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Wayne State University Police show a new method to keeping you safe if you're a woman. Local 4's Karen Drew shows you. - Wayne State University

Wayne State University's acclaimed mortuary science program regularly has more students than it can accommodate. But program officials say in the past couple of years, as the economy has tanked, more students are attending informational meetings about mortuary science, many of them in the process of career changes. - Wayne State University

This first conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) brings together a multi-disciplinary international group of practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration. Sponsored by the Savannah College of Art and Design(SCAD), MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and Wayne State University College of Engineering--Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and hosted by SCAD. October 8-11, 2009 for this exciting event! An optional 4-day Coolhunting Academy (Sept. 15-18) at MIT led by Peter Gloor from MITs Center for Collective Intelligence is also open to conference participants. - Wayne State University

This first conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) brings together a multi-disciplinary international group of practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration. Sponsored by the Savannah College of Art and Design(SCAD), MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and Wayne State University College of Engineering--Department of Industrial and... more... - Wayne State University

Officials at Wayne State University announced today that Tom Murphy, former mayor of Pittsburgh will be the keynote speaker at the fifth annual E2 Detroit conference on Thursday, Oct. 15. This event, co-sponsored by WSU, TechTown and WWJ Newsradio 950, and emceed by WWJ's technology editor, Matt Roush, brings entrepreneurs together with business leaders, authors, investors and others for a program that both educates and inspires. - Wayne State University

Feleta L. Wilson, associate professor in Wayne State University's College of Nursing, recently was selected as a 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica, joining the ranks of a number of distinguished alumni of the program including heads of state, judges, ambassadors, CEOs, Nobel Prize winners and more. - Wayne State University

"At the university, we're concerned about that because we have so many students in a very closed environment where the risk of transmission is pretty high," said Dr. Suzanne White. Wayne State is registering students for vaccine clinics and is ready with Web-based classes and a text message alert system should there be an outbreak. However, here's the tricky part. Some students aren't very concerned. - Wayne State University

Nearly 2,700 Wayne State University incoming freshmen will participate in Warrior Service Day, a daylong community service initiative benefiting several Detroit civic organizations including, ARISE! Detroit, Coalition on Temporary Shelter Detroit, the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Gleaners Community Food Bank and more. - Wayne State University

Wayne State University wants local actors to nail their auditions. The university's College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts is offering two workshops on how to audition for films this fall. "It is important to us that when films come to town we don't look like a bunch of amateurs," says Laurie Meeker, who is a former president of the Detroit branch of the Screen Actors Guild and leading the workshops. "We want to make the talent pool in Michigan to look as professional as possible." - Wayne State University

Large bins to haul everything from toilet paper to televisions, more than 100 student volunteers and resident assistants and voluntarily check-in times eased the move for excited freshmen and their parents during the first day of Move-In Days at Wayne State University on Sunday. Advertisement "It's making the transition rather palatable," Miguel Pagan, 49, of Allegan said as he stood by piles of items belonging to his daughter, Gabriella, 18, outside Yousif B. Ghafari and Leon H. Atchison halls along Anthony Wayne Drive in Detroit. - Wayne State University

A Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher has secured a National Institutes of Health grant to further research training methods that lessen the health impacts of stress on police officers, and will conduct that research with the Detroit Police Department. Bengt Arnetz, a physician and professor in the Department of Family Medicine and director of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, received $680,000 from the National Institute of Mental Health for his study, “Imagery-Based Trauma-Resiliency Training for Urban Police.” - Wayne State University

School is almost back in session, and Wayne State University is joining the roster of top notch universities that are participating in AdWords in the Curriculum. Wayne State Professor of Marketing Kevin Ketels explains, "The non-profits will receive a copy of my syllabus up front so they understand expectations for the students as well as for their own participation. - Wayne State University

Wayne State University and TechTown, WSU's business incubator, will host the fifth annual E2 Detroit conference Thursday, Oct. 15. This event, co-sponsored by WSU, TechTown and WWJ Newsradio 950, and emceed by WWJ's technology editor, Matt Roush, brings entrepreneurs together with business leaders, authors, investors and others for a program that both educates and inspires. Built upon the foundation of entrepreneurship and excellence, E2 Detroit provides attendees with the opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs. Business experts and CEOs of local start-ups will share their successes and challenges to provide "real world" insight to entrepreneurs seeking practical knowledge. - Wayne State University

The Wayne State University College of Nursing has been awarded over $2 million in the latest round of grants related to initiatives aimed at alleviating the state's nursing shortage. This award will prepare faculty for Michigan Schools of Nursing, helping to alleviate a bottleneck to preparing the necessary number of nurses to meet the state's need. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm in 2007 unveiled the creation of a Michigan Nursing Corps to specifically confront the state's critical shortage of nurses. The governor said the Corps will address the key obstacle to educating greater numbers of nurses - a shortage of faculty - by preparing additional nurse educators to train new nurses by the year 2010. - Wayne State University

The concept of technology has come a long way over the years, as it was once only described through tangible items such as tools and computers. From the perception of ethnographers, a new meaning is brought to the word technology, a meaning that stresses the importance of not only physical things, but also approaches and expectations. In a new book, Technology and Culture, Allen Batteau, Ph.D., presents an inclusive synopsis of how technology is represented in culture and how cultural values are embodied in technology. - Wayne State University

Dan Ryan, left, and Patrick Lipa are owners of the franchise College Hunks Hauling Junk. They launched their business in April after graduating from Wayne State and being unable to find jobs. - Wayne State University

Wayne State University Police Officer Mark Laquere, 23, of St. Clair Shores does a safety sweep of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library on WSU’s Detroit campus this month. Police say the most vulnerable students are those who take safety for granted. - Wayne State University

Dr. Wei-Zen Wei and her colleagues at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit shook up the cancer research field last year when she published a paper that concluded a cancer vaccine had prevented laboratory mice from succumbing to one of the most virulent forms of breast cancer. Wei's lab was the first in the world to develop the HER2 DNA vaccine. It was first tested on tumor cells that no longer responded to other therapies for HER2-positive breast cancer. The DNA vaccine was then tested in lab mice that were exposed to drug-resistant tumors. The vaccine prevented the cancer from growing in the mice. “We inject this reagent into the body to stimulate the (patient's) immune system to prevent the disease,” said Wei, a professor of immunology and microbiology at Karmanos and Wayne State University School of Medicine. - Wayne State University

The Five Years of the Petersen Presidency: From Start to Resignation By George Krieps I would like to thank Dr. John Petersen for extending to the Seymour Herald the first opportunity to reflect on his five years as President of the University of Tennessee up through his resignation, and comment on higher education in the State of Tennessee. This interview is not intended to tell both sides of the story; I did not wish to seek opposing views or detractor comments, as these have been amply covered by other news media. Dr. Petersen would not address rumors, statements, and innuendo from any source, as to do so would only result in further controversy and would not undo any harm inaccuracies might have caused. This is an interview with an individual that this reporter considers to be honest, intelligent, and a credit to the University of Tennessee, and academia as a whole. - Wayne State University

“Don’t question our investigative approach.” said FBI WMD Chief Majidi at the mid-August 2008 Science briefing. And to make sure you don’t, the truth has been gagged (all USAMRIID employees), redacted (all documents produced), under seal (ongoing and past briefing in matters such as US v. Al-Timimi), classified (numerous documents that should be declassified according to former CIA/FBI agent WMD intellience analyst PhD Jennifer Smith), autoclaved (NYP anthrax and Iowa ISU and USDA Ames), withheld from production under FOI (Long Notebook 4010, RMR Record 1030, September and October 2001 emails without a statutory exemption, or not put in writing. But we don’t need these carryovers — like a bad hangover — of the highly politicized US Bush Administration and Department of Justice. Most intelligence is “open source.” By all appearances they were not able to figure it out based even on that open source information. http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com - Wayne State University

the mother in the video is Tiffany Dixon(maiden) the person recording it is her teenage daughter Temperance they live in St. Clair Shores Michigan Tiffany works at Costco in Detroit in the finance department and attends Wayne State you can run a google cache of their myspace pages myspace.com/grownandsexy128 and myspace.com/sexi_326_08 blackplanet.com/tiff128 there were originally 3 tapes one of her actually hitting the girl with a brush. I contacted child welfare in Detroit and they claim that without her address there isn’t anything they can do and the link I told them about had someone talking over it do they couldn’t hear the verbal abuse so they just viewed this as a “child not wanting to get her hair done” I asked if that was a dog being attacked like that would they have a problem with it she didn’t respond. Tiffany also has a blog at grownandsexy128. - Wayne State University

(AP) -- DETROIT - The Great Lakes Protection Fund is giving Wayne State University $1.48 million to help cut energy waste in the Detroit water system, which serves four million southeastern Michigan residents. Engineering Professor Carol Miller heads a team developing computer software to reduce energy use in the system. It pumps 675 million gallons a day in a 1,079-square-mile area with 126 communities in eight counties. Miller says people now control most water pumps and decide whether to run them based on experience, often wasting water and energy. She projects a reduction of 10 million tons of greenhouse gases and other pollutants per year. Governors of the Great Lakes states founded the nonprofit fund in 1989 to improve the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. (Copyright ©2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) - Wayne State University

Detroit City Council candidate Burgess Foster is taking a back seat in a debate he organized after the planned moderator backed out due to poor health. The "New Beginnings and New Endings" debate, scheduled for tomorrow evening at Wayne State University, will feature ten non-incumbent council candidates hand picked by Burgess based on diversity, vocal leadership and online social media presence. "President Barack Obama showed that 19 to 35-year-olds could be mobilized if you spoke their language," he said of the social media criteria. In the first half of the debate, candidates will ask each other questions, while in the second half, the public will be given the chance to ask questions. - Wayne State University

I had my Macbook stolen by TSA people in Detroit-Wayne State International Airport in 2006. I slid my computer bag into the x ray machine, she said, "I need to check that bag for the computer." She takes it behind a small wall, gives me my bag back. I go down to the gate and go for my laptop, and there is a weighted binder. Go back, security refuses to co operate and the lady who checked my bag was gone. I was given to a case number that was never registered. The last time I will ever step inside the USA. Filthy country. - Wayne State University

Please let me know more aboul your project on hip hop. I listen to you on one of the radio station here in Detroit MI . I would like to know more. I understand you to say your project will present at Wayne State University July 18, 2009, but i did not get a time. Pkease reply back on the time. Thank you - Wayne State University

WAYNE, Neb. -- Wayne State College men's basketball coach Paul Combs has announced the hiring of two assistant coaches for the 2009-10 season. Tim Ryerson will join the Wildcat program as the assistant coach while Paige Paulsen will serve as graduate assistant. Ryerson comes to Wayne State after serving the last four seasons as an assistant at Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C. He was credited with helping turn around a program that went 10-17 in his first season in 2005-06 to a 16-10 mark in 2007-08 and the USA SSouth Conference championship. Ryerson also served as cross country coach at Methodist. Before that, Ryerson coached for two seasons at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, where he was instrumental in another rebuilding process. He helped Hardin-Simmons go from 2-22 in 2001-02 to a 19-8 record in 2004-05, resulting in the ASC West Conference title. Ryerson was born and raised in Wisconsin. - Wayne State University

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Health Enhancement Products Inc. (OTC BB: HEPI.OB) Wednesday announced preliminary results of its study to confirm the efficacy of the ProAlgaZyme bioactive compound in managing levels of both LDL and HDL cholesterol. The company awarded a grant to the Department of Nutrition and Food Science of Wayne State University on March 30, 2009. The Wayne State University study was able to confirm that the PAZ organic compound was found to reduce LDL cholesterol levels from 131.7mg/dL to 79.57mg/dL and improve HDL cholesterol from 105.27mg/dL to 138.67mg/dL in test animal subjects. - Wayne State University

Natalie Misteravich of Dearborn, Michigan states that she takes great pride in promoting Polish culture and traditions to the community. Her extensive teaching experience includes instructing Polish folk dance for the Polish Alliance Dancers for seven years, and the Polanie Song and Dance Ensemble for four years. She also conducted ten workshops in Polish folk dance at Wayne State University, and a workshop on the subject to a group in North Dakota. Natalie also tutored students in the Polish language at Wayne State University Success Center. She has studied the Polish language, including Saturday school and four years of Polish language at Wayne State. - Wayne State University

WHAT: Lt. Governor John D. Cherry, Jr. will be at Wayne State University to conduct the fourth in a series of town hall meetings to obtain public input on streamlining state government. WHERE: Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium, Law School, Wayne State University. Located at 471 West Palmer, one block west of Woodward Avenue, between Cass Ave. and Anthony Wayne Drive. http://www.campusmap.wayne.edu/locatio... Parking is available in Structure #1. http://www.campusmap.wayne.edu/locatio... WHEN: 6 -7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 16, 2009 - Wayne State University

Wayne State University is employing its first-ever motorcycle division with the graduation of WSU officers Eleshia Kelly and Shannon White-Thomas from the Detroit Police Department's 2009 Police Officer Motorcycle Certification Training program on June 9. Advertisement The officers were two of only four participants and the only females who passed the rigorous three-week course, which helped them develop the coordination, skill and confidence necessary to operate a police motorcycle safely and efficiently. Kelly, of Livonia, and White-Thomas, who resides in Grand Blanc, will use their new classification to enforce stronger pedestrian and traffic safety throughout Wayne State's 203-acre campus. The pair will also escort dignitaries to and from campus, participate in local parades and show support at the funerals of fallen officers from other police departments. - Wayne State University

Wayne State students deserve every chance to reach their highest academic and personal potential. If given this chance, each will make meaningful and even profound contributions to society. We must take immediate action to address the growing numbers of students who require financial assistance to achieve their goals. For this reason, we have launched the Aim Higher for Students campaign to raise money for scholarships and other educational resources that will enhance student success. Our goal is to encourage students to realize their tremendous potential. As the university of opportunity for students from the city of Detroit, the state of Michigan and countries around the world, our foremost responsibility is to assist and encourage men and women from all walks of life who want a Wayne State degree. With your help, every student can reach new heights of success. There’s no time like the present to make your gift. - Wayne State University