Racial equity initiative
Wayne State University in Detroit has announced a $2.4 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to expand a racial equity initiative at its law school.
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“In Midtown alone, Wayne State University is building a new repertory theater and a new jazz center, the Motown Museum is expanding, and Murals in Market continues to grow.”
Active Attackers training
Wayne State takes a step that's stark as well as sensible. It's also a timely acknowledgement that American students can face gunfire anywhere, any time. Three "emergency preparedness" sessions in coming weeks will demonstrate responses to someone using a firearm. WSU's Police Department will conduct the free, voluntary campus drills.
$2.4 million to Wayne Law for racial equity initiative
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded Wayne State University Law School a $2.4 million grant for phase two of its Detroit Equity Action Lab, an initiative to advance the cause of racial equity.
Career readiness tools
The Wayne State University Center for Health and Community Impact has been actively fighting to prepare Detroit high school students to gain those necessary skills. On Feb. 24, they will be commemorating those efforts with a public event.
40th Annual Classical Roots Concert
The 40th Anniversary Celebration Choir was specially assembled by Norah Duncan IV, Professor, and Chair of the Wayne State University Department of Music.
Gretchen Valade commits another $2 million to WSU
Businesswoman and philanthropist Gretchen Valade, of Grosse Pointe Farms, is increasing her efforts to make sure that Detroit’s rich jazz legacy continues to grow and flourish. Valade, the chair of the nonprofit Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation, recently committed another $2 million to Wayne State University.
Active Attackers training
In response to the Florida school shooting, Wayne State University is offering a program to help become better prepared in the chance of a shooting. The program, called "Emergency Preparedness - Active Attackers," will offer in-person training that includes videos and audience participation through Q&A.
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It’s getting harder to prosecute politicians for corruption
The McDonnell case signals an erosion of federal corruption laws. I contend that this ruling effectively allows elected leaders to do favors for donors while raking in bountiful campaign contributions or gifts from them – with little fear that they might cross the line into illegality.
A Time for Arrogance
Jennifer M. Gómez, a postdoctoral fellow in the Wayne State University Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Program at Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, reflects on what she found to be a discriminatory job market -- and the resulting need for a greater allegiance to herself.
K-12 schools seminar
Can Michigan reverse the academic decline in its schools without addressing education funding? The Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program in the Wayne State University College of Education invites the community to discuss challenges and strategies related to increasing public education spending during “Seeking Adequate Funding for Michigan K-12 Schools.”
Wayne State Hall of Fame to induct swimming national champ
In four seasons on Wayne State University's swimming team, Catherine Leix helped the Warriors reach the NCAA Division II Championships four times and was a 16-time All-American, earning 11 first-team certificates. Leix's status will become official Saturday, when she's inducted into the Wayne State Athletic Hall of Fame.
A Challenge Race Shakes Up the Running Routine
“People who are high achievers, once they’ve made this determination that they’ve mastered some sort of task, it’s no longer a challenge and it loses some of its motivational qualities,” said Jeffrey Martin, professor of kinesiology, health and sports studies at Wayne State University.
Wayne State and Advaita Researchers Can Distinguish Between Aggressive and Less Aggressive Cancer
In a breakthrough in cancer diagnosis, a technology developed by a team of researchers from Wayne State University and its biotech startup Advaita Bioinformatics makes it possible to distinguish between aggressive and less aggressive types of disease.
Getting kids to class may be harder than some lawmakers think. A new study casts doubt on how big a role educators can play
Two Wayne State University researchers, Sarah Lenhoff and Ben Pogodzinski, said in a report published last week, that when it comes to whether a child will get to class, some schools have more influence over attendance than others.
Michigan AIM program reducing pregnancy complications
“Our goal is to eliminate all preventable maternal deaths and reduce severe pregnancy-related maternal complications,” said Robert J. Sokol, M.D., chair of the MMMS Committee and Emeritus Dean and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Physiology at Wayne State University. “Pregnancy, labor and delivery should be safe and healthy for all Michigan women.”
The 2 things North Korea's Kim Yo Jong and Ivanka Trump have in common
As the Winter Olympics kicked off in PyeongChang, South Korea, this weekend, the media turned their attention to one notable nonathlete attendee: Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Stine Eckert, chair of the feminist scholarship division of the International Communication Association and an assistant professor of communications at Wayne State University, notes that there is one particularly notable comparison that should be made between the two women in question. “They are both blueprints for whatever at the time their society and current administration needs in terms of a tool to advance their political agendas,” Eckert says.
1 in 5 college students have anxiety or depression. Here’s why
Wayne State receives $1 million NSF grant to support commuter students In engineering
“This project really has the heart of Wayne State in it, and it builds on the best of what our faculty and staff across campus are doing to promote the success of our students,” said Jeffrey Potoff, principal investigator on the ACCESS project and associate dean for academic and student affairs in the Wayne State University College of Engineering.
These skeptics are using science to fight a wave of bad nutrition advice on the Internet
Scientists and researchers are working to debunk the most egregious health myths and educate Americans with evidence-based, factual information. Let’s call them skeptics, myth-busters or debunkers. In any case, this group is collectively using science to fight back against the pseudoscience (like fad diets and quack cancer cures). David Gorski, professor of surgery at Wayne State University and managing editor of Science-Based Medicine, says that being a skeptic is about more than debunking. It’s about promoting science and reason.