lead therapeutic candidate. ONL101 is a first-in-class