This article discussed an agreement between Oakland University and Wayne State, that will allow Oakland students to enroll in the PharmD program at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The article also quotes Rick Slaughter, assistant dean in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. ...Wayne State officials don\'t see increasing enrollment as a goal but see the arrangement as a recruiting tool for students from northern Oakland County, where it currently has difficulty drawing students, Slaughter said. \"We draw well from Wayne and Macomb,\" Slaughter said. \"Oakland University is a rich source for high-quality students for us. It will allow us to reach into a different group of students.\"

Several musical events open to the public at the Schaver Music Recital Hall in the Old Main building at Wayne State are listed on the events page.

The Hilberry Theatre will open "I Hate Hamlet," at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 4, running in repertory through March 31.

Two separate "shorts" appear in the events column, as follows: 1) WSU students, employees and alumni get in free with a WSU OneCard at Majestic Monday Movie Nights at the Magic Stick on Woodward near Alexandrine. 2) Wayne State's Walter P. Reuther Library will present the "Bernard J. Firestone: Joy in Solidarity" exhibit, opening Tuesday, Feb. 1. The exhibit highlights the life and service of nationally recognized Detroit labor leader Bernie Firestone.

The Detroit Orientation Institute (DOI) is hosting a three-day session April 12, 19 and 26 for individuals interested in learning about the city of Detroit and the metro area. The intensive, fast-paced program will explore metro Detroit's history, issues and challenges. DOI is a program in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs that provides a historical perspective and candid look at the region.

Pre-pharmacy students at Oakland University will soon have an opportunity to earn a doctorate through the PharmD program at Wayne State University. As result of an articulation agreement, Oakland students who complete a bachelor\'s degree in health sciences and meet certain admission requirements can be enrolled in WSU\'s six-year academic program. \"This collaboration is an example of two state-funded universities joining forces to benefit not only the students in their academic pursuits, but also making innovative use of precious state financial resources in tight economic times,\" said Wayne State President Irvin D. Reid.

Rodney Cole, assistant director of career services at Wayne State, is quoted in a feature story about current clothing trends in the workplace for Gen X and Gen Y members. \"I think students are starting to lose the awareness between the casual clothes they wear to class and casual clothes for work,\" Cole observes. He admits that even he was confused about the definition of \"casual\" Fridays at one of his first jobs. Claire Raines, author of a book on the generation gap in the workplace, notes that "some of us have a tendency forever to be critical of whoever is young at the time." The story includes a photo of Cole in his office with WSU Student Council President Earl Carruthers, who is a co-op student who assists United Parcel Service with on-campus recruiting here.

Michael Kleerekoper, professor of medicine at Wayne State, is quoted in an article about the possible health hazards of drinking liquids with too much fluoride in them. A 52-year old Missouri woman developed a mysterious bone disease called skeletal fluorosis, which was found to be caused by drinking unusually large quantities of tea. Kleerekoper said most average tea drinkers have nothing to fear, but pointed out that "excess of anything is no good for you." Above is a small sampling of the dozens of newspapers around the country that picked up the story from the Knight-Ridder wire.

Professor Michele Valerie Ronnick of the Classics, Greek and Latin Department is the editor of a just-published autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough, who was born into slavery in 1852 and became a world-respected scholar in Greek and Latin literature. \"His life is a fabulous slice of American life,\" she points out. Ronnick's traveling exhibit of 12 black classicists will be on display Feb. 4-28 at the Holland Museum. What's striking about the display is not what restrictions held African American scholars back, but what they achieved despite the obstacles they faced, says Ronnick. On February 10, she will give a presentation at the museum regarding her work in developing the exhibit, which has been touring the country.

A new $137 million residence hall and academic complex was approved Wednesday by the University of Michigan Board of Regents. The living hall will feature innovative communications technology as well as 500 student beds arranged in suites. It will be the first new residential building built by the university since 1967. It is part of a 10-year, $280 million revamping of the university's dorms.

Five Wayne State University men\'s hockey players are listed among the top 20 in various categories in this week\'s NCAA statistical report. In addition, the Warriors are ranked in two team categories: 15th in scoring offense and 20th in power-play percentage.

A story profiling Harriet and Allan Gelfond and their funding of a $10,000 scholarship for Wayne State University social work majors appeared in the "Neighborhood News" section for Farmington, Farmington Hills and Novi. School of Social Work Dean Phyllis Vroom, who is quoted extensively in the story, said she met Allan Gelfond three or four years ago at a grants workshop and asked him for pointers on how to raise funds. Before long, Vroom invited Gelfond to join the School of Social Work's board of visitors and he eventually led a fund-raising workshop for the board. "What difference does a scholarship make?" Vroom said. "It keeps you out of deep debt or reduces the debt." A photo of the Gelfonds accompanies the story.

Dr. Michael Kleerekoper, professor in Wayne State's School of Medicine, who conducted a five-year, nationwide study of fluoride treatment for osteoporosis in the 1980's, comments about a study revealing that instant tea may be a source of harmful levels of fluoride that can lead to bone pain. Researchers conducting the study looked into the case of a woman who drank one to two gallons of super-strength tea daily. Kleerekoper says the recent study shows that anything consumed to excess is not good, whether it's "four gallons of pop or two liters of whiskey. "Of all the dietary excess in society today, this is probably not the biggest culprit," he said. "I'm not minimizing his work, but the problem is one of excess."

Frank Wu, dean of Wayne State's Law School, and Sean Wu, professor of mechanical engineering, are among Asian Americans honored in a special section of the magazine. The section includes a brief profile and a photo of each honoree. Frank Wu, whose philosophy of life is "do more," became dean of the Law School in 2004, grew up in the Detroit area and remembers seeing his immigrant parents struggle to become established in a new culture. The article mentions previous faculty appointments at Howard University and Columbia, a teaching fellowship at Stanford and a visiting professorship at the University of Michigan. The profile on Sean Wu notes that he is co-founder of SenSound, a company that specializes in detection of vibration and noise through digital images of sound. A native of China, Wu connected with his partners while at Wayne State and is a recent inductee into the Asian Academy Hall of Fame. The writeups were accompanied by photos of the nominees.

A 10 gigabit-per-second network connecting Michigan\'s universities with a national high-speed network will use optical networking equipment from Movaz Networks Inc. Movaz announced Tuesday that the Michigan LambdaRail, a consortium of Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, is using the Movaz Ray product line of optical networking equipment to connect to the StarLight and National LambdaRail super high speed network node in Chicago. The network is to begin providing services in March.

A brief clip shows Wayne State's swimming team students swimming in a pool at Matthaei while news anchor Rhonda Walker says, "Hello Wayne State University."

This article, which examines the rift between Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Tom Watkins as well as the authority of the State Board of Education, mentions that Watkins started Michigan's first charter school through Wayne State University and was state director of mental health in former Gov. James Blanchard's administration.

The fraud and conspiracy trial of former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers is still pending. While the criminal investigation has yielded literally millions of pages of financial documents, there\'s not much evidence linking the executive to the crimes that he\'s accused of, according to Peter Henning, a former prosecutor who teaches law at Wayne State. Henning says: \"The outcome of this case will depend upon which witnesses the jurors believe. The government wants to hold Ebbers criminally responsible for WorldCom\'s $11 billion accounting scandal.

The U.S. Department of Energy has asked Wayne State University to assist in its effort to turn around a trend showing American students falling behind other countries in math and science. To help stimulate middle school student interest in the physical sciences, the Department of Energy announced January 14 that an annual large-scale exposition program it launched last year in Chicago will move to Detroit next year. This year\'s \"What\'s Next\" event is in Albuquerque, N.M. Last October, more than 600 middle school students participated in the expo in Chicago.

Frank Witsil writes in a story about an adult child who killed his aging parents that the burden of caring for the elderly is falling on family members, and many buckle under the stress. Peter Lichtenberg, director of WSU's Institute of Gerontology, said,"Without a doubt, people are living longer, and they are living longer with more serious illnesses. This can be very stressful, very expensive and very long-term.\"