The newscast mentioned that John Edwards, former vice presidential candidate would address the Wayne State University Law School commencement tonight.

Wayne State University plans to leave Thermal L.L.C.'s steam supply and build its own boiler plants, issuing $46.2 million in bonds for a project it says will help control energy costs and save money. The university is Detroit Thermal's second-largest customer, after the Detroit Medical Center. Detroit Thermal says Wayne State provided about $7 million of its $50.2 million in 2004 revenue. "We think we can generate at a cheaper price. So from a financial standpoint, why wouldn\'t we?\" said John Davis, Wayne State CFO and vice president of finance and facilities management.

Wayne State Professor Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson and a team of researchers have been recording the impressions of lawmakers for the last seven years regarding term limits in Michigan. In a book and reports they have charted responses and developed algorithms that measure the real effects of term limits against the promises of those who campaigned for Proposal B in 1992. At a recent gathering of the Michigan Political History Society, Thompson declared that term limits \"have largely failed to fulfill the promises their proponents made.\"

Brinda Devine has been named real estate officer, finance and facilities management division, at Wayne State University. Devine was formerly president of Acquest Realty Advisors in Bloomfield Hills.

Donald A. Coleman, Chairman and CEO of GlobalHue advertising, was the guest on this weekly series co-produced by the WSU School of Business Administration and Detroit Public Television. Mr. Coleman started GlobalHue as a one-man start-up after he played professional football for 4 years. GlobalHue, 17 years later, is the first and largest minority-owned, full-service, multicultural marketing house in the country. The SBA\'s Larry Fobes, interviewed Coleman about leadership of a rapidly growing firm with creative staff. Students asked about leadership in a highly diverse company. The program will be re-broadcast on Wed., May 18 at 5:00 pm.

Southgate\'s Adam Schulz and Woodhaven\'s Jon Weisman helped lead Wayne State's Baseball team to a championship.Downriver products like Schulz, Weisman and Allen Park\'s Bobby Marten have been at the heart of Wayne State baseball\'s turnaround this spring. The Warriors went 31-15 overall and won the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular season title with a 19-8 mark.

According to a Free Press editorial, Michigan's House Republicans' proposed Workforce Investment Plan (WIN) for funding higher education is a good concept, but the legislators "need to share more of the fine print if they intend to sell it as Michigan's long-awaited equalizer." WIN intends to equalize things by assigning a currently unknown per-pupil dollar amount to each university based on the number of students enrolled, translating part-time students into full-time equivalents. Critics say Wayne State University and Northern Michigan University get more money than their enrollments warrant. "That ignores their unique academic missions and locations, which make some discrepancy understandable," according to the editorial. Wayne State is noted along with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University as contributing much to distinguish the state, attract top-notch faculty and open opportunities to students - a fact that "should not be undermined." The editorial concludes that no action should take place until Republicans make sure that every student and each university's mission is counted more equitable.

An editorial lauds the Workforce Investment Plan of funding higher education as a rational way for the state to pay for its 15 universities and one that gets better results for the state's scarce dollars. Wayne State is noted as one of the state's universities that has fared better over the last 25 years garnering state funding, on a per-student basis, at 36 percent above that of Michigan State University.

A targeted drug shown to improve the outcome of certain breast cancer patients may be of use in the treatment of advanced cases of bladder cancer, according to new research. Wayne State's Dr. Ulka Vaishampayan is noted as one of the researchers who investigated the role of the protein HER2 - which has been associated with more aggressive breast cancers - in bladder cancer that has metastasized, or spread to other parts of the body.

Columnist George Weeks mentions in his column that former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, is the Monday night commencement speaker at Wayne State University.

Monday: The five-day Wayne State University Film and Media Arts festival and will showcase the best film and video works produced by Wayne State students. It will focus on a wide range of films either made in or about Detroit. The event will be from 6-10 p.m. at Old Main\'s Shaver Recital Hall.

Andrew Osantowski, accused of planning a Columbine-style massacre at Chippewa Valley High School, is charged with nine felonies including threatening an act of terrorism. The judge said he would decide this week whether to drop two terrorism charges. Getting the court to agree to drop, according to Wayne State law professor Peter Henning, won\'t be easy because it rarely interferes with a case prior to a jury decision.

David Brandon, chairman and CEO of Domino's Pizza, Inc., is noted as a recent guest on \"Leaders on Leadership,\" a taped one-on-one interview produced by Wayne State University\'s School of Business in partnership with Detroit Public Television. Brandon will be filling in for WJR radio personality Paul W. Smith today.

Professor Catherine Jen of the Nutrition and Food Science Department was interviewed in-studio about two new diet books on the market, "Fat Flush" and "Three-Hour Diet." Selected comments from the taped interview were aired in news segments late Friday evening and on Sunday morning. They may also run during tonight's 5 p.m. newscast.

A photo shows honorees of the Eighth Annual Treasure of Detroit Ball, hosted by Wayne State's law school on April 9 at the Parade Studio in Detroit. Wayne State honorees shown included: Eleanor "Coco" Siewert, affiliated with WSU's law school, and Professor of Law Janet Findlater.

Wayne State Law School Dean Frank Wu is pictured with guests of the Eighth Annual Treasure of Detroit Ball held April 9 in Detroit.

The Wayne State University Board of Governors presented Faculty Recognition Awards to the following professors during the board's recent meeting: Ronald Aronson, Interdisciplinary Studies Department; Robert Bruner, Mathematics Department; Richard Grusin, English Department; Stephen Krawetz, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department; and Evgeny Rivin, Mechanical Engineering Department.

The university said this week that it has licensed intellectual property to a Detroit startup company call NanoScience Engineering Corp. The technology is related to advanced nano-scale fillers for enhancing the performance of plastics and rubber. It will lead to new applications in the automobile and food packaging industries.

This online newsletter includes a list of news releases from member organizations, including one announcing that NanoScience Engineering Corp. has obtained "exclusive license to commercialize Wayne State University technology." The home page includes a link to a news release from the Research Office.

In an editorial, The News calls for abolishment of the elected State Board of Education and for making the state school superintendent a cabinet-level appointee of the governor. The newspaper also suggests that elected university boards could be phased out with two appointees every two years, preventing a governor from controlling them entirely. "The process by which they are chosen has become meantingless, even farcical at times," the editorial says.