HOUGHTON - Princeton Review's 2016 issue of The Best 380 Colleges ranks Michigan Technological University among the best Midwestern colleges and green colleges nationwide. The new listings were released Tuesday, Aug. 4. The Princeton Review rankings focus on undergraduate education and are based on surveys of 136,000 students at the 380 colleges on the Best
ANN ARBOR - Gas mileage of new vehicles sold in the U.S. remained unchanged last month, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Average fuel economy (window-sticker values) of cars, light trucks, vans and SUVs purchased in July remained at 25.4 mpg. "The fuel economy in July was unchanged
DETROIT - NextEnergy was announced as a winner of the U.S. Small Business Administration Growth Accelerator Fund Competition during Tuesday's White House Demo Day receiving a $50,000 grant to use to accelerate smart city cluster development in Michigan. Cluster development will form a bridge between global tech-based corporations in smart city technology areas - energy,
NOVI - Technology consulting company Red Level has received two prestigious Partner of the Year awards at the annual Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Orlando, Florida. Red Level is the only partner company selected to receive two such awards this year within the Heartland Area (MI, OH, KY, TN) out of a pool of over
NEW YORK - Tickets are now on sale for the 2015 Martha Stewart American Made Summit Nov. 7 at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's headquarters in New York City. Martha Stewart American Made, now in its fourth year, is a nationally recognized awards program that celebrates stars of the growing maker culture who have turned their
AUBURN HILLS - Mac-OU INC client company Coupon Wallet invites you to participate in their 24-hour hackathon Aug. 14. First place is a laptop computer. Coupon Wallet has an extensive RESTful API for creating, managing, tracking, clearing, and using coupons digitally. The hackathon challenge is to create an application on any platform (i.e. website, Android,
SAN FRANCISCO - The common wisdom when it comes to PCs and Apple computers is that the latter are much more secure. Particularly when it comes to firmware, people have assumed that Apple systems are locked down in ways that PCs aren't. It turns out this isn't true. Two researchers have found that several known
NEW YORK - Eight Big Ten Colleges, led by the University of Michigan, were ranked in the top 50 national schools that offer the best undergraduate computer-science and engineering schools. Business Insider said a degree from a top computer science or engineering school can land graduates jobs at elite companies like Google, Apple, Raytheon, Facebook, and
LANSING - Two of Michigan's best-known Republican operatives are teaming up to form a new political consulting firm. Jamie Roe, who until recently was the long-time chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mount Pleasant), and Stu Sandler, who has run his own consulting firm following a tenure as former Attorney General Mike Cox's
LANSING - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released Monday its final rule on carbon emissions targets nationwide, welcomed with open arms by environmental activists and a bland, "still-in-review" reaction from those otherwise. Valerie Brader, executive director of the Michigan Agency for Energy, said in a statement that she will be working with legislators, stakeholders and