Old Life@Wayne Archive
Vol. 2 Issue 19
Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid and Pamela Trotman Reid, his wife, will make a $600,000 donation to the university
An exhibition featuring futuristic art, "Until Forever," opens for one week at the Cass Art Gallery, 5500 Cass. Described as "visual art of new lore – where there are no problems...
The University Activities Committee has scheduled the following employee events:Holiday Revue on Dec. 1Faculty/Staff Basketball Open House on Feb. 3Wayne Winter Week Feb. 7-11Dinner and the Hilberry T...
The University Grille will not return to the main campus. Located northwest of the Student Center, the food stand did not make enough money and has been closed permanently. There are no plans in place...
Detroit Free Press, 11/1"Area sports in brief"Comcast Local and Wayne State University announced an agreement for men's and women's sports to be broadcast on Comcast Local. Under the agreement, Comcas...
Barbara Price, associate dean in the School of Business Administration for 10 years and interim chair of the Department of Management for the past three years, was appointed associate vice president f...
Morris Goodman, distinguished professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, and the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, was named a recipient of the 2004 Most ABLE Awa...
Alexey Petrov, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was invited to co-organize the first meeting of the Topical Group on Hadronic Physics of...
Eric Ayers, assistant professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, has been nominated for the 2004 Association of American Medical Colleges' Humanism in Medicine Awar...
Charles E. Lucas, professor, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, was honored with the 2004 National Safety Council Surgeon's Award for Service to Safety. The citation specifies "continuous and...
Frank Wu, dean, Law School, was named one of the "Best Lawyers Under 40" for 2004 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association....
Under the leadership of Diane Levine, associate professor, Department of Internal Medicine; Team Captain Kinan Rahal, resident; Colleen Champagne, administrative assistant; and Leland Webb, Year II, t...
The Recreation and Fitness Center (RFC) is offering the university community deeply discounted pricing on its personal trainer service during its "Get Fit!" promotion, open to members and nonmembers....
There’s no need to walk in the cold thanks to a complimentary parking shuttle service that has now been extended through Dec. 23.Two shuttles run every seven to 10 minutes from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. wee...
The President's International Holiday Lighting Celebration, hosted by Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid, begins the public holiday season on campus at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, on Gullen...
An award from the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program of the National Science Foundation will put $1 million into Wayne State Graduate School programs aiming to increase sig...
Get hip to a different way to shed stress and pounds - staff and faculty members are invited to learn to belly dance for free at 5 p.m Mondays and Wednesdays in the first-floor lunchroom of the Academ...
Detroit DocsThe university kicked off the Detroit Docs International Film Festival with a gala celebration at the Welcome Center on Nov. 11. The evening featured live music, food and streaming films....
Get into the holiday spirit with your co-workers at the annual President's Holiday Celebration on Wednesday, Dec. 1, and enjoy the performances at the event's Employee Holiday Revue talent show.
As they shape clay with their hands, groups of illiterate senior citizens are molding their minds.
More than 88% of faculty and staff members and students commuting to campus wear seat belts, according to a recent study, placing WSU drivers and passengers among the nation's leaders in seat belt usage.
Edmund A. Ordon, professor emeritus of Slavic languages at Wayne State University, died on August 10, 2004, at the age of 86 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he had lived for almost a year, but with which he had longtime connections.
The Wayne State University Law School hosted the 19th annual Ambulance Chase on Oct. 28. The 2.2-mile race around the WSU campus is a Law School tradition, a way to poke fun at the image of “ambulance...
Campus Martius Park, a 1.6-acre park in the heart of downtown Detroit, will celebrate its grand opening this weekend, beginning on Friday, Nov. 19. The weekend will feature live musical performances,...
The College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts' Department of Music will present its 38th Annual Salute Concert to Downtown Detroit at noon Tuesday, Nov. 23. This year's concert will feature t...
The 2005 university calendar, featuring sleek, black-and-white campus images and key Did-You-Know marketing facts, has been printed and free copies are available to WSU students and employees on a fir...
