DETROIT - Even though the Michigan film credits were eliminated by the Michigan legislature last year, the state has agreed to honor a portion of the agreement originally made with Paramount Pictures and awarded the movie studio $21 million in incentives - half the original amount - to shoot some of "Transformers 5" in Detroit
HOUGHTON - After more than 130 years, Michigan Tech rolled out its first cohesive, University-wide brand on Feb. 26, including a new logo. “We want to give our audiences a better sense of who Michigan Tech is, of the thing that makes Michigan Tech so special,” MTU President Glenn Mroz said. “We wanted something that
EAST LANSING - Thirty-two young women from all over Michigan, representing the state’s upcoming technical talent among female computer science students, will be honored with an Aspirations in Computing Award March 5 at Michigan State University. MSU, Michigan Technological University, and Oakland University will host this year’s event, which begins at 9 a.m. in MSU’s
ANN ARBOR - For the third straight year, students from the University of Michigan have received more Fulbright grants than those from any other public university in the U.S. The grants - one of the U.S. government's most prestigious awards - were provided to 29 students at U-M to study, conduct research or teach English
DETROIT - Automation Alley forecasts economic growth for Southeast Michigan technology companies in 2016 will outperform even Silicon Valley in many key areas, including revenue, research and development, investment and hiring. These findings and more were revealed Monday in Automation Alley’s 2016 Technology Industry Report at a breakfast briefing at the Detroit Institute of the
DETROIT - Google Inc. is in the market for new high-tech space in the suburbs. Sources say the Internet giant has been scouting for locations of at least 30,000 square feet for R&D space related to autonomous vehicles, Crain’s Detroit News reported Friday. The locations that have been considered so far include Southfield, Troy and
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University is now accepting applications for its 2016 Summer Science Camps. Incoming high school sophomores, juniors and seniors have their choice of several camps in June and July. Both day and residential camp options are available. All camps are held in Lawrence Tech’s state-of-the-art laboratories on its Southfield campus. Among the
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Small Business Development Center and Small Business Association of Michigan launched a joint research project designed to help determine what resources small and medium-size Michigan companies need for future success. The research project kicked off February 10 with a survey of small business owners to learn more about what kind
ANN ARBOR - The spacecraft engine that will help take humans to Mars may be based on a University of Michigan prototype. NASA gave this dream new credibility by funding a spaceflight propulsion system to be built around a tabletop-sized thruster developed by Alec Gallimore, the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering
YPSILANTI - James Smith, currently president of Northern State University in South Dakota, was named the new president of Eastern Michigan University on Friday. Smith will begin his duties on July 1, the start of the university's new fiscal year. He succeeds Susan Martin, who retired in 2015. Smith has been president of the university
