University Research Corridor (URC), an academic research alliance between three Michigan universities, has appointed its interim executive-director, Britany Affolter-Caine (pictured), to the position permanently.
Affolter-Caine will be tasked with directing the corridor’s strategy and operations. She succeeds Jeff Mason, who became URC’s first executive-director in 2009 but left in June 2017 to become CEO at public-private partnership Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
URC aggregates the intellectual resources of Michigan State University, University of Michigan and Wayne State University, which together spent…
