LANSING - Valerie Brader, Governor Rick Snyder?s top aide on energy matters, will lead the new Michigan Agency for Energy that Snyder is creating to coordinate the state?s energy programs. Snyder, in issuing an executive order Wednesday setting up the new agency, announced Brader, currently a deputy legal counsel and senior policy advisor specializing in
LANSING - Legislation to create a STEM endorsed Michigan high school diploma will help encourage students to show greater interest in technical education and help produce more technically trained students to go into jobs the state has openings for, members of the Senate Education Committee were told Tuesday. The panel heard testimony of SB 169
LANSING - In a surprise move on Tuesday, Governor Rick Snyder announced that Nick Khouri, a vice president at DTE Energy and a former chief deputy treasurer, will become Michigan's new treasurer. Khouri succeeds current Treasurer Kevin Clinton who is stepping down from the post he took in 2013 to rejoin the private sector, somewhere
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
LANSING - The Department of Human Services is increasing its contract with the company that created the Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System by $15.68 million for maintenance and enhancements, a spokesperson said on Monday. The 10-month program has been under scrutiny because of issues with payments to individual foster parents and private agencies,
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple is in talks with programmers to offer a slimmed-down bundle of TV networks this fall, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The service would have about 25 channels, anchored by broadcasters such as ABC, CBS and Fox, and would be available on Apple devices such as the
GRAND RAPIDS ? Michigan serial entrepreneur Keith Brophy has been named the new State Executive Director at the Michigan Small Business Development Center replacing Carol Lopucki who retired at the end of 2014. The announcement was made Thursday. Brophy had been CEO of IdeoMed, a Spectrum Health start-up in the Life Sciences sector, which recently
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder is hoping to see as much as 40 percent of the state?s power from renewable sources and use reduction over the next 10 years under the energy plan he unveiled Friday. By 2025, the state needs to adopt energy efficiency practices to reduce use by 15 percent from what it
DETROIT ? Grand Circus, a tech educational space in downtown Detroit, has been named as a participant in President Obama?s TechHire initiative, described as a ?bold multi-sector initiative and call to action to empower Americans with the skills they need? for high-paying, in demand careers.? ?We?re proud to be a part of this innovative, nation-wide