News Releases for July 2012
July 31
- Startup company gives $120,000 grant to Wayne State University geology department for energy, mining research
- Faculty and research assistants in Wayne State University’s Department of Geology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences soon will become the latest additions to a national team of expe...
- Wayne State research team finds possible clue to progression of MS
- DETROIT — Wayne State University School of Medicine researchers, working with colleagues in Canada, have found that one or more substances produced by a type of immune cell in people with m...
July 30
- TechTown announces partnership with Detroit’s Brightmoor Alliance; SWOT City program to spur entrepreneurship across city
- TechTown , Wayne State University’s research and technology park and business incubator, today announced the establishment of a partnership with the Brightmoor Alliance , a neighborhood co...
- Wayne Law professor leads state group creating guidelines for public health emergencies
- In venues from medical labs to the Supreme Court, Americans deal increasingly with bioethical issues, as science brings developments in life and death cases. Wayne Law Associate Professor Lanc...
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Detroit’s Got Startup Talent
- What: Startup SOUP is a novel TechTown pitch competition designed to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses through microfunding. Each finalist will make a business pitch and field questions...
July 26
- Wayne State University chemistry professor selected for Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- DETROIT – Wen Li , assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University, has been selected for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (P...
July 20
- Trust in management, supervisors is key to avoiding correctional staff job burnout, Wayne State University researcher finds
- DETROIT — Correctional facility employees who trust supervisors and management are less likely to experience job burnout, a Wayne State University researcher has found. “Trust build...
- Wayne State University announces $1 million gift to support the Math Corps
- DETROIT – Wayne State University has received a leadership gift of $1 million to support the Math Corps, a combined academic enrichment and mentoring program for Detroit public school stude...
July 18
- Creative Film Alliance students launch Kickstarter fundraising campaign for ‘Downriver’ movie project
- DETROIT – July 18, 2012 – The students of the Michigan Creative Film Alliance (MiCFA) have launched their first major fundraising campaign on Kickstarter, an online funding platform f...
- New Patent Procurement Clinic at Wayne Law offers qualifying clients free legal services and expedited application process
- DETROIT (July 18, 2012) – Wayne State University Law School is the first in the state and among fewer than 20 law schools nationwide selected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to parti...
- Wayne State University teams up with MIT to discover how brain mechanisms for memory retrieval differ between children and adults
- DETROIT — Neuroscientists from Wayne State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are taking a deeper look into how the brain mechanisms for memory retrieval differ b...
July 17
- Wayne State University researcher’s program targets safer river fishing, anglers’ health
- DETROIT — While Michigan environmental programs are slowly reducing toxins in lakes and rivers, human consumption of contaminated fish continues. A Wayne State University researcher believes...
July 16
- Wayne Law expert on copyright, intellectual property, writes Supreme Court brief
- DETROIT (July 16, 2012) – Twenty-five law professors from universities across the country have signed on to an amicus brief written by Assistant Professor Aaron Perzanowski from Wayne State ...
- Wayne State University College of Nursing receives $3.4 million state grant to prepare high school students for health care careers
- The Wayne State University College of Nursing has received a grant of nearly $3.4 million dollars from the 21 st Century Community Learning Center, funded by the Michigan Department of Education....
July 10
- 2012 Kresge Artist Fellow Maria Costa Headlines ‘Macho Men and the Women Who Love Them’ July 26 at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
- DETROIT, July 10, 2012 — “Macho Men and the Women Who Love Them,” the hit, live Latino musical comedy from Los Angeles, will make its official Detro...
- Wayne Law students receive $5,000 stipends to work on human rights issues at NGOs around the globe
- DETROIT -- Wayne State University Law School students Michael Osman of Dearborn Heights , Eric Shovein of Grosse Pointe Farms , Dessislava Terzieva of Troy , and Kristin York of Fern...
July 9
- Wayne Raskind appointed dean of Wayne State’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- DETROIT – Wayne Raskind, professor and founding director of the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (SoMSS) at Arizona State University (ASU), has been appointed dean of Wayne...
- Forbidden Art, World War II Nazi concentration camp prisoners’ artwork, to be shown at Wayne State
- DETROIT (July 9, 2012) – The College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State University announces that Wayne State is one of four North American locations to host the trav...
July 6
- Algae extract increases good cholesterol levels, Wayne State University researcher finds
- DETROIT — A Wayne State University researcher has found that an extract from algae could become a key to regulating cardiovascular disease. In a study funded by Health Enhancement Product...
July 4
- Wayne State University part of team that discovered new subatomic particle
- DETROIT — At a seminar held at CERN today in Geneva, Switzerland, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. B...
July 3
- Wayne State University part of Tevatron scientists that announced final results on the Higgs particle
- DETROIT — After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have ...
July 2
- Wayne State University appoints new AVP of enrollment
- Wayne State University has appointed Corinne M. Webb as associate vice president of enrollment, effective immediately. Webb has more than 35 years of experience in enrollment management, student l...
- Survey of local purchasing managers shows employment index at nearly a five-year high
- DETROIT— The Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) came in at 60.3 in June, a marked drop from 66.3 in May. However, PMI index values above 50 generally suggest an expanding ...
- StoryCorps’ oral history project to record interviews with Detroit residents
- StoryCorps, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, sharing, and preserving the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs, will record interviews in Detroit from July...
- Computer science alumna finds challenges and success as leader in IT industry
- DETROIT (July 2, 2012) – Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer for Dell Adriana Karaboutis attributes much of her success to her ability to embrace challenges. She also attrib...
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