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Center for Peace and Conflict Studies to honor Detroiters with peacemaker awards

On Nov. 17, the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University will host the 2013 Max Mark-Cranbrook Peace Lecture and Peacemaker Awards ceremony on WSU's campus in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium and McGregor Memorial Conference Center. NPR's International Correspondent Deborah Amos will deliver the lecture, "Latest Developments in Middle East," and will also receive a Global Peacemaker Award. Community Peacemaker Awards for 2013 will go to Peace Zones for Life founder Ron Scott, and philosopher and lifelong social activist, Grace Lee Boggs. Professor and physicist Alvin Saperstein and legendary Detroit musician Sixto Rodriguez, star of the recent documentary, "Searching for Sugarman," will receive International Peace Collaboration Awards as well. WDET Detroit Public Radio 101.9 FM News Director Jerome Vaughn will be the event's master of ceremonies.
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Hilberry Theatre's 'Big Love' revels in the timeless battle of the sexes

Not to be confused with the HBO series about a family of polygamists, "Big Love" is a 2000 play by Charles L. Mee about three sisters who seek refugee status after they abandon arranged marriages in Greece. The current production at Wayne State University's Hilberry Theatre offers plenty to chew on in terms of gender politics. Ultimately, "Big Love" succeeds because director Blair Anderson and his actors approach the themes of the show with such conviction.

Police ask for help locating missing WSU law student

Several local media outlets reported on the missing third-year Wayne State University law student, Tiane Brown. Thirty-three year old Brown was last seen Monday night on campus. Police have no evidence indicating that she has been in an accident or is a victim of foul play, according to Wayne State Chief of Police Anthony Holt said. A description of the missing student is provided, and anyone with information about Brown are asked to call the Wayne State or Waterford police.
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WSU offers tuition break to out-of-state students

Wayne State University is offering in-state tuition rates plus a 10 percent fee to undergraduates from seven surrounding states and Ontario, under a new program called the Great Lakes Tuition Award. The states are Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois and New York. The university expects the program to court out-of-state enrollment and estimates those taking advantage of it who take 15 credit hours a semester will save an average of $11,633 per year. Wayne State offered the award this semester to first-time freshmen and plans to extend it to other undergrads soon. About 317 full-time students enrolled in Wayne State are from Canada and 238 from other U.S. states.

Apple Days at Wayne State University

Former Detroit Lion and Super Bowl champion Lomas Brown appeared on Fox 2's morning show to talk about Community Apple Days -- A Health, Wellness and Career Fair. The community-wide open house will take place at Wayne State University's Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences from noon to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30. At the core of the fair are hands-on workshops focusing on job responsibilities and skills of health professionals in 12 health sciences programs offered at the college.
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Michigan's University Research Corridor entrepreneurs bring a spirit of innovation to revive Detroit

The presidents of the three universities that make up Michigan's University Research Corridor (URC) - Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan - discuss the influence of the students and alumni in launching new businesses, tapping their talents and paving the way for Detroit's resurgence. "The three URC universities are investing in Detroit in ways that range from Wayne State's extensive police presence in Midtown Detroit that has cut crime 50 percent to Michigan State University's Community Music School for residents of all ages and the partnerships and understanding forged through the University of Michigan's Semester in Detroit program."
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6 Michigan research schools set up database for businesses in need of expertise

A cluster of Michigan's research universities are partnering with an online portal to offer Michigan businesses a chance at faculty's research and expertise. The Expertise Portal will allow companies to find experts or researchers and establish consulting relationships with them. The site is online at: http://www.michigancrn.org/business-portal.php. The Expertise and Resource Portal is an online searchable database developed and maintained by the Michigan Corporate Relations Network, a unique collaboration of six research universities and Michigan's University Research Corridor. Those universities are Wayne State University, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University and Western Michigan University.
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WSU Baseball Team among those honored for "Doing the Most Good"

The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit hosted its annual Metropolitan Detroit Advisory Board Civic Awards Dinner last evening to honor community partners who've demonstrated notable resolve for "Doing the Most Good" in metro Detroit. The Salvation Army honored four organizations with Doing the Most Good Awards, given to individuals and organizations that exemplify an extraordinary spirit of service and collaboration with The Salvation Army in times of need. Among the Most Good Awards was the Wayne State University Baseball Team, for its help in kicking off the annual Red Kettle Campaign in metro Detroit by converging on downtown's Campus Martius Park in freezing pre-dawn temperatures to help install The Salvation Army's giant Red Kettle. The structure stands 56 feet tall and 24 feet wide and glows with 25,000 red LED lights and, once installed, the team enthusiastically joins in The Salvation Army's first bell ring of the season.

Professor Robin Boyle comments about Midtown, public safety in China Central TV report

Detroit is now showing signs of a resurgence in its Downtown and Midtown neighborhoods. Robin Boyle, Wayne State University professor of urban planning said, "This is one of the safest neighborhoods in any major city in North America. High-quality policing using the most up to date technology, not just on campus here but spreading out towards the neighborhoods. If there's one thing that's really had a major change, and changed the mindset of people here, it's improved public safety."

Average tuition at state universities up 2.9 percent, the smallest rise in decades

Average tuition rates at the nation's 4-year public universities rose 2.9 percent this year, the smallest annual increase in more than three decades, suggesting that the steeper increases over the past few years didn't signal a new era of accelerating prices, says a report out today. Still, the smaller rates of increase this year - across public and private nonprofit and for-profit colleges - are tempered by recent declines in federal grant aid, according to Trends in Higher Education reports on tuition and financial aid, released by the nonprofit College Board. In Michigan, the average tuition increase among public universities this year was slightly higher at 3.45 percent. Also, the unemployment rate for four-year college graduates ages 25 to 34 was 7.1 percentage points below that for high school graduates.

Wayne State University offers tuition breaks to residents of Great Lakes states, Ontario

Continuing a trend to attract out-of-state students, Wayne State University said anyone from all Great Lakes states and Ontario will be eligible to pay slightly more than the tuition for in-state residents. Beginning in January, students from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario who receive the Great Lakes Tuition Award will save about $11,633 a year, based on 15-credit-hour semesters. In-state undergraduates pay $11,097 for a 30-credit hour load, about $907 more than in the 2012-13 school year. "We look forward to giving a broader array of students the opportunity to take advantage of a very reasonable tuition base to attend this top research university," Wayne State Provost Margaret E. Winters said Wednesday.
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How one city in Wisconsin may change how we protect the Great Lakes

The city of Waukesha (near Milwaukee) is asking for permission to tap into Lake Michigan for drinking water - to the tune of 10.1 million gallons per day. The aquifer that has provided most of its drinking water for the last century has dropped so far, that the water left behind has unhealthy levels of radium and salt. So the city of 70,000 is under a federal order to find a new source, and Lake Michigan is just 15 miles away. But Waukesha has the bad luck to be a mile and a half outside the watershed boundary that encircles the five Great Lakes. So now the question is, how do we balance the need for a public water supply with the need to protect the Great Lakes? Noah Hall, Wayne State University law professor who helped draft the compact, discusses what's going on in Wisconsin, and where the Great Lakes stand.
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WSU Theatre and Dance Chair John Wolf discusses plays, ballet, fine art and more during WRCJ interview

John Wolf, chair of the Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance, was an in-studio guest of WRCJ radio's "Doctor Dave's Drivetime Elixir" during the station's fall fundraiser. He spoke about the current plays in the university's three theatres, the fact that WSU dancers will perform Nov. 21, in New York City with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, the impressive dedication to arts and culture that Detroiters exhibit and the important ongoing support from Maggie and Bob Allesee to Wayne State's College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts.
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Wayne Law dean's op-ed explores changing redistricting rules to end political dysfunction

Wayne Law Dean Jocelyn Benson co-authored an opinion piece (which originally appeared in Bridge Magazine) examining the role of gerrymandering - the practice of redrawing political boundaries to enhance the power of one political party at the expense of another - in "democracy's current dysfunction." Benson says the only way to give voters a meaningful voice in how districts are drawn is to take the redistricting authority away from the Legislature and give it to an independent, non-partisan reapportionment commission.

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