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The search is on for a man believed to have drowned in Lake Michigan Monday afternoon. Coast Guard Search and Rescue specialist Charles Wolfson says 27-year-old Anupam Bhattacharjee was swept off the break wall inside the harbor in Ludington. He says they got a distress call from a vessel in the area who tried to save [...]

A Michigan Technological University researcher is predicting the imminent demise of Lake Michigan fishing. The problem is an invasive species of mollusk called the quagga mussel. And its effects are being seen so rapidly that Michigan Tech biologist W. Charles “Charlie” Kerfoot says he’s worried that by the time the much-despised Asian carp gets into Lake [...]

Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams project passed an important milestone last week when it earned what’s known as CD-1, or critical decision 1, approval. This approval from the U.S. Department of Energy means that work can continue on the preliminary design of the project in fiscal year 2011-2012 at an anticipated cost [...]

Jackson-based EverLast Induction Lighting has introduced a new line of lighting fixtures, called BioLume, in collaboration with the California Lighting Technology Center at the University of California Davis. The new patent-pending lighting series is a collection of hybrid bi-level fixtures that combine light at a daylight wavelength of 5000 degrees Kelvin and amber LEDs, coupled with [...]

A partnership to advance technologies for clean energy vehicles led by the University of Michigan will receive $12.5 million over the next five years under the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced. The consortium members will match this funding to provide at least $25 million in total funding over [...]

AT&T Inc. announced Friday that its timetable for expanding AT&T service in Michigan has been accelerated and that it expects to complete network upgrades on wireless assets acquired from Verizon Wireless in June 2010 by the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011. That is significantly sooner than the earlier estimate for enhancing AT&T’s [...]

The Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, Michigan’s venture capital fund-of-funds, announced that it has had its final closing on its first fund, raising a total of nearly $50 million in investments from some of the state’s most important organizations.  This closing makes the RVCF the largest privately funded regional VC fund of funds in the nation.  [...]

When Dave Proefke gets locked out of his car, it’s called research. Proefke, a General Motors Technical Fellow, leads a team that has developed an advanced wireless car key that automatically knows when to lock and unlock the doors on the 2011 Buick LaCrosse and selected other General Motors models. “It does a lot of [...]

Bright House Networks of Michigan has launched ESPN Goal Line, a new HD network that features unlimited live cut-ins and highlights from numerous top college football games each SAturday of the college football season. The channel also features the latest commentary from ESPN analysts and experts, including ESPNews anchor Anish Shroff, who will serve as [...]

Millions of Americans struggling with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are one step closer to a cure with the release of the first National Psoriasis Victor Henschel BioBank DNA samples for use in research at the University of Michigan Health System – research that hopes to uncover the unknowns about the genetics of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. [...]