SAN FRANCISCO - Neil deGrasse Tyson didn't have much to say about cybersecurity at the RSA conference on Thursday - but nobody much cared. The tech industry folks gathered at the annual cybersecurity conference soaked up Tyson's enthusiastic talk on the most exciting developments in science today, which ranged from exoplanets to gravity waves. Tyson
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan students received 21 Fulbright grants for the 2016-17 academic year - the most of any public university in the nation for the 12th year in a row, the U.S. State Department announced. The grants - one of the U.S. government's most prestigious awards - fund the students' research or
EAST LANSING - Detroit Catholic Central High School’s VEX Shambots B team won the coveted VEX Robotics Excellence Award and a three-team alliance from Bloomfield Hills, Grandville, and Rochester were high school tournament champions at the 2017 Michigan VEX Robotics State Championship on Sunday, Feb. 19, at Michigan State University. At the middle school level,
ROYAL OAK - Lawrence Tech’s Catherine Phillips and Deirdre Hennebury join M2 TechCast co-hosts Mike Brennan and Matt Roush to discuss the huge impact Albert Kahn had on Detroit architecture. The Albert Kahn Research Coalition is collaborating with the LTU Library and the LTU College of Architecture and Design’s Lectures and Exhibitions Committee to present
ROYAL OAK - Automation Alley’s Erin Sommerville provides highlights of the just released Automation Alley 2017 Technology Report that focuses on how Industry 4.0 - the cyber industrial revolution - will transform manufacturing in Michigan. If you are a Michigan manufacturer, or a technology company that wants to sell your products or services to manufacturers,
ANN ARBOR - New findings from the University of Michigan explain an Ice Age paradox and add to the mounting evidence that climate change could bring higher seas than most models predict. The study, published in Nature, shows how small spikes in the temperature of the ocean, rather than the air, likely drove the rapid
ROYAL OAK - Cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann returns to M2 TechCast on Monday Feb. 20 to discuss his take on the RSA convention and to tell readers how to determine whether news is fake. Lisa Kujawa from Lawrence Technological University will talk about the upcoming LTU summer computer camps. Steve Tomaszewski founder of www.talkingcarz.com announces
DETROIT - The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation announced Wednesday that Carey Pachla as the nonprofit’s new president, and Rebecca Bray the new vice president. Pachla is also president of Fast Switch, Ltd., an IT consulting organization. She has been an active volunteer member of MCWT for more than a decade, and served in
Seun Phillips, VP of Education and Engagement at Michigan Science Center joined our experts to describe the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs that the Michigan Science Center is using to encourage children, particularly girls, to get involved early and often in sciences. Seun Phillips joined the Michigan Science Center in 2015 and has pioneered and
ROYAL OAK - Christopher Stefani of Lawrence Technological University talks about the new LTU Design Incubator at the new Detroit campus, called the Detroit Center for Design + Technology at 4219 Woodward in Midtown. To find out more about the LTU design center, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2techcast-episode-68-chris-stefani-ltu-dcdt
