Article Archive
May 28
Lloyd Young has been appointed dean of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences effective Aug. 17. The appointment was announced by Nancy S. Barrett, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs.
May 26
Visit Wayne State's Farmers Market and shop for fresh, locally grown vegetables, fruits, flowers, transplants and other farm and food products.
Crain's Detroit Business posted an article May 10 on crainsdetroit.com about Wayne State alumna S. Epatha Merkerson and her recent visit to the university.
The National Summit, a June 15-17 town hall event in Detroit, has publically announced speakers and panel discussion participants. Wayne State President Jay Noren is listed.
May 21
Attend the grand opening of the Richard J. Mazurek, MD, Medical Education Commons.
If you missed the deadline to register as a Wayne Cares team, you can still register as an individual and join your teammates at Comerica Park for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Saturday, May 30.
The 2009 Campus Life Leadership Awards banquet was held April 22 in the Student Center Building. Twenty-one outstanding students, advisors and organizations were honored.
As the school year winds down, registration is under way for the 2009 Mort Harris Recreation and Fitness Center (RFC) Kids' camps.
Mark Wardell, associate dean of the Graduate School and director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Pennsylvania State University, has been appointed associate provost and dean of the Graduate School at Wayne State University.
Several training sessions were held this week for the recently installed Wayne Connect communication and collaboration suite of applications and more sessions will be announced this fall. Meanwhile, resources and support are available for Wayne Connect.
Three siblings—Royce, Roshen and Ryan Mathew—are among the youngest to graduate from the School of Business Administration.
The Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University is sponsoring and presenting the Mind of Peace Experiment (MOPE) in the Community Room of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library, May 21-24.
May 18
A feature story in the Chronicle of Higher Education details Wayne State’s part in reviving Midtown.
A feature story focuses on three Sterling Heights siblings who have now graduated together from the WSU School of Business Administration.
May 12
Patrick J. Mueller, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, received the New Investigator Award from the Neural Control of Autonomic Regulation Section of the American Physiological Society (APS).
From Detroit to Africa, second-year student pharmacists at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (EACPHS) are crossing international borders: Fighting AIDS with Nutrition (FAWN).
May 11
A May 19 lecture will highlight the influences of Egypt, Iran and Turkey on the art collected by Detroit businessman Charles Lang Freer for the distinctive home he built on campus in the 1890s.
May 7
Wayne State magazine, an Alumni Association publication, needs your submissions for its Best of Wayne issue! The Alumni Association wants to know your favorite places on or near campus.
Cynthia Bir, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is the face of science and technology for today’s generation of school-age children who watch the TV show, Sport Science.
In lieu of the Detroit Festival of the Arts, Midsummer Nights in Midtown will be presented every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening in June. The new series of summertime public performances was recently announced by the University Cultural Center Association (UCCA) and Wayne State University.
In Image Gallery, see photos of President Jay Noren's inauguration; a garden planted during Earth Week; the new Marvin I. Danto Engineering Development Center, which recently held its grand opening; and hundreds of Wayne Cares volunteers who cleaned four Detroit parks.
Wayne State University medical researchers recently discovered a chemical that plays a major role in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Applications are now available to join the President's Commission on the Status of Women (COSW).
Ben Burns, director of the journalism program at Wayne State, was awarded a $25,000 grant for his news Web site.
The class of 2011 is recruiting students and faculty to shave their heads -- or at least get a crew cut -- before May 19 as part of a fundraiser to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
May 5
Register your Wayne Cares team by Tuesday, May 12, for the 2009 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
May 4
The 2009 University Safety Award was presented to the Computing & Information Technology (C&IT) Administration and Finance Department by the University Loss Prevention Committee on April 14.
Philip Pellett, PhD, professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, and a cytomegalovirus researcher, along with Suzy Migrin, a Livonia resident and mother of a CMV child, will co-chair the 2009 annual CMV Awareness Walk-n-Rollathon at the Detroit Zoo on Saturday, May 16.
Dennis G. Drescher, PhD, was awarded a five-year research grant for $1,615,000 by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health.
May 1
The Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI) will host Train-the-Trainer on Thursday, May 14, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the DDI office.
