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Recent News About Wayne State University
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: CATCH-UP grant to recruit minority, rural patients to cancer clinical trials
Researchers at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute have secured a one-year, $630,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute that will support the institute’s clinical trials targeting underserved populations in Detroit and in rural areas that Karmanos serves.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: The Detroit Equity Report, Inc., announces partnership with Wayne State University in ongoing effort to improve racial equity in local businesses
The founders of the Detroit Equity Report, Inc., an initiative first envisioned several years ago by Bishop Edgar L. Vann, today announced that Wayne State University will add its academic expertise to the burgeoning social justice program, which aims to help metro Detroit businesses foster greater racial equity in their ranks.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Dying Before Their Time: Wayne State analysis reveals a startling population trend in Detroit
Older adults who live in Detroit are dying at two and half times the rate of older adults who live in the rest of Michigan.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Wayne Med-Direct reaches milestone as first cohort starts medical school
As an ambitious 12th grader in Bowie, Maryland, Rosetta Irons began laying the groundwork for her entry into medical school even before she’d even started undergrad — and well before she earned her high school diploma.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: MoGo, Detroit’s bike share system, expands and enhances service
MoGo Detroit recently expanded service and updated its pass options. The bike share system now offers 620 bikes at 75 stations in 10 neighborhoods in the greater downtown area, as well as Northwest Detroit, Ferndale, Oak Park, Huntington Woods, Berkley, and Royal Oak. Additionally, Monthly, Annual and Access Passes are now good for unlimited 60-minute trips.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: OED re-imagines Placemaking during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Vibrant public places help build a stronger campus, neighborhood and city. The University’s Office of Economic Development (OED) leads collaborative placemaking initiatives to make campus more active and engaging. Much of our work focuses on enhancing public spaces.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: College of Engineering introduces welding and metallurgy program
Beginning in the fall of 2020, Wayne State University students will have the option of earning a bachelor of science in welding and metallurgical engineering technology from the College of Engineering. This is one of four new degrees being added to the 13 existing programs within the college.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Wayne State University charts path to safe dining, retail experience
Wayne State University’s housing, dining and retail restart subcommittee has been working diligently to ensure that campus dining and retail locations are as safe and stress-free as possible for students, faculty and staff.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Wayne State University, ACCESS, Ford Coalition expands mobile COVID-19 testing; effort tests more than 10,000
The coalition of Wayne State University, ACCESS, Ford Motor Co. and the Wayne State University Physician Group expanded its mobile COVID-19 testing effort, increasing the number of test vehicles in the fleet, expanding its area of operation as well as the types of tests available, and opening the program to local communities in need.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Wayne State graduation rate continues record-setting improvement
Wayne State University’s rise as a national model for student success hit a new milestone in May, as its six-year graduation rate surpassed its goal of 50% more than a year prior to completion of its “Distinctively Wayne State” strategic plan.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Virtual African American Graduation Celebration set for June 19
Virtual African American Graduation Celebration set for June 19
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Creatures of habits: a student’s take on staying home
Creatures of habits: a student’s take on staying home
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Street Medicine Detroit creates field hand-washing stations for Detroit’s homeless community
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Street Medicine Detroit, a Wayne State University School of Medicine student-led organization committed to serving the unreached homeless population of Detroit, has built a series of Field Hand-Washing Stations and placed them near soup kitchens and in homeless encampments throughout the city.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERISTY: Former Warrior Joique Bell Selected to Lions All-Decade Team
Former Wayne State University running back and 2016 WSU Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Joique Bell was selected to the Detroit Lions All-Decade Team as announced by the Detroit News.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (MICHIGAN): Class of 2020 to be recognized April 29 during a special virtual graduation celebration
It’s spring, and with the season of warmer temperatures, budding trees and blooming flowers traditionally comes the celebration of student successes during universities’ commencement ceremonies.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (MICHIGAN): Wayne State University Board of Governors to meet Friday, May 1
The Wayne State University Board of Governors will hold its next regular meeting on Friday, May 1.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (MICHIGAN): Wayne State University opens up residence hall for Henry Ford, DMC frontline clinicians
Wayne State University recently finalized agreements with Henry Ford Health System and the Detroit Medical Center to house medical professionals at Atchison Hall, which can house more than 200 guests in private accommodations as needed.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (MICHIGAN): Ford, Wayne State University, ACCESS launch first mobile COVID-19 testing for Michigan first responders
Ford Motor Co., Wayne State University, the Wayne State University Physician Group and ACCESS are launching a new initiative that will improve access to COVID-19 testing for symptomatic first responders, health care workers and corrections officers in Michigan.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (MICHIGAN): COVID-19 mental health services offered free to WSU and WSUPG community
The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched and tested health care systems and hospitals.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: Wayne State chemists, pharmacists team up to make hand sanitizer for COVID-19 front line
Faculty from the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, using ingredients from the Science Stores within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, tutored graduate chemistry students to make the hand sanitizer.