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General Motors (NYSE: GM) said Tuesday it will add 1,000 engineers and researchers in Michigan over the next two years to significantly expand its vehicle electrification expertise
The first Chevrolet Volt available for retail sale will be offered at public auction with the proceeds benefitting math and sciences education in the Detroit Public Schools.
It's all about making Michigan communities "great places" to work and live. That's what organizers of the Great Place Network think. They created www.GreatPlaceNetwork.org, an interactive Web site intended to connect bright and imaginative job-creators, economic developers, regional and state policy makers, Michigan State University experts and the general public.
Travel Michigan announced Tuesday that the Pure Michigan winter advertising campaign scheduled to begin airing in January will be canceled Friday, Dec. 3 unless new funding is provided by that date. The Pure Michigan promotion budget for the 2011 fiscal year has been reduced to $5.4 million from $17 million in 2010 and $28 million in 2009. Full funding of the Pure Michigan campaign is $30 million per year, which will provide for both national and regional advertising campaigns for the spring/summer tourism season and regional campaigns for both the fall and winter tourism seasons.
Rochester Hills-based United Solar, a subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices Inc., announced the completion and operation of a solar power project on the rooftop of the Moon Palace Hotel in Cancun, Mexico, host site for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. This important global event will attract about 20,000 participants from nations around the world. They will gather in Cancun Nov. 29 - Dec. 10, with the objective of discussing future commitments to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Seven out of ten Americans say that it is important to expand the use of electric vehicles as a way to reduce dependence on foreign oil, according to results from the latest Market Strategies International E2 (Energy and Environment) Study. However, while 70 percent agree that it is important to expand the use of EVs, fewer than half (43 percent) see themselves personally driving one in the next 10 years.
Michigan State University is leading an initiative to lower the costs of access to supercomputers for researchers, students and professors across Michigan. Through a partnership with Central Michigan University, MSU is expanding the supercomputing capacity of its Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research, www.icer.msu.edu, as well as making it more accessible.