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April 30

Entrepreneurs fill campuses

More than 4 in 10 Michigan college students hope to start their own businesses one day, according to a poll that surveyed 640 students at the state’s Big 3 universities – Wayne State University, Mi...

Poll: 2 of 3 undergrads expect to leave Michigan or unsure

According to a recent poll, 53 percent of 640 students surveyed at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan expect to move out of state upon graduation. Of t...

Wayne State University Concert Chorale director interviewed

WWJ reporter Vicki Thomas interviewed Wayne State University Concert Chorale director Norah Duncan during rehearsals this morning at the Emma Lazaroff Schaver Music Recital Hall. WWJ is also planni...

April 29

Warren band, chorus team for concert today

A brief notes that at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 29, the Warren Concert Band will present a concert with the Warren Community Chorus. This year marks the 25th anniversary celebration of the dually hosted...

Art therapy conference

2007 marks the 30th anniversary of the Michigan Art Therapy Association which works to promote the therapeutic use of art. The conference celebrates past accomplishments, but speakers will also tal...

Football camp

Detroit Lions quarterback Josh McCown and offensive lineman Barry Stokes will serve as instructors at the Offense-Defense Football Camp held at Wayne State University from June 24-28. During the fi...

Spring sports off to a strong start at WSU, other schools

Downriver athletes stand out on college team rosters Warrior senior first baseman Jon Weisman leads the Wayne State University baseball team with nine home runs, through the season’s first 33 ga...

Med school decision ‘as big as it gets’

Michigan State University officials will visit Macomb County tomorrow searching for a potential site for its new medical school. Among planned stops will be the site proposed by the Detroit Medical...

April 28

GRADING PRESIDENTS: Lincoln is tops, Bushes rank near bottom in poll of students

According to a recent poll, students at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have been debating which Presidents have been good and bad. Students ranked ...

Universities criticize funding disparities

Grand Valley State University President Thomas Haas believes all 15 of Michigan’s public universities should remain together on one funding bill. The debate on whether or not to separate Wayne Stat...

April 27

Teenager is about to graduate – from U-M

Nicole Matisse, who will graduate from the University of Michigan this summer at the age of 19, has enrolled for the fall term at the WSU Law School. But she says the Law School has indicated she w...

Wayne State unveils its new strategic plan

Wayne State University unveiled its new strategic plan, which calls for an increase in student, building a campus experience and enhancing its reputation as a research institution, according to the...

Wayne State University will break ground on a new engineering facility

On May 2, Wayne State University will break ground on a new engineering facility specializing in innovations in sustainable energy technology health care, biotech and other high tech industries. Un...

Wayne State Tech spinoff gets federal grant

SenSound LLC has announced that it will receive a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force to fund research into the acoustic characteristics of jet plumes resulting from high-performance aircraft en...

FARMINGTON HILLS: Alumni magazine names publisher

The Wayne State University Alumni Association has launched an e-newsletter called Let’s Go! and has named Marguerite Rigby as publisher. The staff includes editor Michelle Franzen Martin and managi...

April 26

Financial Headlines: DEVELOPMENT: WSU to build alternative energy center

A brief item in the business section notes that Wayne State plans to break ground May 2 on a $27.3 million engineering facility that will focus on research and development in the area of alternativ...

Steven Levitt’s lecture at Wayne State University

WWJ’s Pat Vitale and WDET’s Al Mazurek provided on-site coverage of Steven Levitt’s lecture at Wayne State University on April 26. Levitt, author of the New York Times bestseller “Freakonomics: A R...

Chief of Staff Andrea Roumell Dickson interview on WDET

Chief of Staff Andrea Roumell Dickson was interviewed by WDET’s Quinn Klinefelter about the university’s five-year strategic plan, which was unveiled Thursday. Officials say the plan includes many ...

Marvin I. Danto Engineering Development Center groundbreaking

Wayne State University College of Engineering Dean Ralph Kummler talked about the planned groundbreaking on May 2 for the Marvin I. Danto Engineering Development Center. The interview aired during ...

Wayne State says 'Freakonomics' author's visit symbolizes plan to engage urban community

As part of Wayne State University’s effort to boost its engagement in the urban community, a campus lecture was held Thursday by best-selling author Steven Levitt. "Freakonomics" author Levitt was ...

April 25

Wayne State breaks ground for engineering building

This online news briefs site from WWJ Radio includes an item about the planned May 2 groundbreaking on campus for the Marvin Danto Engineering Development Center. Details are given regarding planne...

April 21

Research funds divide colleges

The presidents of Wayne State, Michigan State and the University of Michigan brought their campaign for a two-tiered university appropriations system to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Hi...

April 19

Opening doors to college could aid ex-foster youths

In an editorial, the newspaper stated that it believes viable steps need to be taken to ensure that young people who have aged out of the foster care system have greater access either to college or...

After Virginia Tech, writing instructors confront ethical choices – UPDATE

Prior to his shooting rampage at Virginia Tech Monday, Cho Seung-Hui was a creative writing student who had earlier been referred to the university’s counseling center because of the disturbing con...

List of Va. Tech vigils planned for metro Detroit

These media outlets ran a brief calendar item about the scheduled candlelight remembrance ceremony tonight at 8:15 p.m. at Wayne State University’s Gullen Mall.

Campaign fights Big 3 universities’ separate funding status bid

Eight regional Michigan universities launched a "We Matter, Too!" sticker campaign this week to protest special budget treatment for the state's Big Three universities. Calling themselves the OUR T...

State universities square off over funding proposal

Harvey Hollins III, Wayne State University vice president for government and community relations, is quoted extensively in a story about the coalition of Michigan universities, a group organized to...

April 18

Students return with GM redevelopment project

Wayne State University urban planning graduate students will give their final presentation tonight on how to redevelop two Lansing-based General Motors auto plants that have been shut down. This pr...

More Michigan parents see college as essential

As Michigan reels from an eroding industrial job base, parents are getting the message: their children's success depends more than ever on higher education. Fifty-nine percent of Michigan parents s...

THE TICKER: 2 Lions to teach at camp

Josh McCown and Barry Stokes of the Detroit Lions will be instructors at an Offense-Defense Football Camp to be held June 24-28 at Wayne State University. Registration deadline is May 1. A phone nu...

District seeks to dump posh offices

Wayne State University was mentioned in a story about how the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) aborted its plans to buy and lease offices in Detroit’s New Center area. Former DPS CEO Kenneth Burnley so...

Schools out: Detroit closures complicate education, economics

Robin Boyle, chair of Wayne State University’s Geography and Urban Planning Department, takes a “very optimistic view” about school closures saying that they are actually an asset. Empty schools ca...

Karmanos researchers offer hope for prostate, lung cancers

Wayne State University is noted in a story about Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute researchers’ findings that an antibiotic typically prescribed for Alzheimer’s patients could be effective in e...

Trust in public education falls

Paula Wood, dean of Wayne State University’s College of Education, is quoted in a story about the decline in public confidence in the state's education system. A growing number of parents has turne...

Michigan’s gun laws are tougher than Virginia’s

Michigan’s gun laws are much stricter than Virginia, according to data compiled by the National Rifle Association. First, Michigan residents have to get a permit from their local police or sheriff'...

Are students deadly – or depressed?

Dr. Robert Frank, executive vice dean for Wayne State University’s School of Medicine, was interviewed in a followup story to the Virginia Tech shootings focusing on the differences between student...

Police praise Virginia Tech’s shooting response

Michigan’s Big 3 universities – Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan – have emergency response plans in place in case a tragedy like Monday’s Virginia Te...

April 17

Mid-Michigan campuses train for emergencies

A story on the Virginia Tech tragedy mentions that Thomas R. Mynsberge, owner of Critical Incident Management, Inc., a school security consulting company in Bay City, trains campus police forces at...

WDIV reporter Rod Meloni reviews Wayne State's security measures

Reporter Rod Meloni visited the dispatch center of Wayne State’s police department and reviewed the university’s security measures that are in place. In a story that aired during the 6 p.m. newscas...

Four Rochester schools close after bomb threat

Classes were cancelled at four Rochester area schools yesterday after a bomb threat was called in. Wayne State University was noted as one of several entities that assisted Oakland County Sheriff M...

Development News: Earth Day activities planned for Cass Park, WSU

Recycle Detroit and several partner organizations are teaming up to host an Earth Day Observance at Cass Park on April 21. The day’s events will conclude with speeches from Wayne State University P...

Killings stir fear in Mich. students

In light of the tragedy on the campus of Virginia Tech University, several local media outlets ran stories about safety measures and security issues at Michigan-based colleges and universities. Law...

April 16

Chimps Are Champs of Genetic Changes

Morris Goodman, an evolutionary biologist at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, was interviewed in a story about chimpanzees’ extraordinary ability to adapt to evolutionary changes per ...

Black trial prosecutors may lose jury in ‘minutiae’: observers

Law professor Peter Henning is quoted in an article about the Conrad Black case. Federal prosecutors are at risk of losing their case against Black, formerly of Hollinger International, by plying t...

Google executive meets WSU business students

This article relates a few of the comments made by Grady Burnett, head of online sales and operations for Google’s Ann Arbor office, during an April 10 speech organized by the WSU School of Busines...

Colleges vulnerable to shootings

A brief article about a school security firm in Bay City called Critical Incident Management mentions that the group trains campus police forces at Wayne State, Saginaw Valley State and Delta Colle...

WSU still focused on environment, ‘Earth Week’

An article that focuses on “Earth Week” at Wayne State, April 2-6, includes comments by professor Robin Boyle, chair of the Geography and Urban Planning Department, and Ralph Kummler, dean of the C...

April 15

On the move

A brief notes that Dean Frank Wu says he plans to resign at the end of May 2008, citing family concerns.

Med school bid raises tension

Tensions between the Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University are mounting as Michigan State University’s May 1 visit to the former DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital draws nearer. Hutzel is one ...

A backstage look at Wayne State University’s Hilberry Theatre

An extensive feature story focuses on Wayne State University’s Hilberry Theatre - its history, development, people behind the scenes and a listing of the current season’s offerings. Included in the...

Bits and Pieces - Freakonomics

Steven Levitt, author of the best-seller Freakonomics, will speak at 9 a.m. April 26 in the Community Arts Auditorium at Wayne State University. The speech will be followed by a program explaining ...

Piano masters will duel, duet at Schoolcraft

A feature story about weekend events notes that jazz pianists Matt Michaels and Cliff Monear, both associated with Wayne State University, will be play dueling pianos during an April 15 concert at ...

Future of car safety is not for dummies

A story about tests to promote occupant safety in auto crashes mentions the longstanding crash test program at Wayne State. “We are changing our philosophy of designing cars for crash test dummies ...

April 14

Childhood killer says he is making peace at last

Columnist Cooper writes about Nathaniel Abraham, 21, who was convicted as an adult for a murder he committed when he was 11, and has since been released from juvenile custody. He is living in the D...

Former Detroit schools administrator faces terrorism trial

Kifah Jayyousi, a former Detroit Public Schools administrator who has advanced engineering degrees from Wayne State, where he also has taught, will go to trial this week in a high-profile terrorism...

April 13

EVENT: Art

Grosse Pointe Art Center: "Avant-garde," is featuring art works by Wayne State University students, through April 27. Noon-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat., noon-7 p.m. Contact information is provided.

A supporter or a scapegoat? Detroiter faces terrorism trial

Kifah Jayyousi, identified as a graduate and former teacher at Wayne State University, and a former Detroit schools administrator, is scheduled to go on trial Monday in Miami on terrorism charges. ...

Bioterrorism experts to speak at Wayne State

Luther Lindler of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Philip Cunningham of Wayne State University and Joan Rose of Michigan State University are scheduled to speak at a conference Saturday ...

Bipolar issue may not be part of case

Experts caution against blaming an act of violence such as the Troy shooting solely on bipolar disorder, which is treatable with medication and psychotherapy. "It is not that every act of crime whi...

Critics' choice: Our top picks for the week's events

Communication barriers are the theme of Irish playwright Brian Friel's play "Translations," but the new production by Wayne State University's Hilberry Theatre takes the message a couple of steps f...

Words that divided also could help unite

Jerry Herron, Wayne State University professor of American Studies, comments about the Don Imus controversy which led to the controversial talk show host’s firing Thursday by CBS. What does it mean...

Dow fires 2 over talk of sale

Wayne State University law professor Peter Henning, a former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney, commented about Dow Chemical’s firing of two senior employees Thursday saying it learned th...

WSU tense over med school turf

Wayne State University increasingly concerned as DMC emerges as leading contender to host satellite As a decision nears on who will host Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medici...

WSU Law School dean resigns

In another story about Dean Frank Wu’s resignation, it is noted that the law school faculty voted last week to shrink the number of students admitted from 220 to a class of 185, beginning this fall...

What's reason behind law dean's exit?

Columnist Laura Berman writes about Frank Wu's announced resignation this week as dean of Wayne State’s Law School. Officially, Berman writes, he offered the explanation that his wife, Carol Izumi,...

April 12

Beaumont will still train non-OU students

William Beaumont Hospitals says it intends to continue teaching doctors from other schools in the area once it opens a planned medical school with Oakland University. Beaumont now trains in its Roy...

Fewer fight white-collar crime

Wayne State University law professor Peter Henning commented on how thousands of white-collar criminals across the nation are not being prosecuted in federal court – if at all. This leaves many vic...

Laura Berman: How close are we to the edge?

In her column about workplace violence and the case of Anthony LaCalamita III, Berman provided comments by Elliot D. Luby, psychiatrist and Wayne State University professor emeritus. Luby talked ab...

Salary, benefits hit $90K for some Michigan profs

To stay competitive nationally, Michigan’s colleges and universities increased professors’ salaries by an average of 3.5 percent this year, lower than the national average but above wage increases ...

Getting technical

Many universities – including Wayne State University – are offering more online degree programs. WSU offers an MBA degree solely online, as well as on campus, according to Ahmad Ezzeddine, WSU asso...

Dean of law school at WSU resigns, will leave next May

Frank Wu, dean of Wayne State University’s Law School, announced his resignation, effective May 2008, in an e-mail to students Tuesday night. "I'm leaving of my own free will," Wu said Wednesday. W...

April 11

Letters: Freedom, Tolerance, Respect

Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid wrote a letter that was originally published in the April 5 edition of the South End. It followed a week of meetings between Jewish students and sever...

Grand Rapids developer, WSU break ground on university’s $36 million South University Village project in Midtown Detroit

Wayne State’s South University Village groundbreaking is featured in a story calling the project the first major market-rate residential project of its kind in Detroit in more than 30 years. Accord...

NHRA/Force shifts views after team tragedy

A story about driver safety measures being taken by professional drag race team driver and owner John Force following the death of a team member in a racing accident includes mention of Wayne State...

Comerica teams up with WSU Indian Student Organization

Both newspapers ran an article profiling the Indian Student Association (ISA) at Wayne State and Comerica Bank’s sponsorship of the organization’s annual, festive showcase of music and dance held i...

Battle over university funding takes a twist

Lake Superior State University and Michigan Technological University officials have said they are not part of The Education Alliance of Michigan (TEAM), an organization concerned that a separate fu...

Comerica donates to two WSU projects.

Comerica Bank will give $175,000 to Wayne State University Law School officials today in support of the planned Damon J. Keith Classroom Building and Center for Civil Rights. In addition to a $125,...

Irvin D. Reid: President, Wayne State University

This business journal includes an article profiling President Irvin D. Reid. He offers tips on successful management and insights about techniques and strategies that have worked well for him. “One...

April 10

President Irvin D. Reid was the featured guest on WWJ’s “The Dreamers” program

Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid was the featured guest on WWJ’s “The Dreamers” program hosted by Florence Walton. During the extensive interview, Reid talked about several topics inc...

Detroit News Briefs: Comerica giving $175,000 to WSU for law building

A short item mentions that Comerica Bank will present a $125,000 gift today to Wayne State University Law School officials in support of the planned Damon J. Keith Classroom Building and Center for...

April 9

College of Engineering Dean Ralph H. Kummler

College of Engineering Dean Ralph H. Kummler participated in taped interviews with WWJ anchor/reporter Greg Bowman and WDET’s Quinn Klinefelter, the latter for a future airing of “Detroit Today.” A...

Med school a boost

In an editorial, the Oakland University and William Beaumont Hospitals announced plans to create a new private medical school is called “good news” for the region. The editorial cites three major b...

Youth Welcomed To Sign Up For Service To Community

A Wayne State University Web site (www.ccbe.wayne.edu/nysd/events.php) is provided so volunteers can sign up for projects that are part of National & Global Youth Service Days, April 19-22. Anothe...

State\'s big research universities are economic development titans

Freep: State's big research universities are economic development titans Great Lakes IT Report editor Matt Roush references a Detroit Free Press Sunday story about how Michigan's "big three" publi...

April 8

Ohio lags, Michigan thrives in start-ups by immigrants

A recent Duke University study found that more than a fourth of America’s new high-tech companies from 1995-2005 were founded by immigrants. However, the proportion varies by state. Ohio had only 1...

Girls can take the tough stuff

A feature story in the Community/Highland Park-Detroit section focuses on the Gaining Options–Girls Investigate Real Life (GO-GIRL) program at Wayne State University, which meets every Saturday for...

Nowhere to go but up? North Carolina has been there, too

In his column about the University Research Corridor and North Carolina’s comparable Research Triangle Park, Dickerson notes that Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid, Michigan State Univ...

Universities’ alliance will help state, schools say

This story highlights the projects of the University Research Corridor, a consortium of the state’s “Big Three universities made up of Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the Univ...

April 6

Warriors sweep Friday’s series against Oilers with 4-1 win

The Wayne State University baseball team (18-10, 7-3 GLIAC) swept the University of Findlay (16-13, 8-4 GLIAC) in the April 6 doubleheader, 11-3 in the first game and 4-1 in the second game.

New principal guides school at critical time

A feature about Michael Greening, new principal of Royal Oak High School, notes that he has a master’s degree in education from Wayne State and is working on a education specialist degree.

German bioinformatics firm may locate here

Genomatix Software, a Munich-based biotech company which has an extensive customer base that includes Wayne State University, may open a training center in Ann Arbor. CEO Thomas B. Werner would lik...

Milestone a proud moment for attorney, Royal Oak firm

Two-time Wayne State University alumnus Fred S. Findling, 76, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Findling Law Firm in Royal Oak. A German immigrant and Holocaust survivor, Findling came to ...

People making news

The Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has announced that Michael G. Stephen has been named grant administrator. He joined the university in 2004 as an accountant. A photo ac...

People on the move

Nancy Vandewiele Milligan has been appointed academic fieldwork coordinator and assistant professor in the occupational therapy program at Wayne State University’s Eugene Applebaum College of Pharm...

AIDS drug’s efficacy confirmed

Dr. Rodger MacArthur, an infectious-disease specialist at Wayne State, commented about a new AIDS drug called Darunavir that is “significantly better” at attacking highly resistant HIV than existin...

Unions skeptical about ownership

Hal Stack and David Reynolds of the Labor Studies Center commented about Kirk Kerkorian’s $4.5 billion bid for Chrysler and how he’d give union workers a chance to own a stake in the company. UAW m...

Medical school to boost OU’s status

An announcement Thursday by Oakland University and Beaumont Hospitals about a new medical school planned for the Oakland campus repositions the university as one of the prestigious schools in Michi...

Oakland University to build a med school

When Oakland University opens its own medical school in 2010, it won’t rely on any state funding, such as medical schools like Wayne State, the article says. WSU provides its medical school with $5...

Oakland U. to open medical school

Wayne State is mentioned in a story about how Oakland University and Beaumont Hospitals plan to open a privately-funded medical school by fall 2010. The announcement surprised many because Oakland ...

April 5

Some say Nacchio won’t testify

Wayne State University law professor Peter Henning commented on the insider-trading trial of former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio. The fact that Nacchio’s defense could wrap up Monday with less than two da...

Study faults breast scans

Computer systems designed to make mammograms more accurate turn out to make them less reliable, according to the largest study to evaluate the increasingly popular high-tech versions of the common ...

WSU Law School slides

Plunge in magazine's annual ranking upsets students; dean blames an error in reporting statistics. Leaders at Wayne State University’s Law School are holding a town hall meeting this morning to ...

April 4

Tough duty alters WSU volunteer

In her column about college students performing community service during their spring breaks, columnist Desiree Cooper includes comments by Kimberly Martin, identified as a former student at Wayne ...

Wayne State to host seminar on stem-cell research May 7

The science, politics, ethics and economics of stem-cell research are scheduled to be the main topics at a May 7 meeting at Wayne State University. It will be hosted by the Wayne State School of Me...

Baby Hug - Sickle Cell Anemia Study

Children’s Hospital of Michigan, in conjunction with the Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University is conducting a Pediatric Sickle Cell Research Study called Baby Hug. Hydroxyurea, a mild ...

Democrat Promising Budget Salvation

In a story about Michigan’s proposed public K-12 funding plan, it is noted that earlier this week a House subcommittee advanced a budget that would give each of the state's 15 public universities a...

New drug surprises AIDS experts with its effectiveness

A new AIDS drug that received accelerated federal approval last summer is significantly better at attacking highly resistant HIV than existing drugs, according to a study of 230 patients published ...

Protests to continue at U-M

University of Michigan students protesting what they say are sweatshop conditions at factories making U-M T-shirts and caps said they planned to spend the night in tents outside the administration ...

Educators, others push for classes to help kids learn Chinese

Eastern Michigan University is the only university in Michigan to have developed a program for Chinese teachers to become certified. However, there is a strong push for educators across Michigan to...

Motor City Cribs: Liz Copeland’s studio space

In a story profiling the departure of WDET late-night host Liz Copeland, it is noted that WDET was started by the UAW as a public service programming station 1948. In 1952, the UAW sold WDET to Way...

Black like Obama

Ollie Johnson, assistant professor of political science in the Africana Studies Department at Wayne State University, is interviewed about Barack Obama’s qualifications for president, and the quest...

A champion of fairness, children and Detroit

An article chronicling the life and death of former Detroit Free Press publisher Neal Shine – one of Detroit’s premier figures in newspaper journalism – mentions that he wrote a book about his moth...

College funding may be divided

A state House subcommittee narrowly approved a measure on Tuesday that would separate the funding for Wayne State University, University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Two separate fund...

April 3

Artist creates legacy of love

A sidebar mentions that more than 450 art projects will be featured March 28-29 at the Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology’s 8th Annual Art of Aging Successfully Show. The institute doe...

Empty land: As GM clears away shuttered factories, community can dream

In a Lansing State Journal editorial, the city of Lansing is mentioned as facing an exciting opportunity and challenge; the redevelopment of land that was once the site of the General Motors factor...

Surgeon urges kids to care about education

Roderick Claybrooks, 35, who graduated with honors from the Wayne State University School of Medicine, is living his dream as an orthopedic surgeon in Southfield. According to the Association of Am...

Wayne State University Department of Biomedical Engineering

Automotive reporter John McElroy provided background information about the Wayne State University Department of Biomedical Engineering research efforts in the development of crash helmet devices su...

April 2

Peter Lichtenberg was a guest on “Health Talk”

Peter Lichtenberg, director of Wayne State University’s Institute of Gerontology, was a guest on “Health Talk” to discuss Alzheimer’s disease. The half-hour interview program airs April 2, 4, 6 and...

Developer breaks ground on major housing project

A brief mentions that Wayne State University and Grand Rapids-based developer Prime Development broke ground in March on a $36 million residential/retail development and parking lot. Located at the...

Co-author of “Freakonomics” to give presentation at WSU

New York Times best-selling author Steven Levitt will give a presentation on “Freakonomics” on April 26, 9 a.m., at Wayne State University’s Community Arts Auditorium. His address marks the officia...

UMC beats themselves; gets swept in NSIC opener

The University of Minnesota Crookston lost to the Wayne State University baseball team in their Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference series opener, losing both games Sunday. WSU beat UMC 26-0 in...

Offensive Protests: Free Speech?

Fox 2 reporter Bill Gallagher reported on an anti-Israel protest that was held on Wayne State’s campus last Thursday, a demonstration organized and led by members of The Anti-Racist Action (ARA), a...

The Business List

Detroit Renaissance President Doug Rothwell and Strategic Staffing Solutions CEO Cynthia Pasky will be the featured speakers at a luncheon program titled “The Road to Renaissance: A Collaborative S...

Monday Medley: RIP, Winter?

“Folks at Wayne State University in Detroit will bury Old Man Winter this Wednesday with a New Orleans-style funeral procession,” erroneously announces this brief in the newspaper’s “Monday Medley”...

Carpooling, buses offer some pump price relief

Mike Stephen, a research grant administrator here, has been taking the SMART bus to work for three years and says he’s saving a significant amount of money. Between gas, the $45 monthly parking fee...

Economic hurricane victim Detroit will survive

In a letter to the editor, former Detroit City Councilman Mel Ravitz writes that Detroit will survive and thrive because its people are strong and resilient. He points out the city’s many entertain...

Experts warn of Black jury boredom

Law professor Peter Henning is quoted in an article about the fraud trial of Canadian media mogul Conrad Black. As prosecutors work to trace a money trail to Black and three other Hollinger Interna...

Crime worries rise on campus

This article focuses on public concerns regarding safety on college campuses following the murder in December of an Eastern Michigan University student in a residence hall. There also are other co...

April 1

"Leaders on Leadership" - Charles McClure

Charles “Chip” McClure, president and CEO of Arvin Meritor, was the featured guest on “Leaders on Leadership,” co-produced by the Wayne State University School of Business Administration (SBA) and ...

How to survive first 5 years: Price it right and find a niche

Ed King, director of small business services at Wayne State University, offered some survival tips for small startup companies. Statistics reveal that most new firms go out of business before their...

Community Connections: Detroit

The Adamany Undergraduate Library will be the site for a discussion Monday about the proposed closure of the Detroit trash incinerator and recycling alternatives. The program is set for 4 p.m. and...

Attempts of the past

Jackson community leaders have proposed building a convention center and hotel in the city. However, in 2002, a group of Wayne State University MBA students concluded that a convention center wasn’...

Public, private sector positions differ in salaries, benefits

Professor Richard Elling of the Political Science Department is quoted in an article about how government jobs offer incentives other than high salaries in an effort to attract and keep qualified e...