An award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will add more than $200,000 in funding to Wayne State University 's Graduate School . The aim of this award from the NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES) is to increase significantly the number of African-American, Hispanic and Native American/Alaskan Native students receiving doctoral degrees in the social sciences.

The Wayne State University Physician Group said Friday that it plans to buy a building in Troy to house a new ambulatory-surgery center. The purchase launches the group's "suburban strategy," Robert Frank, dean of the Wayne State Medical School , said in a letter. Frank said the strategy will build the group's clinical business and, eventually, the bottom line of The Detroit Medical Center, the group's clinical partner. Frank acknowledged that the surgery center may make the DMC and other clinical affiliates "uneasy" but said the group had "taken special care to ensure that our strategies complement our partner's position rather than competing with it."

According to the mainstream media, there is now a "100% effective" vaccine against the two strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes most cases of cervical cancer. It is not quite that simple. Some morally conservative parents together with Christian and right-wing pressure groups are suggesting than an HPV vaccine would promote teenage sexual promiscuity. It's an argument which wins no favor with Dr Jack Sobel, a professor of medicine and chief of infectious diseases at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit . He recently told Medscape: "It is beyond belief that there has been public opposition to, and protesting against, a vaccine that will save lives. The concern of increased promiscuity is incomprehensible."

Randal Charlton, CEO of Asterand, says Wayne State offered his company the perfect setup for location in TechTown's TechOne building. "They offered me the lab space I wanted, the ability to expand, offered to help me acquire new equipment and finding people and technical support," Charlton says. \"They were so accommodating, they even built us a floor\" in TechTown\'s TechOne building \"when they weren\'t even sure we would move there.\" Howard Bell, executive director of TechTown, heard about Asterand\'s space crunch and waged an aggressive campaign to lure the company there. A photo of Bell with Charlton is included.

A national AP story talks about the financial challenges faced by small companies that perform sub-contracting duties, known as tiering, especially during disaster relief projects such as Hurricane Katrina. Tiering worries small businesses even when there are no disasters involved, said John Chichester, who heads the Procurement Technical Assistance Center at Wayne State University . The federal government\'s spending on recovery efforts has drawn headlines and Congressional inquiries about outsized contracts, including $2 billion to four companies for debris cleanup in Louisiana and Mississippi. But 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. \"The more contractors there are,\" said Ben Ives, a truck owner from Gladstone , Mich. five links down in the chain formed to clean up New Orleans , \"the more hands in the cookie jar.\"

A national story features the life of Catherine and Carlo Tuzzolino, married for 67 years, who first met as students at Wayne State University 67 years ago. Carlo was a member of the track, swimming and football teams at Wayne State , formerly know as Detroit City College . Catherine, 90, and Carlo, 93, died Oct. 21, just two hours apart.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick mentions Wayne State in an op-ed about his administration's achievements during the last four years. Kilpatrick wrote, "One key to our future is the $56-million NextEnergy Center at Wayne State University , which opened last spring. The center is a key part of our strategy for diversifying our manufacturing base and attracting clean technology companies."

Organizers of the inaugural \"Ideas Behind the News\" events of the Oakland Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union acknowledge the three-part series isn\'t a \"Crossfire\"-style debate. \"It\'s definitely discussed from a standpoint of taking action. It\'s not neutral,\" said Robert Sedler, a constitutional law professor at Wayne State University who will moderate the events. The series, which begins Tuesday, will focus on three divisive issues making headlines: affirmative action, abortion rights and intelligent design. ---\"Science Under Siege: The Challenge to Evolutionary Theory - \'Intelligent Design,\' \" at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Birmingham Unitarian Church . Panelists include William Moore, professor of biological sciences at Wayne State University , and John Saliba, professor of religious sciences at the University of Detroit Mercy .

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.