Last Saturday, hundreds of students graduated from Lansing Community College. It was a time for celebration, but many of them are already in debt. Some will go on to four-year universities, where they’ll probably have to borrow a lot more money.
Review teams that recommend whether a city or school district should be taken over by a state-appointed emergency manager don’t have to meet in public.
Protesters have disrupted a meeting in which a Michigan House committee approved a series of proposed election law changes, including one that would require a voter to present a photo ID or birth certificate when registering to vote.
The Michigan Catholic Conference is in federal court in an effort to reverse an Obama administration rule that requires employer health plans to cover contraception.
A state House committee goes to work this morning on a plan that would force teachers and other school employees to pay more for their retirement benefits.
Michigan Biotechnology Institute (MBI) CEO Bobby Bringi studies a 1-liter sized fermentation vessel containing various sugars and minerals. Substances like this create many usable products, including the food agent fumaric acid.
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A collection of some of the chemical substances created at the MBI laboratory at Michigan State University.
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MBI CEO Bobby Bringi studies a container of fumaric acid.
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MBI Vice President of Engineering David Senyk opens a hatch to a large fermentation chamber. During the scale-up process, bio-based compounds that were once tested in a smaller lab are measured for their effectiveness on a much larger scale.
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A view looking down into an 8 foot deep fermentation chamber.
Earlier this year, Michigan State University created the MSU Innovation Center. The university has long paired inventors with private sector businesses whom it licenses to turn their ideas into products. Now, the new center will help create new start-up companies around MSU inventions.
