ANN ARBOR ? MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan reads the top headlines from last week?s MITechNews.Com Weekly eNewsletter, including Engineering Society of Detroit?s new executive director, Robotics Day coming up on April 9 on the University of Michigan North Campus in Ann Arbor, 53 teams to compete in the Restaurant ProStart Culinary Competition. To listen, Click
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio's Jobs Bank has added two new Life Sciences positions, an Inside Sales Account Manager in Ann Arbor and a Chemical Production Engineer in Fraser. Inside Sales Account Manager Gene Codes Corporation - Ann Arbor Gene Codes is a worldwide leader in developing bioinformatics solutions for DNA Sequence Analysis. Our primary product
EAST LANSING ? Three Michigan State University College of Engineering researchers are developing a new technology known as substrate computing that could let a bridge or dam sense a structural defect before it happens. Substrate computing will allow sensing, communication and diagnostic computing, all within the substrate ? the building material ? of a structure,
GRAND RAPIDS ? Davenport University has named Pamela R. Imperato, Ph.D., as Dean of the Donald W. Maine College of Business and of the College of Technology. She will start in July. Imperato comes to Davenport from Bellevue University in Nebraska where she has served as Dean of the College of Business, overseeing 24 academic
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK's hub for entrepreneurial services in Ypsilanti, SPARK East, has received $350,000 in funding from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to support its continued work to help businesses startup and grow. SPARK also received support for expanded collaborative efforts with Eastern Michigan University that are centered on entrepreneurial development and
PLYMOUTH - When I first began integrating social media into my job responsibilities about seven years ago, I?a seasoned PR professional with nearly 20 years of experience under my belt?felt like a rookie. And in a way, I was a rookie. Learning how to effectively align public relations objectives with social media was a whole
WASHIGTON DC - The US Senate Intelligence Committee approved a controversial cyberscurity bill last week that's designed to help companies and the federal government better defend against the growing threat of data breaches. Approved by a 14-1 vote, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) aims - by providing expanded legal liability protections to companies sharing
WASHINGTON DC - The hackers who breached JPMorgan Chase's cyberdefenses to gain access to 83 million records may soon be caught. Federal investigators are closing in on the hackers responsible for last summer's hack on the banking and investment firm and feel confident that indictments could be coming down soon, the New York Times reported
AUSTIN, Texas - Turns out nobody can remember their Yahoo passwords. Now the company wants to make it so no one has to. Yahoo on Sunday launched a new service called "on-demand" passwords, which lets someone log into a Yahoo account using a short password the company texts to their phone instead of having to
ANN ARBOR - When developing an idea into a medical business product, addressing the reimbursement strategy at the onset should not be ignored. Entrepreneurs need to create a clinical use scenario for their product so that they can best determine what patients will be using the product, what providers will be prescribing it and what