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Tech Tour Day Nine: Kettering A Fitting Wrap-Up
A revitalized downtown soon to be full of college students, with four new restaurants and more nightlife on the way? A business-tech park along the shores of the Flint River, in what used to be a Chevrolet plant and what is now a post-industrial wasteland? Institutions of higher learning actually working collaboratively to each other's strengths, most remarkably with the actual assistance of government? Can this possibly be Flint? Yep.
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Tech tour Day Eight: MSU's Magnificent
The phrase 'world class' gets tossed around so much it's almost lost meaning. But if the phrase still means anything, you've got to hand it to Michigan State University, whose sprawling campus, 47,000 sharp students and 5,000 faculty cover every academic discipline worth covering with uniform excellence.
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Tech Tour Day Seven: WMU Tech Ranges Far And Wide
I have a kid at Western Michigan University, so I have a rough idea that they're involved in some pretty neat high-tech research. But it turns out I knew only enough to make me dangerous, and the Broncos are involved in a whole bunch of stuff that could eventually make our lives much easier, better and more productive.
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Tech Tour Day Six: Grand Valley, Ferris State Joining Spinoff Effort
Grand Valley State University is a rapidly growing state university, rising from obscurity to challenging Western Michigan University for the most dominant university in this part of the state. So it makes sense that Grand Valley is getting much more serious about technology transfer, tech company spinouts and job creation. Grand Valley was the first stop on Day Six of the Great Lakes IT Report's 2009 Fall Tech Tour. I also visited the downtown Grand Rapids campus of Ferris State University, where fascinating things are also happening.
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Tech Tour Day Five: CMU Has Top Biz Incubator -- And More
Like the rest of Michigan's so-called directional schools, Central Michigan University started out as a teacher college. Now the Chippewas are teaching everybody else in the state how to run a business incubator. The CMU Research Corp. incuabtor on the southern edge of the Mt. Pleasant campus is now home to no less than 40 businesses, which they say is tops in the state.
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Fall Tech Tour Photos
WWJ Technology Editor, Matt Roush, hits the road on his 2009 Fall Tech Tour. View photos from his trip across the state.
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Tech Tour Day Four: More From MTU (And Pix Soon, I Promise)
I got even more good tech news from Michigan Technological University over a breakfast at the famous Suomi Restaurant in downtown Houghton on my way out of town Sunday. Over a breakfast of french toast Finnish style, and then in their laboratories, I met with Ryan J. Gilbert and Jeremy Goldman, two assistant professors of biomedical engineering.
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Tech Tour Day Three: A Tour De Force At MTU
If you're looking for hope about the future of Michigan, there's noplace better to start than Michigan Technological University. That's where my second stop on the Great Lakes IT Report Fall Tech Tour 2009 took place Saturday.
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GLITR Fall Tech Tour Headed Back To School
It's officially fall again, and one of the many things that means is the Great Lakes IT Report's annual Fall Tech Tour. Yep, I'm headed out again to Michigan's universities for a little back-to-school technology visit.
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Fall Tech Tour Begins At Lawrence (Tech, Naturally)
When it comes to the Great Lakes IT Report's annual Fall Tech Tour of university technologies, Detroit-area schools sometimes complain that they get short shrift. So we decided to kick off Fall Tech Tour 2009 with a local stop at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield.
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