FLINT - Kettering University will dedicate the $1.2 million Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering Laboratories Sept. 13 at the Mott Engineering and Science Building. The Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering Laboratories at Kettering will enable students to ?better understand the most elegantly engineered structure known ? the human body,? said Patrick Atkinson, PhD, professor of Mechanical Engineering.
PONTIAC ? Venture Forward, an intensive ten-week program that uses the FastTrac GrowthVenture, will be offered by the Michigan Small Business & Technology Center this October. Venture Forward uses FastTrac GrowthVenture learning system along with MI-SBTDC counseling and research support to help entrepreneurs evaluate their business issues and opportunities, while developing an action plan for
GRAND RAPIDS ? Who's promoting Grand Rapids? Come to Alticor Auditorium Sept. 19 and hear the buzz about GR, part of the fall conference series offered by GLIMAWest. Lately everyone is talking about GR, and for all the right reasons. Not only have we been featured in the New York Times, but a writer from
REDMOND - Microsoft's next release of Office for Mac, due in January, will include business features that PC users have taken for granted for years. That will include the ability to set up out-of-office messages, according to a preview in Microsoft's Office for Mac team blog reported by CNET News.Com. "With Entourage 2008, you now
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio said it will provide tours of mid Michigan life sciences companies for attendees at its annual Expo Oct. 16-17 in Lansing. Guided tours will be available to Expo attendees from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Day 1 of the Expo, October 16. Attendees must register for the Expo at the
LANSING ? With less than three weeks before the start of Michigan's fiscal year, state officials are scrambling on a number of fronts to both resolve the budget and prevent a shutdown of the government on October 1. Sources indicate there is a chance that a move to put a sales tax increase before the
LANSING - The only way to implement the recommendations of Michigan?s 21st Century Energy Plan is to re-regulate the state's electric market, Public Sector Consultants said in a report to be presented Wednesday to the House Energy and Technology Committee. For the plan, developed by former Public Service Commission Chair Peter Lark, to work, all
GRAND RAPIDS - On Wednesday, regional investors, academicians, business and government leaders, and philanthropists will meet to have a conversation, hosted by Grand Angels, about how to address Michigan?s sagging economy. Creating a Statewide Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship ? Leveraging Change for Michigan?s Economy will bring more than a hundred regional leaders to the
WARREN ? Michigan InfraGard will host an interactive exercise on Sept. 27 in four cities that will test how first responders might react to an influenza pandemic. This special exercise will be broadcast over videoconference at one of four locations. Those locations are: Davenport University - Warren (Main Site) Davenport University ? Dearborn Davenport University
WASHINGTON DC - A key portion of the Patriot Act is unconstitutional and violates Americans' free speech rights, a federal judge said Thursday in a case that could represent a bitter setback for the Bush administration's attempts to expand its surveillance powers. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said the section of the Patriot Act that