During 2015, Wayne State University was mentioned or highlighted in more than 2,000 stories from media outlets around the world. Coverage ranged from faculty experts offering comments on trending topics to breaking research and news about the university.
Major stories focusing primarily or exclusively on the university totaled 849 - an increase of 4 percent over 2014. Looking back over the last five years, there has been a 56 percent increase. These stories were often pitched or facilitated by WSU communications professionals.
News coverage extended from Detroit area dailies, television and radio to national media outlets such as the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME, USA Today, National Geographic, Chronicle of Higher Education, Glamour, CNN, Philanthropy News Digest, CBS News, The Washington Post and beyond the United States to several international outlets.
A sampling of major headlines included:
- Ilitch family gifts $40 million for new business school
- 'World-class' $7.5 million jazz hub set for Wayne State
- Wayne State snags Levin, creates center in his name
- Study ties prostate cancer to breast cancer in families
- Wayne State receives NIH grant to develop AD diagnosis, focusing on African Americans
- Wayne State, MSU and U-M have $16.8 billion impact on Michigan's economy
- Research seeks alternatives for reducing bacteria in fresh produce using nanoengineering
- Wayne State University's anthropology department helps dig up Detroit's past
- Michigan Big 3 universities lead peers in producing grads
- Wayne State to lead Detroit site in new national heart failure study
- Wayne State University president bikes 100 miles for scholarship funds
- FIGO calls for treatment developed at Wayne State to fight worldwide preterm birth
- New $93 million Wayne State center to study health disparities
- $3 million NSF grant to transform STEM teaching approaches at Wayne State University
- Wayne State receives $1.4 million grant to train next generation of Detroit math teachers