A Heroes’ Alliance after-school Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program, focused on lightweighting and additive manufacturing technologies in vehicles, has found a new home at the LIFT – Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow research and development facility in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit.

The program – now in the second...

Dr. Francis Collins is one of the world’s pre-eminent scientists, having directed the extraordinary international Human Genome Project that mapped out humanity’s genes for the first time. He has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National...

LIFT – Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, a Detroit-based Manufacturing USA institute, celebrating the 5th anniversary of its founding, today announced that the Department of Defense has extended its cooperative agreement for another year while negotiations are underway for a new long-term partnership.

The American Lightweight Materials...

A little over two years ago, NIIMBL, a manufacturing USA institute, began with a vision to accelerate biopharmaceutical manufacturing innovation in the United States. Stakeholders from all areas of the biopharmaceutical community have come together to put that vision into motion. The community has focused on the technologies and training programs...

UI LABS announced today that its two labs — the City Tech Collaborative and the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII), a Manufacturing USA institute, — will stand as independent organizations, now that both have achieved strong momentum and robust fiscal health.

DMDII, which launched in 2014 with $80 million in funding from...