The IUPAP Commissions seeks candidates for the Young Scientist Prize who have spent up to eight years conducting research after earning a Ph.D. Awardees will receive a medal, certificate and a monetary award. The IUPAP Commissions will sponsor a presentation at an international conference, according to its website.

A new program will allow children of full-time employees to receive 100 percent free tuition/general fees for four years. The Born to Be a Warrior pilot scholarship program is for freshmen and transfer students who do not have a bachelor’s degree. The award is renewable for up to four years for those who qualify as freshmen (consideration can be given by the Office of Student Financial Aid for additional time). Students should apply by May 1 to be eligible for the fall 2019 semester, when the awards will first be given.

Amesite, Inc., an Ann Arbor-based artificial intelligence software company, recently announced a partnership with Wayne State University to offer six-week programs tailored to engineers seeking the latest innovations and applications of this technology.

For Department of Geology chair Mark Baskaran, Michigan’s recent Polar Vortex brought more than just a couple of welcome days at home — it sparked a research idea. Inspired by the frigid weather, Baskaran wondered what environmental secrets lie in the ice coating Lake St. Clair. Specifically, he wanted to know what concentrated materials — atmospheric and sediment — could be found in the ice that forms near the shore of a body of water.

A group of four global supply chain management students from Wayne State University’s Mike Ilitch School of Business was named division champion and placed among four finalists at the 2019 Weber State University supply chain skills competition in Ogden, Utah.

As media the world over sought reflections last year on the life and death of legendary singer Aretha Franklin, few probably realized how often it was archivists at Wayne State University who provided the looking glass.

By applying a discerning, clinical approach to training, TeachDETROIT turns Detroit public schools into equal parts training grounds and classrooms for its WSU cohorts. Participants enroll for up to 12 months in the program, splitting time between classwork on campus and training alongside veteran teachers in public school classrooms. Established in 2015, TeachDETROIT has become a model program for education experts nationwide and a vital asset to the Detroit Public School Community District, which has grappled with shortages of capable teachers and other resources for years.

Arun Iyer, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, has received a three-year, $611,475 Idea Development Award as an Early Career Investigator from the Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program to research renal cell carcinoma and look for new treatment strategies.

Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson made a compelling case for increased higher education funding in general, and for Wayne State in particular, on Feb. 28, when he testified before the Michigan House of Representatives higher education appropriations subcommittee in Lansing.

While the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 70s is rightly credited with fostering numerous gains among African Americans over the past half century, the attendant labor movements of that era are regarded by many as playing a vital — albeit less prominent — role in the advancement of racial equity. Now, Wayne State University associate professor David Goldberg is shining a spotlight on the labor struggles of the era with an upcoming book about late activist (and former WSU student) General Gordon Baker, founder of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and inarguably one of the most influential Detroit labor organizers of the late 20th century.

Julia Briskin, Wayne State University graduate student and doctoral candidate in psychology; Tim Bogg, WSU associate professor of psychology; and Jesse Haddad, a student at the Wayne State School of Medicine, recently published an article in Frontiers in Psychology entitled, “Lower Trait Stability, Stronger Normative Beliefs, Habitual Phone Use and Unimpeded Phone Access Predict Distracted College Student Messaging in Social, Academic, and Driving Contexts." Their research focused on three contexts where phone use is often a source of distraction — in the classroom, eating with others and driving — and which personality traits are associated with problematic messaging behavior.

The number of opioid-related deaths in Michigan has hit an all-time high, requiring the resources of the state’s three major research universities and one of its largest health systems to tackle the problem. Under a two-year, $1.5 million grant, Wayne State University, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Grand Rapids-based Spectrum Health will train more physicians to become addiction medicine specialists by streamlining the certification process.

M.S/M.D. student Leo Hall is spending the year pursuing a master’s degree from the Department of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, performing experiments in the lab of Assistant Professor Tomomi Ichinose. Hall is one of a few students selected nationally to receive the 2018 Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship from the nonprofit Research to Prevent Blindness.

Amiangshu Bosu, assistant professor of computer science, is developing an automated model called RevRanker to remove barriers in free/libre open source software (FLOSS) projects which stem from newcomer struggles to identify experienced and capable code reviewers. FLOSS projects are community-driven enterprises that some in the tech profession believe will surpass proprietary software in popularity.

Students nearing graduation now have an additional springboard to help them complete their degree on time through Wayne State’s Warrior Senior Sprint scholarship, which will cover the full cost of tuition and fees during the 2019 spring/summer semester. The Warrior Senior Sprint scholarship is available to students who entered WSU as new first-year students in fall 2013 or fall 2014 and who have a clear pathway to graduate by August 2019.

Michigan faces a critical shortage of certified school librarians, and the Wayne State University School of Information Sciences (SIS) has designed a unique program to alleviate this deficit. The experimental school library media certificate is a 15-credit graduate certificate program open to anyone with a valid Michigan teaching certificate. Approved by the Michigan Department of Education in fall 2018, it provides an opportunity for educators to gain the knowledge necessary to become a school library media specialist.

A first-year medical student at the Wayne State University School of Medicine was part of a California-based research team that discovered the addition of antibiotic powder decreased postoperative infections when applied before closure following spine surgery.

In 1963, it was anything but fashionable for self-respecting black militants to publicly disagree with Malcolm X. The most strident voice of resistance to racial oppression in urban communities in the North, Malcolm X had gained a nearly universal chorus of support from the masses disenchanted with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s unfaltering commitment to nonviolence.

“This grant will enable Wayne State University to expand awareness of Middle Eastern culture by using its art collection to impact cultural perception and change through the important work of one of our esteemed alumna, Shiva Ahmad,” Grace Serra, University Art Collection curator.

The 50th anniversary campaign — which marks the launch of the nation’s first university- level Black Studies program, created in 1968 at San Francisco State University — is designed to showcase the power and versatility of the discipline.

BOG Chair Kim Trent: Why the bachelor’s degree matters more than ever - Because both of my grandfathers built comfortable middle-class lives for their families as skilled tradesmen for Detroit automakers, I have tremendous respect for the dignity and value of skilled trades careers. But every time I find myself in front of a microphone, I use my influence as a member of the Wayne State University Board of Governors to advocate for four-year degrees as the most direct and sustainable path for Detroiters to secure 21st century prosperity.

Weather@Wayne is part of the national Weather Underground network of weather stations located across the country. Many universities that offer environmental science and meteorology degrees are part of the network.

Ilham Azali Assoumani and Idir Mahrouche will spend the next two years completing graduate programs—Azali in alternative energy technology and Mahrouche in electrical engineering with a focus on robotics for medical applications.

Organic chemistry is a notoriously difficult class in which students must draw and interpret organic structures. The fact that Nicole Kada, a food and nutrition science major, received an A last semester is a nice accomplishment. However, her grade becomes exponentially more impressive when you consider that Kada was born blind.

Cedric Mutebi was 18 and barely out of his freshman year at Wayne State University when he was confronted with the gravity of the public health challenges that shaped his professional ambitions. Now 20 and in the middle of his junior year, Mutebi is something of a standard-bearer for excellence at the university — a source of pride, affirmation and high expectation.