GRAND RAPIDS ? Davenport University has named Pamela R. Imperato, Ph.D., as Dean of the Donald W. Maine College of Business and of the College of Technology. She will start in July. Imperato comes to Davenport from Bellevue University in Nebraska where she has served as Dean of the College of Business, overseeing 24 academic
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK's hub for entrepreneurial services in Ypsilanti, SPARK East, has received $350,000 in funding from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to support its continued work to help businesses startup and grow. SPARK also received support for expanded collaborative efforts with Eastern Michigan University that are centered on entrepreneurial development and
LANSING - Legislation to create a STEM endorsed Michigan high school diploma will help encourage students to show greater interest in technical education and help produce more technically trained students to go into jobs the state has openings for, members of the Senate Education Committee were told Tuesday. The panel heard testimony of SB 169
LANSING - Valerie Brader, Governor Rick Snyder?s top aide on energy matters, will lead the new Michigan Agency for Energy that Snyder is creating to coordinate the state?s energy programs. Snyder, in issuing an executive order Wednesday setting up the new agency, announced Brader, currently a deputy legal counsel and senior policy advisor specializing in
EAST LANSING ? Three Michigan State University College of Engineering researchers are developing a new technology known as substrate computing that could let a bridge or dam sense a structural defect before it happens. Substrate computing will allow sensing, communication and diagnostic computing, all within the substrate ? the building material ? of a structure,
DETROIT ? In the episode of the Internet Advisor, hosts Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Shane Hamelin and Foster Braun look at the Apple Spring forward event and ask was it really about Apple Watch or even about the 12-inch MacBook Retina? Rick Broida, the Gadget Guy and Cheapskate blogger, joins us in studio to give
PLYMOUTH - When I first began integrating social media into my job responsibilities about seven years ago, I?a seasoned PR professional with nearly 20 years of experience under my belt?felt like a rookie. And in a way, I was a rookie. Learning how to effectively align public relations objectives with social media was a whole
ANN ARBOR ? MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan reads the top headlines from last week?s MITechNews.Com Weekly eNewsletter, including Engineering Society of Detroit?s new executive director, Robotics Day coming up on April 9 on the University of Michigan North Campus in Ann Arbor, 53 teams to compete in the Restaurant ProStart Culinary Competition. To listen, Click
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio's Jobs Bank has added two new Life Sciences positions, an Inside Sales Account Manager in Ann Arbor and a Chemical Production Engineer in Fraser. Inside Sales Account Manager Gene Codes Corporation - Ann Arbor Gene Codes is a worldwide leader in developing bioinformatics solutions for DNA Sequence Analysis. Our primary product
AUSTIN, Texas - Turns out nobody can remember their Yahoo passwords. Now the company wants to make it so no one has to. Yahoo on Sunday launched a new service called "on-demand" passwords, which lets someone log into a Yahoo account using a short password the company texts to their phone instead of having to