Video from the groundbreaking event for the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights is featured in a story about Judge Damon J. Keith and the Ford Freedom Awards: Champions of Justice, hosted by Channel 7's Chuck Stokes. Wayne State law professor Jocelyn Benson also comments during the story.

Wayne State University and hundreds of community members are expected to join a clean-up effort in Detroit\'s Midtown neighborhood. Volunteers will spread out this morning (Saturday) to spruce up the neighborhood block by block. Most of the work involves cleaning, planting or painting. Work gloves will be provided. Midtown is several miles north of downtown and one of Detroit\'s central city neighborhoods. It is seeing an uptick in population and retail growth. It is anchored by Wayne State, the medical center and cultural institutions like the Detroit Institute of the Arts and Orchestra Hall.

Detroit police and Crime Stoppers of Michigan are seeking the public\'s help in finding those responsible for the slaying of a 20-year-old Wayne State University student this month. Courtney (Cortez) Smith was gunned down during an argument in a parking lot near a nightclub at Larned and Shelby in downtown Detroit about 11:30 p.m. May 5. Smith was a criminal justice major at WSU and played football for the Warriors. Crime Stoppers of Michigan is offering up to $2,500 for information leading to an arrest. >p>

In an editorial, Free Press writer Jeff Gerritt writes about poet, writer and former prisoner Jimmy Santiago Baca, who spoke last week at Wayne State University about writing. His audience included 200 Detroit high school students. His appearance supports the InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a nonprofit promoting writing and literacy through training, student workshops and K-12 teaching residencies with professional writers. Gerritt writes that what is happening to Detroit Public Schools "should shame us all -- not only the obvious corruption, but also the stony indifference of most adults to the fate of these 90,000 students."

The 13th Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival, which starts Sunday and runs through May 26, will feature more than 40 films from around the world showing at various venues including Wayne State University. Among the more high-profile films will be \"Holy Rollers,\" \"The Hangover,\" \"Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement\" and \"Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny.\"

Wayne State University, Henry Ford Health System and the Detroit Medical Center are inviting Detroit-based businesses to the inaugural \"Buy in Detroit\" trade fair taking place Tuesday. The fair, part of a Midtown Detroit Inc. initiative to support the local economy, is open to Detroit-based companies interested in meeting with the three anchor institutions to discuss business opportunities. The event takes place noon-5 p.m. at WSU's Matthaei Athletic Complex at 5101 John C. Lodge Service Drive in Detroit.

An article includes highlights from the Michigan-based Arab American Pharmacists Association\'s (AAPA) annual dinner at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn on May 7. More than 350 attended, and a number of awards were distributed. Recipients included Lloyd Young, dean of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Wayne State University. The AAPA\'s student chapter at the WSU Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy mentors students and will provide $25,000 in pharmacy student scholarships.

An article highlights the Southeastern Michigan Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at Wayne State University. Original research by Gull Lake High School and Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center senior Calvin Studebaker won first place at the event.

This story about Wayne State University student Victor Chukwueke, who was selected to speak at last Thursday's commencement ceremony, included a photo of Wayne State President Allan Gilmour congratulating Chukwueke. Also included is an exclusive audio interview with Chukwueke, his mother, Mary, and two of the nuns that helped him during the last decade in Michigan.

Ten metro Detroit high school students took part in a White House celebration of poetry Wednesday. The students, who are part of the nonprofit InsideOut Literary Arts Project based at Wayne State University, were among those invited to the afternoon workshop. InsideOut sends writers into classrooms to inspire and work with students on creating writing projects. In 2009, the group was represented at the White House when it won an award for exemplary after-school arts programs.

Carrie Lohr was named the 12th head coach in Wayne State University women\'s basketball history at a news conference on the WSU campus. She replaces Gloria Bradley, who spent 11 seasons as the Warriors\' coach. Lohr, 39, signed a four-year contract with the Warriors. \"It is a great honor to become a member of the Wayne State University athletic department family,\" Lohr said. \"I look forward to growing Wayne State University women\'s basketball into a championship program."

Mary Width, a registered dietician and lecturer at Wayne State University's Coordinated Program in Dietetics comments in a story about the advantages of homemade baby food. Width says homemade baby food is more economical and simpler. \"Commercially prepared baby food is more expensive,\" she said. \"The foods used for older babies and toddlers (i.e. the Stage 2-3 foods and meals) may contain more ingredients that have little nutritional value such as sugar, salt and corn syrup.\"

Two Detroit News readers commented in the letters section about Wayne State's admissions standards. Marianne Ciufo wrote: "I fail to see how maintaining below-level academic standards at any university can create success for any individual (\"WSU admissions plan is \'immoral\',\" March 31). It is quite apparent to most, that if high school students (of any color or ethnicity) are not college-ready by graduation time, then their K-12 educational system has failed them. Rather than looking to universities like Wayne State to now fill in these educational gaps, perhaps they should turn to one of the many community colleges around metropolitan Detroit in an effort to make them better prepared to handle the academic rigors of four year institutions. This would be a win-win for both sides." Tom Killingsworth wrote: "Since when is it the responsibility of Wayne State - and the taxes of Michiganians - to mitigate failures of the Detroit Public Schools and other urban school districts to educate its students (\"Wayne State\'s tighter door,\" March 10)? As a taxpayer, I fully support Wayne State\'s desire to once again become a world-class university, rather than a university viewed as unable to pass students taking seventh-grade math."

In its roundup of where innovation is happening across the U.S., Fast Company singled out TechTown stating that Detroit is the fastest-growing tech-job market in the U.S. over the past year, and that Wayne State University's TechTown is now home to 220 firms.

Thomas J. Martinelli, a police ethicist and adjunct professor at Wayne State University, comments about San Diego police officials grappling with several officer misconduct cases that have led to criminal charges against five of their officers. "The fallout or ripple effect of not having that training is we have these situations where especially off-duty cops don't think about what their actions are off duty and how they negatively impact the public persona of their department," said Martinelli. "Officers don't see the big picture...They don't think about their actions and how that affects their career and department image. Training makes them think about how to act on duty and off duty."

Governor Rick Snyder said the introduction of the inaugural W.K. Kellogg-Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship class at the Capitol on Thursday symbolized something much more important than the tax debate going on down the hall. Each Fellow will receives $30,000 to pursue a customized, one-year master\'s degree program designed to prepare them to teach in high-need urban or rural high schools. The three-year program is geared toward recent college graduates and those from the workforce looking to pursue a teaching career. The recipients will attend one of six Michigan universities including Wayne State University.

A study, which was conducted by Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, shows that teenage girls who are dating might use a form of violence, but they do not think it would lead to the use of more serious force. In surveying more than 100 young girls, it was found that they might slap, push, or punch someone they were dating, but did not think their behavior would deteriorate, even though they knew it could. Co- researcher Poco Kernsmith, associate professor in Wayne State's School of Social Work, commented in the story. \"Supporting an environment that is intolerant of any form of violent behavior is an important component of dating violence prevention. Reaching youth before they begin dating to provide skill-building around healthy, respectful relationships can help shape future behavior.\"

A study that found the antibiotic-resistant bacteria MRSA in meat and chicken in retail stores was aimed at demonstrating that this is a national issue, not just a problem among a few grocers in Metro Detroit, the author said Thursday. In a study published online this week, Wayne State University researchers showed 2 percent of raw meat samples from Metro Detroit grocers tested positive for MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, a difficult-to-treat bacteria that can cause serious illness and sometimes death from undercooked meat. \"For stores we didn\'t include, that doesn\'t mean they are free of the contamination,\" said Yifan Zhang, an assistant professor at Wayne State University in the Department of Food and Nutrition Science and the study\'s principal investigator.

Yifan Zhang, assistant professor at Wayne State University's Department of Food and Nutrition Science, was interviewed about a study finding the antibiotic-resistant bacteria MRSA in meat and chicken in retail stores. In the study, Wayne State University researchers showed 2 percent of raw meat samples from Metro Detroit grocers tested positive for MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, a difficult-to-treat bacteria that can cause serious illness and sometimes death from undercooked meat. Zhang was the study\'s principal investigator.

Detroit Legal News, 5/12 Kathryn Smolinski, a third-year student at Wayne State University's School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious two-year fellowship from Equal Justice Works. As a fellow, Smolinski will work with Wayne Law\'s Disability Law Clinic to develop a medical-legal partnership with the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center focused on the legal needs of low-income cancer patients in Detroit.