In a story about the pros and cons of coffee drinking, a Wayne State University study is referenced showing that drinking six or more cups a day can reduce the risk of some skin cancers by 31 percent. In the study, Wayne State researchers studied more than 90,000 women determining that antioxidants may protect skin cells.

University union experts from around the country presented to a packed room of faculty and students yesterday afternoon in a panel discussion on how to fight back against what panelists referred to as a national funding crisis and attacks on public employees around the country. Michelle Fecteau, executive director of Wayne State University's faculty union, spoke on the importance of an already established union for her university when it faced massive budget cuts and investigation from the Michigan state legislature this year. "If it wasn't for them taking that action back then we wouldn't have what we have today," Fecteau said of her university's union, which is currently in a legal battle against requests for access to the university's email database on suspicion that faculty is engaged in political activism against the majority Republican state politicians.

Bizdom U, an entrepreneurship accelerator, is seeking up to 20 entrepreneurs to join its Fall 2011 Detroit training session. Located in TechTown, Wayne State University's research and technology park, Bizdom U provides entrepreneurs with all of the training, resources and mentorship necessary to start and operate scalable businesses. Participants who complete the program and prepare an approved plan for a viable Detroit-based business may receive start-up funding from the nonprofit Bizdom U Fund of up to $100,000.

A blind Michigan man, rejected by three law schools after scoring poorly on the Law School Admission Test, is suing the American Bar Association, arguing that the group\'s exam requirements discriminate against the visually impaired. In a suit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Angelo Binno alleges the Chicago-based ABA prevents law schools from waiving the admission test, known as the LSAT, for blind applicants. The suit alleges that visually impaired students face considerable difficulties with visually-oriented parts of the exam. Before 1997, law schools could decide whether blind people must take the exam, according to Binno\'s lawyer, Richard Bernstein, who is also blind. Binno, 28, is fluent in three languages, finished high school in three years, graduated from Wayne State University and worked with a unit of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with a high-level security clearance handling applications and credentials of immigrants, according to the lawsuit.

According to a University of Miami study, those historical rankings of American presidents that pop up every year or so are significantly weighted in favor of Democrats, thanks to the liberal leanings of academia. Wayne State University historian Melvin Small (retired), who has spent much of his career focused on the LBJ and Nixon presidencies, agreed. "All historians, left or right, bring their own biases to these kinds of things," he said. But he points out that Reagan's reviews have improved in recent surveys. "Give him time," he said. "Historians today rank George W. Bush near the bottom. His has to be, at this point, considered a failed presidency. But it is possible that he, like Reagan, will start to move up."

Professor Yifan Zhang, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, was a guest on "The Craig Fahle Show" talking about her study on the antibiotic-resistant bacteria MRSA sometimes found in meat and poultry available at the neighborhood grocery store. The study included 289 raw meat samples from 30 Metro Detroit grocery stores. (cue to 1:23:15)

In November 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to prosecute those responsible for the market collapse a year earlier, saying the U.S. would be "relentless" in pursuing corporate criminals. In the 18 months since, no senior Wall Street executive has been criminally charged, and some lawmakers are questioning whether the U.S. Justice Department has been aggressive enough after declining to bring cases against officials at American International Group Inc. (AIG) and Countrywide Financial Corp. "Can that many companies have collapsed -- large financial firms -- and not one criminal case comes out of it?" said Peter Henning, law professor at Wayne State University who previously was a federal prosecutor and attorney for the SEC. "That seems to go against the norm of the savings-and-loan crisis, and the accounting frauds 10 years ago."

Wayne State's graduate programs are included in a metro Detroit listing.

Wayne State University's College of Engineering is included in a listing of engineering programs in Michigan.

Extensive studies reported by the New York Times explode two commonly held myths about treating shoulders and other injured joints. Those studies highlight the effectiveness of exercise and downplay corticosteroid injections and the practice of resting an injured joint or tendon. "I am in total agreement with the study findings that the worst thing you can do is rest the injured joint, and another waste of time is getting a series of corticosteroid injections," says Dr. Michael Carroll, who cured himself of shoulder pain with a makeshift device that he then fully developed into Rotatoreliever, available to anyone suffering from shoulder pain. Carroll is an associate clinical faculty member at Wayne State University.

An article highlighting the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival and West Bloomfield native Justin Bartha's role in the feature Holy Rollers, mentions the showing of the film at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in the Bernath Auditorium of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library at Wayne State University.

A new study from researchers at Wayne State University will track coyotes in southeast Michigan. The study is meant to fill a gap on information about coyotes that live in highly populated areas. Bill Dodge, graduate student in charge of the project, and his team, will begin their project at the end of June.

A Detroit Free Press story examines the unrestricted money at Michigan\'s public universities that it states is $3.4 billion as of last year. Administrators at the schools say the money is off-limits, earmarked for future uses and unavailable to offset budget cuts and block tuition hikes. The money is parked in investment funds, they say, and is aimed at maintaining high quality in facilities and the campus environment. University officials credit aggressive cost controls for growing the money by about 16 percent over the previous year. Wayne State University is noted as having an unrestricted balance of $235 million.

In a report highlighting the life and career of Don Barden, David Ripple, president of the Wayne State University Foundation, commented on Barden's generous contributions to the university.

Wayne State University\'s Law School has announced the 2011 Public Interest Law Fellowship recipients. With the support of the $4,500 fellowships, 13 Wayne law students will work for agencies and legal clinics in Michigan and beyond. The law school created the fellowships in 2009 to give students additional opportunities to gain practical experience before graduation, ease financial stress and offer needed assistance to organizations providing legal services to underserved constituencies. A listing of award recipients is included.

A photo caption notes that a guest speaker is addressing a group of MBA students from Wayne State University. Tina Yancey, owner of the Great Harvest store off Adams Road in Birmingham, talks about her business investment and the road to profitability.

Kenneth Lee, vice dean of business affairs for Wayne State University's School of Medicine and executive director of the Wayne State University Physician Group, is highlighted as a winner in the Crain's CFO Awards 2011. Lee is lauded for combining three accounting systems and the budgets of the medical school, physician practice group and research organization into an integrated financial report. This year\'s CFOs of the Year will be honored at a June 15 awards and educational summit 5-8:30 p.m. at Shriners Silver Garden Events Center in Southfield.

A story about the steady percentage of moms who each year choose a midwife-assisted birth over a traditional medical approach follows Jess Lucero, a 26-year-old doctoral student at Wayne State University, who gave birth to her child with the assistance of Mary Lewis who also heads the Wayne State University Physician Group\'s midwifery program. The Wayne State University Physicians Group provides the bulk of nurse-midwife services at Hutzel.

Dateline ran a followup story about recent Wayne State University graduate Teresa Ramirez's search for her mother's killer back in 1989.

Coverage of the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure highlights programs that prevent and treat breast cancer like the Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University.