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New Nanophotonic Material Can Turn Heat to Electricity

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…

New Nanophotonic Material Can Turn Heat to Electricity

Durable Antimicrobial Coating Kills Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Minutes

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…

Durable Antimicrobial Coating Kills Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Minutes

Report Shows Clean Energy Jobs Could Replace Lost Coal Jobs

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…

Report Shows Clean Energy Jobs Could Replace Lost Coal Jobs

Nano-Engineered Brain Cancer Treatment Might Kill Tumor Cells and Activate Immune System

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…

Nano-Engineered Brain Cancer Treatment Might Kill Tumor Cells and Activate Immune System

University of Michigan Partners with Meta To Build Social Media Data Archive

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…

University of Michigan Partners with Meta To Build Social Media Data Archive

Robots Fabricate a Pavilion To Prove Broader Use Case for Automated Construction

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…

Robots Fabricate a Pavilion To Prove Broader Use Case for Automated Construction

Students Launch New Venture Fund for Climate Tech Startups

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…

Students Launch New Venture Fund for Climate Tech Startups

What The Future Holds for Healthcare Startups

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…

What The Future Holds for Healthcare Startups

Announcing The Michigan Game Studios Database

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…

Announcing The Michigan Game Studios Database

University of Michigan School of Information Students Available for UX and Data Analysis Projects

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 of Michigan School of Information Students Available for UX and Data Analysis Projects

University Budgets Were Hit Hard: Can Software Help?

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…

University Budgets Were Hit Hard: Can Software Help?

Innovation Beyond Borders with TusStar's International Startup Incubators

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…

Innovation Beyond Borders with TusStar's International Startup Incubators

How Will We Track COVID-19 Symptoms As Americans Return To Work? An App Attempts To Identify Hotspots

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 Will We Track COVID-19 Symptoms As Americans Return To Work? An App Attempts To Identify Hotspots

How Does a Medical Device Startup Get To Market During the COVID-19 Shutdown?

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…

How Does a Medical Device Startup Get To Market During the COVID-19 Shutdown?

Michigan Company Invents Fast & Effective COVID-19 Antibody Test

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…

Michigan Company Invents Fast & Effective COVID-19 Antibody Test

New Startup Monstrsense Creates Ultrafast Spectrometer For Inspecting New Semiconductor Materials

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…

New Startup Monstrsense Creates Ultrafast Spectrometer For Inspecting New Semiconductor Materials

Attend The University of Michigan Data for Public Good Symposium Feb 25th

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…

Attend The University of Michigan Data for Public Good Symposium Feb 25th

Send a Valentine to a Patient at Mott's Children's Hospital with Spellbound AR

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…

Send a Valentine to a Patient at Mott's Children's Hospital with Spellbound AR

Video Games of the Umich/EMU Game Expo 2019

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…

Video Games of the Umich/EMU Game Expo 2019

Check Out The EMU & U-M Student Video Game Showcase Wednesday

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…

Check Out The EMU & U-M Student Video Game Showcase Wednesday

Every Time The Bell Rings, a Startup Gets Its Wings: Venture Accelerator's Diane Bouis Talks Connecting New Ann Arbor Startups

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…

Every Time The Bell Rings, a Startup Gets Its Wings: Venture Accelerator's Diane Bouis Talks Connecting New Ann Arbor Startups

Help OSHKI Clean Up The Great Lakes Plastic Pollution To Create Upcycled Gear

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…

Help OSHKI Clean Up The Great Lakes Plastic Pollution To Create Upcycled Gear

Mentors of Michigan Tech: Jim Price of U of M Ross School of Business

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…

Mentors of Michigan Tech: Jim Price of U of M Ross School of Business

Revolutionary Graphene Sensors from Arborsense Measure Blood Alcohol Levels Through Skin

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…

Revolutionary Graphene Sensors from Arborsense Measure Blood Alcohol Levels Through Skin

A Look Inside The University of Michigan Desai Venture Accelerator

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…

A Look Inside The University of Michigan Desai Venture Accelerator

Scavenger Is An Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt For Adults

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…

Scavenger Is An Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt For Adults

Tech Startup hEARt Brings An Empathetic Ear To Students Everywhere

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…

Tech Startup hEARt Brings An Empathetic Ear To Students Everywhere

Optimize: The Student-Led Impact Venture Incubator Grows Up

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…

Optimize: The Student-Led Impact Venture Incubator Grows Up

a2Tech360 Behind the Scenes 2029: What The Future Holds

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…

a2Tech360 Behind the Scenes 2029: What The Future Holds

What Is It Like To Manage a 65,000-Person Slack Channel?

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…

What Is It Like To Manage a 65,000-Person Slack Channel?

Kinetica Labs Launches New Ergonomic Software

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…

Kinetica Labs Launches New Ergonomic Software

Perch: Indeed.com for Research Labs Launches with Major Universities

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…

Perch: Indeed.com for Research Labs Launches with Major Universities

Innovate Blue: Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan

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…

Innovate Blue: Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan

Peerstachio: A Student Venture About Connection Connects with A2 Tech

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…

Peerstachio: A Student Venture About Connection Connects with A2 Tech

Chip Off Silicon Valley: The Student Entrepreneurs of Ann Arbor (Part 2)

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 2)

Chip Off Silicon Valley: The Student Entrepreneurs of Ann Arbor (Part 1)

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…

Chip Off Silicon Valley: The Student Entrepreneurs of Ann Arbor (Part 1)

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