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Channel 4 did a voice-over report on the "Kick Start Your Heart Forty Days of Fitness" program at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The report included video footage of the variety of activities at the event and included a shot of former Detroit Lion Lomas Brown, who participated.

January 18, 2006

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Reporter Pat Sweeting interviewed Professor Stephanie Joseph Gilkey for a story on the "Kick Start Your Heart Forty Days of Fitness" program at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Sweeting also interviewed some WSU students who were participating in the event.

January 18, 2006

Longer waits for patients as doc shortage looms

In an effort to get a handle on a looming shortage of doctors and other medical personnel in Michigan , Gov. Jennifer Granholm is creating a state Healthcare Workforce Center to coordinate information and initiatives addressing shortages. Preliminary numbers released by Wayne State University last month reveal that Michigan will be short 4,500 doctors by 2020, with specialist shortages starting this year. Wayne State participates on a year-old Blue Ribbon Steering Committee on Physician Supply. The committee also includes medical schools at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University .

January 18, 2006

Area group challenges Bush's spy program

The Council on American Islamic Relations, and a host of other individuals have initiated the first legal challenge to the Bush administration\'s controversial domestic spying program with a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit . The lawsuit seeks to have the program declared unconstitutional. The plaintiffs also want the government to reveal the details of its surveillance. Wayne State University Law Professor Peter Henning says the Justice Department should immediately ask that the lawsuit be tossed out on procedural grounds, including whether the plaintiffs were actually harmed. \"How do you show harm? The cops could break into your house right now and just because you\'re afraid they might doesn\'t give you grounds to sue,\" Henning said.

January 18, 2006

MATT HELMS: From outside downtown, you can take a bus

Wayne State University 's parking areas near the Lodge Freeway and I-94 in Detroit will serve as one of six locations set up so riders can park their cars and catch a downtown bus during the period leading up to the Super Bowl when street parking is banned and streets are closed throughout downtown. Parking is $10 at WSU and the zoo, but free elsewhere. Return shuttles running every 15 to 20 minutes will pick up riders at the same location, with limited runs after 3 a.m. each day.

January 18, 2006

People on the move

Education: Marguerite Rigby of Farmington Hills, assistant vice president for alumni relations at Wayne State , began a one-year term January 1 as chair of the National Educational Alumni Executive Committee.

January 18, 2006

State support for higher education has 'no correlation' with college quality, report says

Public colleges in states that spend a lot of money on higher education aren't necessarily better than colleges in states that provide them with meager support, according to a report that ranks states based on an analysis of their higher education budgets and the performance of their colleges. The report, which was prepared by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, compares state funds for higher education in each state with colleges' performance in a variety of areas, including graduation and participation rates. The report concludes that education can succeed even when state support falls.

January 18, 2006

WSU names interim dean for School of Business Administration

This article mentions that Wayne State has appointed Richard M. Gabrys as interim dean of the School of Business Administration , effective Jan. 1. The article also noted that Nancy S. Barrett, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, made the announcement.

January 18, 2006

Hilberry presents Sophocles' 'Electra'

The Hilberry Theatre opened Anne Carson's translation of Sophocles' "Electra" this weekend, which is running through March 23. More information is available at the Hilberry's Web site: www.hilberry.com; or calling 577-2972.

January 18, 2006

Fieger: I expect to be indicted

Fieger expects that a federal grand jury will indict him for illegal fundraising on behalf of John Edwards' 2004 vice-presidential bid. WSU law professor Robert Sedler, who has represented Fieger in other issues, said predicting his own indictment and launching a broadside is vintage Fieger. "When he's attacked, he goes on the attack," Sedler said. "It certainly fits his pattern."

January 17, 2006

Training the Brain to See Again

By tapping the power of "neuroplasticity," doctors offer new hope to stroke patients. About 10 to 15 percent of stroke victims lose some or all of their vision, but now doctors are training healthy neurons to perform the function of those damaged or destroyed by the stroke. The company that commercialized the therapy makes it available at seven clinics, including the Kresge Eye Institute at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit .

January 17, 2006

' Brokeback Mountain ' takes 4 Golden Globes

S. Epatha Merkerson, a Saginaw native who was raised in Detroit and studied acting at Wayne State University , won as bet actress in a TV miniseries or movie for her portrayal of a boarding house proprietor who takes in an outcast teen in "Lackawanna Blues."

January 17, 2006

It's a SAD Season

Antidepressants like Prozac work in 50 to 60 percent of people, and light therapy is effective in as many as 70 percent of patients, says Dr. Alireza Amirsadri, a psychiatrist and SAD specialist at Wayne State University School of Medicine.

January 17, 2006

Religion, law and 10-inch knives

A Detroit judge's recent ruling in favor of a Wayne State University student who was arrested for carrying a ceremonial knife presents some interesting questions about whether people should be excused from following certain laws because of their religion.

January 17, 2006

Law would boost Woodward Corridor

Last month 29 Wayne State urban planning students interviewed business owners, researched legislation and statistics about Woodward to produce a report on what the thoroughfare needs to succeed. Robin Boyle, professor of urban planning, led the student's in their project. He said there were different opinions about Woodward's needs, but many were interested in the same few items: the need for mass transit; increased pedestrian safety; and a unifying authority. "They (business owners) felt that modernized transit would be an incentive for people to use their stores, that came out clearly," Boyle said.

January 17, 2006

Business forum tonight

The Wayne State University School of Business Administration will offer a free workshop Jan. 17 covering such items as the 10 hottest businesses for 2006, how to reduct tax costs, the 20 biggest pitfalls in starting and running a small business, how to price your product or service and other topics. A free workbook will be available at the program which is being held at the Best Western Sterling Inn in Sterling Heights .

January 17, 2006

WSU's Merrill-Palmer Institute offers campus childcare grant to students

This institute at WSU and the university's Academic College Enrichment Services are offering financial assistance for the cost of childcare to students through the U.S. Department of Education's Campus Childcare Grant Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS).

January 17, 2006

Jobs that pay

In Michigan this year, jobs are plentiful if you're in -- accounting, health care, sales, information technology and engineering. Nursing is also a field with plentiful jobs. Wayne State University 's college of nursing is trying to churn out nurses as fast as possible. The state predicts that there will be a 7,000-nurse shortage in Michigan by 2010 and an 18,000-nurse shortage in Michigan by 2015. The university is struggling to fill positions for nursing faculty, says Jim McFarlin, information officer at WSU's College of Nursing . "There's a huge nursing crisis in the state of Michigan ," he said. "There are hundreds of openings for nurses in metro Detroit . We can't begin to accommodate the response."

January 16, 2006

McNair Conference to honor shuttle scientist

McNair Scholars from MSU, Central Michigan University , Grand Valley State University , Siena Heights University and Wayne State University will share their research findings with MSU faculty, administrators and other invited guests.

January 16, 2006

Goodfellow Fund nears fundraising goal of $1.5M

The Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund is closing in on its 2005 goal. After the Christmas packages, the nonprofit uses some of the funds it collects yearly to provide an emergency dental program and free shoes for children, summer camps for them and scholarships to Wayne State University.

January 16, 2006