Gov. Jennifer Granholm has named members to the new Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization Board (SEIC) and to the Michigan Strategic Fund. President Irvin D. Reid is among several members appointed to the SEIC Board. The SEIC has responsibility for grants and loans made to support technology investments in the life sciences, alternative energy, advanced manufacturing and homeland security and defense. This news item also ran Monday in the Great Lakes IT Report, a sister publication.