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January 27, 2012

Wayne State University Board of Governors to meet Wednesday, Feb. 1

The Wayne State University Board of Governors will hold its next regular meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, in Room BC at McGregor Memorial Conference Center, 495 W. Ferry Mall, Detroit. The...

January 26, 2012

Wayne State University professor among top 2 percent nationally, engineering institute says

DETROIT - Howard W.T. Matthew, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineering, materials science and biomedical engineering at Wayne State University, is one of 107 new members elected to the College of ...

January 25, 2012

Wayne State University to convene childhood epilepsy training in sub-Saharan Africa

DETROIT - A Wayne State University School of Medicine physician and researcher will convene a vital training workshop on childhood epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa next month. Harry Chugani, M.D....

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CBS Detroit highlights School of Medicine's epilepsy training in Africa, Jan 27, 2012

A Wayne State University School of Medicine physician and researcher will convene a vital training workshop on childhood epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa next month. Dr. Harry Chugani, the Rosalie and Bruce Rosen professor of neurology and chief of pediatric neurology for the School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Michigan, has organized “Epilepsy in Children in Developing Countries.” The training will take place Feb. 1-4 in Entebbe, Uganda. The attendees will be physicians primarily from sub-Saharan countries, with a few from North Africa. “We will teach them about basic diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in children,” said Chugani, who also serves as director of the Positron Emission Tomography Center for the School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He will give opening and concluding remarks, as well as a lecture on the role of neuroimaging in epilepsy.

Local media outlets announce second round of Live Midtown incentives , Jan 26, 2012

Wayne State University, Henry Ford Health System and the Detroit Medical Center confirmed yesterday that they will participate for a second year in the "Live Midtown" initiative in which it gives financial incentives for employees to live in areas of Detroit. The 2012 program kicked off Wednesday. The program, announced last January and administered by Midtown Detroit Inc., offers cash to about 30,000 employees of Wayne State, Henry Ford and the DMC to buy or rent in the New Center, Midtown, Virginia Park and Woodbridge neighborhoods.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2012/01/live_midtown_to_offer_more_inc.html

WSU's Dr. Martin Bluth discusses biomedicine patents on Detroit 20/20, Jan 26, 2012

Detroit 20/20 ran a segment on the new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) to be located at 300 River Place Drive at the former headquarters for Stroh’s Brewery and Parke-Davis Laboratories. There is a huge backlog of patents in this country, possibly more than 700,000. The wait for a new patent can be 4 to 5 years or more, and the cost can be tens of thousands of dollars. Dr. Martin Bluth, of Wayne State University’s School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, is also the founder of Genome Dynamics International, LLC, and has five patents pending in biomedicine. “I think in terms of getting technology out there faster, I hope the US PTO dropping anchor in Detroit will be the start of heralding a collective buy-in to make the process easier, simpler and more effective so that more people like myself can get technology out there and improve the world,” Bluth said.

Professor Carol Bugdalski-Stutrud and WSU pharmacy highlighted in Pharmacy Today feature, Jan 25, 2012

A feature story examines the University Pharmacy founded on campus in 2008 by Maria Young. Carol Bugdalski-Stutrud, assistant clinical professor and director of community experiential education at Wayne State’s Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, also is mentioned for her vision of an independent pharmacy on campus that could host influenza clinics and wellness screening staffed by student pharmacists. Photos of WSU pharmacy students are included along with Young and Bugdalski-Stutrud. (Pgs. 49-50)

WSU diver Paige Kortman profiled in NCAA publication, Jan 25, 2012

This feature story in the official NCAA publication profiles Wayne State University sophomore swimmer and diver Paige Kortman, who finished fifth in the one-meter competition and ninth in the three-meter at the 2011 Division II women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. A photo of Kortman is included.

New Delhi newspaper promotes "Sports Science" show with College of Engineering's Cynthia Bir, Jan 25, 2012

Cynthia Bir, professor of biomedical engineering at Wayne State University, is the lead engineer in the 13-part series titled “Sports Science” to be telecast on the Discovery Science channel beginning Feb. 1. Using methods that have been developed to understand human injury biomechanics, and with the help of new techniques to address the unique challenges found when studying live volunteers in high impact and high speed activities, Bir will make viewers understand the forces (internal and external) sustained and generated by the body during high-level athletic activities.