ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan’s Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund has invested in ContentOro, a digital content firm based in Ann Arbor. The $50,000 investment from the Zell Lurie Fund, part of a larger bridge round, will help ContentOro grow its content offerings and customer base. In June 2015, the company closed a $450,000
SOUTHFIELD - Four Lawrence Technological University professors have won a $25,000 grant from the National Fluid Power Association to bring problem-based and entrepreneurial-minded learning to fluid mechanics and thermodynamics education. The LTU team is led by principal investigator Liping Liu, assitant professor in LTU’s A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other members are Robert
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University and Marathon Petroleum Corp. celebrated a new partnership and a $150,000 commitment for underrepresented and underprepared students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Marathon Petroleum’s support will strengthen the Engineering and Science Success Academy (ESSA) at MSU – a seven-week residential program administered by the Diversity Programs Office in
DETROIT - AT&T Inc. said it is now covering more of several areas of Michigan with improved 4G LTE service through more than 30 new cell towers. AT&T says it invested more than $60 million in its wireless and wired networks in Michigan between 2013 through 2015, driving a wide range of upgrades to reliability,
TROY - Lean & Green Michigan, the Detroit-based energy efficiency financial consultant, announced that Troy-based Heller Machine Tools has become the first manufacturing company in Michigan to use PACE financing to pay for a complete energy retrofit. Heller is working with the Detroit energy efficiency consultant Levin Energy Partners LLC, Troy-based ABM Facility Services, and
LANSING — The Michigan Strategic Fund has offered Mitchell Plastics a $427,000 Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant to support a new plant in Sterling Heights that will create 122 jobs. The 200,000-square-foot plant represents a total investment of more than $20.5 million. Michigan ranks first in new automotive-related jobs since 2009 with an increase
DETROIT - What economic slowdown? While national surveys show the pace of economic expansion to be flagging a bit, Detroit-area technology executives are on an IT hiring binge. In the latest biannual Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report, 26 percent of CIOs say they plan to add staff to their IT
HOUGHTON — Bees are dying, and Cindy Fiser wants to know why. Now the federal Environmental Protection Agency is helping her look for answers. Fiser, a fourth-year applied ecology and environmental sciences major in Michigan Technological University’s School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, has been named a winner of the EPA’s Greater Research Opportunities
BENTON HARBOR — It’s the oven that can help you be a better cook. Whirlpool Corp. this week announced a partnership with Innit to bring advanced automated cooking and digital recipes to its Jenn-Air brand of Wi-Fi connected ovens. Innit, a California company, is developing technologies that give appliances access to thousands of recipes, based
EAST LANSING — A group of Michigan State University engineering students is among 17 teams taking part in a national drone competition this week in Maryland. The MSU team will be competing in the 2016 Student Unmanned Air Systems event at the Webster Naval Field in Patuxent River. “We are building a fully autonomous UAV
