WMU to break ground on second phase of research park in 2019
KALAMAZOO – Western Michigan University announced it will begin development of a 55-acre addition to its Business Technology and Research Park in 2019 thanks to a $2.1 million grant from …
UM research: Lake Erie algal blooms ‘seeded’ internally by cells in lake sediments
ANN ARBOR — Western Lake Erie’s annual summer algal blooms are triggered, at least in part, by cyanobacteria cells that survive the winter in lake-bottom sediments, then emerge in the …
Mcity white paper: Combining real, virtual worlds improves driverless vehicle testing
ANN ARBOR – Augmented reality technology can accelerate testing of connected and automated vehicles by 1,000 to 100,000 times, and reduce additional testing costs — beyond the price of physical …
Toyota’s Ann Arbor lab touts battery research advance
ANN ARBOR — Thanks to a research discovery in battery development, your phone charge might last a little longer. That’s one of the findings of recent discoveries from the Ann …
UM, MSU part of effort to protect freshwater lakes from toxic algal blooms
ANN ARBOR – University of Michigan researchers are part of a new federally funded effort to understand and prevent toxic algal blooms that plague portions of the Great Lakes and …
MSU high-tech turbine startup gets help from LEAP accelerator
LANSING — Black Pine Engineering, a manufacturer of advanced compressor engines, has been accepted into the Proto Accelerator phyiscal product program run by the capital region’s economic development agency, the …
Diamond technology at MSU cleans up PFAS-contaminated wastewater
EAST LANSING — More than 1.5 million Michigan residents and potentially more than hundreds of sites nationwide – and counting – have PFAS-tainted water. Now, the Michigan State University-Fraunhofer USA …
Lawrence Tech panel sees an electric, robot-driven auto future — maybe
SOUTHFIELD — A future in which computer-driven electric cars whisk us around in total safety was the automotive future envisioned by a panel discussion at Lawrence Technological University Thursday night. …
Lake Superior conservation event at Michigan Tech to detail environmental challenges
HOUGHTON — The Lake Superior watershed’s conservation history – one of both degradation and recovery – provides road maps to a more resilient future, says environmental historian Nancy Langston. “I …
Michigan Tech part of NSF grant to build flood warning system using crowdsourced data
HOUGHTON – When flood waters rise, more data helps better predict and monitor changing conditions. And soon there will be an app for that. The National Science Foundation (NSF) HAS …