Norma Goldman, a lifelong educator who taught Latin at Wayne State University for more than 45 years, regarded it as the backbone of all languages and authored one of the textbooks used to teach freshman Latin at the school: \"Latin via Ovid.\" Mrs. Goldman died Oct. 1 after a yearlong struggle with cancer. She was 89. After graduating in 1943 from what was then Wayne University with bachelor\'s and master\'s degrees in English, Greek and Latin, as well as a teaching certificate, she married, a year later, Bernard Goldman, a professor of art history at the university. After retiring from Wayne State University in 1991, she continued teaching on a voluntary basis as one of the founders of the WSU \"Society of Active Retirees, \"an educational program for senior citizens. A public memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. today at Wayne State University's Community Arts Auditorium.

Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour and John Moran, managing director of Overseas Private Investment, will discuss Michigan\'s economic future in the global economy at the American Arab Chamber of Commerce\'s 19th annual Building Bridges banquet. The event will be Oct. 21 at the Henry Hotel, 300 Town Center Drive, Dearborn.

Dr. Sonia Hassan has been appointed associate dean for maternal, perinatal and child health at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She has served as the director of the Center for Advanced Obstetrical Care and Research at the Perinatology Research Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The National Institutes of Health center is housed at the school and the Detroit Medical Center.

A heated debate took center stage at the University of Tennessee on Monday night featuring two of the nation\'s leading and opposing voices on same sex marriage. John Corvino, professor at Wayne State University and the author of many books supporting same sex marriage, and Maggie Gallaher, who has been featured on CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets speaking out against same sex marriage. \"Well, I think that we have enough marriage to share in our society. It is good for people to have a special someone to have and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or poorer and so on, and I think that\'s true whether you\'re gay or straight,\" said Corvino.

Jobs for Michigan, the reputation of UAW President Bob King and Ford\'s ability to compete with U.S. rivals are all at stake this week as the union works to persuade 41,000 Ford workers to vote in favor of a tentative agreement. If ratified, Ford\'s contract would deliver $1.3 billion in investments at eight Michigan plants, including $500 million in Flat Rock to build the next-generation Ford Fusion. \"They are bringing work back to American plants, and they are putting billions into refurbishing American plants,\" said Mike Smith, a labor historian at the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University. \"And reinvesting in that Flat Rock plant, I think, is a very, very positive win for the UAW and Michigan.\"

An overview of Detroit Public Television\'s PBS Premiere Night and Benefactor Dinner notes that Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour received the organization's Visionary Award for establishing DPTV\'s new Midtown Studio on the WSU campus.

Three Detroit schools are among 63 across the state awarded grants to help fight childhood obesity. The grants are part of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan\'s Building Healthy Communities school program. Blue Cross first offered the program in 2009. Grants have been awarded to 63 schools across the state to help children incorporate exercise and healthy eating into their lifestyles. Blue Cross has partnered with Wayne State University\'s College of Education Center for School Health and the Michigan Fitness Foundation.

A review of last week notes that Presidents Allan Gilmour of Wayne State University, Mary Sue Coleman of University of Michigan and Lou Anna Simon of Michigan State University told the Detroit Economic Club that government involvement in the operations of state universities would be counterproductive.

Three Detroit schools are among 63 across the state awarded grants to help fight childhood obesity. The grants are part of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan\'s Building Healthy Communities school program. Grants have been awarded to schools across the state to help children incorporate exercise and healthy eating into their lifestyles. Blue Cross has partnered with Wayne State University\'s College of Education Center for School Health and the Michigan Fitness Foundation on the program. http://www.freep.com/article/20111009/NEWS01/111009006/3-Detroit-schools-get-grants-fight-obesity?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/10/3_detroit_schools_get_grants_t.html http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/2ed5a6ba6a18432d9b7a021969b67b43/MI--Childhood-Obesity-Grants/ http://www.wwmt.com/articles/detroit-1396834-obesity-schools.html

At the forefront of Michigan\'s economic resurgence is the University Research Corridor, an alliance of Michigan\'s three largest research institutions-Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. According to the 2011 Empowering Michigan Economic Impact Report released Oct. 4, Michigan\'s University Research Corridor continues to grow in areas critical to the state\'s resurgence: student enrollments, degrees granted in the high-tech and high-demand sectors, number of alumni living in the state contributing to the state\'s economy through wages and taxes, research and development expenditures and start-up companies. Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour said the report highlights the impact of having universities and business moving forward in tandem. \"Business and universities are both part of the solution to our economic challenges,\" Gilmour said. \"It\'s the combined power that can really make a difference.\'\'

The next major innovations in medicine could be on the drawing boards in Detroit, including a bra with ultrasound that can detect breast cancer and a miniature wireless pump to help millions of Americans with failing hearts. The medical inventions are among more than dozen in development at the new Henry Ford Health System Innovation Institute, a think tank for creating medical products opening Monday on Henry Ford\'s Detroit campus. The institute unites Detroit medical and biotechnology researchers at Henry Ford and Wayne State University with engineering, design and medical students from a half-dozen area schools. A major collaboration for the new institute involves Wayne State's College of Engineering, where microchip technology expert Gregory Auner is working on more than a half-dozen projects, including several using Raman spectroscopy for cancer detection. Auner\'s team also is making a miniature heart-assist pump for people with congestive heart failure, a common problem in elderly patients. And a team he heads is developing a 4D ultrasound device inserted into a silicone bra that immediately picks up signals of cancerous cells. A photo of Auner is included.

Learning from Detroit\'s Midtown area\'s success is the focus of a daylong session at Wayne State University, 12:30-6 p.m., Tuesday, at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center. The event, sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers, features representatives from retail and local government who will share their strategies for attracting new business to struggling areas. Speakers include Red Elk Banks, executive operations coordinator for Whole Foods, which plans to open a store in Midtown in spring 2013. Also featured is Sue Mosey, president of the University Cultural Center Association, which has been instrumental in bringing development to the area and incentives for local employees to live near work.

According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, asthma is the third ranking cause of hospitalization of children younger than 15 in the United States. Richard Slatcher, assistant professor of psychology in Wayne State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $3 million grant by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to study 180 children between the ages of 10 and 15 in Detroit, using an innovative home-based naturalistic assessment tool called the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR). The EAR will measure whether identified risky family behaviors are associated with greater asthma morbidity - such as symptom severity, emergency room visits and pulmonary function. "This is an important study for children in Detroit, an area that has troubling high incidences of asthma morbidity and mortality," said Hilary Ratner, vice president for research and interim dean of the Graduate School at Wayne State University.

The 2011 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) football season is at the halfway point. With five games to play the divisional races are tight, and many teams still have their sights set on the GLIAC Championship. Wayne State University (5-0, 4-0), No. 6 in the latest AFCA Division II Top 25 poll, will host Lake Erie College (1-4, 0-4) on Saturday. The Warriors defeated Northern Michigan University last week 30-28 in Marquette, while Lake Erie lost at Ferris State University 38-14. Last season Wayne State defeated Lake Erie 28-16.

Chet Privett has multiple roles for the undefeated football team at Wayne State University. The highest-ranking college football team in Michigan doesn\'t reside in Ann Arbor or East Lansing. The undefeated Wayne State Warriors, currently the sixth-ranked team in the nation in Division II, are putting together perhaps the greatest season in the history of the program. Sophomore fullback Chet Privett, a De La Salle grad, embodies this and has become one of the unsung heroes for coach Paul Winters. \"What he brings to the team is a mentality, he\'s so tough,\" Winters said. \"I think that helps everybody else be tough. He\'s always into it.\" A photo of Privett is included.

Although Michigan\'s universities are working together more than ever, there\'s no need to consolidate them into one statewide system, the presidents of the state\'s biggest three said Tuesday at the Detroit Economic Club. The comments came as a new bill started working its way through the state Legislature to establish a new commission to look at restructuring the university system. The commission would be tasked with analyzing the current governing system and then making recommendations, which could include consolidating some universities. The university presidents said keeping the universities autonomous would be best for the state. WSU President Allan Gilmour said he does not think there is much clamor for consolidation. \"The alternative (to autonomous universities) is a czar, a commission in Lansing,\" he said, adding he did not think any of the business leaders in the audience would want politicians running their companies. Regarding the University Research Corridor, the three presidents said the corridor is devoted to bringing university resources to bear on Michigan\'s problems, particularly in terms of economic development and in developing entrepreneurship. \"Entrepreneurship isn\'t just high-tech companies,\" Gilmour said. \"It\'s also things like retail.\" A photo of the presidents is included.

At the forefront of Michigan's economic resurgence is the University Research Corridor (URC), an alliance of Michigan's three largest research institutions - Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. According to the 2011 Empowering Michigan Economic Impact Report released yesterday, Michigan's University Research Corridor continues to grow in areas critical to the state's resurgence: student enrollments, degrees granted in the high-tech and high-demand sectors, number of alumni living in the state contributing to the state's economy through wages and taxes, research and development expenditures, and start-up companies. The report showed that the URC invested more than $1.8 billion in research, had an economic impact of more than $15.2 billion on the state, and educates 137,583 students. The universities have more than a million alumni with more than 573,000 living in Michigan. Allan Gilmour, president of Wayne State University, said the report highlights the impact of having universities and business moving forward in tandem. "Business and universities are both part of the solution to our economic challenges," Gilmour said. "It's the combined power that can really make a difference."

The presidents of Michigan\'s three largest public universities on Tuesday called proposed legislation that could result in consolidation of the institutions\' governing boards unnecessary. Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour, Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon, and University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman spoke at the Detroit Economic Club, saying the proposed plan -- ostensibly an effort to encourage greater cooperation among universities -- is redundant as many universities already work contiguously, the Detroit Free Press reports. Gilmour said a consolidated governing board would be centralized at the state Capitol and wouldn\'t be popular. \"The alternative (to independent universities) is a czar, a commission in Lansing,\" he said, according to the Free Press. A photo of President Gilmour is included.

The Michigan Diversity Council announced the appointment of representatives from sponsor organizations Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, KPMG, Michigan First Credit Union, MRM Worldwide and Wayne State University, to its Advisory Board. Included among the Wayne State appointees are: Victor Green, director of community relations, and Terry Margolis, director of educational outreach and executive and professional development.

A story about Reading Works, the new coalition of business, civic, educational, philanthropic and media partners, mentions Wayne State University's participation as one of the partner organizations on the alliance. The campaign is raising money and seeking volunteers to support nine agencies in the region that provide instruction for adults who want to learn to read. The effort is seen as key to improving the work force in the Detroit area to attract employers and fill available jobs that require reading skills. (Print edition only)