Up to 1,100 private-practice physicians affiliated with Detroit Medical Center have signed an affiliation agreement with 1,200-physician United Outstanding Physicians LLC, a Dearborn-based physician organization, over DMC\'s own physician-hospital organization and Wayne State University Physician Group. The agreement is expected to dilute the potential contracting effectiveness of DMC\'s physician-hospital organization. There are more than 3,000 private physicians on the medical staffs at DMC\'s nine hospitals and more than 700 who are faculty members at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. Most of the Wayne State doctors also are part of WSU\'s faculty practice group.

The Wayne State Warriors are mentioned in USA Today's list of noteworthy performances last weekend in college football. 44: Years since Division II Wayne State (Mich.) started 4-0. The Warriors got there with a 31-24 win against Ohio Dominican. The 1967 Warriors team started 7-0.

The Criminal Justice Alumni Advisory Group at Wayne State University will sponsor a community forum on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, Saturday, Sept. 24, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the David Adamany Undergraduate Library Community Room. The event titled "The Michigan Sex Offender Registry and Your Right to Know as a Citizen," is free and open to the public.

A Detroit News editorial says the tuition fight initiated by Bob Genetski, R-Saugatuck, chairman of the higher education subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, should be put to rest for now. "But since the governor\'s budget director has ruled their tuition increases technically comply, Genetski\'s time would be better spent figuring out how to close such loopholes in the future." The editorial adds that Wayne State and Michigan State officials have testified before the House subcommittee and said they had no intention of dodging the law. And in late July, state Budget Director John Nixon said both schools did not abuse the 7 percent tuition cap when raising their fall tuition rates by 6.9 percent based on summer 2011 rates.

Wayne State University physics professor Claude Pruneau was interviewed in studio by co-anchor Guy Gordon regarding the satellite debris that is heading towards Earth today. Pruneau says that NASA doesn't not know where the satellite will fall, but that it will bypass the U.S. and North American continent. The satellite, decommissioned by NASA in 2005, is one of about 22,000 objects or debris in space. The chance of the plummeting satellite hitting anyone on Earth, Pruneau says, is one in a trillion or less.

On Tuesday, Oct. 4, the Detroit Economic Club will feature University Research Corridor (URC) Presidents in a program titiled "Creating a Dynamic 21st Century Business Model for Economic Recovery." Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour will be joined by Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon and University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman. The three presidents will discuss 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. Further information is available at: http://www.econclub.org/Meetings/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=0350dd5d-707f-4a7e-a02d-3bd0c78e2f09

An article features the opening of Wayne State University's A. Paul Schaap Chemistry Building and Lecture Hall. The new building and lecture hall are the result of a $76 million expansion project to renovate the chemistry labs and classrooms of the university. The building has been awarded LEED certification for its sustainable features, including two-sloped green roofs and an advanced electrical system. The green roof assists in keeping the building cool during the hot summer months, reducing the consumption of the energy required for cooling the building.

Toyota is working with Wayne State University to develop crash dummies patterned after children and seniors to account for their body differences. The goal is to close the gap between current safety testing and the actual injuries suffered by these two groups in a way that will ultimately reduce injuries to all occupants -- regardless of how old they are.

A bill that would dock Michigan State and Wayne State universities millions of dollars is meant to be a strong message about making tuition increases, according to sponsor Rep. Bob Genetski (R-Saugatuck). HB 4980 would dock WSU nearly $13 million and MSU more than $18 million for allegedly breaking caps set by Gov. Rick Snyder on tuition raises. Senate Appropriations Chair Roger Kahn (R-Saginaw) told MIRS that a negative supplemental for WSU and MSU \"kind of came out of left field.\" \"(Budget Director John) Nixon said he felt they technically met the letter of the law and wasn\'t looking to penalize them,\" Kahn added. (Subscription/print only edition)

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. "Common sense might suggest that parents do need to oversee adolescents' diabetes management, but there's been a consistent finding in the literature that such supervision doesn't necessarily happen," Ellis said.

Researchers at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute will focus on creating better therapies to treat triple negative breast cancer thanks to a $3.5 million grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. Triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease, is often resistant to standard breast cancer treatments and has a particularly high incidence rate among African-Americans. \"Women affected by this disease often do not receive benefit from currently approved therapies,\" said Patricia LoRusso, D.O., director of the Karmanos Phase 1 Clinical Trials program and professor of Hematology and Oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine. \"We are convinced that learning more about the role of cancer stem cells will allow us to define better treatments for patients who have this type of aggressive breast cancer.\"

Eastern Michigan University became the latest university to formally ban medical marijuana on its campus. EMU regents unanimously approved the measure at a board meeting Tuesday. Despite state laws allowing those with medical marijuana cards to smoke the drug, federal law still lists it as illegal. That makes it necessary for universities to ban it as well, university officials said, because EMU and other higher education institutions receive federal funds. Wayne State University is currently reviewing its policy, said spokesman Matt Lockwood.

A quartet of state House Republicans wants to strip millions in state aid from Michigan State and Wayne State universities. Last week, four Republican members of the state House's appropriation's higher education subcommittee introduced a bill that would take back incentive money universities were awarded for keeping tuition increases below 7.1 percent. If the bill is successful, it could cost MSU $18.3 million and WSU $12.8 million. Wayne State spokesman Matt Lockwood said the university has tried to hold down the cost of tuition and needed the increase to balance its budget already hurting from big cuts to state aid. "Further cuts in state support, as proposed in this bill, would increase the difficulty of maintaining the quality of our teaching and research," Lockwood said. "Wayne State cooperated in earlier inquiries into our tuition increase, including attending a hearing before the House Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee in August. The Governor's state budget director affirmed that the University's tuition adjustment was in compliance with state law."

Six environmental organizations will convene in Detroit on Oct. 11-14 to discuss the future of the Great Lakes, including at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center at Wayne State University. \"Great Lakes Week\" encompasses significant conferences coming together, reportedly for the first time in the same city during the same week. Hosting the conferences and joint sessions are the International Joint Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Areas of Concern Program, the Great Lakes Commission, The Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition and Environment Canada.

Catherine Jen, chair of Wayne State University's Department of Nutrition and Food Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was interviewed during the Obesity Summit held in Lansing yesterday. An estimated 500 health care professionals, educators, researchers attended the Michigan Call to Action to Reduce and Prevent Obesity summit. Gov. Snyder announced the obesity summit last week when he unveiled his initiative to help create a healthier Michigan.

The second phase of the A. Paul Schaap Chemistry Building and Lecture Hall opened last week on Wayne State\'s campus, expanding and renovating the school\'s chemistry laboratories and classrooms to state-of-the-art levels. The $76 million project was funded by Wayne State University and a $10 million donation from A. Paul Schapp (a former chemistry professor at WSU) and his wife Carol through the Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan. "The number of hoods had become too small to serve all the needs of the faculty and students, and the fume hoods, laboratory layout and furnishings were quite outdated," College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean Robert Thomas said in The South End article. The Chemistry Department has \"something of an entrepreneurial spirit,\" said Department of Chemistry chair Jim Rigby in the Model D story, producing three spinoff entrepreneurial ventures from the WSU labs in recent years. He says the facility modernization has the ability to create new economic activity.

Wayne State University Law School celebrating the grand opening of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19. The Keith Center honors the life and legacy of Judge Keith, civil rights icon, and a 1956 Wayne Law alumnus. \"Judge Keith is truly an icon in the historic march toward equality and justice for all in this country,\" said Professor Peter Hammer, director of the Keith Center. \"We are fortunate to have his wisdom and experience to guide us. Through programs of scholarly legal study, community outreach, public interest law and public lectures by prominent civil rights leaders, the Keith Center will be a major contributor to civil rights education in Detroit and beyond.\" Numerous national media outlets ran the story.

Al Gore will bring his message of climate change to Detroit next month. The former vice president and presidential candidate will deliver the keynote address at the International Joint Commission's Great Lakes Water Quality biennial meeting October 13 at Wayne State University.

Additional media outlets highlight Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's upcoming visit to Detroit to speak about climate change. Gore will give the keynote address at the International Joint Commission\'s Great Lake Water Quality biennial meeting at Wayne State University on Oct. 13.

Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for American teenagers, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Wayne State's "Drive Safely to Wayne State Campaign" addresses this issue in addition to other topics focusing on driver safety. Peter Savolainen, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, talks about the 8th annual campaign being held on campus Sept. 19-20. Reports aired throughout the day.