Category Archives: Health & Medical

Automation Alley rolls with the changes

May 23, 2007 – 8:50 am

Michigan Radio’s Jack Lessenberry interviews Thomas Anderson, vice-president and the senior director of Automation Alley about how the Southeast Michigan based organization is working to help businesses in the City of Detroit and Genesee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw and Wayne counties meet a changing business environment. In a manner common to Jack’s [...]

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An email from the Center

April 16, 2007 – 8:00 am

Bridge by Kathy The Center for Michigan sends a weekly email newsletter that takes a look at Michigan’s problems AND potential solutions from a perspective that is neither Republican nor Democrat – ie. the approach that will probably be required to get our partisanly polarized political process back on the rails. Rather than weigh you [...]

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Michigan’s Curriculum among the best for college

April 11, 2007 – 9:22 am

The High by DA2Brian From the Silver Lining Department: GROW Detroit called out this Detroit Free Press article (Michigan does good job of preparing kids for college, survey finds) saying that Michigan was cited as one of the three states (along with Kentucky and Indiana) most closely aligning state curriculum with college expectations (view Michigan’s [...]

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Van Andel Institute & Spectrum for Center for Molecular Medicine

March 14, 2007 – 9:29 am

GVSU Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences by docksidepress The Great Lakes IT Reports says that the Van Andel Institute and Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids have formed a new joint venture, the Center for Molecular Medicine. The Center will offer molecular technologies for investigation of complex diseases like cancer, heart disease, mental illness and other [...]

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Five Things You Need to Know about Michigan for Friday, March 9th 2007

March 9, 2007 – 10:28 am

A-way back when, I would start every morning by scouring the internet for 5 things (more or less) that I thought folks who live in and/or love Michigan needed to know to post on Absolute Michigan. I am postive this will not be an every day thing, but I miss doing it so here goes… [...]

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did! The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there. Share this:

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Pfizer to lay off 2,410 Michigan employees

January 23, 2007 – 10:26 am

Downtown Kalamazoo by Paladin27 Pfizer Inc. announced Monday afternoon that will close its enormous Ann Arbor research facilities and part of its operations in Kalamazoo, leaving 2,410 of its Michigan employees unemployed. The layoffs will occur between now and the end of 2008 and are part of a larger “streamlining” that will eventually result in [...]

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Tax on services being considered in Lansing

January 9, 2007 – 8:25 am

Country Schoolhouse by nomm de photo The Detroit News reports that some Democrats, Republicans and public policy experts are saying Michigan needs to take a look at extending the sales tax to cover more services and (perhaps) lowering the sales tax overall by a penny (6 ¢ to 5 ¢) to help offset a projected [...]

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UM, MSU & WSU agree to share research

November 29, 2006 – 8:40 am

U-M Spiral Staircase by Ryan Munson The Detroit Free Press reports that yesterday the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University announced an agreement to share research and researchers between the three schools. In the last five years, the state’s three research universities have averaged a patent a day and led to [...]

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Ann Arbor & Washtenaw County a High Tech Beacon

October 9, 2006 – 10:21 am

First National Bank Building by Allan M Today’s Freep has a nice feature on Ann Arbor’s exploding high-tech job scene that says Google is not the only company planning to bring jobs to the city and Washtenaw County. Google, Toyota, Hyundai and others have committed to creating 2,500 jobs in the region over the next [...]

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