The Wayne State University men\'s hockey earned a split of its College Hockey America series at Air Force with a 3-2 triumph Saturday night at the Cadet Ice Arena. WSU sophomore right wing Nate Higgins scored with two minutes remaining in the third period to help the Warriors improve to 5-3-1 on the road this year. The nine overall victories equals last season\'s win total.

Nanette McCleary Shaw, university counselor in Wayne State\'s Career Development office, and Wayne State senior marketing student Erin Hackett appeared on \"Sunday Edition,\" a public service program exploring various issues and events around the metropolitan Detroit area. Shaw talked about her role as this year\'s president of the Michigan Career Development Association and National Career Development Month which occurred in November. Hackett was introduced as one of last year\'s winners of the National Poster and Poetry Contest held in honor of National Career Development Month. She won 1st place for the Adult Student Poster Division for both the state and national competitions.

Wayne State University has teamed up with St. Clair County Community College to bring WSU bachelor's degree courses to area residents. The offerings include course in interdisciplinary studies and engineering technology. Other courses are planned for the fall of 2005.

Researchers at Wayne State found that if habitual night snackers down 1 cup of cereal and 2/3 of a cup of low fat milk at least 90 minutes after their evening meal they lost 2 pounds in a month and ate nearly 400 fewer calories a day.

A possible court battle may occur on University's right to grant same-sex benefits to its employees. Proposal 2 amended the state constitution to ban gay marriage or similar unions, meaning that same-sex partnerships can't be recognized as equal to marriage in the state. Robert Sedler, a professor of constitutional law at Wayne State University, said it will be unclear whether the amendment legally bans any domestic partner benefits until a state court provides a ruling. If courts rule that it does, he said, the University's last line of defense would be to argue that, as a constitutionally autonomous institution, it is exempt from the amendment.

This Saturday, 25,000 people are expected to flood Wayne State University and the Detroit Institute of Arts for the 32nd annual holiday event: Noel Night. \"Some people who have been working here 10 or 20 years don\'t know we exist,\" says Mark Cassell, research associate at Wayne State University\'s Museum of Anthropology. A tent outside Old Main will provide hot chocolate and carolers. There will be choral and dance performances, a student art exhibit, a planetarium demonstration, plus an exhibit of contemporary Cuban art at the adjoining Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery.

David A. Moran, an assistant law professor at Wayne State Law School, was quoted on the NBA brawl between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons. Moran believes that the entire case has put police and prosecutors under a microscope. \"Because this was seen on national TV, and because this involves national sports figures, it\'s a very high-profile case, one that police and prosecutors don\'t want to screw up,\" Moran said. \"There\'s definitely another reason for the authorities to take it very seriously. They want to send a message.\"

Wayne State University\'s Institute for Information Technology is teaming up with the WSU graduate school to offer three seminars on anthropological field work in business, community groups and governmental units. The first seminar, on fieldwork in business, is scheduled for Dec. 9 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Anthropology Museum\'s library, Room 1224 in the Old Main building at Warren and Cass avenues in Detroit.

City and township officials, university leaders and state department heads began bracing for another round of painful cuts Thursday, because Michigan\'s budget is more than $400 million out of whack. The potential impacts on Michiganians include higher college tuition, fewer police officers on patrol, more potholes on local roads and further reductions in Medicaid services to the poor.

Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia tucked a surprise into the mammoth spending bill that Congress approved last month.The measure would require any educational institution that receives federal aid to provide an instructional program on the U.S. Constitution each September 17, the anniversary of its signing.

Charles Elder, professor of Political Science, was interviewed on the subject of the turnover in President Bush\'s cabinet. He said the turnover was not unusual in a president\'s second term.

Same sex benefits will be removed from state-negotiated contracts, this article reports. But Wayne State, Michigan State, and the University of Michigan have spoken out in support of already-established benefits for their employees who have same-sex partners.

Wayne State University is mentioned among the nation's colleges and universities filing for more patents and identifying a greater number of scientific discoveries with commercial potential in the 2003 fiscal year. Wayne State said its big jump in revenues -- from about $2.2-million to nearly $13.7-million -- came primarily from cashing out its stake in a 17-year-old spinoff company called Lumigen, a manufacturer of chemical compounds that decompose and emit light when triggered by enzymes. Fred H. Reinhart, director of Wayne State's technology-transfer office, said Lumigen\'s subsequent success had been good for the university. Not only has the company hired many graduates, but it also was prosperous enough to buy out the university\'s stake. Because Wayne State shares licensing income with its inventors, the founder of the company, A. Paul Schaap, a professor of chemistry, will share in the windfall. He has pledged to use the money to endow a chair in chemistry at Wayne State.

Most community college students are not meeting their educational goals, according to a national survey released this week. Twenty-seven percent of two-year-college students say that completing a certificate program is their primary goal, while 59 percent cite obtaining an associate degree, according to results from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement. The survey's results indicate that colleges may not be doing enough to promote student engagement. Participating colleges, have, for example, been consistently rated low on academic advisement during the survey's four years. This year 17 percent of students said they were undecided about whether they would return to college after the current semester - such students are in need of advising, according to the report.

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin was presented with the Champion of Science award by Wayne State University. The recognition is for his support of science and engineering research at Wayne State.

In 2001-2002, for the first time, women earned more doctorate degrees in the United States than men, according to the National Science Foundation's "Survey of Earned Doctorates." While women have made inroads in professions like English and psychology, over all more than 70 percent of professors teaching at the country's top research institutions in the 2001-2 academic year were male. Even at the entry level, men made up nearly 60 percent of the assistant professors that year at research universities. The higher up the academic prestige ladder, the fewer women a university usually has in tenured positions.

In 2001-2002, for the first time, women earned more doctorate degrees in the United States than men, according to the National Science Foundation's "Survey of Earned Doctorates." While women have made inroads in professions like English and psychology, over all more than 70 percent of professors teaching at the country's top research institutions in the 2001-2 academic year were male. Even at the entry level, men made up nearly 60 percent of the assistant professors that year at research universities. The higher up the academic prestige ladder, the fewer women a university usually has in tenured positions.

During a recent Detroit City Council meeting on the proposed African Town, Wayne State University Law Professor Robert Sedler told the Council that "the city has the constitutional power to establish an inner-city business district and, above all, to use city funds and resources to assist Detroit residents to acquire, own and operate businesses located in African Town."

In a game of runs and rallies, the Wayne State University women\'s basketball team opened its GLIAC portion of the schedule with an 89-77 loss to Saginaw Valley State at the O\'Neill Arena on Thursday, Dec. 2. Kristen Rogers led the Warriors with 17 points as Nicole Rogers recorded her third double-double in four games with 16 points and a team-high 10 boards. WSU travels to Sault Ste. Marie to face the 15th-ranked Lake Superior State Lakers Saturday at 1 p.m.

CULMA\'s Masters of Urban Planning (MUP) program received high marks from the Journal of Planning Education and Research. The journal ranked the MUP program 12th, based on the number of publications per faculty member, and ninth, based on the number of citations in scholarly journals per faculty member. On both measures, Wayne State ranked ahead of such institutions as Harvard University, Princeton, Rutgers and Cornell.