Lisa Rapport was named associate editor of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. Rapport is a professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts at Wayne State University. The Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology publishes research on the neuropsychological consequences of brain disease, disorder and dysfunction, and aims to promote the integration of theories, methods and research findings in clinical and experimental neuropsychology. A photo of Rapport is included.

A new study to be published in the Journal of Business Ethics finds that ethical concerns among future business leaders are at a 30-year high, but that the nature of their concerns has shifted considerably. A survey of more than 2,000 college students at 23 universities across the United States finds their top concern is how lower ethical standards may affect their personal finances, including savings and retirement funds. Other top student concerns are how ethics may impact the overall economy and that they may face increased pressure to participate in unethical business practices to succeed. The study was conducted by researchers Will Drover and Jennifer Franczak of Southern Illinois University, and Richard Beltramini of Wayne State University, who is co-author of all three studies. "This population accepts ethical challenges as part of the modern workplace," said Beltramini, an advertising and marketing professor. "While some concerns of earlier decades have been replaced by newer issues, our future business leaders still worry that to succeed in fulfilling business profit objectives, they will have to participate in unethical behaviors."

Dr. Robert Zalenski, professor of emergency medicine at Wayne State University's School of Medicine and director of the University's Center to Advance Palliative-Care Excellence, commented in a column examining hospice care. The piece noted his involvement in the DVD "Except for Six," which details the work of Hospice of Michigan. He was speaking of his experience with the death of a daughter at 10 months old with no hospice program, and of his father, who died with lung cancer under hospice care. "Hospice care gave us time to be together, rather than chasing a cure that doesn't exist. ... Illness is an opportunity to love and care for each other," he said.

Plans are under way for The Community House inaugural gala set for March 24. The gala will honor family business owner David Trott of Trott Trott, LLP. Allan Gilmour, president of Wayne State University, will serve as the evening's keynote speaker.

Marvin Danto, founder and owner of the Michigan Design Center in Troy and donor of $3 million to Wayne State University for what became the Marvin Danto Engineering Development Center, died Jan 24. He was 95.

This past fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study showing an alarming rise among young adults in the number of acute ischemic strokes, by far the most common kind, in which the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off due to a blockage. From 1995 to 2008, the number of women ages 15 to 34 who were hospitalized for this type of stroke rose some 23 percent, from 3,750 a year to nearly 4,900. For the next age-group, 35 to 44, hospitalizations jumped 29 percent, from 9,400 a year to nearly 13,400. And a second study found that strokes among 20-to 44-year-old Caucasians has more than doubled since 1993. Scarier still is how often strokes in young adults are missed - some 14 percent of the time, according to researchers at Wayne State University. Patients from that study were misdiagnosed as, among other things, being drunk, having an inner ear infection, or suffering from benign vertigo. "If a young person has symptoms of sudden unsteadiness, dizziness, or weakness, it's almost always considered a less dramatic event than stroke," says study coauthor Dr. Kumar Rajamani, associate professor of neurology at Wayne State University's School of Medicine.

A new study shows elimination of a tumor by freezing it can increase life expectancy of patients suffering from ovarian cancer that has spread to the other parts of the body and cannot be removed surgically. The process, called cryoablation, uses a small needle through which high pressure liquid nitrogen or argon gas is streamed that triggers rapid ice formation in the tumor cell which eventually kills the tumor. Results from the study showed the treatment was effective in killing 98 percent of all tumors in 21 patients whose tumors in the abdomen, liver, lung and bone could not be removed surgically. "This study adds to the evidence that cryoablation is an effective option for patients who can't have surgery," said study author Dr. Hyun J. Bang, a radiologist resident at Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center.

In another move Michigan is making to diversify its struggling economy, a former state politician has launched a non-profit group aimed at attracting homeland security businesses. The Michigan Security Network was launched this week to bring more security companies here, as well as coach auto suppliers on how to expand into the industry. Expanding the industry in Michigan would bring high-skill jobs and create openings for graduates of Wayne State University, University of Michigan and Michigan State University, which all have programs in these areas.

A Wayne State University School of Medicine physician and researcher will convene a vital training workshop on childhood epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa next month. Dr. Harry Chugani, the Rosalie and Bruce Rosen professor of neurology and chief of pediatric neurology for the School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Michigan, has organized "Epilepsy in Children in Developing Countries." The training will take place Feb. 1-4 in Entebbe, Uganda. The attendees will be physicians primarily from sub-Saharan countries, with a few from North Africa. "We will teach them about basic diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in children," said Chugani, who also serves as director of the Positron Emission Tomography Center for the School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Michigan. He will give opening and concluding remarks, as well as a lecture on the role of neuroimaging in epilepsy.

Wayne State University, Henry Ford Health System and the Detroit Medical Center confirmed yesterday that they will participate for a second year in the "Live Midtown" initiative in which it gives financial incentives for employees to live in areas of Detroit. The 2012 program kicked off Wednesday. The program, announced last January and administered by Midtown Detroit Inc., offers cash to about 30,000 employees of Wayne State, Henry Ford and the DMC to buy or rent in the New Center, Midtown, Virginia Park and Woodbridge neighborhoods.

Detroit 20/20 ran a segment on the new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) to be located at 300 River Place Drive at the former headquarters for Stroh's Brewery and Parke-Davis Laboratories. There is a huge backlog of patents in this country, possibly more than 700,000. The wait for a new patent can be 4 to 5 years or more, and the cost can be tens of thousands of dollars. Dr. Martin Bluth, of Wayne State University's School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, is also the founder of Genome Dynamics International, LLC, and has five patents pending in biomedicine. "I think in terms of getting technology out there faster, I hope the US PTO dropping anchor in Detroit will be the start of heralding a collective buy-in to make the process easier, simpler and more effective so that more people like myself can get technology out there and improve the world," Bluth said.

A feature story examines the University Pharmacy founded on campus in 2008 by Maria Young. Carol Bugdalski-Stutrud, assistant clinical professor and director of community experiential education at Wayne State's Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, also is mentioned for her vision of an independent pharmacy on campus that could host influenza clinics and wellness screening staffed by student pharmacists. Photos of WSU pharmacy students are included along with Young and Bugdalski-Stutrud. (Pgs. 49-50)

This feature story in the official NCAA publication profiles Wayne State University sophomore swimmer and diver Paige Kortman, who finished fifth in the one-meter competition and ninth in the three-meter at the 2011 Division II women's Swimming and Diving Championships. A photo of Kortman is included.

Cynthia Bir, professor of biomedical engineering at Wayne State University, is the lead engineer in the 13-part series titled "Sports Science" to be telecast on the Discovery Science channel beginning Feb. 1. Using methods that have been developed to understand human injury biomechanics, and with the help of new techniques to address the unique challenges found when studying live volunteers in high impact and high speed activities, Bir will make viewers understand the forces (internal and external) sustained and generated by the body during high-level athletic activities.

The Wayne Law Review is hosting an upcoming symposium titled "National and State Marijuana Reform: The Social, Economic, Health and Legal Implications," 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27, at Wayne State University Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. The keynote speaker will be former Michigan attorney general Mike Cox. He joins Craig along with director of state policies for the Marijuana Policy Project Karen O'Keefe, also speaking at the symposium, to discuss marijuana laws and reformation.

National statistics compiled by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education show that just 16 percent of students with family incomes under $30,000 graduate in six years. Many low-income students face academic challenges because their high schools aren't doing a good job of getting them ready for college, experts say. The students also suffer from lack of individual attention. Outside the classroom, those students can have a hard time navigating the university system -- like knowing how to drop a class, how to get all the financial aid available or how to get matched for a roommate. As universities work to meet President Barack Obama's call for increasing the number of graduates, they're creating better support systems for their students -- especially those who don't have an existing system. Wayne State University sets up new students in groups with similar majors and connects them to faculty, said Daniel Winston, the assistant director for new student orientation and campus tours. "We want to help create a sense of community," he said.

Ben Burns, Wayne State University journalism program director, joined Craig Fahle for a discussion on the South Carolina Primary. Topics included the impacts of the primary's outcome, possible voter coverage fatigue, and the State of the Union address on the media's continuing coverage of the GOP during the course of the 2012 election.

Wayne State University announced the appointment of Harl R. Tolbert as associate vice president of technology commercialization in the Division of Research. Tolbert began on Wednesday, Jan. 18. Tolbert joins Wayne State from his most recent post as associate director for biological sciences in the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center's Office of Technology Transfer.

Predicting problems in one of the body's most complex organs soon may become easier because of work being done by Wayne State University researchers. Howard Matthew and Yinlun Huang, professors of chemical engineering and materials science, recently received a $550,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a mathematical model of liver metabolism that can be used to analyze and more effectively predict responses to possible treatments for hepatic steatosis, more commonly known as fatty liver. The condition affects between 15 and 20 percent of the U.S. population and often is a precursor to more serious problems.

Requiring a minimum down payment of 20 percent, or even 10 percent, on home loans would push many creditworthy borrowers into higher-cost loans or out of the mortgage market entirely, a new study says. Possible down-payment requirements are part of a debate in Congress and among a cluster of federal regulatory agencies, as they develop new rules for mortgage lenders following the housing crash. To see what impact tougher rules for down payments and other criteria might have on borrowers, the University of North Carolina's Center for Community Capital, Wayne State University and the Center for Responsible Lending examined home purchase loans issued before the housing bubble burst. The researchers found that imposing a 10 percent down payment requirement would eliminate 38 percent of creditworthy borrowers from the traditional mortgage market and that at a 20 percent down payment threshold, 61 percent would be excluded.