Writer R. Diane Moshier talks about her experiences dealing with cancer and the treatments she is receiving at Wayne State 's Karmanos Cancer Institute and blood tests at a local hospital. She also mentions her most recent visit to "the Wayne State doctor" who "was pleased with my progress."

Two members of the WSU baseball team have been named to the Rawlings/ABCA All-Region squad for the North Central Region. They are senior shortstop Jason Chapieski, who was named to the first team, and junior first baseman Jon Weisman, who received second team honors.

The Supreme Court has scheduled a second hearing in the case of a search for illegal drugs conducted by the Detroit Police in a private residence. The case was appealed in Michigan on the grounds that the police obtained the evidence with a warrant, but failed to "knock and announce." Exchanges between presiding justices and David A. Moran, the defendant's lawyer and associate dean of Wayne State's Law School, are included in the story.

The head of Detroit\'s public radio station WDET pleaded no contest Thursday to an embezzlement charge stemming from his former post at Michigan Public Media in Ann Arbor. Michael Coleman made the plea at a pretrial hearing in Ann Arbor, said Kevin Piotrowski, WDET public relations and promotion director. He is charged with one count of misdemeanor embezzlement for allegedly accepting meals and other perks. Louis Lessem, vice president and general counsel for Wayne State University, commented in a statement. "It's welcome news that Michael has successfully resolved this situation with the University of Michigan. We are looking forward to continuing the momentum we are seeing at WDET under Michael\'s leadership.\" A photo of Coleman is included.

Joe Lovano, legendary tenor saxophonist, will perform with the Wayne State University Big Band and his own quartet at 8 and 10 p.m. Friday, in the Allesee Rehearsal Hall, Max M. Fisher Music Center. Contact information was provided.

Researchers from Wayne State University and William Beaumont Hospital presented a paper at the 2006 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting describing rapid protocol to Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), which is also known as a "mini-stroke." As many as 30,000 Americans a year are diagnosed with TIA. The researchers looked at the use of an Accelerated Diagnostic Protocol, as well as other treatment methods, and how these protocols might lower treatment costs and shorten hospital stays.

The Michigan Technology Leaders event gave its 2006 Michigan Corporate Partnership Award to SpaceForm Inc., a spinout company of Delphi Technologies Inc., a unit of Delphi Corp. The award is intended to identify, create, support and honor significant partnerships between Michigan companies and local individuals or groups benefiting the technology community. It is noted that SpaceForm has collaborated with organizations and institutions such as Wayne State University, NASA and Automation Alley in its commercialization of Delphi\'s patented \"deformation resistance welding\" technology.

A story about the 30th anniversary year of Preservation Wayne includes a photo of the Mackenzie House on the WSU campus and notes that it was once the home of Wayne State founder David Mackenzie. The structure currently serves as headquarters for Preservation Wayne and the University Cultural Center Association.

Wayne State University has been awarded a $3 million challenge grant by The Kresge Foundation for construction of the Richard J. Mazurek M.D. Medical Education Commons. The medical school will receive the money provided it can raise an additional $20 million to fund the project. "Education is a very strong category in our grant program," said Kresge President John Marshall III. "When public universities do fundraising with individuals and corporations, that's tapping into a potential for gift support that we are very happy to assist."

Derek Wildman, assistant professor in Wayne State's School of Medicine, commented in a recent Nature story about recent findings about the origin of species. The study found that ancestors of humans and chimpanzees may have interbred and exchanged significant numbers of genes after the initial split between the species.

David Bonior, Wayne State University professor, will be the keynote speaker at the Peace Action of Michigan's 6th Peace Builder Celebration at Focus: HOPE, 4 p.m., Sunday, May 21. The event will feature a silent auction and a dinner. Contact information and ticket prices were provided.

More people listened to WDET this winter than last fall, according to Arbitron. That means the station has more listeners now than before the programming changes put through by station manager Michael Coleman in mid-December. In simple numbers, the station\'s average quarter-hour share (people listening for at least five minutes during any 15-minute period) is now 161,000 listeners, compared to 149,600 in the fall book. \"Certainly we have some work to do, but we\'re very encouraged by the numbers,\" says Kevin Piotrowski, WDET\'s public relations director. \"Knowing that some listeners went away, but we still have a net gain of more than 11,000 listeners, that means that those listeners were made up for, plus, plus.\"

Detroit\'s Wayne State University School of Medicine will use a $3 million grant from The Kresge Foundation to help fund a new 34,000-square-foot, two-story complex to serve students and the community. The planned Richard J. Mazurek M.D. Medical Education Commons is to offer School of Medicine students "one-stop shopping" for all administrative, support and learning services. In addition, the complex will serve the community by offering educational programs, health information services and the commitment of WSU medical students to serve those in need.

Mike White, a reporter with WDET, covered the ribbon cutting for the new Nurse Managed University Health Center at the Helen L. DeRoy Apartments Building . Mike White interviewed College of Nursing Dean Barbara K. Redman and Mary White, a nurse practitioner and center manager of the health center. Mary White is also a clinical instructor with the college.

A medical collaboration between the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and a cancer center in Istanbul, Turkey, will give international patients the opportunity to seek medical advice in the U.S. John Ruckdeschel, president and CEO of Karmanos, signed an agreement Wednesday with Bilger Duruman, president and CEO of Metropolitan Florence Nightingale Hospital and Cancer Center, and Cemsid Demiroglu, chair of the center's management board. The agreement allows doctors at Karmanos to review patients' cases in Turkey and recommend treatment. "This agreement broadens the base for patients," Ruckdeschel said. "It also allows us the opportunity to do the process of international patient care right." Ruckdeschel was introduced to the Turkish cancer center through Eti Gursel, chief of plastic surgery at Wayne State University, who is from Turkey. "Karmanos is a very good institution," Duruman said. "Wayne State is also a good university and to collaborate with these places is a wonderful thing."

Detroit-based human tissue bank Asterand Inc. last week announced that it has made available a new cell line that offers researchers an important tool in the study of breast cancer. Asterand Chief Scientific Officer James Eliason said the cells were derived from normal mammary cells that developed cancer, representing a form of breast cancer that accounts for about 25 to 30 percent of newly diagnosed cases. The cell line is being made available to researchers under an exclusive license from the Karmanos Cancer Institute, which is affiliated with Wayne State University. It is expected to be valuable for the testing of chemopreventive agents and for screening cancer-causing agents, in addition to screening anti-cancer drugs.

Wayne State University is noted as a community sponsor of the Michigan Technology Leaders 2006 IT executive symposium currently being held in Rochester. The keynote topic of the three-day conference is "Creating a Silicon Valley Culture in Southeast Michigan."

The above media outlets provided briefs on the discovery of a body Wednesday morning in the Life Sciences Building. The case is being handled as a homicide, pending an autopsy and further investigation, university police said. The university\'s Public Safety Department is handling the case in conjunction with the Detroit Police Department.

William N. Cooke, director of the Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues at Wayne State University, was scheduled to be the keynote presenter during the annual "Celebration of Labor-Management Achievements" on May 17 on the Western Michigan University campus. Cook planned to talk about how labor and management can best respond to global competition by a reorganization of work to create a competitive advantage and secure jobs.

These media outlets were among those that aired reports throughout the morning about a body discovered around 6:45 a.m. by a custodian in the Life Sciences Building . The deceased was reported by one station to be a male student in his 20s. One report said that at least part of the building may be closed for the day. The incident also was reported in the online versions of The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press.