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University Investors Fast-Track Tech To Market Through New UM Program

Dream big. That’s the main lesson that the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program taught Harvey Elliott, one of the more than 80 inventors and entrepreneurs who participated in the eight-week program that culminated Thursday at the University of Michigan.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/09/03

Michigan Tech Leads International Study of Social, Environmental Impacts of Biofuel Production

Is it possible to develop and produce biofuels in a sustainable way, without harming people or the environment? What policies need to be put in place to help that happen?

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/08/28

Origami cranes. Wikimedia Commons photo.

Nano-Origami Project Combines Art, Engineering

Engineers and artists at the University of Michigan will receive nearly $2 million from the National Science Foundation for a four-year research campaign to find out whether the ancient art of origami could bring nanotechnology into the third dimension.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/08/23

The University of Michigan central campus.

UM To Play Leading Role In NSF Innovation Corps

In a move designed to fast-track more research from the lab to the real world, the University of Michigan was named one of two new nodes of the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program, NSF officials announced today at an I-Corps anniversary celebration in Washington, D.C.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/07/18

Lawrence Technological University's Southfield campus

Lawrence Tech Wins Grant For Interdisciplinary Computer Center

Lawrence Technological University has won a $72,414 grant from the National Science Foundation for a new computing center for undergraduate interdisciplinary computer science research.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/06/27

Michigan Tech Solves Mystery Of Missing Isle Royale Wolves

During their 2012 Winter Study, Michigan Technological University population biologist John Vucetich and wildlife ecologist Rolf Peterson started wondering where the wolves of Isle Royale National Park had gone. Now they know — for at least three of them.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/06/18

WMU Professor John Patten and postdoctoral fellow Deepak Ravindra with the advanced cutting technology they created.

New WMU Device A Cut Above For Hard, Brittle Materials

A new, high-tech device that generates intense pressure and heat to cut hard and brittle materials has been developed by Western Michigan University researchers. They say it could soon have a huge commercial impact on the machining of difficult-to-machine engineered components.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/05/03