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WHO WE ARE
University Research Corridor presidents announce the corridor during a conference call. Click here to hear a podcast of the announcement (courtesy of WWJ News Radio 950) > > The state of Michigan has countless strengths and attractions: a diverse and skilled workforce, communities rich in history, and natural beauty unparalleled in this country. Our great state also has a system of public universities that is renowned in American higher education and driven by three major research institutions: the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University. We are the University Research Corridor, and we are building the Michigan of tomorrow. Innovation and research—the very fiber of our universities—will propel Michigan’s economy. At a time when our state is working to transform an economy born of heavy manufacturing, the University Research Corridor is preparing skilled graduates to lead in the next wave: biomedicine, nanotechnology, alternative energy, and computing. Our faculty are announcing new inventions every week and spinning off companies that are attracting investment and creating new jobs. They are discovering cures and treatments that will revolutionize our way of life. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford both grew up in Michigan. Edison was prolific in obtaining patents, developing the light bulb, movies and the phonograph. Ford was the architect of the assembly line and mass production as we know it. Tomorrow’s Henry Ford or Thomas Edison? You will most likely find her in Michigan’s University Research Corridor. Sincerely, Lou Anna K. Simon Mary Sue Coleman Irvin D. Reid |
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