Backed by the university’s largest full-time freshmen class in its 150-year history — despite increasing graduation rates and a competitive recruiting environment — Wayne State University’s enrollment has remained strong and steady this fall. Current enrollment is now 27,053.

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With Wayne State University’s Strategic Plan (2016-21) nearing its midpoint, President M. Roy Wilson highlighted successes in enrollment, graduation rates, research, and entrepreneurship, as well as other goals that have been surpassed.

The new Athletic Performance Center, a $2.2 million state-of-the-art facility, opened earlier this year. At 11,500 square feet, it nearly quadruples the space of the previous training facility.

Cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death, and CPR — if performed immediately and properly — can drastically increase survival rates. Attend a 15-minute training session during the challenge Sept. 15-21 to learn CPR. 

Now in its fourth year, Wayne State’s annual Baroudeur cycling event welcomed 800 riders and almost 300 volunteers to campus and the city on Aug. 18. In a post-ride survey, 95 percent of riders rated the overall event as “excellent” or “very good.”

Patricia Ice brings empathy as well as skill and insight gleaned from her life’s experiences to her practice of immigration law with an emphasis on family and humanitarian cases.

Representatives from Eversight Center for Eye and Vision Research, a global nonprofit network of eye banks headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI, visited the Wayne State University School of Medicine on Aug. 20 to present two Eye and Vision Research Grants totaling $40,000 to research scientists Tomomi Ichinose, M.D., Ph.D., and Pawan Kumar Singh, Ph.D., of the school’s Department of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences.

Through the generosity of Steven T. Plochocki (BA Journalism '73) and Linda Plochocki, the Polish room in Manoogian Hall, now features a bronze portrait sculpture of Madame Marie (Sklodowska) Curie.

Wayne State University’s Midtown campus is busier than ever this fall as the university welcomes the largest group of full-time freshmen in its 150-year history. When classes began Aug. 29, there were 2,955 full-time freshmen — an increase of 15 percent over last year’s incoming freshman class.

Inspiring and empowering students to prepare for college and academic success through immersive explorations of STEM and health fields has earned our C2 Pipeline program recognition unlike any other in the nation.

The $500,000 gift will provide resources, insights, and expertise to help launch sustainable, investment-ready student startups, and startups based on WSU intellectual property. Working in close coordination with instructors and students engaged in new entrepreneurship and innovation certificate programs, the BELL will help student founders develop commercialization pathways and attract additional funding aligned with business.

Angelo Paparelli is one of the most highly acclaimed and influential immigration attorneys in the country. A 1976 alumnus of Wayne State University Law School, Paparelli is a partner with Seyfarth Shaw LLP and has a bicoastal practice in southern California and New York City. He is founder and past president of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers, a worldwide coalition of leading immigration firms.

Not only will Warriors be represented onstage at the world’s largest free premier jazz showcase, but Chris Collins, director of Jazz Studies at Wayne State and president of the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation, will serve his eighth year as artistic director for the annual event, which runs from August 31 to September 3.

Made possible by a $40 million gift from Mike and Marian Ilitch, the opening of the Mike Ilitch School of Business at Wayne State University was celebrated on Aug. 21. The gift was the largest in the school’s history, and highlights Mike and Marian Ilitch’s lifelong dedication to promoting entrepreneurship, education and the revitalization of Detroit.

A lot has changed since the last time he was on campus, but Johnathan Williams is excited to find his way back to Wayne State this fall. Williams, 46, is the first student to re-enroll through the university’s new Warrior Way Back program.

With the opening of its Midtown location scheduled for early fall, Rainbow Child Care Center is joining forces with Wayne State University — reserving 40 exclusive spots for students, staff and faculty. The partnership fulfills a need for increased child care options the university uncovered during an internal survey conducted on campus several years ago.

Looking out at Detroit from the rooftop garden she manages at the Green Garage, a business incubator just off campus, undergrad Grace Fusani is in her element.

This year, the class includes four Wayne State alumni, young professionals who will join others in an effort to creatively combat issues related to homelessness--all while tapping into the emerging leaders’ volunteerism and leadership skills.

The internationally renowned Institut Pasteur in Paris has selected global studies major Connor Tukel for a coveted summer research internship.

For survivors of intimate partner violence, the path from pain to power is challenging and often unclear. The Community Advocacy Project (CAP) aims to help survivors navigate that path as they regain control of their lives.

Cass Avenue between Warren Avenue and Kirby Street will be closed from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. from Monday, July 30, until Friday, Aug. 17.

Board by board, house by house, a village made by and for the people it will serve is being born on Detroit’s west side, and Wayne State's School of Medicine is an integral part of the development.

The research of Dr. Doug Risner, a distinguished dance professor in the Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance, was recently featured in a segment on NBC Nightly News for the award-winning documentary film, DANSEUR. Risner serves as research advisor and consultant for the documentary, which is receiving increasing national coverage.

Surrounded by cats and dogs and a variety of other animals, Karen Knopper sits in the back room office of her successful business, Pet Suite Retreat, and recollects when she established the animal boarding facility and daycare in 2000. She takes after her father, she said, and shares his loyalty to the city of Detroit.