WCHB Conversations

Mildred Gaddis, along with Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management Dawn Medley, Vice President of Government and Community Affairs Patrick Lindsey and Associate Director for Community Communications Darrell Dawsey discuss the benefits of on-campus living, how to obtain student funding, and assisting students with low standardized test scores.

March 22, 2018

Good service is a coin toss

Zach Brewster, assistant professor of sociology at Wayne State University has conducted several national research studies on the experience of dining and restaurant discrimination. 

March 21, 2018

Congress oversight duties

This week,  the Wayne Law Review and the Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School will present a symposium on Congressional Oversight in the 21st Century. 

March 20, 2018

Racial equity grant

The Detroit Equity Action Lab (DEAL), an initiative of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State University Law School, will advance the cause of racial equity with the support of a $2.4 million grant awarded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. 

March 20, 2018

Health Care Heroes

Jeffrey Taub, M.D., oncology research category winner, drew inspiration from his own childhood bout with cancer when he decided to become a pediatric oncologist. 

March 18, 2018

Wayne State's Financial Executives International Academic Award

Casey Simlar receives the Financial Executives International Academic Award from the president of Wayne State University, Dr. M. Roy Wilson.

March 15, 2018

John Wolf interview

John Wolf chairs the prestigious Theatre and Dance department at Detroit's Wayne State University, creating well-rounded and meticulously educated students turned theatre professionals.

March 15, 2018

STEM Day fun

More than 2,000 Metro Detroit students got a peek Tuesday at some career possibilities in science, technology, engineering and math while visiting Wayne State University.

March 13, 2018

Pistons

The Detroit Pistons and Wayne State University announced a partnership benefitting the institution’s Helping Individuals Go Higher program, which features group ticket offers for students, faculty, staff and alumni for upcoming Pistons’ games at Little Caesars Arena featuring the L.A. Lakers (March 26), Washington Wizards (March 29) and Dallas Mavericks (April 6). They will receive TicketMaster links and promo codes via e-mail with 5% of the proceeds for each ticket sold benefitting the HIGH program.

March 13, 2018

Trump-Hitler comparisons

Comparing politicians to Hitler is nothing new, of course. We live in an age where George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton (“Hitlery”) and Barack Obama have all seamlessly been compared to Hitler. That’s just a few of the more recent examples, but they clearly show just how little value such glib analogies have.

March 12, 2018

Reduce water utility emissions

A handful of water utilities around the Great Lakes have been competing over the last year to reduce pollution by controlling the electricity they consume from the power grid. 

March 12, 2018

Gloria Steinem spoke about parenthood

On March 7, in front of a room of 1,200 admirers, mostly women, writer and activist Gloria Steinem spoke at Wayne State University about parenthood, the women's movement, sexual harassment, and making sense of the current U.S. presidency.  

March 12, 2018

STEM Day

Fore the second consecutive year, the WSU STEM team is hosting an on-campus event with more than 70 interactive sessions that are expected to attract hundreds of prospective future scientists on Tuesday, March 13. Organizer Julie Hasse, STEM professors and a few students stopped by the Fox2 Studios Saturday morning with some of their favorite eye-opening experiments to preview the event. 

March 10, 2018

Big 3’s shift to larger vehicles

March 9, 2018

Researchers win award for addressing water contamination

A team of Wayne State researchers have received an Azure Award – the “AI for Earth” award – from Microsoft for addressing water contamination in Michigan from toxic leaks and superfund sites.

March 8, 2018

Flu season

Dr. Patty Brown is a professor of internal medicine at Wayne State’s School of Medicine. She tells WDET’s Laura Weber-Davis she is cautiously optimistic the worse of this particularly dangerous strain of the flu could be behind us, now that the weather is beginning to warm up and people are spending less time cooped up in offices and close quarters. 

March 6, 2018

'The Iceman'

How 58-year-old Wim Hof can withstand the extreme cold is something of a scientific mystery, but a new study of his brain has helped scientists develop a better understanding of his unique trait.

March 2, 2018

When your college has your back

There has been a turnaround at Wayne State in the past three years. In 2017, 47 percent of the students graduated within six years, making the university one of the nation’s fastest improvers. “The goal for 2020 is that the achievement gap will be wiped out,” said Wayne State’s president, Roy Wilson, who was recruited in 2014 to clean up the mess. “It’s a moral imperative.”

March 2, 2018

WCHB Conversations

Wayne State University Provost Keith Whitfield and Associate Communications Director Darrell Dawsey sit down with Mildred Gaddis on Praise 102.7 to discuss Wayne State’s bright future as a premier urban university. 

March 1, 2018

Mental illness and gun laws

When can a person be potentially dangerous to others? Not all mental illness may be a risk of harm to others. In the majority of cases when a patient is involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit, it is not because the person is a risk to others. Rather, it is more often the case that the person is at risk of harming himself, as in the case of a depressed, suicidal patient.

February 26, 2018