Mary Kramer, Crain's Detroit Business publisher, dedicated a column to Wayne State's Institute for Information Technology and Culture, a four-year-old institute led by Professor Allen Batteau. The institute currently has a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to study what happens among organizations responding to specific crises. Batteau hopes that the NSF will provide additional funding to include Hurricane Katrina research. Ultimately, he said, the research will lead to developing simulations that could be used as training tools for governments and organizations. As a border city, such training could help the Detroit region prepare for the unexpected. "Institutions need maintenance like levees do," Batteau said.