EAST LANSING, Michigan, June 25 (TNSAwa) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: This year, 11 faculty members have been awarded the title of University Distinguished Professor in recognition of their exceptional teaching abilities, prominent record of public service, and scholarly, creative and artistic achievements. The MSU Board of Trustees voted and approved the faculty members to receive the honor, after recommendations from the provost and president, during its meeting on more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 24 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following statement on June 23, 2021: * * * Ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris' visit to Detroit next Monday, June 28, Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes today issued the following statement: "We are thrilled to welcome the Vice President back to the Great Lakes State next week. Thanks to the Biden-Harris administration and the success of their American Rescue Plan, Michigan is experiencing a record economic  more PR

ALLENDALE, Michigan, June 25 (TNSOps) -- Grand Valley State University issued the following news: Rising high school seniors from Battle Creek Central High School spent the week learning about careers in education and developing leadership skills at a summer camp in Battle Creek sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek Public Schools and the GVSU College of Education. Forty-eight seniors attended Exploring Careers in Education and Leadership (ExCEL) camp, a one-week camp held at  more PR

JACKSON, Michigan, June 24 -- Consumers Energy issued the following news release on June 23, 2021: Consumers Energy today announced a sweeping proposal to stop using coal as a fuel source for electricity by 2025 --15 years faster than currently planned. The plan would make the company one of the first in the nation to go coal-free and provide a 20-year blueprint to meet Michigan's energy needs while protecting the environment for future generations. "We are proud to lead Michigan's clean ener more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, June 24 (TNSPer) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Devon Akmon, director of MSU's Science Gallery Detroit, has been appointed to the additional role of director of the Michigan State University Museum, effective July 1. "As we anticipate the September 2021 reopening of the MSU Museum, we also welcome an energizing new partnership. MSU's Science Gallery is coming from Detroit to the MSU campus for its fall pop-up exhibition," said MSU Provost Teresa more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, June 25 -- DTE Energy issued the following news release: The DTE Energy Board of Directors declared a $0.825 per share dividend on its common stock payable Oct. 15, 2021 to shareholders of record at the close of business Sept. 20, 2021. This continues DTE Energy's history issuing a cash dividend for more than 100 years. The October dividend reflects the company's performance as a predominantly pure-play utility company. As previously announced, our Board of Directors authori more PR

YPSILANTI, Michigan, June 25 (TNSPro) -- Eastern Michigan University issued the following news on June 24, 2021: The latest episode of EMU Today TV takes an inside look at the University's GameAbove College of Engineering and Technology the University's expanding esports program. GameAbove College of Engineering and Technology Dean Mohamad Qatu is featured in the first segment of the 30-minute program, which can be viewed on the University's YouTube Channel and Comcast OnDemand. The segment h more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 22 (TNSPol) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: The Biden administration's recently released domestic counterterrorism strategy has drawn criticism from some counterterrorism experts. Javed Ali, incoming associate professor of practice, co-authored a commentary with Thomas S. Warrick, nonresident senior fellow with the Middle East programs group at the Atlantic Council and the Director of the Future of DHS Project, cr more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 26 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: How does observance of religious festivals influence economic growth? Ford School faculty Dean Yang and Eduardo Montero looked at Catholic patron saint day festivals in Mexico to measure the development impact on municipalities that celebrate the festivals at key agricultural moments - planting and harvest seasons. They compared localities with "agriculturally-coinciding more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 25 (TNSGra) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: Ford School PhD candidate Shoshana Shapiro has received one of the highly-competitive grants for research in the social sciences from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. "The 678 applications we received in 2020 represented a wide range of policy areas and approaches," said Chairman Mary Curtis Horowitz. "Given the events of the last year, the need for evidence- more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, June 22 (TNSOps) -- Grand Rapids Community College issued the following news: Grand Rapids Community College trustees approved a budget that freezes tuition rates for the 2021-2022 academic year in an effort to keep education accessible and affordable for residents as West Michigan emerges from the pandemic. Trustees on Monday unanimously approved a $115.4 million budget, which also includes waiving online class fees for the fall semester and retaining single swipe park more PR

ALLENDALE, Michigan, June 26 (TNSMon) -- Grand Valley State University issued the following news: Grand Valley State University Board of Trustees approved a $5.4 million increase in financial aid, an 8 percent increase over last year. The increase, approved at a June 25 meeting at the L. William Seidman Center on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus, brings the total financial aid increase to more than $23 million during the last four years. The total amount of all institutional financial aid is $70.1  more PR

ALLENDALE, Michigan, June 22 (TNSOps) -- Grand Valley State University issued the following news: GVSU graduate Anderson Peck is the co-founder and chief technology officer for a cutting-edge radiopharmacy and molecular diagnostics and therapy center soon to be headquartered on Grand Rapids' Medical Mile. It is poised to provide effective new treatments and early cancer diagnoses. BAMF (Bold Advanced Medical Future) is slated to open next year in downtown Grand Rapids, in the Doug Meijer Medic more PR

ALLENDALE, Michigan, June 24 (TNSOps) -- Grand Valley State University issued the following news: Ayana Weekley will spend part of her summer studying Zora Neale Hurston, an early 20th century Black author whose works have found reinvigorated interest due, in part, to the 2018 publication of Hurston's non-fiction book "Barracoon," written in 1927. Weekley, associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies, was one of 25 scholars selected for a National Endowment for the Humanities Su more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 16 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A with Ross School of Business professors Hyun-Soo Ahn and John Silberholz: Leaders deciding how to contain COVID-19 most effectively should use multiple different mathematical models together in policy design instead of just one, according to new research. A study co-authored by Ross School of Business professors Hyun-Soo Ahn and John Silberholz proposes a practical way to combine multiple COVID-19 mode more PR

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, June 25 (TNSPer) -- Western Michigan University issued the following news: Western Michigan University's Board of Trustees approved the appointment of administrator and faculty member Dr. Steven Carr as interim vice president for the Office of Research and Innovation. He replaces Dr. Terri Goss Kinzy, who starts her new role as Illinois State University president on July 1. The University will be launching a national search to secure a permanent leader for this position. A more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, June 23 (TNSPer) -- Grand Rapids Community College issued the following news: Joe Fox has been appointed head coach of the Grand Rapids Community College men's basketball team for the 2021-2022 season after serving as an assistant coach at GRCC, Calvin University, and Lansing Community College. Fox has been GRCC assistant coach since 2019, and also held the role from 2012 to 2014. He then served as assistant coach at Lansing Community College under hall of fame coach Mi more PR

SACRAMENTO, California, June 25 (TNSsro) -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. B294181): ROBERT SWANSON et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. THE MARLEY-WYLAIN COMPANY, Defendant and Appellant. APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, C. Edward Simpson, Judge. Reversed and remanded. Horvitz & Levy, Curt Cutting, Dean A. Bochner; Manning Gross & Massenburg and David M. Glaspy for Defendant and Appellant. Waters Kraus & Paul and Mic more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 26 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: The Berrien County conviction of Corey Quentin McCall, 39, has been vacated after collaboration between the Michigan Department of Attorney General's Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), the Berrien County Prosecutor's Office, the Benton Harbor Department of Public Safety, and the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School Innocence Project (Cooley Innocence Project). McCall was wrongfully conv more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 23 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general and two cities in calling on the Postal Regulatory Commission to oppose Postmaster General DeJoy's efforts to increase delivery times for First-Class Mail and other essential postal services. Forty percent of all First-Class mail in the United States will be slowed down by these proposed changes. The action  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 25 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a public service announcement (PSA) focused on the new joint investigation between the Michigan Department of Attorney General and Michigan State Police targeting the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The agencies first asked the public to report instances of abuse at the beginning of June. The BSA investigation is similar to the Department's ongoi more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 25 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release on June 24, 2021: A BP gas station owner in Plymouth Township previously told to cease and desist from price gouging has agreed to pay a $2,000 fine, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced today. Last month, the Department contacted the BP gas station at 39600 Ann Arbor Rd in Plymouth Township after WXYZ, a Detroit-area TV station, spoke to consumers with complaints related to the price of ga more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 22 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) Director Orlene Hawks, and Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) Director Anita Fox are issuing a consumer alert to help Michiganders protect themselves when using (or investing in) cryptocurrency instead of currency issued by the U.S. Treasury. The alert explains ba more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 24 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: A settlement agreement the Michigan Department of Attorney General helped negotiate will result in more than a million dollars going to the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan for distribution to local charities. Last year, the Department's Public Administrator became aware of a 2008 special needs trust that originally provided, after the beneficiary's death, reimbursement of any Med more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 25 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following statement on June 24, 2021, by Chair Lavora Barnes after President Biden struck a historic bipartisan agreement on infrastructure: * * * "Elected on a promise to find common ground and get things done, President Biden has delivered. After four years of gridlock spearheaded by the previous president and Republicans, today's Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is the largest investment in our infrastructure in a cen more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 24 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release: A day after both Republican state Rep. Steve Carra introduced a bill to conduct a partisan and unnecessary review of Michigan's 2020 general election ballots and Cheboygan County requested a recount of its results (despite Trump winning the county 2-1), the Senate Oversight Committee threw fresh cold water on the widely-held notion that Trump did not legitimately lose his election, stating that there  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 22 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release: Last week, MDP and Ottawa County Democrats held a virtual press conference to discuss why Ryan Kelley is thoroughly unqualified to run for governor. Setting himself apart from the many other extremists that are also running is the fact that Kelley was one of the hundreds that descended on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, contributing to the violence that killed five and injured 140 officers in Washing more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 24 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following statement: * * * The Michigan Democratic Party released the following statement on behalf of Chair Lavora Barnes regarding the voter suppression bills voted on today in the House of Representatives. "The Republican members of the Michigan House of Representatives should be ashamed of their votes tonight. "I am disgusted by the elected officials that purposefully created more barriers to voting just because they  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 25 -- 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: SAVE THE DATES! Announcing the 10th Annual 2021 Special Populations Conference: Leading Together Toward Tomorrow The Michigan Department of Education more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 25 -- 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: Child Outcomes Summary (COS) Process and Data Manuals The federal regulations that implement the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) at Sec.303.702 and Sec. more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 24 -- 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: Return to Learn Benchmark Data Submission Update - MEMO #COVID-19-200 Michigan's Return to Learn law (P.A. 149 of 2020) requires local education agen more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 24 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release on June 23, 2021: The A2AC Art in Public program will bring more art into downtown Ann Arbor with new murals and installations with the help of a new crowdfunding campaign, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Ann Arbor Art Center (A2AC) announced today. The campaign is being offered through the Michigan-based crowdfunding platform Patronicity. If the campaign reaches its crowdf more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 24 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release on June 23, 2021: Governor Gretchen Whitmer joined the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) today to announce that Pace Industries, a leading provider of die casting solutions, is relocating its headquarters from Arkansas to Novi, signaling continued economic recovery in Michigan. The project is expected to initially create more than 60 new jobs in Novi and generate a total priva more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 22 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release on June 21, 2021: Governor Gretchen Whitmer today joined a group of business, state, and local officials to celebrate the groundbreaking of Speedrack Products Group's new manufacturing facility in Walker, thanking the storage systems provider for their continued investment in Michigan that will create 164 new jobs. The project is expected to generate a total private investment of $64.5 milli more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 23 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release on June 22, 2021: Governor Gretchen Whitmer joined the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) to announce economic assistance for projects approved by the Michigan Strategic Fund Board today that will create 350 new jobs in Michigan and retain 400 high-wage positions, support the state's entrepreneurial ecosystem and facilitate transformational development projects in Southwest Mich more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 24 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release on June 23, 2021: Governor Gretchen Whitmer today signed a bipartisan bill to invest $2.2 billion in federal COVID relief funding to support the recovery of individuals, families, and businesses struggling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new funding helps families put food on the table through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and keep a roof over their head throu more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 22 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer urged parents to file a federal income tax return if they haven't yet done so or use the Non-filer Sign-up Tool in order to be eligible for federal Child Tax Credit payments. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 increased the federal Child Tax Credit to $3,600 per year for children under 6 years old and $3,000 per year for children 6-17 years old. The tax credit will be is more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 24 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release on June 23, 2021: The Michigan Public Service Commission today approved a securitization requested by DTE Electric Co. related to the costs of retirement of an electric generation plant and a surge in tree trimming to reduce power outages - a step that will lower costs for ratepayers. The Commission authorized DTE Electric to proceed with issuing securitization bonds of up to an aggregate tot more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, June 25 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: * * * Long-term studies reveal a surprising relationship * * * While invasive zebra mussels consume small plant-like organisms called phytoplankton, Michigan State University researchers discovered during a long-term study that zebra mussels can actually increase Microcystis, a type of phytoplankton known as "blue-green algae" or cyanobacteria, that forms harmful floating blooms. "Microcystis li more PR

MUSKEGON, Michigan, June 25 (TNSGra) -- Muskegon Community College issued the following news: Muskegon Community College has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) in partnership with the Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) to support its students enrolled in the Futures for Frontliners and Michigan Reconnect programs. Awarded through a competitive application process, the Sixty by 30 grant was announced by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on more PR

MUSKEGON, Michigan, June 23 (TNSAwa) -- Muskegon Community College issued the following news: Chris Kaminsky, who manages Muskegon Community College's Lakeshore Fab Lab, received the 2021 Onshape COVID Hero Award from PTC, Inc. for his "ability to pivot and innovate with OnShape to help the world in a time of crisis" during the current academic year. Owned by Boston-based PTC, Inc., Onshape is the only software-as-a-service product development platform that combines CAD, built-in data manageme more PR

MARQUETTE, Michigan, June 25 (TNSJou) -- Northern Michigan University issued the following news: A team of Northern Michigan University faculty and student researchers contributed to Snapshot USA, the first coordinated nationwide mammal survey that consisted of 1,509 motion-activated camera traps from 110 sites across all 50 states. The data was published June 8 in the journal Ecology. Unlike birds, which have multiple large-scale monitoring programs, there has been no standard way to monitor  more PR

MARQUETTE, Michigan, June 24 (TNSBook) -- Northern Michigan University issued the following news: Northern Michigan University's Diversity Common Reader Program encourages faculty to consider adopting its 2021-22 selection, "We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration," for a fall or winter course. The new nonfiction graphic novel by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura tells the story of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II through the lives of three  more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, June 23 (TNSPer) -- Grand Rapids Community College issued the following news: Grand Rapids Community College trustees selected Salvador Lopez, a GRCC grad who heads a nonprofit aimed at helping children, to fill a board vacancy. Lopez will replace Kathy Crosby, who resigned last month to spend more time with her family as she faces health challenges. Board Chairperson David Koetje noted Lopez's extensive involvement in education and community advocacy, and how attendin more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, June 26 (TNSPro) -- Grand Rapids Community College issued the following news: A School News Network Feature - In an upstairs classroom in GRCC's Sneden Hall, Dana Sammons, head of the mathematics department, showed East Kentwood 2021 graduate Shi'Ann Moore how to complete a statistics problem. Shi'Ann was eager to learn. If she scores high enough on a math placement test, she will be able to take the college-level math course as a GRCC student in the fall. To prepare, s more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 24 (TNSOps) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: Since 2008, Sue Dynarski has been one of the Ford School's most active faculty working to reform public education, fighting for educational equity and inclusiveness, and training the next generation of education policy experts. She has taught hundreds of Fordies the intricacies of program evaluation, statistics, econometrics, regression analysis, and causal inference. An more PR

LAWRENCE, Kansas, June 24 (TNSPer) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Tony Reames, a 2013 graduate of the doctoral program at the University of Kansas School of Public Affairs & Administration, has been appointed by President Joe Biden's administration to serve as a senior adviser in the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity in the Department of Energy. Reames, a professor at the University of Michigan, established the Urban Energy Justice Lab, where he conducts research  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Maryland, June 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science issued the following news release: Researchers from the Chesapeake Bay Program, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, University of Michigan and U.S. Geological Survey are forecasting, for the second year in a row, a smaller than average "dead zone" due to reduced river flows entering the Chesapeake Bay, as well as less nutrient and sediment pollution thanks to the managem more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 25 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Most people have heard of human trafficking, but few can define it. Even experts in law enforcement and academia can have a hard time quantifying the problem. The new Human Trafficking Collaborative website, developed by faculty at the University of Michigan School of Nursing and the U-M Law School, was created to dispel myths about human trafficking and to train health care providers to reco more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 26 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: University of Michigan researchers surveying wastewater systems for SARS-COV-2 will be able to increase testing sites and continue monitoring until 2023 after receiving more than $5 million from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The funding, announced this week, is part of MDHHS's $49 million to support 19 projects to continue COVID-19 wastewater surveillance and implement more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 25 (TNSGra) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: A $1.2 million grant in NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program, funded in part to a University of Michigan School of Information research team, will go toward building a search engine and other tools to help collect and classify billions of privacy documents on the web. The overall goal of the work led by Penn State researchers is to make the web safer for users by helping scientists more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 25 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Many people don't realize that the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi residing within the gastrointestinal tract--collectively called the gut microbiome-- are connected to overall health, and specifically to cancer. Manipulating the gut microbiome to produce "beneficial" commensal microbes, which protect the host from pathogens and can boost immune responses, among other things, could  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 22 (TNSRep) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release on June 21, 2021: It's been nine years since the LinkedIn data breach, eight years since Adobe customers were victims of cyber attackers and four years since Equifax made headlines for the exposure of private information of millions of people. The number of data breaches and victims has multiplied rapidly over the past decade or so, but aside from these well-publicized cases, most participants more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 19 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: The fear of family separation has shifted how and when Latinx immigrant parents talk to their children about their documentation status and other issues around immigration. With discriminatory legislation targeting Latinx immigrants in the United States during the last administrations, these parents could no longer wait until their children aged to discuss sensitive topics like deportation, d more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release on June 23, 2021: Highly automated vehicles need a different kind of test to prove they are safe before testing moves to public roads, leaders of Mcity at the University of Michigan said today as they conducted the first demonstration of a protocol they developed to do just that. The Mcity ABC Test is a concept methodology for an independent and standardized way for automakers and state and fe more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 24 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release on June 23, 2021: For the second year in a row, researchers are forecasting a smaller than average Chesapeake Bay "dead zone" due to reduced river flows and less nutrient and sediment pollution. The annual forecast was announced today by scientists at the University of Michigan, the Chesapeake Bay Program, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and the U.S. Geological Survey. They more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Only 1 in 10 older adults in a large national survey who were found to have cognitive impairment consistent with dementia reported a formal medical diagnosis of the condition. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study to develop a nationally representative sample of roughly 6 million Americans age 65 or older, researchers at the University of Michigan, North Dakota State University and  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 26 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: * * * A five-nanometer-thick layer of silver and copper outperforms conventional indium tin oxide without adding cost * * * A new electrode that could free up 20% more light from organic light-emitting diodes has been developed at the University of Michigan. It could help extend the battery life of smartphones and laptops, or make next-gen televisions and displays much more energy efficient more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 25 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Discovering and engineering nanobodies with properties suitable for treating human diseases ranging from cancer to COVID-19 is a time-consuming, laborious process. To that end, University of Michigan researchers found a simple method for identifying nanobodies with drug-like properties suitable for preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections. They demonstrated the approach by generating nanobodies that  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Over the past decade, the news has largely been good for older Americans: More people are able to meet their daily care needs without assistance and women seem to be thriving the most. Findings are from a recently released series of online dashboards and chartbooks that tracks nationwide trends for adults ages 70 and older from 2011 through 2020. According to the report, over the past 10 yea more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 22 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: When a University of Michigan-led research team reported last year that North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over the past four decades and that their wings have gotten a bit longer, the scientists wondered if they were seeing the fingerprint of earlier spring migrations. Multiple studies have demonstrated that birds are migrating earlier in the spring as the world warms.  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 26 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Consumer sentiment rebounded in June to the second-highest level since the start of the pandemic, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. All of the June gain was among households with incomes above $100,000, and mainly in the way they judged the future economic outlook, said U-M economist Richard Curtin, director of the surveys. Year-ahead inflation expectations fell s more PR

OXFORD, Mississippi, June 24 (TNSPer) -- The University of Mississippi issued the following news release: Kimberly DeVries has been hired as the new director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance at the University of Mississippi. Formerly director of Equal Opportunity Compliance at Grand Rapids Community College in Michigan for the past six years, DeVries joins the university on Aug. 2. "I'm very much looking forward to working with the other professionals within the of more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, June 25 -- DTE Energy issued the following news release on June 23, 2021: DTE Energy (NYSE: DTE) and Washtenaw Community College (WCC) today announced the college's enrollment in DTE Energy's MIGreenPower voluntary renewable energy program. MIGreenPower provides DTE customers with an easy, low-cost option to access more clean energy without installing onsite generation. The first community college to enroll in the program, WCC has committed to an escalating enrollment that wi more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, June 26 (TNSOps) -- Wayne State University issued the following news on June 25, 2021: Wayne State University's Board of Governors today unanimously approved a tuition increase of 3.9% for both undergraduate and graduate students. The new tuition rate will result in a $15 increase per credit hour for lower division undergraduates. The university also increased its commitment to financial aid, bringing total institutional support to almost $100 million. "We are unanimous in s more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, June 23 (TNSRes) -- Wayne State University issued the following news: Wayne State University is playing a pivotal role in Michigan's economy by providing businesses with the graduates they need, enabling students to obtain valuable degrees, conducting cutting-edge research and contributing to communities statewide, according to an economic impact report prepared by Anderson Economic Group (AEG). The University Research Corridor (URC), an alliance between Wayne State Universi more PR

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, June 25 (TNSOps) -- Western Michigan University issued the following news: In keeping with the University's commitment to providing an affordable and high-quality education, the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees approved a tuition and required fee increase that falls well below the tuition-increase restraint cap proposed by the governor and Michigan Senate. Tuition and required fees will rise by 3.2% for the 2021-22 academic year under the pricing plan recommen more PR