ANN ARBOR - Blaze Medical Devices, a startup medical device company, has been selected to present at the Cavendish Global Health Impact Forum taking place May 5-7 New York, NY. The Forum helps family offices and foundations develop and implement their individual pro-social impact investing, grant-giving, and philanthropy programs within health and the life sciences.
FLINT - Individuals interested in pursuing an education in a technical field while earning a paycheck from a participating employer in the Flint area are invited to attend a placement event that will allow them to apply and get qualified for the Michigan Advanced Technician Training program offered by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. ?The
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NOVI - ITC Holdings Corp., the nation?s largest independent electricity transmission company, has donated $250,000 to Lawrence Technological University to establish the ITC Power Engineering Endowed Scholarship in LTU?s College of Engineering. It will provide a fulltime student with half tuition each year. ITC will also offer a paid internship each year to the student
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University has been named the national organizer for the United States for the World Robot Olympiad Association, which runs a global LEGO robotics competition that draws participants from around the world. The Olympiad started in Singapore in 2004. This year over 17,000 teams are participating. Each country has its own competition,
WASHINGTON DC - It's not often that the US government weighs in on the browser wars, but a new Internet Explorer vulnerability that affects all major versions of the browser from the past decade has forced it to raise an alarm: Stop using IE. This zero-day exploit is an unpatched flaw in the Microsoft browser
LANSING - Only 76 percent of Michigan high school students graduate in the normal time, compared to 81 percent nationally, a report released during the weekend showed. The report, by a variety of groups including Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, America's Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education, showed
STERLING HEIGHTS ? Macomb Area Communities for Regional Opportunities and the Sterling Heights Regional Chamber will host an informational luncheon on investment crowd funding on May 9 where a panel of state and regional experts will discuss Michigan?s pioneering interstate crowd funding legislation. They also will discuss opportunities for residents to grow their local economy;
LANSING - Toyota Motors announced Monday that it was expanding its Ann Arbor technology campus, adding some 250 jobs in the area as the giant automaker announced a massive consolidation of its U.S. operations. The company announced it was consolidating its U.S. headquarters into Plano, Texas. The expansion in Ann Arbor will relocate its direct
LANSING - Business Leaders for Michigan headed a coalition urging the Legislature to support adoption of the Smarter Balanced assessment as a replacement for the Michigan Education Assessment Program. The groups noted that school districts have already been implementing the Common Core State Standards and that some districts are beginning to try Smarter Balanced next