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Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn to Host Hockey Tournament
Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn (south of Jackson), NASCAR’s fastest racetrack, will host the inaugural MIS Backyard Hockey Tournament and Winter Festival in the tri-oval for two weekends in January.
Intertek in Grand Rapids Opens Packaging Performance Testing Facility
Intertek today announced it is introducing a packaging performance testing facility in its Grand Rapids laboratory, the company’s first packaging lab in North America to be accredited by the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA). The company’s headquarters are in London.
Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services to Evaluate Health Insurance Costs for Residents
The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) today announced it is soliciting health insurance CEOs and presidents to find innovative ideas to study to help stabilize the market and lower health insurance costs for Michigan residents.
Students, Professors From Ann Arbor’s U-M Predict Which Flint Houses Have Lead in Their...
Student and professor researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have developed a way to predict which houses in Flint have lead water pipes.
Michigan State University Plant Biologist Studies Grape Plant Defense With $1.1M Grant
Michigan State University plant biologist Marjorie Weber is the lead investigator of a five-year, $1.1-million National Science Foundation Dimensions in Biodiversity grant to study the evolutionary dynamics of bodyguard reward traits of wild grape plants.
Dearborn’s Ford Reveals First Images of the Territory, an SUV to be Sold in...
Dearborn-based Ford Motor Co. today shared the first images of the Territory, a mid-size SUV that will compete in the Chinese market. Jiangling Motors Corp. in China helped Ford develop the Territory.
U-M Professor, Students Create Water Desalination Unit
Students and a professor from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have worked with colleagues at the University of Sonora in Mexico to develop a prototype solar-powered single-stage distillation unit that desalinates water.
Massive $510M Dairy Campus to Open in 2020 North of Lansing
Glanbia plc, a global nutrition group with a presence in 32 countries; Select Milk Producers Inc., and Dairy Farmers of America today announced they will invest $425 million in a new, 146-acre dairy-processing facility in St. Johns, north of Lansing. Proliant Dairy will also invest $85 million in an adjoining whey permeate facility.
Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn Unveils NASCAR Mustang, First Race Will be 2019 Daytona...
Dearborn’s Ford Motor Co. today revealed its Mustang NASCAR Cup race car, marking the first time Mustang will compete in NASCAR’s top-level Cup racing series.
Report: Automated Vehicles Not Expected to Displace Truck Drivers, May Displace Taxicab Drivers
Only a modest number of truck driver jobs, if any, are expected to be displaced by automated vehicles in the United States, according to a new report commissioned by Ypsilanti Township’s American Center for Mobility (ACM), led by Michigan State University and supported by Texas A&M Transportation Institute. The study covers the next 10 years.