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.
Michigan State University’s contributions to agriculture are well-known. Talented researchers and graduates, their work and discoveries are reaching well beyond their inherent value and into the realm of societal change…
Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), will bring researchers from around the globe to East Lansing while spurring more than $1 billion in economic activity in the region.
U-M alum Dug Song and Jon Oberheide founded the security firm Duo Security in 2009.
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.
When Jim Raines came to the University of Michigan, he was coming home. Raines grew up in Blissfield, Michigan, graduated from Clemson University in 1990 and got his master’s degree in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon…
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.…
Nothing about Jim Fleming’s entrepreneurial path was predictable, and only in retrospect seems to have had a linear path.
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.
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.
Accountant by day, entertainment tycoon by night, Paul Glantz admittedly is not your typical entrepreneur.