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Autonomous Vehicles / Connected Vehicles / Higher Education / University Research

Students from around the USA show self-driving computer science skills at LTU

SOUTHFIELD–On a white-striped roadway painted on a Lawrence Technological University parking lot, the two GEM electric vehicles approach each other at a stately 3 mph. They passed without incident, both …

Broadband

Residents, businesses in tri-county Detroit area asked for input on internet service

ANN ARBOR–Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties are asking residents and businesses to take a 15-question survey about internet service at their households. The survey asks whether high-speed , or broadband, …

K-12 Education

XanEdu partners with Stand For Children, University of Michigan for K-8 curriculum

LIVONIA–XanEdu, Inc., a provider of education content and curriculum services for K-12 and higher education, has announced partnerships with the University of Michigan and the Stand for Children Leadership Center …

Private Equity / Startups / Venture Capital

2023 Midwest Growth Capital Symposium returning to Ann Arbor in person

ANN ARBOR — Organizers of the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium announced that Louis Cannon, M.D., founder and senior managing director of Biostar Capital, and Dug Song, co-founder and president of …

Corporate Boards / Higher Education / Nonprofits / Sustainability

Michigan Ross School, Ceres announce new sustainability education program for corporate boards

ANN ARBOR–The University of Michigan Ross School of Business, in collaboration with Ceres, non-profit sustainability advocacy organization based in Boston, announced a new online executive education program for corporate boards …

Assistive Technologies / Haptics / Startups / University Research

NewHaptics gets NSF grant for Braille tactile display

ANN ARBOR–The tactile display developer NewHpatics announced that it had been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation. This $1 million SBIR grant …

Geothermal Energy / Solar Power / Wind Energy

LTU, UM develop ‘roadmap’ of Michigan’s clean energy assets

LANSING–A grant of nearly $300,000 to Lawrence Technological University’s Centrepolis Accelerator and another grant of nearly $112,000 to the University of Michigan’s Economic Growth Institute has produced a new online …

Pharmaceuticals / University Research

Esperovax signs licensing agreement with UM for new manufacturing tech for vaccines

PLYMOUTH—Esperovax, a Plymouth-based developer of oral vaccines, announced a new, exclusive licensing agreement with Innovation Partners at the University of Michigan to produce vaccines and therapeutics using a novel yeast-based …

Emergency Medicine / Life Sciences / University Research

U-M, Blu Biotech collaborating on sepsis, ARDS detection

ANN ARBOR–The University of Michigan’s Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation is collaborating with Albuquerque, N.M.-based Blu Biotech Inc. to develop breath biomarkers for the detection …

Computer Vision / Machine Learning / Machine Vision / Software / Venture Capital

Voxel51 raises $12.5 million in VC

ANN ARBOR–Voxel51, a machine learning software developer, announced that it has raised a $12.5 million Series A funding round from Columbus, Ohio-based Drive Capital, and Menlo Park, Calif.-based Top Harvest …

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