DETROIT - A major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s Clare Boothe Luce Program will provide funding for a new female professor of mechanical engineering specializing in assistive technology at University of Detroit Mercy’s College of Engineering & Science. The Clare Boothe Luce Program is dedicated to increasing the participation of women in the sciences
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DETROIT - THE U.S. unemployment rate in November dropped to its lowest level since August 2007, before the great recession began, to 4.6 percent, putting it within putting distance of the low for the previous cycle of 4.4., Comerica Bank reported. But expectations for the official payroll job numbers for November were boosted by a
WARREN - ITINTHED will host its annual charity fundraiser event, working with the folks behind Operation Kid Equip to ensure that the same kids who face challenges here in the area during the school year are able to have a good holiday season as well. It will take place December 8, starting at 5pm at
ANN ARBOR - Economists at the University of Michigan announced Friday that Michigan will add on average 45,800 jobs each of the next two years - good news indeed, but slightly more than half the average 70,000 jobs added from 2014 to 2016. In their annual November forecast of Michigan's economy, George Fulton and colleagues
DETROIT - The Workforce Intelligence Network has been awarded a $6 million, four-year grant to train 900 southeast Michigan workers in robotics and automation careers through the Advance Michigan Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Technology Education Collaborative. The funding aligns with southeast Michigan’s White House designation as an Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership area, which prioritizes
ANN ARBOR - Will consumer confidence plunge or will it improve in the wake of Donald Trump's election? An analysis of consumer sentiment data collected prior to the election provides mixed signals, according to economist Richard Curtin, director of the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Curtin predicted a 2017 growth rate of about 2
SHENZHEN, China - University of Michigan leaders are entering into several agreements with Chinese institutions in hopes, as the world’s population grows, of solving pressing global issues such as clean and safe water and next-generation transportation. S. Jack Hu, U-M vice president for research, is in China in November along with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder,
EAST LANSING - Anderson Economic Group has identified six tax policies that President-Elect Trump and a Republican-controlled House and Senate could pursue in the coming years. Several are important for the technology sector. “As surprising as the election results are, we have to recognize that there is a messy order in the peoples’ decisions,” said
DETROIT - The good news is the Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index leaped seven points in October indicating a strong local economic outlook. The bad news is one third of these respondents said they aren’t confident the upward trend will hold in part because of the uncertainty of the presidential election on Nov. 8. Looking
