Wayne State University is noted as having a water research institute in a story about the exploding clean water technology industry worth about $4 billion and expected to double every five to 10 years. Water is expected to become the biggest issue on the planet with two billion people not having enough clean water now. In less than a generation, two-thirds of the world will face a shortage.

Third-year Wayne State University Law School student Anisa Lari is profiled in a feature about her aspirations in the legal field. Lari, who grew up in Albania, plans to use her passion for the law and her experience as an immigrant to help others who are new to the United States. Lari received a bachelor\'s degree in political science and international studies from Wayne State University and will receive her juris doctor in May.

Sean P. McAlinden, chief economist and executive vice president of research at the Center for Automotive Research, appeared on the "Frank Beckmann Show" to discuss changes in the U.S. and worldwide vehicle markets. McAlinden will be speaking at this afternoon's Samuel M. Levin Economics Award Lecture about Michigan's recovery from the worst automotive industry downturn in 70 years. http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=2790&DateTime=4%2F11%2F2011+10%3A23%3A07+AM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=2790&playclip=True&RefPage= http://www.cargroup.org/Sean%20McAlinden.html

An article highlighting the push for anti-bullying legislation mentions Jocelyn Benson, an associate professor at Wayne State University Law School and the 2010 Democratic nominee for Michigan Secretary of State, who said that she will head up a data collection effort to expose the extent and the impact of bullying in Michigan. She said in a speech before an anti-bullying rally in Howell that Michigan needs to take a zero tolerance approach to bullying.

After three years as general secretary of the American Association of University Professors, Gary Rhoades may be on his way out, the casualty of personality clashes between him and the organization\'s longtime president - Cary Nelson - and its staff members in Washington, according to AAUP sources familiar with the disputes. Charles J. Parrish, a professor of political science at Wayne State University and vice president of the Michigan AAUP conference, said on Monday that several people close to the situation had told him that the association\'s nine-member executive committee voted in March not to renew Rhoades\'s appointment as general secretary. Parrish is not a committee member, but he does sit on the association\'s 39-member national council, which must now weigh in on the executive committee\'s vote against Rhoades when it convenes in June at the AAUP\'s annual meeting in Washington.

The recent murder of an Iraqi surgeon and a university researcher indicates that insurgents are again assassinating scientists, doctors and academics, even as those who survived an earlier wave of attacks are starting to return from exile to help rebuild their country. \"A government that cannot protect its people does not deserve to be a government,\" complained Hikmat Jalal, head of the International Society of Iraqi Scientists and currently a professor of medicine at Wayne State University in Michigan.

Peter Henning, law professor at Wayne State University and former federal prosecutor, commented in an article about former City Council President Monica Conyers's request to a federal judge to modify her 37-month prison sentence for bribery and let her serve time at home. Her bid is a long shot considering Conyers has filed an appeal, which is pending before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Henning said. \"You can ask,\" he added. \"Barring extraordinary circumstances, I doubt he would reconsider.\"

Since leaving government, former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson has used his name, connections and expertise to land jobs and board memberships on a wide range of companies - everything from snagging a partnership in a powerful national firm to monitoring safety for thoroughbred racehorses. Now, Thompson finds his name is being used to hype a penny stock of a Texas biomedical company - a promotion that falsely claimed Thompson was a member of the company\'s board of directors. The unauthorized use of Thompson\'s name can \"create a real headache,\" said Peter Henning, Wayne State University law professor and expert in stock fraud. \"He can\'t be happy about this at all.\" If the ad causes the stock price to skyrocket, only to plummet later, an investor who is burned might sue, Henning said. \"You look for every deep pocket you can,\" said Henning, who prosecuted penny stock fraud cases at the Securities and Exchange Commission. \"These are the types of advertisements that are on the edge of the securities law.\"

For years doctors have known that pregnant women with a short cervix face a higher risk of delivering their babies prematurely, a problem that costs the United States an estimated $26.2 billion a year and leads to the deaths of many infants. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, Wayne State University reported that daily use of a gel containing the hormone progesterone dramatically reduced premature deliveries among women with a short cervix. Roberto Romero, principal investigator on the report and chief of the Perinatology Research Branch of the National Institutes of Health at Wayne State University, said, \"It is important that we know there will not be a single test to predict all premature deliveries. There will not be a single treatment to prevent all preterm births.\" However, Romero said the report shows that measuring a woman\'s cervix is one way doctors can screen pregnant women to determine their risk of delivering prematurely. \"The shorter the cervix,\" he said, \"the greater the risk of preterm delivery.\"

Michael Belzer, Wayne State University economics professor, commented about the trucking industry and its attraction to potential drivers. Many people believe in the illusion that they can simply go out and drive a truck, and that's going to make them big bucks, said Belzer. As for the actual work for long-haul jobs - the bulk of gigs in the male-dominated profession - many drivers sleep in their trucks to save money, and many end up eating unhealthy foods on the road. "McDonald's is cheap, and then you'll be sitting in the truck," he explained. "There's a high propensity for obesity."

Don\'t expect corporate legal budgets to expand with the economy, as most general counsel offices expect both internal and external spending to resist the recovery throughout 2011. \"The question is going to be, will corporate counsel grow by more hiring inside, or will the new billing and fee arrangements they\'ve created make their outside counsel more appealing to hire? That\'s still difficult to answer,\" said Stephen Calkins, professor and past interim dean at the Wayne State University Law School as well as past general counsel for the Federal Trade Commission. \"My little sense is, in-house departments have done a little more hiring in specializations or niches they have a need to build on. When a specialty comes along, sometimes an outside firm will lead on that before a company may take attorneys in-house.\"

Laura Bartell, Wayne State University Law School professor and expert in real property law, stresses the importance of having a will or letter expressing the wishes of the deceased when it comes to real estate and other property. \"There\'s nothing you can\'t take care of while you\'re alive,\" Bartell said. She said cemetery officials should ask more questions to avoid conflicts as to who in the family has authority.

Tuxedo Black, Blackberry Pearl and dozens of other metallic-infused paints used on vehicles are in short supply -- and that has metro Detroit paint and coatings companies and research offices looking for workarounds or making contingency plans. Darmstadt, Germany-based Merck KGaA produces its patented Xirallic paint pigment solely at its Onahama, Japan, plant, which was destroyed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked the island nation in March. John Taylor, director of supply chain programs at Wayne State University, said Merck could have and should have authorized another pigment supplier to produce the patented Xirallic under a short term contract to prevent bottleneck. \"In the interest of supply chain unity and maintaining the performance of the supply chain, they (Merck) should be finding ways to contract alternative suppliers, even just for a few months to keep the supply chain intact,\" he said. \"It would be repaid with loyalty to the supplier and would have kept OEMs from restricting paint options while consumers are still buying.\"

Students from Wayne State University's School of Medicine are holding their Spring Checkup 5k on Belle Isle at 11 a.m. Sunday, April 10. This event is the primary fund raiser for the Robert R. Frank free clinic, run by students serving uninsured people.

Sheila Cockrel, who served 16 years on the Detroit City Council and is now an adjunct professor at Wayne State University's Irvin D. Reid Honors College, commented in a story about Mayor Dave Bing's next budget. Understanding the deficit is just as important as understanding the city\'s revenue, Cockrel said. She said Bing must address the unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities in the city\'s pension funds and develop a long-term strategy to manage health care costs for employees and retirees.

A fast-developing field in medicine called oncofertility has prompted leading medical centers to develop expanded fertility options for cancer patients offering both traditional services like sperm and embryo banking along with newer techniques for the nation's estimated half-million American cancer survivors of reproductive age. The newest options include ways to harvest ovarian and testicular tissue from children even before they reach puberty and improvements in harvesting and freezing unfertilized eggs for cancer patients who must begin treatment immediately or who do not have a partner to fertilize the eggs. Wayne State University's School of Medicine and its affiliated Hutzel Women\'s Hospital at the Detroit Medical Center Detroit are mentioned as waiting for internal approval to offer egg freezing soon, according to Dr. Elizabeth Puscheck, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at WSU.

Monica White, sociologist at Wayne State University, commented in a story about why gardening has grown over the past four decades inside the city. Now working closely with the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, she explained it was her study of activist women that inspired her sociological research into gardening. She found that Black Panther women in California and African National Congress women in Johannesburg, South Africa had gardening in common. They gardened for the nutritious food, but also for the experience of community that gardening provided. "Black Women talked about gardening as a meeting place," White said.

The 20th annual NOBLE Criminal Justice Job Fair will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Tuesday, April 12, at Wayne State University's Student Center Building. Employers in law enforcement, government and military looking to hire criminal justice students and/or graduates will be recruiting for qualifiied candidates and sharing organizational information at this career event.

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy last month filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the labor studies departments of the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University for records that might reveal improper use of public funds for political opposition to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker\'s budget-cutting crusade against public unions. Michael Jahr, spokesman for the Mackinac Center, said his organization was concerned about the recent 24-hour takedown of Wayne State University\'s Labor Studies Center website this week. Francine Wunder, director of public affairs at Wayne State, said Thursday the site was taken down to review the content. It was back online Thursday. \"Wayne State University received a FOIA request from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The request is currently under review in accordance with the University\'s FOIA procedures,\" Wunder said. \"I don\'t know if anything was changed on the site. The departments have control over what is on their sites.\"

In his column about Detroit's status as a city battling back from the recent low census numbers, Daniel Howes mentions Wayne State's participation in the move forward. "Massive investments by the city\'s major hospital groups, an expansion by the College for Creative Studies, a strategy by Wayne State University to burrow more deeply into its patch and a program to lure more residents to the area are paying off."