An article highlights the research of Dr. Karlie Rosner, assistant professor at Wayne State University's School of Medicine, who developed a concept that successfully uses genetic constructs that contain a genetically modified enzyme - DNase1 protein - to seek out and destroy cancer cells. The novel technology was published in the article \"Engineering a waste management enzyme to overcome cancer resistance to apoptosis: adding DNase1 to the anti-cancer toolbox\" in the Jan. 14 online edition of Cancer Gene Therapy. The beauty of this therapy is that specifically-targeted cancer cells destroy themselves through the physiological mechanism of apoptosis, leaving surrounding healthy cells intact.

Five community college students' journey to Detroit to present their plan to rejuvenate the city is chronicled in this story. Their visit with Wayne State University officials is noted among other stops. In the Detroit News story, a photo is included showing Wayne State representative Stephanie Fries leading Minnesota students on a tour of the campus Friday. http://www.twincities.com/ci_17766420?nclick_check=1 http://detnews.com/article/20110402/METRO01/104020364/1408/local

Jerry Herron, dean of Wayne State's Irvin D. Reid Honors College, comments extensively in a story about actor Charlie Sheen's weekend performance at the Fox and his recent career troubles. \"Rehabilitation through humiliation is a great American tradition,\" said Herron. \"If you\'re willing to take your clothes off and spill your guts, we might let you back in. Go on \'Oprah,\' cry a little, and then you\'re OK.\"

As part of its initiative to draw attention to some of the English language\'s most expressive - yet regrettably neglected - words, Wayne State University has released its annual list of the year\'s top 10 words that deserve to be used more often. Now in its third year, Wayne State\'s Word Warriors series promotes words worthy of retrieval from the linguistic closet. "The English language has more words in its lexicon than any other," says Jerry Herron, dean of WSU's Irvin D. Reid Honors College and a member of the website's editorial board. "By making use of the repertoire available to us, we expand our ability to communicate clearly and help make our world a more interesting place." Detroit Free Press columnist Ron Dzwonkowski leads his column with a twist on the Word Warriors theme: "The Word Warriors of my alma mater, Wayne State University, have released their second annual list of 10 seldom-used words that are "worth reviving." Any or all of them could be easily CPR'd in the context of this year's state budget debate." He concludes his column with a full listing of the 10 words. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/03/31/words-worth-reviving/ http://www.freep.com/article/20110331/COL32/110331053/1008/NEWS06/Ron-Dzwonkowski-10-words-use-more-How-s- http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2011/04/revivied-words-list.html

In her column, Dianne Marsh takes issue with the use of the term 'requiem' in William McGurn's Wall Street Journal column titled "A Requiem for Detroit." Marsh wrote that McGurn's column lacked depth. "I can\'t help but respond when I see a national news outlet fall back on portraying Detroit as a lost cause," she wrote. Marsh, in her rebuttal, wrote: "And I always get emotional when I think or talk about the Math Corps, an amazing program from Wayne State University that\'s making a difference for kids in Detroit, where the results, reported here, speak for themselves. She continued, "Yes. A few people from Wayne State got together and found a way to engage students and get them not only to graduate from high school, but to excel in math and to go off to college.

Wayne State University law professor Robert Sedler says ideology is causing the back and forth on the Michigan Supreme Court. And he says things got bad about a decade ago. \"Around 1998 there were a series of appointments by former Governor Engler who were very ideological in their views. The majority took the position that, if they believed cases were wrongly decided, they were going to overrule those cases.\"

Engineering students and newcomers to the auto industry are unfazed by the deep job cuts and troubles the industry has suffered in recent years - especially those looking to become tomorrow\'s electric vehicle engineers. \"Electric and hybrid vehicles are for the future - they can be for any part of the world - but also in the U.S.,\" said Krishna Jasti, 24, a graduate student in Wayne State University\'s electric vehicle drive engineering program. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/01/2767733/carmakers-scramble-to-hire-electric.html#

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. former manager David Sokol exercised poor judgment yet may not have broken insider-trading laws by buying stock in a company he later proposed as a takeover target to Chairman Warren Buffett, legal experts said. "What's been disclosed to date is that it was non- public," Heim said. "The question is whether the merger process was far enough along to deem it material. I don't think he violated any securities laws, specifically insider trading," said Peter Henning, law professor at Wayne State University.

Wayne State University\'s Athletics Department has partnered with Wayne Cares, DO Foundation and Covenant House Michigan to organize a Basic Needs Drive, April 4-20, to collect toiletries for Detroit's homeless. Rasheda Williams, Wayne State University information officer, said there is a need to help the homeless all-year round. "Sometimes we tend to give big during the cold months, but donations and time are needed even in the spring and summer,\" she commented.

Kimberly Rice, a producer with the Michigan Creative Film Alliance who is studying for a master's in media arts at Wayne State University, wrote an opinion piece supporting Michigan's film incentives. Rice, along with a coalition of students from Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan worked together to direct, edit and produce the film "Appleville," which premiered March 31. A photo of Rice is included.

Victor Green, Wayne State University's director of community affairs, is featured for his participation in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training (TNT) program. Green completed his first triathlon in St. Petersburg, Fla. People participate in TNT to improve their fitness, honor friends and family or to make a difference in the lives of many by raising funds for blood cancer research. A photo of Green is included. (print only)

Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour, Central Michigan University President George Ross and Western Michigan University President John Dunn testified yesterday before the Michigan Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education in Lansing. Snyder\'s budget would cut state aid to universities up to 23 percent and then lower that cut to 15 percent if universities keep tuition increases at less than 7 percent. President Gilmour spoke out against the tuition incentive, asking for flexibility. \"Tuition increases have been the only way to balance the budget and maintain academic quality,\" he said. \"If we want to improve the economy, we should be talking about increasing, not cutting\" the higher education budget." A photo of President Gilmour is included.

A conservative research group, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, has issued a far-reaching public records request to the labor studies departments at three public universities in Michigan, seeking any e-mails involving the Wisconsin labor turmoil. The group declined to explain why it was making the Freedom of Information Act request for material from professors at Wayne State University, University of Michigan and Michigan State University. But several professors who received the records request said it appeared to be an attempt to intimidate or embarrass professors who are sympathetic to organized labor. Marick Masters, director of labor studies at Wayne State, told WDET that he had nothing to hide. "This looks like an attempt to embarrass us. I haven't engaged in any partisan activities here. I think they're probably interested in seeing the extent to which labor studies centers in the state have helped orchestrate the protests in Madison." http://detnews.com/article/20110330/POLITICS02/103300367/Conservative-think-tank's-request-for-emails-stirs-controversy#ixzz1IArh93Ud http://www.freep.com/article/201103310300/NEWS15/103310502 http://www.app.com/article/20110331/NJNEWS18/110331005/Request-for-professors-emails-on-Wis-labor-strife-sparks-outrage-

Two of Detroit's most notable nonprofit organizations, University Cultural Center Association (UCCA) and the New Center Council, will vote Friday morning on a planned merger. . The combined organization will be known as Midtown Detroit Inc., to be headed by long-time UCCA President Sue Mosey. The group will be based at UCCA's current location at 3939 Woodward Ave., north of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall complex. In recent years, the two districts have emerged as among the city's most vibrant areas, with huge new investment by Wayne State University, the Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health System, and many private developers.

Five community college students plan to hit the highway from Bloomington, Minn., this morning in hopes of presenting Mayor Dave Bing with their strategy for turning around Detroit. It\'s a plan they\'ve crafted this semester in their city politics class, studying Bing\'s Detroit Works Project to reshape the city by enticing residents to concentrate in viable neighborhoods. One key element of their plan is dramatically boosting the size of Wayne State University, making Detroit known as an education epicenter and turning Midtown into \"the beating heart of the city,\" Page said. It would be modeled after Dinkytown, a Minneapolis neighborhood of bars and streetcars near the University of Minnesota\'s Twin Cities campus.

John Porcerelli, associate professor of behavioral medicine at Wayne State University, comments in Detroit News columnist Laura Berman's story about the emerging roles of the genders. Porcerelli sees young men flummoxed by the collision between reality and their adolescent presumptions of omnipotence - fantasies fueled, too, by a culture that tells young people to live their dreams. \"Parents and teachers are saying you can do anything with your life but then you realize that your ACT score is 21 and you\'re probably not working on the next space shuttle.\"

Wayne State University law professor Peter Henning, a former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement attorney and Justice Department prosecutor, comments in a story about challenges facing SEC head Mary Schapiro as she hits the halfway point of her five-year term. "Insider trading is really flash," says Henning. "If you look at some of the biggest numbers, like Raj (hedge-fund mogul Raj Rajaratnam, now on trial in federal district court in Manhattan) you're talking about $50 million. But Lehman is the biggest bankruptcy in history, and it alone has cost over $1 billion in legal and other professional fees."

Melba Joyce Boyd, distinguished university professor and chair in Wayne State's Department of Africana Studies, opines about the university's proposal to raise admissions standards in a letter to the editor. She commented that, "It is sad to see Wayne State abandon its longstanding commitment to serve the unique needs of Detroit and its residents."

A brief notes that John Corvino, associate professor of philosophy at Wayne State University, will give a speech at Oakland University on Monday, April 4, titled \"Haters, sinners and the rest of us.\" Corvino draws on two decades of speaking experience as \"The Gay Moralist\" to help promote a better dialogue on the issues between those who support LGBT equality and those who do not. The event is free and open to the public.

Wayne State University\'s theater training program will be presenting this weekend an epic two-play adaptation of John Irving\'s \"The Cider House Rules.\" The cast has been drawn almost equally from WSU\'s graduate Hilberry Theatre and the undergraduate Bonstelle Theatre programs. A photo of cast members is included.