STERLING HEIGHTS - Entrepreneurs with interest in small business resources, including potential funding, are invited on Sept. 24 to participate in BOOST! Macomb, a pitch competition hosted by the MidMichigan Innovation Center and the Macomb-OU INCubator. Up to 20 contestants will have two minutes to pitch their idea, product, service or business before a panel
HOUGHTON - Michigan Technological University?s female enrollment figures are up roughly 26 percent, with the College of Engineering reporting 906 women undergraduates, an all-time high. Graduate student numbers also rose for the fifth straight year, making the Graduate School?s enrollment of 1,359 the largest in the University?s history. Freshman ACT scores and high school GPAs
LANSING - Convincing Michigan residents to make an investment in maintaining and improving roads will be a critical issue in getting back to a plan to increase investment in the state's roads and bridges, Governor Rick Snyder said Thursday in a radio interview. With the Medicaid eligibility expansion now signed into law, finding an agreement
NOVI ? The second Michigan Cyber Summit on Oct. 25 will be held at the sprawling Suburban Collection Showplace to accommodate what organizers feel will be attendance at least 50 percent greater than during the first Summit in 2011. Headlining the day-long event will be Roberta Stempfley, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Homeland Security Office
NOVI ? Thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhibitors packed the Suburban Showcase this week for the Battery Show, which this year added the Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo. The show, which began life four years ago in California, was moved to Michigan because of the state?s strong engineering community, said Marketing Manager Blanca
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission Thursday commended Livingston County for becoming the fifth community in Michigan ? and the tenth in the nation ? to be certified as a ?connected? community that has developed a broadband and technology plan to expand broadband access, adoption and use. Livingston County joins Charlevoix, Antrim, St. Clair
LANSING - Job seekers and employers can connect with each other in a live virtual environment September 25 through a MiVirtualCareerFair career networking event hosted by the State of Michigan. ?There are more than 60,000 jobs currently available in various industries on the Pure Michigan Talent Connect website, which connects Michigan employers to qualified talent
BIRMINGHAM ? IT-Harvest Press has published a children?s book that explains SCADA, the critical control systems that are embedded in every part of modern life, from oil and gas transport to electrical distribution, to hospitals, power plants, even satellites. SCADA and ME: A Book For Children and Management, is written by Robert M. Lee a
LANSING - The Michigan Senate on Wednesday passed a bill codifying community service as a potential requirement for recipients of the Partnership Accountability Training Hope welfare program. "There is absolutely nothing wrong with requiring folks to have a little skin in the game," Sen. Joe Hune (R-Hamburg), sponsor of SB 276 , said of the
LANSING - Rep. Mike Callton said on Wednesday he would consider a proposal to tax marijuana and use the new funds to fix the state's crumbling roads, something he would call "pot for potholes." Callton (R-Nashville) said those growing and selling marijuana would love to be taxed if it meant they could be legal "above