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New Nanophotonic Material Can Turn Heat to Electricity
Microscopy images show no discernible degradation before and after heat treating the material. Image credit: Andrej Lenert A new heat…
Durable Antimicrobial Coating Kills Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Minutes
Photo courtesy the University of Michigan. The antimicrobial coating is clear, even when applied in a thick layer to surfaces. News out of…
Report Shows Clean Energy Jobs Could Replace Lost Coal Jobs
Coal-fired power plants in the United States. Bubbles are scaled by plant capacity, which ranges from 5 to 3,500 MW. Image credit: From…
Nano-Engineered Brain Cancer Treatment Might Kill Tumor Cells and Activate Immune System
An extended diagram shows the components that go into each liquid—the human serum albumin that helps cross the blood-brain barrier, the iRGD…
University of Michigan Partners with Meta To Build Social Media Data Archive
The University of Michigan is partnering with Facebook parent company Meta to build a social media data archive. The project intends to make…
Robots Fabricate a Pavilion To Prove Broader Use Case for Automated Construction
Want to see the best garden pavilion that robots can build? The public is invited October 24 to the opening and ribbon cutting ceremony in…
Students Launch New Venture Fund for Climate Tech Startups
University of Michigan students and faculty have just launched a student-run investment fund focused on supporting early-stage climate tech…
What The Future Holds for Healthcare Startups
a2tech360 week in Ann Arbor continues, with What The Future Holds today to predict the trajectories of tech-related industries that have a…
Announcing The Michigan Game Studios Database
University of Michigan game development professor Austin Yarger is a favorite on Cronicle Press, for introducing our readers to new indie…
University of Michigan School of Information Students Available for UX and Data Analysis Projects
The University of Michigan School of Information is seeking organizations to host student projects in the 2020-2021 school year…
University Budgets Were Hit Hard: Can Software Help?
Universities everywhere are trying to trim budgets and plan for virtual instruction in case of a second wave in the Fall 2020 semester, but…
Innovation Beyond Borders with TusStar's International Startup Incubators
TusStar is an affiliated network of tech startup incubators and early stage venture accelerators located in over 130 cities around the world…
How Will We Track COVID-19 Symptoms As Americans Return To Work? An App Attempts To Identify Hotspots
How honest can we expect all workers to be about symptoms of COVID-19 as they return to work they need for economic security and healthcare…
How Does a Medical Device Startup Get To Market During the COVID-19 Shutdown?
Braden Shugarman is part of the latest cohort of startups in Ann Arbor. He and his grandfather, Florida ophthalmologist Dr. Richard…
Michigan Company Invents Fast & Effective COVID-19 Antibody Test
A Cheaper, Faster, More Reliable Coronavirus Antibody Test? A microfluidic device invented at the University of Michigan and developed by U…
New Startup Monstrsense Creates Ultrafast Spectrometer For Inspecting New Semiconductor Materials
What is happening with the newest cohort of tech and life science startups spun out of intellectual property invented at the University of…
Attend The University of Michigan Data for Public Good Symposium Feb 25th
The third annual University of Michigan Data for Public Good Symposium, which runs 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Feb. 25, 2020 in Ann Arbor, will…
Send a Valentine to a Patient at Mott's Children's Hospital with Spellbound AR
Happy Valentine's Day! If you'd like to celebrate Valentine's Day with a little tech twist, this year you can send an augmented reality…
Video Games of the Umich/EMU Game Expo 2019
Professor Austin Yarger, left, poses with friends at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan student video game expo at the Betty…
Check Out The EMU & U-M Student Video Game Showcase Wednesday
Hands down, our most popular posts in Cronicle's first 6 months have been the feature on indie game design studios in Michigan from…
Every Time The Bell Rings, a Startup Gets Its Wings: Venture Accelerator's Diane Bouis Talks Connecting New Ann Arbor Startups
Innovation Program Manager Diane Bouis of the University of Michigan Venture Accelerator stands in the Office of Tech Transfer, where every…
Help OSHKI Clean Up The Great Lakes Plastic Pollution To Create Upcycled Gear
Oshki Beach Cleanup Here Marquette Beach Muskegon, MI www.AdamAlexanderPhoto.com ©Adam Alexander Photography 2019 Don't know about you, but…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Jim Price of U of M Ross School of Business
Jim Price is a serial entrepreneur who found his passion teaching and coaching young entrepreneurs through the Zell Lurie Institute at the…
Revolutionary Graphene Sensors from Arborsense Measure Blood Alcohol Levels Through Skin
Name: Girish Kulkarni Uniqname: girishsk Department: BME Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing www.engin.umich…
A Look Inside The University of Michigan Desai Venture Accelerator
Angela Kujava heads up the Desai Accelerator run out of the Zell Lurie Institute at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. The…
Scavenger Is An Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt For Adults
It's been decades since we did a scavenger hunt, but these days augmented reality seems just the thing to make these old-fashioned games…
Tech Startup hEARt Brings An Empathetic Ear To Students Everywhere
College campuses have been through a number of crises lately, from dealing with increasing academic pressure to a growing number of active…
Optimize: The Student-Led Impact Venture Incubator Grows Up
In 2013, a group of University of Michigan students wanted to support each other's startup ventures. Some were tech focused, others social…
a2Tech360 Behind the Scenes 2029: What The Future Holds
Ravi Pendse PhD, VP for IT and CIO at the University of Michigan, kicked off 2029: What The Future Holds with a keynote all about emerging…
What Is It Like To Manage a 65,000-Person Slack Channel?
Jeff Sica sits down with Cronicle on Liberty across from the Michigan Theater. Legend has it that if you sit still long enough in the ITHAKA…
Kinetica Labs Launches New Ergonomic Software
The Kinetica Labs MotionCapture app allows the user to take a video with a smartphone for upload to analyze ergonomic risk of a worker…
Perch: Indeed.com for Research Labs Launches with Major Universities
Perch engineer Benji Bear (left) and CEO Akira Nishii (right) are part of a diverse team of undergrad and grad students launching Perch in…
Innovate Blue: Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan
Jeni Olney of Innovate Blue at a meeting of Innovation in Action in Ann Arbor in the TechArb work space for student entrepreneurs. Jeni…
Peerstachio: A Student Venture About Connection Connects with A2 Tech
Peerstachio is a social platform for connecting students with peers for academic help. In our recent two-part series on the student…
Chip Off Silicon Valley: The Student Entrepreneurs of Ann Arbor (Part 2)
... Continued from Part 1 Alison Elgass of Busy Box. ... Innovation in Action uses the same work space as TechArb for students to come…
Chip Off Silicon Valley: The Student Entrepreneurs of Ann Arbor (Part 1)
Michelle Wander, Ryan Gourley, and Erin Moore, Assistant Director of Student Engagement and former Program Manager at Innovation in Action…