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01/10/12--21:00: Wayne State and TechTown present "Why Entrepreneurs Should Care About Corporate ... (chan 1554550)

Corporate social responsibility is becoming increasingly important as companies strive to differentiate themselves from competitors, expand market share, and, most importantly, meet increasing consumer demand for responsible business practices.During a keynote breakfast address, small business founder and CEO Alyssa Martina of Metro Parent Publishing will present "Why Entrepreneurs Should Care About Corporate Citizenship." The free event is presented by Wayne State University's Cen


01/12/12--21:00: Wayne State students volunteer for MLK Day of service (chan 1554550)

WHAT: More than 150 Wayne State University students have decided to serve the United Way of Southeastern Michigan and will spend the holiday volunteering at different locations throughout the metro Detroit area. Some responsibilities include cleaning up Belle Isle, distributing food at Gleaners Warren and boarding up abandoned houses as a part of the Urban Safety Project.WHEN: Buses meet at 8:45 a.m. Monday, January 16, 2011 WHERE: Wayne State University Law School 471 W. Palmer, Detroit, MI 482


01/16/12--21:00: Wayne Law Review symposium to explore marijuana reform (chan 1554550)

DETROIT (Jan. 5, 2012) - The Wayne Law Review is pleased to host its upcoming symposium, "National and State Marijuana Reform: The Social, Economic, Health and Legal Implications," 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday, January 27, 2012, in Wayne State University Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.This symposium addresses some of the major social, economic, health and legal issues presented by current marijuana laws and proposed marijuana policies. The discussions will explore the dicho


01/16/12--21:00: Wayne State University’s ArtsCorpsDetroit joins DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan in ... (chan 1554550)

DETROIT - Wayne State University (WSU) senior, Matthew Lambert, visited DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan in search of a service learning project for one of his classes. There, he found inspiration in the hospital's Healing Arts Program and conceived of a year-long project that would enlist the help of patients, their families and other volunteers. On January 18, WSU and Children's Hospital will formally unveil "The Communal Experience Project, a mural comprised of tiles paint


01/16/12--21:00: Wayne State formula racing team takes part in North American International Auto Show (chan 1554550)

DETROIT (Jan. 17, 2012) - Wayne State University engineering students are taking part in the 2012 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Thirteen members of the WSU Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) team, along with their 2011 formula race car, are at the two-week event, promoting their team, the College of Engineering and Wayne State University.Founded in 1978, the SAE Collegiate Design Series challenges students to design, build and race small form


01/18/12--21:00: NSF grant will help Wayne State University professors’ mathematical modeling of fatty liver ... (chan 1554550)

Detroit - Predicting problems in one of the body's most complex organs soon may become easier because of work being done by Wayne State University researchers. Howard Matthew and Yinlun Huang, professors of chemical engineering and materials science, recently received a $550,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a mathematical model of liver metabolism that can be used to analyze and more effectively predict responses to possible treatments for hepatic steatosis, mo


01/19/12--21:00: Wayne State University research to shed light on bone metastasis in prostate cancer (chan 1554550)

DETROIT - Prostate cancer is the most frequent and second deadliest cancer men face. A team of Wayne State University researchers recently received $363,660 from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health for the project - "Bone-induced c-kit in prostate cancer cells: implications for bone metastasis" - that aims to shed new light on implications for bone metastasis in prostate cancer. As cancer grows in the prostate, cancerous cells can enter the bloodstream an


01/22/12--21:00: Keith Center hosts discussion on the constitutionality of Michigan’s Proposal 2 (chan 1554550)

DETROIT (Jan. 23, 2012) - Wayne State University Law School's Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights will host a discussion titled "Michigan Prop 2: The Constitutionality of Prohibitions on Affirmative Action" on Thurs., Jan. 26, 2012, from 6-7:30 p.m. in Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.The full en banc panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will hear the challenge to Proposal 2 on March 7, 2012. A similar challenge will be heard on February 13, 2012, by a


01/22/12--21:00: Wayne State University welcomes Harl R. Tolbert as associate vice president of technology ... (chan 1554550)

DETROIT - Wayne State University announced the appointment of Harl R. Tolbert of Pittsford, N.Y., as associate vice president of technology commercialization in the Division of Research. Tolbert began on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Tolbert joins Wayne State from his most recent post as associate director for biological sciences in the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center's Office of Technology Transfer. He has extensive experience leading academic and business commercialization progra


01/23/12--21:00: Electrical and computer engineering professor works to improve storage system experience (chan 1554550)

DETROIT (Jan. 24, 2012) - According to a 2010 statement by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, we now create as much information in just two days as we did from the dawn of civilization through 2003. With this abundance of new information comes a requirement for more and better storage solutions.Song Jiang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Wayne State University College of Engineering, is attending to this requirement as he works to improve the performan


01/23/12--21:00: Keith Collection announces donation of the Honorable John Feikens’ papers and records (chan 1554550)

DETROIT (Jan. 24, 2012) - The Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal History has announced the donation of the papers and records of the late Honorable John Feikens, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Judges Damon J. Keith and John Feikens served as the inaugural co-chairmen of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1963 to 1966, demonstrating a shared commitment to civil rights and equal justice. Before his death, Judge Feikens was


01/23/12--21:00: Keith Center receives $56,000 donation from estate of John Thomas Hall, friend of Judge Keith’s (chan 1554550)

DETROIT (Jan. 20, 2012) --Attorney Aubrey V. McCutcheon, Jr. and Deacon Robert Brown, trustees of the estate of John Thomas Hall, presented a check in the amount of $56,000 to Wayne State University Law School's Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at the Keith Center during a brief ceremony today. For more than 50 years, Mr. Hall and Judge Damon J. Keith served the congregation of the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church when it was located at 6125 Beechwood Ave., Detroit, under the pasto


01/24/12--21:00: Wayne State University to convene childhood epilepsy training in sub-Saharan Africa (chan 1554550)

DETROIT - A Wayne State University School of Medicine physician and researcher will convene a vital training workshop on childhood epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa next month.Harry Chugani, M.D., the Rosalie and Bruce Rosen professor of neurology and chief of pediatric neurology for the School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Michigan, has organized "Epilepsy in Children in Developing Countries." The training will take place Feb. 1-4 in Entebbe, Uganda.The attendees will be phy


01/25/12--21:00: Wayne State University professor among top 2 percent nationally, engineering institute says (chan 1554550)

DETROIT - Howard W.T. Matthew, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineering, materials science and biomedical engineering at Wayne State University, is one of 107 new members elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). The Detroit resident's election was based on what institute officials said are seminal contributions to the development and application of polysaccharide biomaterials in tissue engineering.The College of Fellows compr


01/26/12--21:00: Wayne State University Board of Governors to meet Wednesday, Feb. 1 (chan 1554550)

The Wayne State University Board of Governors will hold its next regular meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, in Room BC at McGregor Memorial Conference Center, 495 W. Ferry Mall, Detroit. The Board of Governors standing committee meetings convene at 11 a.m. and are open to the public. The board's standing committee meetings begin with the Academic Affairs Committee at 11 a.m. and the Budget and Finance Committee at 11:30 a.m. Following a break, the board returns for a public session at