Anchor Bay graduate Chris Mehay, a junior at Wayne State University , took ninth place at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference meet. Wayne State finished with 44 points, second to Grand Valley State University at Ishpeming. Mehay ran the 5-kilometer course in 27 minutes, 11.3 seconds.

More than $2.7 billion has been appropriated for Michigan-based companies for fiscal 2006 as part of the U.S. Senate-passed defense appropriations bill. It includes $1.4 billion for research to be divided up among several state universities including Wayne State .

More than $200,000 in awards will be added to funding at Wayne State University 's Graduate School thanks to the National Science Foundation (NSF). The aim of this award from the NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences is to increase significantly the number of African-American, Hispanic and Native American/Alaskan Native students receiving doctoral degrees in the social sciences. "The AGEP program is intended to support initiatives that will lead to diversifying the faculty by providing better training for minority doctoral students and by promoting higher degree completion," says Hilary H. Ratner, associate provost and dean of the Graduate School in a statement. "The award also will allow Wayne State to provide an educational experience, adoptable by other graduate programs, which will enable under-represented students to become part of the next generation of leaders and innovators," says Ratner.

If you're a Detroiter looking for ways to build community, reduce violence in your neighborhood, give Detroiters more control over the economy, lower your utility bills and/or protect your children from lead poisoning, don't miss the Bioneers Conference at Wayne State University, beginning on Friday afternoon, Oct. 14, and ending, Sunday, Oct. 16. A limited number of scholarships are available. Wayne State students and faculty may attend plenary sessions free.

Former Detroit Mayor, Dennis Archer was on \"Leaders on Leadership,\" a weekly program co-produced by the WSU School of Business Administration and Detroit Public Television. At the time of taping and original broadcast, Archer was the president of the American Bar Association. He is chairman of Dickinson Wright PLLC law firm, and a former associate justice -- Michigan Supreme Court. Host Larry Fobes (WSU SBA) focused on Archer's leadership perspective gained during his public service and private practice career. WSU students asked about Archer's small town upbringing and municipal, state-wide and national leadership roles. The program will be re-broadcast Oct. 26 at 5:00 p.m.

At the bottom of the contract food chain is an army-for-hire of truckers, backhoe operators and tree-trimmers, most four, five or more tiers removed from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers and the agencies\' money. Tiering worries small businesses even when there are no disasters involved, said John Chichester, who heads the Procurement Technical Assistance Center at Detroit \'s Wayne State University . \"The subcontractor -- they\'re generally picking up the scraps,\" said Chichester , whose center advises small businesses on how to win government contracts.

A page-one story mentions Wayne State University , like other universities and community colleges across the state, as seeing more students needing refresher classes in mathematics. This semester, there are more than 1,000 students in the college\'s two main developmental math sections. Ginnay Greene, who is studying medicine, is one of them. \"My high school math has kind of made me illiterate in some ways,\" said Greene of Detroit, who is struggling because she doesn\'t recognize equations coming up in her chemistry class. Patricia Bonesteel is reminded of math\'s status nearly every time she tells strangers at a dinner party that she teaches math. Inevitably, people admit to being bad at math. \"They say it's almost as if it is something they are proud of,\" said Bonesteel, who heads Wayne State \'s developmental math program. \"It\'s perfectly acceptable to be bad at math.\"

Education: The Wayne State University Law School Career Services Office hired Suzanne Newsom as a career counselor.

In football, Ashland defeated Wayne State 27-3 snapping the Warriors' two-game winning streak.

A Detroit News editorial says that it is a "long shot that the governor and lawmakers can set aside their wearisome squabbles and put this state on track," referring to Michigan's economic future and a recently released study by former U-M President James J. Duderstadt, titled \"A Roadmap to Michigan\'s Future: Meeting the Challenge of a Global Knowledge-Driven Economy.\" The independent study "speaks in blunt, often caustic language about the mindset of entitlement and resistance to reality that has Michigan gripping tight to the past instead of reaching out for the future," according to the editorial. The editorial further states that Michigan 's economic problems are not lacking ideas for solutions, but a "statewide will to make the sacrifices and do the hard work necessary to implement changes. Also missing is a high-level champion for reform."

A profile on Kurt Metzger, director of research for United Way of Southeastern Michigan, mentions Wayne State several times, noting that Metzger is the former director of the Michigan Metropolitan Information Center here. While employed at WSU for 15 years, Metzger "oversaw the documentation and investigation of trends related to urban population and housing, conducted research and developed education and service programs to improve understanding of population and housing patterns in metro Detroit and America ," the article says. A photo caption also mentions that Metzger is "leaving his job as a demographer at Wayne State ."

Wayne State is mentioned as the school where most graduates from Southfield-Lathrup high schools plan to attend.

Macomb County's Board of Commissioners is debating the necessity of a 'living wage' policy. Instead of listening to the phony pleas of poverty from the private sector perhaps our county commissioners should pay attention to the Detroit expert on the subject, according to Wayne State University Labor Studies specialist, David Reynolds. Reynolds studied living wages and found that in city after city, the corporate critics were wrong. "We found that there was little impact on the contracting process - the number of bids they were getting or the price companies were charging," said Reynolds. "They did not see any shift in economic development. There was no evidence of job losses. There was no change in their ability to attract business investments." He first separated fact from fiction in a 1999 study of the Detroit living wage ordinance. He found that contractors' costs only rose about 1 percent, while most of the affected workers received raises of $1,300 to $4,400 a year."

The ER doctors in this Madison Heights facility are affiliated with the Wayne State University School of Medicine; they are physician professors.

Wayne State 's Journalism Institute for Minorities (JIM) hosts "A salute to Emery King" at 7 p.m. this evening in the university's Community Arts Auditorium. The fund-raising, black-tie optional event also marks the 20th anniversary of JIM, which strives to establish a $30,000 to $50,000 endowment scholarship fund for ethnic minority journalism students. A host of local broadcast journalists will speak, including WWJ's Vickie Thomas; WDIV's Devin Scillian, Paula Tutman, Derricke Dennis and Ted Talbert; WJBK's Huel Perkins; and WXYZ's Diana Lewis and Chuck Stokes.

Clarkson defeated Wayne State 's women's hockey team 2-0. Valery Turcotte made 24 saves for the Warriors who are 0-4-1.

Wayne State: \"Urban Jupena Sabbatical Exhibition,\" through Nov. 25. Reception 5-8 p.m. Fri. Regular hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Thu., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Fri. Community Arts Gallery, 150 Community Arts Bldg., Detroit . 313-577-2423.

What\'s the price of leaving high school unprepared? Ask Chelsea Stephanoff, a Wayne State University student who is spending nearly $600 this semester for a class that won\'t count toward graduation. Why? Her math skills were poor enough that even after four years of high school math, she was placed in a remedial class. \"Math is not my strong point at all. I\'m horrible at it. I have a hard time focusing on it,\" said Stephanoff, a fourth-year student from Shelby Township who wants to be an elementary school teacher. She is not alone. Teens leaving high school with substandard skills tax the colleges that must bring them up to speed -- and cost themselves big money for classes that don\'t count toward their degree. It\'s one of the reasons Michigan -- along with other states -- is looking at a state-mandated curriculum. The problem is clear in the enrollment for remedial math at Wayne State , which has soared 85% in the last four years. There are 1,200 students in 12 sections of the class, a computer-based course. \"These students are coming in at the level of ninth-grade math,\" said Patty Bonesteel, developmental math coordinator at Wayne State . \"Without a doubt, the idea of being bad at math is perfectly fine in our culture, and that\'s unfortunate.\"

Wayne State University\'s groundbreaking Journalism Institute for Minorities is celebrating its 20th year of training ethnic minority journalism students with a gala fundraising event titled \"JIM\'s 20th Anniversary: A Salute to Emery King.\" King, a black journalist, is being honored as he marks 20 years of distinguished service to the Detroit media market. King has anchored the news on WDIV, Local 4, will continue to produce and host documentaries and special programs for WDIV through his Kingberry Productions, and recently joined the Detroit Medical Center as communications director. The gala event will be held on Saturday in the Community Arts Auditorium on the WSU campus. The reception begins at 7 p.m. and the program begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $150 for the reception and program, and a limited number of student seats cost $55 per ticket for the program only. The goal is to raise $30,000 to $50,000 for a JIM endowment, to be used for tuition scholarships and additional JIM student support. JIM students are required to maintain a 3.0 GPA and complete a journalism-related internship each academic term. \"Most of the talented ethnic minority students in JIM simply cannot afford to pay tuition while working at an unpaid internship. We know internships are essential in preparing a student for this profession,\" said Ben Burns, director of the journalism program and a founder of JIM.

A South African study finds women who drink during pregnancy may be injuring their babies\' eyesight. Researchers from Wayne State University and the University of Cape Town evaluated 131 babies of mixed race...A South African study finds women who drink during pregnancy may be injuring their babies\' eyesight. Researchers from Wayne State University and the University of Cape Town evaluated 131 babies of mixed race. They interviewed the mothers on their drinking behavior during pregnancy, examined the infants for fetal alcohol syndrome and tested their visual acuity.