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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.

Sci-Tech Sunday – 25-NOV-07 Edition

By LoRayne Apo-Joynt | 11.25.07 | 10:15 pm

Here’s your weekly roundup of science and technology news:

  • Good News, Bad News: 300 MPH, 33+ MPG — but NOT made in Michigan
    Aptera announced this past week that they are taking orders for their new Typ-1 personal vehicle, in buyer’s choice of All Electric or Hybrid models.  The hybrid is expected to yield better than 33 mpg, with top speed over 230 mph.  Will Michigan try to lure Aptera’s manufacturing here?
  • Medical device industry seminar on Dec. 5
    West Michigan Science and Technology Initiative will host a seminar outlining the how-to’s of becoming an OEM or tier supplier in medical technology on Dec. 5 in Grand Rapids.  Stryker Corporation’s success will be the focus of this program.  More details about this seminar at http://www.wmsti.org.
  • Michigan Tech’s Forestry Department tops in productivity
    Based on the number of professors in a program, publications, citations by others, honors, awards and research grant dollars, Academic Analytics ranked MTU first in forestry faculty productivity in its index of forestry programs.  Genomics and ecology research are subsets of that program at MTU.
  • Get smarter: get gabbing!
    Scientists find that memory and overall cognitive performance improve with as little as 10 minutes a day of chatting with others.  Now you can tell that gossipy neighbor of yours to let you get some smarts in edgewise.
  • Nanosolar Tech named by Popular Science ‘Innovation of the Year’
    PopSci imagines roofs and other surfaces all across the world “papered” in thin sheets of inexpensive solar collection material, making the impact of this technology worthy of PopSci’s top spot out of all innovation in 2007.  What would this technology do for Michigan?
  • U-M researchers get computing chips to market faster with better debug
    Igor Markov and his colleague Valeria Bertacco, both professors of electrical engineering and computer science at Michigan, developed software that debugs silicon chips after the first round of prototypes has come back to the chip maker.  More than 15% of errors on chips can’t be identified using common techniques, increasing time between prototypes and commercially available chips; the software addresses that 15% gap in bug detection.

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