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Media Reports for September 2012

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September 30

Volunteers needed to board up houses near another Detroit school

A lot can be learned from volunteers sweating side by side, boarding up abandoned houses with one common goal. A volunteer project held Aug. 25 to board up 100 vacant houses near Osborn High School...

Cleveland Elementary awarded $30,000 for obesity prevention

Cleveland Elementary in Livonia is one of 20 Michigan elementary schools awarded a Healthy School Transformation package valued at $30,000 from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to support an incr...

Get tickets for the Shining Light awards

Tickets are still available for the Free Press and the Metropolitan Affairs Coalition's Shining Light Regional Cooperation Awards ceremony. The ceremony takes place Oct. 11, and the deadline to res...

Amsterdam News profiles WSU professor and playwright Bill Harris

An article profiles Bill Harris, distinguished literary critic, essayist, poet and professor at Wayne State University, who on Sunday, Oct. 7, will read from his latest book, “Blues and Jazz” at H...

Cynthia Bir's plane crash research highlighted in new documentary

Cynthia Bir, a Bio-mechanist at Wayne State University, is part of a scientific team working on research to improve the safety of passenger planes. Their work is highlighted in a documentary which ...

Broadway World says “The Mousetrap” is definitely worth a trip to the Hilberry Theatre

The Hilberry Theatre opened its 50th-anniversary season with "The Mousetrap" running on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 13, 2012. A Wednesday performance will be held on Wednesday, O...

September 27

Panel discussion on auto manufacturers and China

John Taylor, chair of Wayne State University's marketing and supply-chain management department, participated in a panel discussion on The Craig Fahle Show examining how Michigan companies can comp...

Dr. Herb Smitherman discusses impact of suicide in Voice of Russia radio interview

Research has shown auto accidents are no longer the leading cause of death by injury in the U.S. Suicide is now the top cause. Dr. Herbert Smitherman Jr., assistant dean of community and urban heal...

Wayne State's Center for School Health receives $600K grant from BCBS

As part of its commitment of creating a healthier Michigan, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is awarding $600,000 to support healthy eating and physical activity programs in 20 elementary schools...

September 26

Business leaders press Lansing to back metro transit authority

Eight major corporate and education leaders wrote the state Legislature's top two Republicans urging them to quickly pass legislation establishing a regional transit authority in Metro Detroit. All...

Wayne State’s Blackstone LaunchPad entrepreneurs featured on Angelo Henderson show

Representatives from Wayne State’s Blackstone LaunchPad discussed their entrepreneurial activities during an hour-long radio broadcast of “Your Voice with Angelo Henderson.” The Blackstone LaunchPa...

WSU civil engineering expert Jaewon Jang comments in industry publications about innovative natural gas research

A Wayne State University researcher is part of a national project to find accessible sources of natural gas. Jaewon Jang, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College o...

$2.8 million, 5-year grant aids Developmental Disabilities Institute at Wayne State

Wayne State University says it's getting a $2.8 million federal grant from the U.S. Administration for Children and Families to continue operating the Developmental Disabilities Institute for five ...

September 25

Your vote is your voice, Michigan secretary of state tells Wayne State crowd at rally

They are often on different sides of the election reform battle, but Secretary of State Ruth Johnson and Toine Murphy of the NAACP joined together Tuesday to encourage students to register to vote....

Philosophy Dept. Chair John Corvino discusses same-sex marriage, upcoming forum with Craig Fahle

John Corvino, Wayne State University associate philosophy and Philosophy Department Chair, and Maggie Gallagher, National Organization for Marriage Co-Founder, are set to debate same-sex marriage i...

Economic Development's Lisa Nuszkowski discusses Detroit bike share service studied by Wayne State, Detroit organizations

A large-scale bike-sharing program, a service that allows people who don't own bikes to borrow or rent them, could be coming to Detroit. A coalition of local business and nonprofit groups is now pu...

September 24

WAYNE COUNTY: EEOC commissioner to speak at Wayne State University Law School

Gay rights advocate Chai Feldblum, the first openly lesbian commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, will deliver the 28th annual I. Goodman Cohen Lecture in Trial Advocacy...

Education technology professor Michael Barbour weighs in on blended learning method in MSNBC news report

Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School is trying to upend the way students are taught. In just four days of instruction a week — there’s no school on Fridays — Carpe Diem’s five teache...

Education Week notes WSU researchers working to help lead-poisoned students

An article examines the effects of lead exposure in children. Research has tied high levels of lead in the blood to such serious problems as criminal activity and low IQ. Lead has been linked to ne...

September 23

WSU classics professor Jennifer Sheridan Moss comments in New York Times article on 'Jesus' wife' find

When Karen L. King, a historian of early Christianity, announced this week that she had identified a fragment of ancient Coptic text in which Jesus utters the words “my wife,” she said she was maki...

New York Times, Washington Post note achievements of Jerome Horwitz

Jerome P. Horwitz, a scientific researcher who created AZT in 1964 in the hope that it would cure cancer but who entered the medical pantheon decades later when AZT became the first successful drug...

September 22

Royal Oak residents enroll at Wayne State

Wayne State University welcomed 25 Royal Oak residents to the university's 145th academic year. "We're proud to welcome this newest class to the university's 145th academic year," said Ronald T. B...

September 21

After hiring lull, auto industry battling Silicon Valley for best college engineering talent

The auto industry is back on campus and hiring a different breed of engineer -- those who can help invent the next generation of complex software that pushes the envelope on m.p.g., clean emissions...

September 20

Forget Robocop: Detroit's crime problem will be solved by citizens and business

In Detroit today, businesses are the good guys, bringing investment and new jobs to the city. But a persistent crime problem threatens to snuff out that recovery before it even takes root. “Detroit...

Drive Safely to Wayne State generates buzz for "No Texting & Driving Day"

Wayne State University held its annual Drive Safely to Wayne State event yesterday featuring speakers and exhibits highlighting the dangers of distracted driving such as texting while driving. Fox ...

Media outlets continue coverage of FOCIS crime symposium at Wayne State

Today, top law enforcement officials will meet with citizens at Wayne State University in a two-day summit on how to solve the city's crime problem. Citizens join police and city officials in strug...

Wayne Law's Lance Gable on Craig Fahle show to discuss proposed health care law's impact

Governor Rick Snyder recently proposed that Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) lose its tax-exempt status in the state in exchange for a faster regulatory process. This comes in anticipation of changes ...

September 19

Can Democracy survive campaign finance reform?

Jocelyn Benson, Wayne State University associate professor of law; Marc Kruman, director of WSU’s Center for the Study of Citizenship; and Detroit Free Press columnist Brian Dickerson talked with ...

"City Under Siege" WSU forum on crime crisis in Detroit featured on Paul W. Smith Show

WJR’s Paul W. Smith spoke with former Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid about the upcoming forum called “City Under Siege” presented by the Forum on Contemporary Issues in Society (FOC...

Drive Safely to Wayne State event

Peter Savolainen, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wayne State, was a guest on WDET’s Craig Fahle show to discuss the issue of distracted driving and ...

CBS Detroit highlights the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's 2012 Brammer Lecture

Wayne State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will host the 2012 Forest E. Brammer Endowed Lecture from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, in the College of Engineering...

September 18

Women in Academia reports Chacona Johnson named executive vice president for the Wayne State University Foundation

Chacona Johnson was selected as associate vice president for principal gifts at Wayne State University and executive vice president of the Wayne State University Foundation. She previously was pres...

WDIV: Drive Safely to Wayne State event to tackle distracted driving

AT&T, MDOT and Wayne State call on Michigan drivers to pledge: Never text and drive Wireless provider AT&T, seeking to bring attention to a serious road-safety problem, joined with Governor Rick S...

Detroit Free Press publishes Irvin Reid's guest commentary highlighting FOCIS conference

Irvin D. Reid, former president of Wayne State University, where he holds the Eugene Applebaum Chair in Community Engagement and is director of the Forum on Contemporary Issues in Society, opined a...

September 17

Wayne State University football coach discusses new season

Craig Fahle spoke with Wayne State University football coach Paul Winters about the new season and schedule for the Warriors.

"City Under Siege" WSU forum on crime crisis in Detroit

Craig Fahle spoke with former Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid and WSU Police Chief Anthony Holt about an upcoming forum called City Under Siege. On Sept. 20 and 21, the Forum on Cont...

Detroit News article highlights WSU's efforts to keep Perinatology Research Branch contract

Wayne State University submitted an application last month to land the Perinatology Research Branch (PRB) contract again so that it can continue to offer health, economic and educational opportunit...

Media outlets report Wayne State to host "City Under Siege: A University Forum on the Crime Crisis in Detroit"

This week, Wayne State University will be hosting a forum with a focus on crime solution, with some of the nation’s leading experts in law enforcement and criminology. In the two-day forum “City U...

September 16

Wayne State sets vet care partnerships with four animal shelters

Wayne State University announced partnerships with four local animal shelters to provide veterinary care for rescue animals at Wayne State. The shelters include the Detroit Dog Rescue, Brownstown A...

September 14

Wayne State out to show 2011 no fluke

The Wayne State Warriors football team is coming off of its opener loss last weekend to Ashland, a team that was picked to win the South Division of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Confere...

September 13

Saeed Khan: Middle East Update

Wayne State University Lecturer Saeed Khan discusses the latest news from the Middle East as U.S. embassies have been at the center of protests and demonstrations. (Partial clip available)

Who owns art? The Holocaust, ethics and cultural patrimony

On Thursday, Sept. 13, Wayne State University hosted a panel discussion about the ownership of stolen, looted or confiscated art. The discussion is in conjunction with the Forbidden Art exhibition,...

Techonomy Detroit conference yields national media coverage

The Techonomy Detroit conference took place at Wayne State University Wednesday. Several of the nation’s biggest proponents of technology came to Detroit to network, to teach and inspire business l...

College of Nursing's April Vallerand profiled in feature highlighting pain management research

This profile story features April Vallerand, associate professor in the College of Nursing at Wayne State University, whose research looks at pain management in African American cancer patients. Va...

September 12

Racial, regional divide still haunt Detroit's progress

Jeff Horner, an urban planning lecturer at Wayne State University, was interviewed about Detroit and its reputation as being a racially divided region. Horner is interviewed standing in a park bord...

WDET podcast series highlights true, touching stories of metro Detroit

101.9FM WDET, Wayne State University’s public radio station, has released a new limited edition podcast of true and touching stories shared by Metro Detroiters during StoryCorps’s recent visit to t...

Detroit News article pays homage to Ben Burns

Family, friends, colleagues and former journalism students packed Grosse Pointe Memorial Church on Tuesday to honor the life of Ben Burns, the former executive editor and chief administrative edito...

Gilmour gives 2012 University Address, announces final term in office

Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour delivered the annual university address on Sept. 10 at the Undergraduate Library’s Bernath Auditorium. WSU’s 11th president expressed his gratitude to...

September 11

Free screening for Motor City documentary

At 7 p.m. Thursday WDET will host a free screening of the new documentary "Detropia" at Wayne State's Community Arts Auditorium. "Detropia," a look at the problems, people and history of the Motor ...

Media outlets nationwide highlight Techonomy conference at Wayne State

Could an upside of Detroitification, the purposeful deindustrialization and depopulation of a once-great American city, be spelled Techonomy? David Kirkpatrick, a journalist turned media entreprene...

WSU research team eyes ‘nanocarriers’ to treat cancer, inflammatory diseases

A Wayne State University research team in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has developed a novel approach to the design of nanocarriers for treatment of metastatic cance...

September 10

People

Gerold Bepler, M.D., president and CEO of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and associate dean of cancer programs at Wayne State University School of Medicine, was selected as a member-elec...

CBS Detroit, Detroit Free Press note Techonomy conference this week at Wayne State

Hundreds of experts on the high-tech future of America and its cities will gather in Detroit Wednesday for a conference called Techonomy. The Detroit Economic Club and Wayne State University are ho...

WSU President Emeritus Irvin Reid, Police Chief Tony Holt guests on WXYZ's Spotlight on the News

The Sept. 9 installment of Chuck Stokes’ “Spotlight on the News” program focused on midtown's safety record and how its successful plan can make the entire city safer. Guests included Irvin D. Reid...

September 9

Hilberry scores a coup with new play 'Detroit'

"Detroit," which opened at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2010 and is currently in previews Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in New York, will have its Detroit premiere at the Hilberry Theatr...

WSU part of massive international project to map function of human genome

Leonard Lipovich’s determination to prove genetic matter once deemed “junk” has a place in clinical medicine is bringing the Wayne State University School of Medicine to the forefront of a field oc...

Health Scientist Lovell Jones to speak at Wayne State Sept. 25

The Wayne State University Graduate School is hosting world-renowned scientist Lovell A. Jones as the 2012 featured King Chavez Parks Visiting Professor. Jones’ lecture is titled: “Health dispariti...

September 6

Wayne State Dept. of Theatre and Dance featured in Dance Magazine's September issue

Senior dance major and National Society of Collegiate Scholars member, Megan Drabant, has been working to increase both the number of students interested in taking tap dance classes at Wayne State ...

Broadway World highlights Wayne State scenic design students' work in transforming 'A LOT of Space' into theatre space

Pegi Marshall-Amundsen, Wayne State University assistant professor and head MFA in theatre set design, WSU scenic design graduate students and others, will transform A LOT of Space at the Northeast...

Putting admissions data to work

This extensive article examines the positive results of the graduate admissions process at the University. With the new systems and technology in place, it takes mere minutes for a prospective stud...

September 5

Purchasing Managers Index falls again

The Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index came in at 45.7 in August, declining from 54.6 in July. The Index dropped for the second consecutive month, falling below 50 for the first time sinc...

Glenda Price to take over from Chacona Johnson at DPS Foundation

Veteran fundraiser Chacona Johnson is leaving the Detroit Public Schools Foundation at the end of the month to return to higher education development. Johnson, who was a member of the University of...

Stroke victims get younger

Most stroke victims (30-50 per 1,000) are over 60 years old, but younger people ignore the symptoms and do not see a doctor within three hours of the first signs, which includes numbness in the fac...

Detroit Auto Scene notes Wayne State recipient of $178K DOE grant to research new energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced the selection of 14 new research projects across 11 states that will be part of an expanding portfolio of projects designed to increase DOE’s...

September 4

Dingell: 2012 a big election, and the outcome matters

Debbie Dingell, Wayne State University Board of Governors member, wrote a commentary piece about the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

Stroke study by WSU doctors highlighted in New York Times wellness feature

Although a vast majority of strokes occur in people over age 65 (the risk is 30 to 50 per 1,000 in this age group), 10 percent to 15 percent affect people age 45 and younger (a risk of 1 in 1,000)....

News outlets report Wayne State University to take part in national study on energy extraction

Wayne State University is playing a role in early efforts to find and extract new energy sources. The research project is one of 14 from 11 states involved in work on methane hydrates. Methane hydr...

September 1

SSIs after joint surgery cost hospitals millions

A significant percentage of patients who develop surgical site infections (SSI) after undergoing hip or knee replacement surgery will be readmitted to the hospital for further complications related...

Praise worthy

Detroit’s architecturally and spiritually uplifting houses of worship are highlighted in the recently published Detroit’s Historic Places of Worship (Wayne State University Press, $39.95). Photogra...