

Profiles below offer the chance to dig deeper into stories about the researchers, business leaders, and community projects that play roles in opening doors to Michigan’s future.
Antonio Lück had completed degrees in civil engineering and law and was serving as an advisor to the president of Tuiuti University of Paraná in Brazil when he met Irvin D. Reid, then president of Wayne State University.…
Susan Galantowicz, a graduate of the University of Michigan, is Senior Director of Global Research Operations for the Services Industries division at J.D. Power.
Accountant by day, entertainment tycoon by night, Paul Glantz admittedly is not your typical entrepreneur.
For more than 100 years, Steelcase has been creating furniture in Grand Rapids; but what they create has changed dramatically.
While working on her doctoral degree in biopsychology at Wayne State University, Rosemarie Torrento’s marriage unraveled, forcing her to look for a way to support herself and her daughter, then in high school.
The youngest boy in a family of five children from the east side of Detroit, Nzimiro Oputa saw his share of hand-me-down clothes.
Every summer growing up in Detroit, Joe McClure would go with his grandfather, father and brother to the Eastern Market and pick up fresh Michigan produce—cucumbers, garlic and dill, that they would take home to make…
Converting raw materials into quality products requires the expertise of professionals trained in supply chain.