STERLING HEIGHTS - If you are a startup or early-stage growth-based business looking for funding, come meet and listen to Macomb-Oakland University Business Commercialization and Capital Investment Advisor capital expert, Mike Brennan, on May 6. Brennan (no relationship to MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan) will detail the various capital sources in Michigan, and talk about how
LANSING - There?s a new mentoring program for entrepreneurs in the Lansing area launched by the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, the economic development organization for the capital region, and Michigan State University?s Spartan Innovations spinout business accelerator. The first event of the new group was held after the March 26 session of The Hatching, the
EAST LANSING ?Earlier this month, the Michigan State University Women in Computing group gathered in a campus classroom for a different type of learning session - a panel of respected women with careers in technology who provided insight on what it takes to create a successful IT career. The session, sponsored by the Michigan Council
LANSING ? Good news entrepreneurs. State officials Thursday announced a designation of $6.8 million for Michigan Pre-Seed Fund 2.0, a statewide investment fund aimed at supporting high-tech early stage companies. The fund will be managed by Invest Michigan, a Michigan nonprofit corporation based in Detroit. Charlie Moret, who ran Connecticut?s Pre-Seed Fund, CTech and TechStart
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University held the second annual Women in Technology conference on March 28 focused on empowering women to become more successful in Technology careers. The welcome was given by two large supporters for women in technology, Aphrodite Jones, Associate Dean of the Davenport College of Technology, and Gabriela Ziegler, Department Chair for
DETROIT - On April 14, the College for Creative Studies, Detroit?s lead design and creative college, is bringing in luminaries from Nike, Walt Disney, Warner Music Group, U of M and Ford to talk experience design and the future of technology. CCS is on the cutting edge of this ever growing industry ? looking at
TRAVERSE CITY - In collaboration with the American Folklife Center and its 75th anniversary celebration of Alan Lomax's field recordings of Michigan folk music for the Library of Congress, SEEDS After School students have been working all spring with the Earthwork Music Collective and Blackbird Arts to create a performance at the City Opera House
EAST LANSING - The Spartan Spanners of the Michigan State University College of Engineering brought home top honors from this year?s regional Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe competitions and are headed to nationals in May after receiving four first place honors for overall performance, economy, efficiency and stiffness. MSU?s Concrete Canoe Team finished second place
NN ARBOR - The Wolverine Venture Fund, managed by students at The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, announced it has invested in NeuMoDx Molecular Inc., a privately held diagnostics company developing a new platform for high throughput, low cost molecular testing.
LANSING - With a rising demand for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, the Michigan State University College of Engineering will have no problem putting a $2.5 million gift from Dave and Denise Lamp to good use. The Lamps gave the money to MSU to support STEM scholarships and research in the Department of