South Africa may kill wild elephants in the Kruger National Park because of concern that the animals are breeding too fast. The elephant population there may reach 20,000 by 2012, the Environment and Tourism Ministry said. But animal rights groups say the shootings will cause trauma and will disrupt elephant society. The news report mentions a Web site at Wayne State University in Detroit that indicates elephants demonstrate advanced social behavior, such as covering dead animals with leaves and twigs and staying by the body for days.

One of the success stories of Detroit 's TechTown, the high-tech human tissue bank Asterand Inc., has merged with a British firm, Pharmagene plc, and will become Asterand plc. Randal Charlton, CEO of Asterand, will continue to head the merged company. Charlton noted that Asterand will now "have access to significantly larger sums of money that will help us grow, in Detroit and at the Tech One Building . We expect a period of expansion."

With Hurricane Rita taking aim at the east coast of Texas , colleges and universities there began evacuating students, shutting down research projects and securing buildings. Among the Texas evacuees are thousands of students and faculty from flooded New Orleans universities who had just settled into classes at Houston-area higher education institutions. Tulane University officials, who moved their base of operations to Houston in the aftermath of Katrina, packed up late yesterday and moved to Dallas , some 240 miles farther inland.

Wayne State is noted as one of the participants in the Farmington/Farmington Hills Chamber of Commerce annual business-to-business trade show and networking event, called eXpo 2005, scheduled for Oct. 27 in Farmington at Vladimir 's Banquet hall.

Frank Wu, dean of Wayne State 's Law School , expresses optimism about Detroit and Southeast Michigan 's future in a profile story about his career. "When you look at other metropolitan areas like New York City and Washington D.C. , they were in much the same position as Detroit 10 years ago. But they have come back and people are selling properties for five times what they paid just a few years ago," Wu says. "It seems to me that if enough of us take that risk we can bring the city back." A photo of Wu is included.

Susan LeRoque Davis has joined the faculty of Wayne State 's Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy Health and Sciences (EACPHS) as an assistant professor in the pharmacy practice department. Davis is also an infectious disease pharmacy specialist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit . Background statement about EACPHS and a photo of Davis is provided in the story.

Wayne State \'s Justin Kessler, a senior from Ionia , is GLIAC men\'s runner of the week. He finished second in 25:07 at the 8,000-meter Midwest Collegiate at Wisconsin-Parkside, leading the Warriors to a first-place tie with Calvin College at 44 points.

Wayne State University has been named the recipient of a $186,469 award from the Toyota USA Foundation. The award will allow the university to add a second six-week Math Corps summer camp that will give junior and senior high school students in the Detroit area the chance to participate in an intensive and rigorous mathematics study program. The Toyota award will provide funding for an additional 200 students to take part in this successful summer program developed and directed by Wayne State University faculty members. Housed on Wayne State \'s main campus, the second Math Corps Summer Camp will replicate the initial program established in 1992.

South Africa may kill elephants in the Kruger National Park for the first time since 1994 on concern the world\'s biggest land mammals are breeding too fast. African elephants can weigh as much as 6.5 metric tons and live for 70 years. They demonstrate complex social behavior, such as covering dead animals with leaves and twigs and staying by the body for days, according to the Web site of Wayne State University in Detroit .

When Johnny Kline was, well, globetrotting with the Harlem Globetrotters in the 1950s, he didn\'t realize what he was a part of. When you\'re in your 20s, you\'re thinking about having fun and little else. It wasn\'t until years later, when NBC\'s Tim Russert reported that China \'s Madame Chiang Kai-Shek had died at the age of 105, that Kline knew life had taken him on a special trip. "I told my brother, who I was watching TV with, that I knew that lady,\" Kline said Tuesday. \"I had lunch with her and her husband in 1953 and 1956."We were in their temple or castle, whatever you call it, as members of the Harlem Globetrotters. Looking back, this was a tremendous adventure.\" Kline, now 73, fully realizes the impact of his latest accomplishment. On Thursday night, Kline, an All-American basketball player at Wayne University (now Wayne State ) before his Globetrotters days, and eight others will be inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame at Cobo Hall.

Alexandria Idziak and Lindsay Pipp were the recipients of the 2005 Children\'s Trust Fund Scholarships awarded by the Metro East Chamber of Commerce. The students were chosen for their academic achievement, financial need and dedication to the community. Idziak graduated from Roseville High School and is a student a Wayne State University .

Jack Moss, who retired as Kalamazoo Gazette sports editor three years ago, is one of nine inductees into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. Moss, who started with the Gazette as a sports writer in 1948, joins golfers Leo Diegel and Calvin Peete, Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford Sr., University of Michigan football player Ron Johnson, Wayne State basketball player Johnny Kline, NFL All-Pro Paul Krause, jockey Julie Krone and Michigan State/Pittsburgh Steelers football coach George Perles as the Class of 2005.

Jean Davis, interim assistant dean for Adult Health and associate professor At Wayne State, is conducting a study on the effects on menopausal sleep disturbances. The study, which has revealed a connection between exercise and sleep, is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. "What I'm basing this on is (that) not only are sleep aids not doing any good, most women are not using hormone replacement therapy, which has been shown to help (sleep disturbances)," Davis said. "What we're hoping to come up with is a basis for custom exercise 'prescriptions' that meet the needs of the individual." A photo of Wayne State graduate students Lindsay Sammut and Schawna Thaxton assisting a study participant is included.

Michele Valerie Ronnick, associate professor of classics, Greek and Latin at Wayne State , will speak at Mt. Union College on "13 Black Classicists," and will also display a photographic exhibit, which has traveled the country for several years, on the subject. Ronnick is the author of "William Sanders Scarborough - An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship."

Recently enrolled Wayne State University student Frederica Gordon was interviewed by Blast on the afternoon drive time show. Gordon, is a native of New Orleans , who left the city to escape Hurricane Katrina. She has decided to make a new life in Detroit .

Four local projects are targeting everything from myeloma to kidney failure. Teams at Wayne State University are working on projects that could lead to therapies for stroke, fetal alcohol syndrome and chronic kidney failure. Children's Hospital of Michigan is teaming with Wayne State are working on a study that explores blood from umbilical cords donated to research by women delivering babies at Hutzel Women's Hospital.

The Wayne State University College of Nursing appointed Jim McFarlin, formerly a journalist with The Detroit News, as information officer.

Aaron Dworkin, 35, of Ypsilanti is founder of the innovative Sphinx Organization, which promotes young African-American and Latino classical string players. Sphinx now runs a high-school preparatory institute at Wayne State University among other activities such as an arts camps, instrument loans and teacher training.

The last name of George Galster, the Clarence B. Hilberry professor of urban affairs at Wayne State University , was misspelled in information with a front-page article Monday.

Defending Division lll national champion Calvin College won over Wayne State in a cross-country meet.