News Releases for April 2006
April 26
- Board of Governors recognize outstanding faculty efforts
- Five Wayne State University professors, who have distinguished themselves through the research and writing of scholarly publications, are the recipients of the 2006 WSU Board of Governors Faculty R...
April 24
- A. Alfred Taubman donates $3 million to spur planning, construction of Damon J. Keith Classroom Building and Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State University Law School
- Planned construction of a new building at the Wayne State University Law School has received a major boost from industrialist and philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman, who is donating $3 million to th...
April 21
- Wayne State University Board of Governors to meet
- The Wayne State University Board of Governors will hold its next regular meeting Wednesday, April 26, in Room BC at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center, 495 West Ferry Mall, in Detroit. ...
April 20
- Wayne State Startup, SenSound, honored as one of "Michigan 50 Companies to Watch"
- SenSound, LLC has been recognized as one of the “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch,” an awards program sponsored by the Edward Lowe Foundation. SenSound, a Wayne State University technolog...
- TechTown Board of Directors expands from coast to coast
- (Detroit) April 19, 2006—The Board of Directors of TechTown, Detroit’s only research and technology park, has selected four distinguished new members. Doug Rothwell, Kwame Kenyatta, Mi...
April 19
- Community participates in development plan to support academic unit
- On March 29, the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies (IS) launched its inaugural meeting of an advisory board established as part of the IS Development Initiative and comprised of community lea...
- Wayne State faculty and staff receive lifetime achievement awards
- The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth, Department of Adult Education, awarded its first Lifetime Achievement Award to two of Wayne State University’s pioneers in adult learnin...
- Moving arsenic from roots to shoots for environmental clean-up
- Arsenic ranks first on the U.S. government's Priority List of Hazardous Substances, ( http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cercla/05list.html ) both because of its toxicity and its prevalence in the environme...
April 14
- Business Leaders to be honored by Wayne State University School of Business Administration
- David A. Brandon, chairman and CEO of Domino’s Pizza, will receive the Michigan Executive of the Year Award from the Wayne State University School of Business Administration during the 2006 ...
April 11
- National Science Foundation Awards $426,000 to Wayne State for “Digital Dashboard” Research
- The National Science Foundation has awarded a $426,000 grant for a three-year “Digital Diffusion Dashboard Project” to study and develop a new methodology for accelerating the di...
April 10
- Wayne State University officials seeking educational opportunities with China
- A delegation of Wayne State University faculty and officials is traveling this month to China to meet with university and government officials. Wayne State University is expanding its broad globa...
- National expert commemorates Holocaust and Armenian Genocide in program at Wayne State
- DETROIT, MICH — The Committee to Commemorate the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide is co-sponsoring its 19th annual Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Commemoration at Wayne State University&...
April 7
- Wayne State police to operate world’s first police fuel cell vehicle
- DETROIT, April 7, 2006 - The Daimler Chrysler Corporation has introduced the first fuel cell powered vehicle in the world. The Wayne State University Police Department will operate the Mercedes F-...
- Evolution-creation debate will be focus of conference at Wayne State, April 21
- The long-standing debate over evolution versus creationism will take center stage at Wayne State University Friday, April 21, when distinguished scholars from WSU and around the country will addres...
April 6
- The Hilberry Theatre invites you to the 2006-2007 Season Open House
- The Hilberry Theatre has announced its exciting 2006-2007 season and invites you, your friends and neighbors to the first ever Hilberry Open House! The Open House will take place on Saturday, ...
- Nobel Peace Laureates to lecture at free WSU symposium, May 5
- Nobel Peace Prize winners Shirin Ebadi , Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchú Tum will discuss The Role of Governments in Achieving or Obstructing Worldwide Peace during a free public ...
- Wayne State University pays tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- DETROIT, MI (April 6, 2006) – The Wayne State University Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus will celebrate the birth of Mozart on Monday, April 17. The concert, which starts at 7 p.m., is being h...
April 5
- Great Lakes Angels announces new board members
- (Detroit) April 5, 2006—Great Lakes Angels, the on-site investor organization at TechTown, announces the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors. They are: • ...
- Wayne State researchers discover a way to restore visual responses in blind mice
- Dr. Zhou-Hua Pan Detroit, Mich...
- Opening of WSU palliative care program allows patients to live with vitality, die with dignity.
- Just one year after the controversial death of Terri Schiavo (March 31, 2005), and after heated national discussion about medical ethics, Wayne State University is launching a palliative care cent...
April 4
- "Functional Foods, Health and You" lecture hosted by Wayne State’s Department of Nutrition and Food Science
- WHO: Wayne State University Department of Nutrition and Food Science WHAT: Marqueta C. Huyck Lecture on “Functional Foods, Health, and You.” Speaker: John A. Milner, Ph.D., Chief Nut...
- Wayne State researcher discovers potential approach to hyperoxygenate blood
- May lead to improved treatments where oxygen is critical in sustaining life Detroit, MI. Researchers at Wayne State University are working on improved methods of infusing aqueous oxygen into ...
- Wayne State University showcases emerging student choreographers in Pieces of… senior capstone dance concert
- DETROIT (Apr. 5, 2006) - The Maggie Allesee Department of Dance at Wayne State University presents Pieces of... a cornucopia of dance styles featuring senior dance students’ capstone ch...
April 3
- Wayne State Choral Showcase next Tuesday at new Detroit School of Arts
- DETROIT, MI (March 31, 2006) – The Wayne State University Choral Department will be presenting their Spring Choral Showcase, next Tuesday, April 4 at the Detroit School of Arts. The concert ...
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