News Releases for January 2008
January 31
- WSU and Chinese officials launch the Wayne State University Confucius Institute
- Wayne State University is teaming with Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, to create the Confucius Institute, a non-profit program within the College of Liberal Arts...
January 30
- Wayne State University Board of Governors votes to create Honors College
- Outgrowth of longstanding Honors Program Building on an Honors Program that has grown significantly in recent years, Wayne State University has announced formal creation of an Honors College...
- Eugene Applebaum pledges $2.1 million to Wayne State for establishment of Chair of Community Engagement
- To be filled by Irvin D. Reid when he steps down as president later this year Wayne State University alumnus and major benefactor Eugene Applebaum, for whom the university’s College o...
- Wayne State University research team developing nanodevices for use in diagnostics and therapy of numerous inflammatory and infectious diseases
- DETROIT – A team of researchers from Wayne State University’s College of Engineering, School of Medicine and the Kresge Eye Institute have been collaborating to discover and ...
January 29
- Wayne State University receives $7.77 million grant to fund Chemistry Building expansion and endowment
- Wayne State University has received a $7.77 million grant from the A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Fund of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. A. Paul Schaap, former Wayne State Universit...
January 25
- Wayne State University Board of Governors to meet Wednesday, Jan. 30
- The Wayne State University Board of Governors will hold its next regular meeting Wednesday, Jan. 30, in Room BC at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center, 495 West Ferry Mall, in Detroit. The ...
- Ethriam Brammer selected Children’s Humanities Scholar
- Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies (CBS) Assistant Director for Recruitment and Retention, Ethriam Brammer, was recently selected to serve as the Humanities Scholar for a new family literacy...
January 22
- Pfizer Inc. to donate up to $6 million in lab equipment
- Surplus Gear to Support Michigan Innovation Equipment Depot & Startups; Universities, Community Colleges & Schools Also Receiving Supplies ANN ARBOR, Mich.; Jan. 22, 2008 &ndash...
- Wayne State University researcher gains international attention for cell phone study
- Bengt Arnetz, M.D. DETROIT – A joint study involving Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit,...
- Wayne State Professor receives $2.2 million grant for international HIV/AIDS intervention study
- DETROIT – The HIV/AIDS pandemic scene in East Asia is largely dominated by China. While AIDS is not yet considered an epidemic in ...
January 18
- Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute Friends of the Freer House present a lecture by Dr. James Christen Steward, Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art.
- WHO AND WHAT: Wayne State University’s Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute and the Friends of the Freer House are hosting a special lecture by James C. Steward. This talk will examine the in...
January 16
- MEDIA ADVISORY - Prominent minister and civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Charles G. Adams to speak at Wayne State University Martin Luther King tribute Jan. 18, 2008
- WHAT: Rev. Dr. Charles G. Adams, prominent minister and civic rights leader, will deliver the keynote address titled “Creating a New Legacy - 40 years later,” in observance of Mart...
- CANCELLED - Fourteenth Annual African American Composers Concert on Martin L. King Jr. Day at Wayne State University
- Detroit, MI (January 16, 2008) The Fourteenth Annual African American Composers concert scheduled for Monday January 21, 2008, has been cancelled. The concert was scheduled at 3:00 PM in the Schave...
- Wayne State University Screening of Documentary about Post-9/11 Hate Crimes at Detroit
- Detroit, Mich. -- Wayne State University’s Sikh Student Organization will host a screening of Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath, the first feature-length documentary film to analyze...
January 15
- Robert M. Ackerman to head Wayne State University Law School
- Robert M. Ackerman DETROIT – Robert M. Ackerman, a Pennsylvania State U...
January 14
- Wayne State School of Medicine Professor receives $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health
- DETROIT—Wayne State University Associate Professor, Jason H. Mateika, Ph.D., of the Department of Physiology and Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine, was recently awarded $1.5 million...
January 12
- Motown 101
- This is not your everyday English class. From dissecting slam poetry to analyzing the music of Marvin Gaye and The White Stripes, students enrolled in a new learning community at...
- Motown 101
- This is not your everyday English class. From dissecting slam poetry to analyzing the music of Marvin Gaye and The White Stripes, students enrolled in a new learning commun...
January 9
- Stephen Calkins of Northville appointed associate vice president for academic personnel at Wayne State University
- Stephen Calkins DETROIT – Wayne State University has appointed law professor ...
January 3
- Institute established at Wayne State University to empower African-American Children
- Wayne State University and the College of Education (COE) announce the launching of the Institute for the Study of the African-American Child (ISAAC), an institute designed to empower Afr...
January 2
- College of Nursing Associate Professor April Hazard Vallerand Wins International Award for Interactive Multimedia Education
- DETROIT, December 2007 – Wayne State University College of Nursing Associate Professor April Hazard Vallerand, PhD, RN, FAAN, one of the nation’s leading experts in the field of pain ma...
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