How to survive - and thrive - in college
In this AP wire story that originated in the Detroit Free Press, Wayne State students are among several college students who offer practical tips for first-year students.
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Another life sciences win for Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo Community College will be the home of a new high-tech laboratory for Michigan\'s life sciences industry. The Michigan High Throughput Screening Center is expected to be up and running by next summer. It will provide computerized, high-speed and robot-driven procedures that can help accelerate drug discovery for small pharmaceutical companies, university researchers and start-up companies. Financial support will come from private donors and grants.
Senior health care issues to be discussed
Wayne State's Institute of Gerontology (IOG) is sponsoring a forum on aging issues for seniors and caregivers Sept. 27 in Farmington Hills. IOG director Peter Lichtenberg and R. Darin Ellis, associate professor in the department of Gerontology, are among the panelists.
Universities need help to educate more students
This month\'s \"President\'s Perspective\" commentary, authored by incoming Michigan State University president Lou Anna Simon, identifies the challenges Michigan\'s universities face as they heed Gov. Jennifer Granholm\'s call to identify a strategy that will increase participation in the state\'s higher education system. The governor\'s mandate, through the Commission on Higher Education and Economic Growth, is to double the number of postsecondary degree holders within 10 years, then keep them living and working in Michigan. Growing enrollment translates into needed funding for more university professors and increased physical capacity offering classrooms, laboratories and technological infrastructure.
No sign of letup in county growth
According to a study released by the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, Macomb County added the most people, 34,300, and the most households, 21,200, of any county in southeast Michigan in the past four years. Kurt Metzger, research director of CULMA's Center for Urban Studies, said Macomb County, unlike other southeast Michigan counties, attracts more residents from its neighbors than it loses.
At WSU, 20 artists present images of a gloomy Cuba
"Cuba from the Inside Out," an exhibit of contemporary Cuban art featuring 20 exhibitors affiliated with Cuba's leading art school, Institute Superior de Arte, is showing at Wayne State's Elaine L. Jacob Gallery through Oct. 22. "Inside Out" is one way Wayne State is observing Hispanic Heritage Month.
Pat Vitale talks to Wayne State students
Reporter Pat Vitale talked to Wayne State students about the upcoming Lodge closure and how it will affect their commute schedules. Vitale pointed out that there are building projects on the Wayne State campus which may add to anticipated congestion.
Yeast relief
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that women prone to vaginal yeast infections may get long-term relief from a weekly dose of fluconazole, an antifungal drug sold as Diflucan. Lead researcher Jack Sobel, chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at Wayne State University School of Medicine, says he hopes insurers will now cover preventive use; until now they've only paid for Diflucan prescribed for treatment.
Sports Resorts rejects buyout
Randy Paschke, chair of the accounting department in Wayne State's School of Business Administration, commented about Sports Resorts International Inc. board's rejection of an offer by company founder and majority shareholder Don Williamson to buy its three subsidiaries for 40 million shares of stock. Paschke said there are advantages for a company such as Sports Resorts to go private. \"The cost of being a public company is just horrendous,\" he said, adding that costs have more than doubled for some companies with the new rules.
Lack of trust poisons efforts to reform asbestos litigation
Dr. Michael R. Harbut, chief of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Wayne State University, commented about the declining numbers of patients being treated for illnesses related to exposure to asbestos. Harbut said it\'s difficult to understand why medical centers with a large patient load wouldn\'t be seeing asbestosis. \"In my own practice, I\'ve seen at least three new noncontroversial diagnoses in the last nine workdays,\" said Harbut, who is also co-director of the National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers.
WSU football visits Indianapolis this Saturday
Wayne State University's football team will make its first trip to Indianapolis since the 2000 campaign this Saturday. WSU and UI met in 2001 in Detroit but were not scheduled against each other in 2002 and 2003 as part of the GLIAC\'s two-year rotating schedule. Wayne State hopes to snap its losing streak in Indianapolis, where WSU has a 3-4 all-time mark. A photo of Warrior Chris Middlebrooks accompanies the story.
Pondering Punishment
A book review by Marta Salij on Scott Turow's latest book, "Ultimate Punishment" mentions that the author will give a reading at WSU's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium in the Law School Thursday night at 6:30 pm.
Online college applications are on the rise
Online applications to Michigan colleges are surging in popularity, and all 15 public universities in the state, including Wayne State, offer the convenience of online application. But the process doesn't necessarily save students time or money. Tamaria Dewdney, a WSU first-year student, said she likes the convenience of online filing but still prefers to see written copies of the forms she fills out.
Ford Woos College Kids
Ford Motor Co. is offering its X-plan, a discount purchase/lease plan traditionally reserved for employees and family members, to college students. Under its Ford Advanced Education Program, the automaker is partnering with 33 colleges. Institutions at which students and faculty are eligible for the plan in Michigan include Wayne State.
New Wayne State courses cover alternative energy
An item in the briefs column on the front page notes that WSU is offering six alternative energy technology courses this fall "in its continuing effort to prepare engineers for sustainable energy technology fields.
WSU Academy Wins NASA Award
This article mentioned that Wayne State University\'s Detroit Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy and the DTE Energy Foundation were named the winners of the TEC Champion Leadership Award at a recent 2004 NASA SEMAA Directors Meeting in Washington.
More Michigan colleges receiving online applications
These newspapers used an AP story about the surge in online applications to universities. Wayne State freshman Tamaria Dewdney is quoted. "I personally prefer to see everything I'm writing," she said. "Sometimes when you fill things out online, things are erased." WSU's Web site is among those provided in a sidebar.
Workplace bullying affects the whole company
Professor Loraleigh Keashly, academic director of CULMA's Master's in Dispute Resolution (MADR) program, is extensively quoted in a story about workplace bullying, an issue she has been researching for more than 10 years. A study performed by the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs in 2000 indicated that one in six employees reported being victims of "harmful" mistreatment by fellow employees. "They become disabled in a way," Keashly explains. "It inhibits a person's ability to do their job and becomes problematic for the organization."
For Americans size does matter
A commentary piece written by Wayne State\'s Jerry Herron, who is director of the Honors Program, says for Americans size does matter - and the nation obsesses over the size of everything from our bodies to our cars. "Being proud about being big doesn't mean we have to be stupid about it."
GALLERIES: Spiritual works evoke the smoky hues of Cuba
This article featured a new exhibit of Cuban art that opened at Wayne State\'s Elaine L. Jacob Gallery. ...An art department trip to Cuba last year to meet artists, students and faculty at the island\'s premier art school prompted Wayne State University\'s two exhibitions on Cuban art and an accompanying symposium. \"Cuba from the Inside Looking Out\" is offered in two parts -- work by faculty, students and alumni from the Instituto Superior de Arte, and contemporary Cuban art from American collections. This article also quoted the director of the Jacob Gallery. \"It was a challenge to get the work here,\" said gallery director Sandra Dupret. \"No shipping company wanted to bring them to the U.S.,\" because of the U.S. sanctions on the communist-ruled island. \"We got the work through the Cuban Art Space in New York, where they will go after our exhibition. The pieces arrived in two rolls, unframed and unstretched.\"