Urban Partnership Bank recently announced it would move its Detroit branch from Mack Avenue this year to The Union at Midtown, a development under way on the campus of Wayne State University. The bank hopes eventually to open other branches in the city.

Wayne State University, Detroit, and TechTown launched a college internship program that rewards entrepreneurs for hiring work-study students. A link is provided for more information about the program. www.techtownwsu.org/talent.

A story about the impact of names in professions such as politics, law and medicine notes a Wayne State University study that found that medical doctors and lawyers were more likely to have last names that somehow evoked their professions. It was published last year in the journal \"Names: A Journal of Onomastics.\"

An article notes that former Wayne State University pitcher Anthony Bass, 23, is making his second stint with the San Diego Padres in 2011. The right-hander was previously selected from Double-A San Antonio on June 13, making his Major League debut that day against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. He earned his first Major League victory that day after working five innings and allowing one run on five hits and four walks before being optioned back to San Antonio the next day. A photo of Bass is included.

A listing is provided in the Daily Mining Gazette showing the tuition increases at Michigan's 15 public universities, including Wayne State University. Fox 2 offered a segment on tuition costs.

Together, the American Diabetes Association, the CDC and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology are developing a new health initiative to help increase the use of information technology for the prevention and management of diabetes. It will provide funding to 17 health information technology "information hubs" in diverse US communities. This fall, two of those communities - Southeast Michigan Beacon Community in Detroit, Mich. and the Crescent City Beacon Community in New Orleans, La. - will kick off a mobile health campaign to provide health and wellness resources to patients with type 2 diabetes. Dr. Herbert C. Smitherman, Jr., assistant dean of community and urban health at Wayne State University's School of Medicine, says this is an opportunity to demonstrate and learn how to do this effectively in basic, smaller communities. He added that "once we get the kinks out of it then [we'll] scale it up to larger communities."

The Detroit agency being investigated by the FBI following Free Press reports of misspending and mismanagement is placing the city\'s preschool Head Start program at risk by failing to pay rent to classroom providers and allowing federal violations to persist. Head Start providers worry that they may have to shut down their programs that serve about 7,000 low-income children in Detroit. \"If the money isn\'t there, then the organization can\'t function, which means Head Start will stop serving kids,\" said Janet Windemuth, a Head Start volunteer and Wayne State University instructor who specializes in urban education of early childhood. \"We have no idea what\'s going on with the city.\"

The 35,000-plus youngsters from the Metro Detroit area will experience new attractions at Metro Detroit Youth Day (MDYD) this year at the event for children during its 29th anniversary being held July 13 at the athletic field on Belle Isle. In addition to its regular menu of free sports clinics, contests, races, entertainment and lunch, the coordinators of this largest youth event in Michigan will be able to participate in four mini workshops. Wayne State University is included among the participating colleges and universities.

A brief highlights Gabriel Moreno, a third-year student at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, who was awarded the prestigious Minority Scholars Award and the Ronald Davis Scholarship from the American Medical Association Foundation. The award recognizes academic achievement, leadership and community involvement. Moreno helped to launch and served as president of the Latin American & Native American Medical Association at Wayne State's medical school.

Michael Wright will add the responsibilities of chief of staff to his role as Wayne State University\'s vice president for marketing and communications. He will report directly to Wayne State President Allan Gilmour. Wright has managed marketing, public relations, media relations, advertising, publications production and Web activities since he joined Wayne State in July 2007 as associate vice president. He formerly worked at Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co.

Dr. Robert Alan Frank has been appointed chief medical officer of the Wayne State University Physician Group and vice dean for clinical affairs at Wayne State University's School of Medicine. Administratively, Frank will work with the physician group\'s associate chief medical officers and School of Medicine department chairs in furthering initiatives in marketing, informatics, quality improvement, clinical operations, revenue cycle, hospital relations and expansion of clinical presence.

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, has joined hands with the Centre for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA), a unit of the School of Business Administration at Wayne State University, for a workshop on research methods. An interdisciplinary center working towards helping faculty, graduate students and professionals learn about current developments in various areas of research methods and statistics, CARMA will focus on research methods relevant to the management and organizational sciences at this workshop. It will be conducted on June 25 and 26.

The fourth edition of the Detroit-Windsor International Film Festival screens nine features and nearly 60 shorts at several locations on the Wayne State University campus starting today with a 7 p.m. showing of \"1/20.\" The festival is also known for presenting documentaries, and the short Detroit Docs entries will screen at 7 p.m. Saturday. \"The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi,\" which shows the jazz pianist and composer\'s influence beyond \"A Charlie Brown Christmas,\" shows at 3 p.m. Saturday. A free Tech Fair, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday in Prentice Hall and the DeRoy Auditorium, will offer visitors insight into the film business.

Seventeen participants in the Michigan Shifting Gears program will celebrate completion of the career transition program Thursday, June 30, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Guardian Building in Detroit. The graduation celebration will be hosted by Tech Town, Wayne State University's technology park, in conjunction with the Michigan Economic Development Corp. and Sensei Change Associates.

Saeed Khan, Wayne State University professor of Middle Eastern politics and culture, was a guest on "The Craig Fahle Show" discussing Afghanistan and President Barack Obama's announcement regarding troop withdrawals from the region.

A story notes that a team of four Wayne State University first-year biomedical engineering students has made it to the finals of the Undergraduate Design Competition at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Summer Bioengineering Conference, which will be held through Saturday in Nemacolin, Pa. The team of Brandon Heid, Ali Abdallah, Nigil Valikodath and Hajra Khan designed a device that will allow a diabetic patient, with the use of only one arm, to test his blood sugar independently. Michele Grimm, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is quoted.

The Dearborn-based documentary "Fordson: Faith, Fasting, and Football" will be shown as part of the Detroit-Windsor International Film Festival at 7 p.m. Friday in the Partrich Auditorium at Wayne State University. The 99-minute movie follows four Fordson High School football players from Sept. 11, 2009 to Sept. 20 of that year as the team gears up for a game against cross-town rival Dearborn High.

The Wayne State University Board of Governors on June 22 approved a budget for fiscal year 2012 that includes a tuition increase. Facing a new Michigan executive budget that cut state funding of universities to mid-1960s levels, the Board of Governors voted to increase tuition 6.9 percent for undergraduates and 7.1 percent for graduate students. "I never expected that we would find our state appropriations cut by 15 percent," WSU President Allan Gilmour said. "This is tough, and it affects all parts of the university."

During a 40-plus-year career with Wayne State University's Law School, Frederica Lombard served as a role model, mentor and trailblazer for countless women in the legal profession. In addition to becoming the first full-time female law faculty member at the university, she was a former associate and interim dean. Mrs. Lombard died Friday of congestive heart failure in Detroit. She was 72. Mrs. Lombard began teaching in 1966 at Wayne State, where she met her future husband, Arthur Lombard, who joined the law school faculty the same year. She became a full professor in 1969, and was named associate dean in 1992, a position she held for 13 years. She served as interim dean for one year. An expert in family law, Mrs. Lombard served on several faculty committees at WSU, including the Minority Employment Action Steering Committee and the Commission on the Status of Women, which strove to correct gender inequalities at the university. On the national scene, she sought to establish accreditation standards which prohibit law schools from discriminating against women. She retired in 2007.

An article highlights Marcus Clarke, a San Mateo, Calif. Community Development worker, who accepted a fellowship from Wayne State University to help revitalize Detroit. The Detroit Revitalization Fellows Program aims to reverse the downward trend by assembling some of the brightest minds in the country to work and live in the city for at least two years to help bring it back to life. The program had 640 applicants to fill just 25 spots. Clarke found out last week he was accepted into the program.