Four outstanding leaders in business who have made significant contributions to their companies and communities will receive Wayne State University Corporate Leadership Awards Wednesday, June 16, at the Hilberry Theatre. Corporate Leadership Awards honor the accomplishments of Wayne State University graduates and others who hold executive-level positions and are recognized as business and community leaders. Wayne State University has been celebrating the accomplishments of outstanding business leaders for 21 years.

The Delphi Corporation Inc. of Troy, Mich. will receive the Corporate Citizenship Award. Under the leadership of J.T. Battenberg III, Chairman of the Board, Chief Operating Officer and President, Delphi has become a world leader in mobile electronics and transportation components and systems technology. Multi-national Delphi conducts its business operations through various subsidiaries and has headquarters in Michigan, Paris, Tokyo and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Delphi's two business sectors provide comprehensive product solutions to complex customer needs. Delphi has approximately 186,000 employees and operates 172 wholly owned manufacturing sites, 42 joint ventures, 53 customer centers and sales offices, and 34 technical centers in 41 countries.

In 2001, Delphi donated $7.1 million of equipment to Wayne State University College of Engineering's Center for Smart Sensors and Integrated Microsystems, furnishing a 3,700 square foot state-of-the-art clean room. Used for research and development of micro-electrical-mechanical technology, the clean room is expected to yield many extraordinary applications for medicine, the environment, transportation and communications. The addition of the Delphi "Class Ten" clean room doubled the Center's capacity. As part of the agreement, two Delphi researchers are serving as adjunct faculty in the College of Engineering. Delphi also uses the equipment for research programs in automotive and new market technologies.

Other awardees include Terry A. Reiley, President of the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, the Michigan Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital and Senior Vice President of the Detroit Medical Center, who will receive the 21st Century Award; Ed Christian, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Saga Communications, Inc., who will receive the Distinguished Corporate Leader Award; and writer, producer and director Monice Mitchell Simms, of Flower Girl Productions, Inc., who will receive the Emerging Corporate Leader Award.

A community reception begins at 5 p.m. and the program begins at 6 p.m. Tickets for the reception and ceremony are $20. To purchase tickets, call Kris Herzog in Corporate and Foundation Relations at (313) 577-9278. For more information and to see previous awardees, see the Corporate Leadership Award Web site: http://www.dev-alumni.wayne.edu/giving/cfr-awards.php