DETROIT—The Business Accelerator Network for Southeast Michigan, a new regionwide network for building and retaining new business, announced today the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, the world’s largest business plan competition.
The competition aims to uncover the best and brightest new business concepts from local and global entrepreneurs, exposing those opportunities to potential investment capital and fostering their growth within Michigan with more than $1 million in cash awards, plus in-kind awards of services, staffing and software.
The
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.—When will the bus be here? What’s for dinner at East Quad? Where is Stamps Auditorium? Through a new University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus iPhone app, you can now have answers to these kinds of questions right in your pocket or purse.
The app, called University of Michigan in the iTunes store, is available free. It allows users to track buses in real time through the popular Magic Bus web application, check dining
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved today the schematic design of the new practice facility for the men’s and women’s golf programs.
The $2.5 million, 10,000 gross-square-foot facility designed by Ann Arbor Architects Collaborative will be funded by athletic resources and gifts. The new building, set off of South Main Street on the west side of the driving range of the U-M Golf Course, will provide space for functional training, meeting and
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A smart, hand-held, electronic nose can sniff out explosives and also detect markers in a person’s breath that would indicate tuberculosis. A solar-powered, implantable eye pressure sensor could improve the treatment of glaucoma patients. A cochlear implant built using microchip technology promises to dramatically improve the hearing that these devices offer the deaf.
Game-changing technologies such as these that could save and improve lives are becoming realities thanks to a decade of collaborative research
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Edward Silver has been named dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Silver is currently the William A. Brownwell Collegiate Professor of Education at U-M in Ann Arbor.
At U-M, he has served as chair of the Educational Studies Program and as associate dean for academic affairs. His main teaching responsibilities have been in the area
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Two highly successful University of Michigan spin-out companies are highlighted in a national report that shows how federal investment in basic research leads to innovation and job creation.
"Sparking Economic Growth: How federally funded university research creates innovation, new companies and jobs" was released today by The Science Coalition, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization of 50 of the leading public and private research universities in the U.S.
The report names Arbor Networks and Health Media, Inc.
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