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Coronavirus / Diversity / Engineering Education / Women In Engineering

MLK Day edition of M2 TechCast features STEM experts on diversity—and COVID update

SOUTHFIELD—The Monday, Jan. 18 edition of the M2 TechCast will feature two experts on diversity in STEM education and careers, along with the program’s weekly update on the coronavirus pandemic …

Coronavirus / Customer Experience / Travel and Tourism

Airline passenger experience improves, hotels struggle: ACSI

ANN ARBOR—The latest customer experience data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index shows mixed results during the pandemic for travel industries, including airlines, hotels, car rentals, and online travel agencies. …

Coronavirus / Health Insurance

HAP extends zero cost COVID-19 cost share through March 31

DETROIT—Health Alliance Plan, the Michigan-based nonprofit health insurer, will continue to waive all member cost-sharing for the testing and treatment of COVID-19 through March 31, 2021. HAP members who are tested …

Biotech / Coronavirus / Life Sciences / Medical Devices

UM prof named to MichBio board

ANN ARBOR—Officials at MichBio, the state’s life sciences industry lobbying group, announced the addition of Lola Eniola-Adefeso, university diversity and social transformation professor of chemical engineering at the University of …

Coronavirus / Software

Ann Arbor firm offers contact tracing software to restaurants

ANN ARBOR–The Ann Arbor software developer Wisely announced that it plans ot offer restaurants free contact tracing as multiple states implement new related regulations. Michigan and New Hampshire have announced …

Coronavirus

NSF advises against trick-or-treating this Halloween

ANN ARBOR—Trick-or-treating is a high-risk activity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet, even during the pandemic, a recent survey showed 57 percent of U.S. adults …

Coronavirus / Health Insurance

State investing $1M to help those who lost health care in pandemic get covered

LANSING—Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that the state is investing more than $1 million and will contact more than a million Michiganders to help those who may have lost health insurance …

Construction Management / Coronavirus

LTU prof gets grant to train small construction firms on COVID safety

SOUTHFIELD—Lawrence Technological University is offering free COVID-19 safety training to construction firms with fewer than 100 employees under a grant from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The training …

Coronavirus / Life Sciences

Ann Arbor company to sell new COVID-19 test

ANN ARBOR—Officials of Swift Biosciences, a developer of gene sequencing technology, and BillionToOne, a Menlo Park, Calif. diagnostics company, announced that Swift Bioscience will be the exclusive distributor of BillionToOne’s …

Coronavirus / University Research

UM prof among winners of heart association’s COVID-19 Data Challenge

DALLAS—Four teams of scientific researchers have been named finalists in the first phase of the American Heart Association COVID-19 Data Challenge, which focuses on understanding the relationships between COVID-19 and …

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