GRAND RAPIDS ? The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum announced this week that Dan Schoonmaker has joined the staff as Director. He will begin his duties officially September 16. Schoonmaker comes to the Forum after serving three years as the Director of Communications and Member Services for the West Michigan Environmental Action Council, where he
DEARBORN - Henry Ford Community College's biotechnology program has received a $100,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to help the college make nanotechnology and microsystems training available for community college students. The grant seeds a partnership between HFCC?s biotechnology program, the University of Michigan Lurie Nanofabrication Facility, the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
SOUTHFIELD ? Lawrence Technological University will host a sustainability conference in September to bring together architects, engineers, entrepreneurs, homeowners, educators, students and those responsible for both for-profit and non-profit buildings to update on the latest development in sustainability. Sustainability Strategies for People, Profit & Planet will be held at LTU on Sept. 27-28. The conference
LANSING - The Michigan State Housing Development Authority Board approved a resolution Wednesday asking the Legislature to create the Michigan Mezzanine Investment Fund. The new fund would use MHSDA bond revenues to invest in housing projects around the state. "Once approved by the Legislature, the Authority is poised to help fill the gap in the
DETROIT - The Pure Michigan campaign recently quietly posted a video on its YouTube page touting downtown Detroit, with another accompanying it in the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and Southern Ontario markets, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation confirmed on Wednesday. One of the ads, "First Time Feeling," begins with a shot of group of rowers paddling
LANSING ? The Pure Michigan advertising campaign has won two Mercury Awards for best tourism television and radio advertising campaign. The awards were presented Tuesday by the U.S. Travel Association and the National Council of State Tourism Directors. The Pure Michigan brand was created by the Birmingham office of McCann Erickson. ?We are expanding the
DETROIT ? Activate Michigan, a entrepreneurial mentoring program offering by The Inforum Center For Leadership, is now taking applications until Aug. 31 for an expanded class in Grand Rapids and Detroit. Activate is for women who have an idea or technology they want to commercialize, or who already have an early start-up, or who want
GRAND RAPIDS - Kent County has expanded public access to the county's Geographic Information System, a spatial data collection system available through the AccessKent Web site. Kent County IT director Craig Paull said the GIS data sets were previously made available only by special request, and typically to engineering firms and utility companies which sought
LANSING ? Detroit and Port Huron will split $1.2 million in incentives from the Michigan Community Revitalization Program for historic renovation projects. The Michigan Economic Development Corp. said the projects are expected to generate up to $7.7 million in new private investment. ?These projects will act as catalysts for viable residential neighborhoods by redeveloping obsolete
GRAND RAPIDS ? A thousand or more computer hackers and the corporate and government cyber professionals who battle them will call an uneasy truce on Sept. 12-13 when they all attend GRRCon, Midwest Information Security & Hacker CON at DeVos Place. It?s the third year of the event produced by West Michigan security professionals Chris