ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan Recreational Sports department is joining numerous universities across the country in forming a competitive Esports program, schedule to be up and running for the Fall 2019 semester. Esports is a multiplayer video game competition played in a team format. Games are primarily played on PCs, and competitions can take place
LANSING – The Michigan Economic Development Corp. has announced a new pilot program aimed at supporting small businesses looking to expand or establish themselves in a Michigan Main Street community. The cities of Niles and Saline have been selected as the first two communities to pilot the program. Match on Main will provide grants of
SOUTHFIELD - During the last recession in 2007-09, Lawrence Technological University launched Recovery Starts Here, a program for hundreds of displaced workers that included scholarships, new academic programs to prepare students for a changing global market, and personally focused career services. Now, the Southfield-based university is once again taking steps to help those in Michigan
AUBURN HILLS — Continental Automotive, the Auburn Hills-based U.S. subsidiary of the German auto supplier Contnental AG, announced that its Co-pace business incubator has produced its first spinout company, a door lock manufacturer called PassiveBolt. The auto supplier said the new company, to be based in Ann Arbor, will bring automotive grade touch technology to
GRAND RAPIDS — The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality announced that it will sample 49 residential drinking water wells along Trout Creek in the neighborhood east of the 36th Street exits off I-96 and west of Tricklewood Drive for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as part of its ongoing investigation of potential PFAS contamination sources
ANN ARBOR – Kraig Biocraft Laboratories announced a new agreement with one of its early research and financing partners, the University of Notre Dame, that converts part of a loan to the company into Kraig Biocraft stock, and the rest into a note payable over the course of two years. Kraig has genetically engineered silkworms
LANSING – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Michigan (ACEC/M) recently honored firms for engineering and surveying excellence during the association’s annual Engineering and Surveying Excellence Awards ceremony. On March 2, design professionals and guests gathered at Sound Board in MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit to recognize outstanding Michigan engineering and surveying projects from the
PLYMOUTH — The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center announced the addition of three new members to its board of directors. They are: Patrick Curry, president and partner of Fullerton Tool Co. Inc., a Saginaw-based supplier of carbide cutting tools, and president and owner of Endurance Carbide a carbide cutting tool supplier also based in Saginaw. Peter
PLYMOUTH — Game developer Stardock Corp. announced a new PC strategy game today. Siege of Centauri, a new take on the tower defense genre, is set in the universe of Stardock’s space strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity. As the commander of the defense of Earth’s first colony, players must determine the best strategy to
LANSING — The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality announced that it will increase available funding for Recycling Infrastructure Grants from $500,000 to $3.7 million and the extend the deadline for grant applications to May 1. The MDEQ originally announced this grant opportunity Nov. 21 in support of the statewide recycling goals of increasing the recycling
