LANSING, Michigan, May 26 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release: Days after Governor Whitmer announced she would be accelerating her Vacc to Normal program to ease COVID-19 restrictions in Michigan ahead of schedule on June 1st and fully eliminate them by July 1st, the same Republicans that bucked and continue to reject these public safety protocols throughout the pandemic are now claiming they didn't do enough to save lives. Today, the RGA is putting half a millio more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 27 (TNSPar) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: Michigan State University's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) and the Ford School's Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) are collaborating to educate and assist Michigan's Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, thanks to a new grant from the Joyce Foundation. IPPSR secured the $250,000 grant to extend educational and consultin more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 27 (TNSPar) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: Michigan State University's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) and the Ford School's Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) are collaborating to educate and assist Michigan's Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, thanks to a new grant from the Joyce Foundation. IPPSR secured the $250,000 grant to extend educational and consulting more PR

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers penned a joint op-ed in Newsweek advocating for President Biden's American Jobs Plan and highlighting the critical need for federal investments in state infrastructure. Both governors have led the push for infrastructure reform in their own states and have seen the positive impact on economic growth and opportunity that comes as a result of rebuildi more PR

ALLENDALE, Michigan, May 29 (TNSOps) -- Grand Valley State University issued the following news: Department of Natural Resources wildlife experts on May 28 banded four peregrine falcon chicks that hatched and are currently nesting in a special box attached to the Eberhard Center. DNR wildlife biologist Nik Kalejs said all of the chicks, three males and a female, are healthy. Kalejs and summer staff members Baylee Draper and Susanna Kailing banded the chicks as the angry, protective parents scr more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, May 26 -- DTE Energy issued the following news release on May 25, 2021: DTE Energy Company ("DTE Energy") (NYSE: DTE) today announced that DT Midstream, Inc. ("DT Midstream"), the new independent, publicly traded company that is expected to be formed through the planned spin-off of DTE Energy's non-utility natural gas pipeline, storage and gathering business, has priced the previously announced offering (the "Offering") of $1.1 billion of 4.125% Senior Notes due 2029 (the "20 more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, May 28 -- DTE Energy issued the following news release on May 27, 2021: DTE Energy (NYSE: DTE) announced today, 5/27/2021, the full redemption of all outstanding 2016 Series B 5.375% Junior Subordinated Debentures (NYSE:DTJ). The 2016 Series B 5.375% Junior Subordinated Debentures will be redeemed on June 30, 2021. The redemption price is 100 percent of the unpaid principal amount of the 2016 Series B 5.375% Junior Subordinated Debentures, together with accrued and unpaid i more PR

YPSILANTI, Michigan, May 28 (TNSPar) -- Eastern Michigan University issued the following news: Eastern Michigan University and Beibu Gulf University in China have finalized an agreement to establish the Eastern Michigan University Joint College of Engineering, Beibu Gulf University. The agreement calls for a 15-year cooperative partnership that will begin with up to 300 students being enrolled in the new program annually for the first four years. Overall enrollment on the joint campus will eve more PR

YPSILANTI, Michigan, May 27 (TNSOps) -- Eastern Michigan University issued the following news: Eastern Michigan University, the EMU alumni group GameAbove, and baseball Hall of Fame member Reggie Jackson's Mr. October Foundation, celebrated yesterday the joint STEM outreach progress made in Detroit area K-12 schools over the past year. The event celebrated the work delivering hands-on programming to students in underserved communities around southeast Michigan, providing a unique opportunity t more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, May 27 (TNSPar) -- Grand Rapids Community College issued the following news: Grand Rapids Community College is hosting a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Thursday, May 27, welcoming First Lady Jill Biden, who is highlighting partnerships between federal pharmacy partners and community colleges. The walk-in clinic is open to the public, with vaccinations available between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. at GRCC's Administration Building, 415 E. Fulton Street. Dr. Biden, a commun more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 27 (TNSRep) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: Academic and non-academic barriers are preventing Detroit high school students from enrolling and succeeding in college. Detroit Students' College Pathways and Outcomes, a policy brief released by the Youth Policy Lab (YPL) at the University of Michigan, shows that college enrollment among Detroit high school graduates declined between 2010 and 2018 and that the majority  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 28 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: New details on Gov Gretchen Whitmer's secret unvaccinated private jet trip to Florida during a COVID-19 surge in Michigan have emerged, raising new questions about the financial arrangements surrounding the trip and Whitmer's lack of transparency around the matter. After being caught red-handed, Whitmer now argues that a private plane was needed for security reasons due to threats against her. Meanwhile, Whi more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, May 27 (TNSPro) -- Grand Rapids Community College issued the following news: GRCC Workforce Training programs provide in-demand skills leading to rewarding careers. Each Wednesday we'll meet students who are heading down an educational pathway and changing their lives by earning occupational certificates. Gaspar Vizcarra is not new to manufacturing. He's been working in assembly, quality and machine operation ever since he graduated from high school. "The problem was I more PR

ALLENDALE, Michigan, May 27 (TNSGra) -- Grand Valley State University issued the following news: An accelerator program at Grand Valley State University that provides startup education and support for veteran entrepreneurs in West Michigan will expand statewide thanks to a grant from the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund (MVTF). The two-year, $250,000 grant will allow Grand Valley's Michigan Veteran Entrepreneur-Lab (MVE-Lab) to expand to the greater Detroit region, central southern Michigan, Muske more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 27 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: University of Michigan entomologist Thomas Moore was walking in the yard of his Ann Arbor-area home on Monday afternoon when he heard the unmistakable droning buzz of a single periodical cicada in the distance. He knew instantly what it was, down to the exact species, and a thrill shot through him. "I never tire of hearing that sound," Moore said Tuesday. "It's marvelous, and it's a thrill ev more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 27 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: The Oakland County conviction of Gilbert Lee Poole, Jr. has been vacated after collaboration between the Michigan Department of Attorney General's Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) and the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School Innocence Project (Cooley Innocence Project). Poole was wrongly convicted of murder in 1989. DNA evidence from the scene exonerates him after nearly 32 years in pri more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 29 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a coalition of attorneys general in urging congressional leaders to support the Fraud and Scam Reduction Act. The Act, which comprises the Stop Senior Scam Act and Seniors Fraud Prevention Act of 2021, will assist stakeholders in training employees to recognize the warning signs of elder fraud and to prevent irreversible damage to elderly victims.  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 25 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is leading a coalition of 23 attorneys general from across the country to urge U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Attorney General Merrick Garland to reinstate and expand a 2014 guidance package designed to help public elementary and secondary schools meet their obligations under federal law to administer student discipline equitably. The coal more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 27 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following statement: * * * Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has submitted a statement to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties ahead of its hearing examining the role of militia groups in the current rise of right-wing extremism. The hearing, led by Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Rep. Jamie Raskin, will be streamed o more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 28 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release on May 27, 2021: A BP gas station on Ann Arbor Road in Plymouth has been told to cease and desist from engaging in unlawful business practices, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced today. Earlier this month, WXYZ, a Detroit-area TV station, contacted the Department of Attorney General related to the BP gas station at 39600 Ann Arbor Rd. in Plymouth Township following complaints from consumer more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 29 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release on May 28, 2021: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion upholding the constitutionality of Michigan's Independent Citizen's Redistricting Commission (ICRC), Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced today. The decision affirms the United States District Court for the Western District's earlier dismissal of the legal challenges to the ICRC, including that the eligibility re more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 28 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release: Republican lawmakers in Lansing are gathering to do what they always do: attack Governor Whitmer because pursuing cheap political games is easier than operating in the best interest of Michiganders in the midst of a pandemic. Today's ringleader is House Oversight Committee Chair Steve Johnson, who has decided that now -- after over 8 million vaccines have been administered statewide -- is the time to  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 28 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: William A. Pearson, Ed.D., Interim Deputy Superintendent, Division of Educator, Student, and School Supports SUBJECT: Accelerated Learning Guidance for All Students The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) is pleased to announce the release of the third set of informa more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 28 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Kyle Guerrant, Deputy Superintendent, Division of Finance and Operations, William Pearson, Ed.D., Interim Deputy Superintendent, Division of Educator, Student, and School Supports SUBJECT: Change to State Aid Deductions for Noncertification Effective May 19, 2021, Gover more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 28 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Dr. Scott M. Koenigsknecht, Deputy Superintendent, P-20 System and Student Transitions SUBJECT: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Public Reporting of Data The federal regulations that implement the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) at  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 25 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo by Deputy Superintendent Scott M. Koenigsknecht: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Dr. Scott M. Koenigsknecht, Deputy Superintendent P-20 System and Student Transitions SUBJECT: Opportunity to Expand Quality Preschool with ESSER Federal Funding On April 26, 2021, State Superintendent Dr. Michael Rice sh more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 27 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release: Downtown Lansing's riverfront district will soon be home to the Afterglow Night Markets, a series of recurring pop-up markets featuring local artists and vendors, with the help of a new crowdfunding campaign , the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Downtown Lansing Inc., and YouShine Events & Consulting announced today. The campaign is being offered through the Michigan-based crowdfun more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 26 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release on May 25, 2021: Projects that will support growth and economic recovery in Detroit and Traverse City have received support from the Michigan Strategic Fund, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced today. The projects are expected to generate a total capital investment of $35.7 million, bringing new vitality and much-needed housing to critical neighborhoods in those communities more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 25 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release on May 24, 2021: Governor Gretchen Whitmer today announced updates to the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (MIOSHA) COVID-19 emergency rules as many employers return to in-person work. The governor also announced an updated Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) COVID-19 Gatherings and Face Masks epidemic order, eliminating outdoor capacity limits and incre more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 25 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Whitmer signed Senate Bill 141, Senate Bill 142, Senate Bill 143 and Senate Bill 144, which will make it easier for distillers and retailers to distribute and sell mixed spirit drinks, offering consumers more choices and growing our economy. "This is a great example of bipartisan legislation that will create jobs and help our small businesses grow, and shows what we can do when we work t more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 29 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release: Under President Joe Biden's the American Rescue Plan into law, thousands of Michigan families received additional relief after congressional Democrats expanded the Child Tax Credit, lifting at least 117,000 children out of poverty across the state. This historic investment in working families and children was supported by every Michigan Democrat, including Sens. Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow as well more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 28 -- The Michigan Department of Education issued the following news release on May 26, 2021: The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) strongly opposes legislation that was adopted today by the Senate Education and Career Readiness Committee to push the state's mandatory third grade retention requirement to next year due to the pandemic, but penalize both third and fourth grade students in the 2021-2022 school year. As required by the state's Read By Grade Three law, t more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 28 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release on May 27, 2021: The Noquemanon Trails Network (NTN) will build a permanent bridge crossing Carp River for year-round, non-motorized trail use in Marquette through a new crowdfunding campaign, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Noquemanon Trails Network announced today. The campaign is being offered through the Michigan-based crowdfunding platform Patronicity. If the campaign r more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 27 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release: As restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic are eased and economic activity rebounds, Michiganders can expect higher gas prices in summer 2021 than they were a year ago, but overall projections on energy supply and demand remain uncertain as the state continues to adjust to the impacts of the pandemic. Higher expected gasoline prices are one of the key findings of the Michigan Public Ser more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 25 (TNSPer) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Richard Leach, a national expert on in vitro fertilization and an academic researcher in the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, has been appointed chair of the Henry Ford Medical Group's Department of Women's Health Services. Leach will serve in a dual role and continue as chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology for MSU's College of Human Medicine. more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 25 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Sand is embedded in the concrete of nearly all the world's buildings and roads. The glass in windows, laptops and phone screens and now, COVID-19 vaccine vials. While we are swimming in sand, ironically, our consumption makes us hungry for more. Four years ago, an international group of scientists, including two from Michigan State University, called attention to a looming global sand crisis. An ov more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 25 (TNSPer) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Jeffrey Wray, Department of English professor and associate chair of undergraduate studies, was appointed the next Timnick Chair in the Humanities, effective Aug. 16. Wray is the second MSU faculty member to hold the position, which was endowed in 2015 by MSU alumnus and retired businessman Henry O. Timnick in honor of his mother, Ottilie Schroeter Timnick, to reflect her belief in the value and prom more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 27 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Michigan State University researchers have helped unveil an expansive microbial ecosystem living deep within Earth that is fueled by chemicals produced by volcanic eruptions and continental collisions. Spartans joined an interdisciplinary and international team of scientists to show that these microbial communities eat the carbon, sulfur and iron compounds generated by geological processes beneath C more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 27 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Rough night of sleep? Relying on caffeine to get you through the day isn't always the answer, says a new study from Michigan State University. Researchers from MSU's Sleep and Learning Lab, led by psychology associate professor Kimberly Fenn, assessed how effective caffeine was in counteracting the negative effects of sleep deprivation on cognition. As it turns out, caffeine can only get you so far. more PR

LANSING, Michigan, May 26 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: The Michigan Republican Party is calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to immediately end all lockdown orders, safely re-open the Michigan economy and rescind all rule violation orders and fines imposed against individuals and small business owners. "Gov. Whitmer is asking for leniency and forgiveness after violating her own pandemic orders that restricted diners to six per table," said Ted Goodman, Communications more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 27 (TNSOps) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Throughout the month of April, MSU held its 9th Science Festival, with participants joining online from across the country and around the globe. While the festival was unable to occur in person due to COVID-19, its goal of celebrating the many ways science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, or STEAM, affects our everyday lives remained the same. Some participants even applauded the acce more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 25 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Most people can correctly identify photographs of common animals such as deer, raccoons, skunks and squirrels. But can you distinguish a gray wolf from a coyote or correctly identify members of the mustelid family, which includes the American marten, the long-tailed weasel, the fisher and the mink? Nearly 4,000 citizen scientists, including many K-12 students, participated in a recent Univers more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 28 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: New results from the Dark Energy Survey use the largest ever sample of galaxies over an enormous piece of the sky to produce the most precise measurements of the universe's composition and growth to date. The analysis, which includes the first three years of data from the survey, is consistent with predictions from the current best model of the universe, the standard cosmological model. Nevert more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 29 -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A with Gabriel Ehrlich, director of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics: Economic forecasting always comes with the hazard of trying to divine what the future holds, but the pandemic upped the uncertainty. Still, nothing was going to stand in the way of the University of Michigan's Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics from doing the work it has done for more than a half-century: The research team  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 27 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release on May 25, 2021: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, was a short interval of highly elevated global temperatures 56 million years ago that is frequently described as the best ancient analog for present-day climate warming. Fish are among the organisms thought to be most sensitive to warming climates, and tropical sea-surface temperatures during the PETM likely approached temperatures more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 27 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Up to half of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma will experience tumor recurrence or new tumors--tumors that often spread and are difficult to treat. A team of scientists led by the University of Michigan School of Dentistry identified a mechanism by which head and neck cancer cells subvert adjacent normal tissue, allowing small clusters of cancer cells to burrow beneath the h more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 28 -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A on May 27, 2021, with Trina Shanks, director of the Center for Equitable Family and Community Well-Being, faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research and director of community engagement at the School of Social Work: In the nearly 20 years that University of Michigan social work professor Trina Shanks has lived in Detroit and researched issues related to the impact of poverty, she's gotten much closer  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 29 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: The next generation of electric vehicle batteries, with greater range and improved safety, could be emerging in the form of lithium metal, solid-state technology. But key questions about this promising power supply need to be answered before it can make the jump from the laboratory to manufacturing facilities, according to University of Michigan researchers. And with efforts to bring electric  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 29 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: A falloff in consumer confidence in May is due to surging inflation that consumers anticipate will persist in the year ahead, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Record proportions of consumers reported higher prices across a wide range of discretionary purchases, including homes, vehicles and household durables. The impact of higher prices on discretionary spending w more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 28 -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A with Pamela Davis-Kean, professor of psychology and research professor at the Institute for Social Research: Now that many schools nationwide have announced plans to hold in-person sessions this fall, questions have been raised about what's next for students who spent much of the last year learning virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pamela Davis-Kean, a University of Michigan professor of psychology and res more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 27 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Whether it's trying on lipstick or clothing online, using floor plan software to find out how furniture will fit in a new home or ordering a contactless Coke using a cell phone, businesses are continually finding new ways to promote their products and services using extended reality (XR) technology. Investment in augmented and virtual reality--together known as mixed or extended reality--is ex more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, May 24 (TNSPer) -- Wayne State University issued the following news: Wayne State University's Academy of Teachers (AoT) has selected five faculty members to join its esteemed ranks. Introduced in 2018 by the Office for Teaching and Learning, the Academy of Teachers works to promote the shared value and culture of teaching excellence at WSU by engaging faculty, students and staff in improving the educational experience, and encouraging policies that support teachers and reward more PR

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, May 28 (TNSAwa) -- Western Michigan University issued the following news: A scholar of medieval secular literature and history has won Western Michigan University's Otto Grundler Book Prize for her biography of medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Dr. Marion Turner, professor of English literature at the University of Oxford, where she holds a Tutorial Fellowship at Jesus College, is the winner of the 2021 prize for "Chaucer: A European Life." The award, which comes with a $1, more PR

MADISON, Wisconsin, May 28 -- The Wisconsin Democratic Party issued the following news: In a joint op-ed, Governors Evers and Whitmer urged Congress to pass President Biden's American Jobs Plan to help Wisconsin and Michigan bounce back from the pandemic. While both governors have made historic state investments in infrastructure, additional federal support will help Wisconsin and Michigan reach their full potential. Gov. Evers has made infrastructure a top priority of his administration - inv more PR