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Presentation at JW Marriott Desert Ridge, Phoenix, AZ, Tuesday, November 16 at 1:45 P.M. Farmingdale, NY (PRWEB) November 11, 2010 WHAT: Mike Mallia, CEO of AFCO Systems, will provide an overview of the design goals for power distribution, high density cooling via modular containment, innovative distributed structured cabling, and environmental monitoring as he presents a customer case study with the University of Michigan. In 2009 the University of Michigan, an innovator in data...
Wagner Design Associates has completed several new marketing initiatives for the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR). Ann Arbor, Michigan (PRWEB) November 5, 2010 Wagner Design Associates has completed several new marketing initiatives for the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR). The creative firm developed and coordinated branding for posters, presentations, social media graphics and e-mail marketing campaigns. Wagner Design, in...
A table-top gamma-ray detector created at the University of Michigan can not only identify the presence of dangerous nuclear materials, but can pinpoint and show their exact location and type, unlike conventional detectors."Other gamma ray detectors can tell you perhaps that nuclear materials are near a building, but with our detector, you can know the materials are in room A, or room B, for example," said Zhong He, an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and...
Health Affairs recognizes U-M leadership in implementing Value-Based Insurance Design in public and private sectorsValue-Based Insurance Design "” a concept created at the University of Michigan and incorporated in the nation's new health care reform law "” is the focus of an upcoming national policy journal. Health Affairs, the nation's premier health policy journal, is featuring a cluster of papers in its November issue about growing interest in and adoption of Value-Based Insurance...
Health Affairs recognizes U-M leadership in implementing Value-Based Insurance Design in public and private sectors ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Value-Based Insurance Design -- a concept created at the University of Michigan and incorporated in the nation's new health care reform law -- is the focus of an upcoming national policy journal. Health Affairs, the nation's premier health policy journal, is featuring a cluster of papers in its November issue about growing...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Incept BioSystems, Inc. ("Incept"), a privately-held biomedical device company using patented, microfluidic technology developed at the University of Michigan, announced today the completion of the first U.S. human clinical trial of its proprietary, SMART Start((TM)) Embryo Culture System, and the recent submission of a 510(k) application to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration ("FDA"). A decision as to market clearance for the device is...
DETROIT, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Walbridge is set to become the first construction company in Michigan to receive the Star Award for safety and health excellence from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA). Under the new Michigan Voluntary Protection Program for Construction (MVPPC), Walbridge is being commended for its exemplary safety program and practices at the Couzens Hall renovation project on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Susan...
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds adults across U.S. favor restrictions, safety testing on electronic cigarettes ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to the makers of electronic cigarettes, they are new devices that allow users to inhale nicotine but not the toxins of tobacco cigarettes. Advocates hail e-cigarettes as a possible quit-smoking aid. But e-cigarettes have been criticized by the United States Food and Drug...
Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company."Battlefield terrain in places like Afghanistan and Iraq can be so rough that our troops have often had to rely on helicopters, and they can be easy targets for enemies with shoulder-launched missiles," said Mohammed Islam, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer...
Two young entrepreneurs from the University of Michigan recently led the firm to win $250,000 in funding from Cisco Systems and Draper Fisher Jurvetson ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business today announced that the Ross School of Business' Frankel Commercialization Fund, the country's first student-led pre-seed investment fund, signed a term sheet...
