Fox Sportsworks' Woody Woodriffe congratulated WDFN's Sean Baligian, also known as the "voice of Wayne State football," on the Warriors' big win over Northern Michigan University over the weekend.

Columnist Rochelle Riley, who moderated a panel discussion last week about Detroit's future, lauds panelists Allan Gilmour, president of Wayne State University; Nancy Schlichting, CEO of the Henry Ford Health System; and Mike Duggan, CEO of the Detroit Medical Center. Riley wrote: "Schlichting lives at Henry Ford, developing new jobs. Duggan lives at DMC, building a new children\'s hospital. Gilmour lives at Wayne State, fighting to make the urban university among the best. They work tirelessly in ways that some people who do live in Detroit do not."

In a story about Reading Works, a program designed to boost adult literacy in metro Detroit, it is noted that Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour and Carolyn Shields, College of Education dean, are committed to establishing an Office of Adult Literacy on campus - and hosting a national conference on adult literacy in 2013. A photo shows Tulsha Morsaw, 45, of Detroit, working with instructor Patricia Mott-Elder to improve her writing at Wayne State University\'s Another Chance program.

A report highlighting Detroit2020's first Buildup with Habitat for Humanity Detroit notes that a group of students from Wayne State University volunteered to hammer on some walls as part of the project at Habitat\'s Jane Street Operations Center on Detroit\'s east side. Wayne State student Calaya Tucker was interviewed about her participation.

Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley writes in support of U.S. Rep. Hansen Clarke's proposal this week that the federal government allow Detroit to keep its own federal tax dollars for five years to shore up its schools and infrastructure and attract jobs. She notes that Clarke is getting support from people ranging from Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson to Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour and Detroit Medical Center President Mike Duggan.

Detroit News columnist Laura Berman joined Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour during the recent New Student Convocation and developed a feature story about his move from retirement to academia following a successful career in the automotive industry. On the morning of convocation, he told the assembled students to learn to explore the liberal tradition of thinking broadly and openly, learning \"the value of long-term education over short-term training,\" because one \"prepares you for a job, the other for a life.\" His goal at age 18, he says, was to be a country lawyer, in his home state of Vermont. Instead, after twice retiring from Ford Motor Co., he finds himself still sought after, at age 77, in academia. \"We had launched a national search,\" recalls Paul Massaron, a Wayne State Board of Governors member who helped draft Gilmour into a new career. But late last year, Massaron looked at the job description, and the requirements. \"We came to the conclusion that the person we were looking for was right in front of us,\" says Debbie Dingell, vice-chair of the Board of Governors. \"He gave us instant credibility.\" Photos are included.

Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour was interviewed by WJR's Paul W. Smith about the economic impact of higher education on the state's economy. President Gilmour will be participating with the other University Research Corridor presidents in a Detroit Economic Club program titled "Creating a Dynamic 21st Century Business Model for Economic Recovery" on Tuesday, Oct. 4. The three presidents will be discussing the role of higher education and how business can take advantage of the URC's top talent and research facilities to create new business opportunities and spur job creation and growth in Michigan.

While high blood pressure is considered the most important risk factor for strokes, new findings target even slightly high blood pressure as a danger. The authors suggest treatments more aggressive than altering lifestyle might be necessary if future studies support the findings. The findings are leading to discussions about starting earlier drug interventions to lower blood pressure, according to a doctor not associated with the study. Most often, medicine for lowering blood pressure is not recommended until blood pressure is 140/50 or higher . \"It could be similar to what happened with cholesterol numbers,\" says Seemant Chaturvedi , director of the stroke program at Wayne State University and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. \"Everyone knows those have been ratcheted down.\"

Executive Director of the State Universities of Michigan Presidents Council, Mike Boulus, joined WDET's Craig Fahle to discuss legislation introduced to establish the State University System Restructuring Commission. While Rep. Bob Genetski is reported as having introduced the bill in response to high tuition state rates, passage of the bill would give the state legislator the ability to investigate university governance systems for possible restructuring.

In a story about Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's "Prohibition" series, a photo from Wayne State's Walter P. Reuther Library is included. The series begins with a look at 19th-century America, and at the lives of the obscure, often desperate, Americans - mostly women - who were the first to mount a war against the sale of alcohol. The photo shows men in Detroit heeding a sign warning of \'last call\' in the days before Prohibition\'s 1920 start.

A technique Stanford Linear Accelerator Center scientists invented for scanning ancient manuscripts is now being used to probe the human brain, in research that could lead to new medical imaging methods and better treatments for stroke and other brain conditions. Mark Haacke, a specialist in medical imaging and professor at Wayne State University, is playing a leading role in the study. "It's one thing for me to show people a pretty picture that shows there may be iron present and another thing to validate that - to quantify how much is there, how much has spread throughout the brain," he said. "(X-ray fluorescence imaging) allows us to create a scale for measuring iron directly from an MR image. Knowing those details may help us understand why people suffer differently - why some people recover from stroke and some people don't."

The Wayne State University Law School Student Board of Governors will host the 26th annual Ambulance Chase Charity Run/Walk at 5 p.m. today, consisting of a 2.2 mile race in which participants run or walk behind an ambulance. The event, which starts in front of the law school, pokes fun at the stereotype of the "ambulance-chasing lawyer."

Carol Miller, chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Wayne State's College of Engineering, joined WDET's Craig Fahle to discuss the upcoming Michigan H2Objective Conference. The two-day conference at WSU will explore the large and looming water problems we face statewide and globally both currently and in the future. This year's theme is "Research Shaping Michigan's Water Future." The symposium will be held Thursday and Friday this week.

Josh Linkner, CEO and managing partner of Detroit Venture Partners, will be the keynote speaker during Wayne State University's Get Launched! event, to be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, in WSU's Student Center Ballroom. Get Launched! is hosted by WSU's Blackstone LaunchPad, a resource center for student entrepreneurs. At the event, students from Wayne State and other Metro Detroit colleges will showcase their business models, which range from mobile apps and social media technology to retail and automotive engineering, and everything in between.

When 23-year-old Anthony Bass was promoted from Double-A San Antonio on June 13 to join the Padres bullpen, key members of the Padres hierarchy believed that is where his future was. Though Bass had worked exclusively as a starter over the past 2½ seasons in the farm system, there were doubts that the right-hander's fastball command and repertoire would allow him to be a starter at the major league level. All Bass has done since is change minds and turn heads. Suddenly the fifth-round draft pick of 2008 out of Wayne State University has emerged as a contender for the Padres' 2012 rotation. \"He\'s shown us a lot,\" said Padres manager Bud Black of Bass. \"He has the arm. He\'s made great strides in everything else. I liked the way he mixed his pitches tonight. His fastball command has gotten a lot better.\"

A little motivation for parents could go a long way toward improving young diabetes patients\' ability to manage their own care, a Wayne State University researcher believes. Deborah Ellis, associate professor of pediatrics in WSU\'s School of Medicine, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to develop and preliminarily validate a computer-delivered intervention to increase parental motivation to supervise and monitor diabetes management behavior of young adolescents who are beginning to manage their diabetes care by themselves.

Aloke Dutta, professor of pharmaceutical sciences in Wayne State University's Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, is leading research efforts to develop new treatment options to slow the progression of Parkinson\'s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects nearly six million people around the world, with 50,000 to 60,000 new cases diagnosed in the United States alone each year. Currently no ideal therapies are available for slowing the degeneration process while relieving symptomatic abnormalities associated with Parkinson\'s disease. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health awarded a $2.15 million research grant to Dutta and his team.

Researchers at Wayne State University and five other Michigan institutions will receive more than $6 million for significant new research into treatments for aggressive forms of breast cancer and methods to detect breast cancer earlier, with funding announced yesterday by Susan G. Komen for the Cure®.

Rising tuition is prompting a state representative to call for a state commission to oversee public universities, but a spokesman for the colleges accuses Rep. Bob Genetski of trying "to dismantle public education." A bill from Genetski, R-Saugatuck, would create an 11-member commission to study the current structure of the state\'s 15 public universities, and if necessary recommend changes to the governor and Legislature. The University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University - have trustees elected statewide. "This commission may make a recommendation that we need major changes in higher education governance or that we need a whole new form of governance. Either way, I think it\'s time to put the discussion on the table," said Genetski. "He\'s trying to dismantle higher education," said Michael Boulus, executive director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan. Boulus defended the tuition hikes, saying state aid dropped by $936 per student, and tuition increases averaged $641 per student. "We\'re seeing record enrollment," he said. "People in Michigan are willing to pay for high quality education programs."

A Wayne State University professor is leading research efforts to develop new treatment options to slow the progression of Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects nearly six million people around the world, with 50,000 to 60,000 new cases diagnosed in the United States alone each year. Aloke Dutta, professor of pharmaceutical sciences in WSU's Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, is hoping to change that with a recently awarded $2.15 million research grant, Novel Neuroprotective Treatment for Parkinson's Disease, from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health. Dutta and his team aim to develop multifunctional therapeutic agents that will be useful not only in symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease, but also as disease-modifying agents promoting survival of the dopamine neurons that would otherwise gradually degenerate in Parkinson's disease.