Jeffrey Tambor, the award-winning actor and CFPCA alumnus whose career has ranged from "The Larry Sanders Show" to "Transparent," was honored with the 2,617th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Aug. 8, 2017.

A Wayne State University researcher has received a $310,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate a new approach to converting plentiful solar energy into electricity or fuel.

Our main campus in Detroit's Cultural Center offers WSU students unparalleled access to world-class cultural resources including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Public Library and Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. While Warriors study artistic expression, they have the opportunity to enrich the community through such initiatives as our mobile arts workshop, JazzWeek@Wayne and the Performance/Exchange artist-in-residence program.

Wayne State administrators, faculty and staff will welcome students and their families to the university’s 150th academic year during the annual New Student Convocation on Aug. 29. The event will be held on campus in the Max J. Pincus Court in front of the McGregor Memorial Conference Center from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Pre-occupational therapy and psychology student Michelle Asiedu took the trip of a lifetime this summer — but don’t call it a vacation. Asiedu went to Ghana, West Africa, on a Medical Brigades trip with Wayne State.

A proposed STEM Innovation Learning Center, to be located in the Science and Engineering Library building, has advanced to the planning phase following funding approval by the State of Michigan.

A team of Wayne State University researchers recently received a $1.9 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health to better understand leukodystrophies (LD) and genetic Leukoencephalopathies (gLE), rare genetic disorders affecting the white matter – myelin – in the central nervous system. Patients diagnosed with a leukodystrophy experience a gradual decline in development, including a progressive loss in gait, body tone, vision, hearing, swallowing and/or ability to eat.

On July 25, 2017, the National Science Foundation announced awards totaling $51 million to 17 projects that will develop and implement bold, new and potentially transformative models for graduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Witnessing the power of research to improve lives throughout her career, Fry McComish and her husband, Philip, created the Dr. Judith Fry McComish and Philip A. McComish Endowed Research Fund at the College of Nursing to study socioemotional health and development of vulnerable infants and their families. The endowment will be used to fund research and evidence-based practice projects on infant mental health conducted by faculty members and nursing doctoral students.

Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson will embark on a three-city, four-day Road Warrior cycling tour that will take him to St. Clair on August 1, Midland on August 2 and DeWitt on August 3, before returning to campus on August 4. He will have cycled more than 400 miles by the time the tour is complete.

Christiana Castillo is a Wayne State senior, double majoring in English and peace and conflict studies. "Peace and justice have always been incredibly important topics to me, and WSU is the only university in Michigan that offers a peace and conflict studies undergraduate program," says Castillo. "I’ve always been passionate about writing, communicating and telling stories, so an English major seemed to be a great fit for me as well." 

In honor of David DiChiera, founder and artistic director of the Michigan Opera Theatre (MOT), Ford Motor Company Fund and the MOT have established a $50,000 scholarship fund for aspiring music students at Wayne State University’s College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts.

Type 2 diabetes is rising at an alarming rate in both general and military veteran populations. It is the most common endocrine disease, and causes severe health issues such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and more. The disease kills more Americans yearly than breast cancer and AIDS combined, and imposes great financial burden on many.

Xavier Walker, 19, is helping Adrian Vasquez, a Ph.D. candidate in Ram's lab, examine traces of DNA left in the mites’ digestive systems. Specifically, they’re looking to find what the mites eat to determine whether they compete with fish for food and also reduce insect pests, such as mosquitoes, by eating their larvae.

A team of researchers led by Robert Wessells, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology in the School of Medicine at Wayne State University, has received a two-year, $423,500 grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health for the project, “Octopamine mediates benefits of endurance exercise in Drosophila.”

Researchers with the Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences have teamed with the Detroit refugee resettlement nonprofit Samaritas to pilot three creativity-based behavioral interventions for Syrian refugees living in metropolitan Detroit.

The Athletic Performance Center will provide our student-athletes with the latest equipment and conditioning apparatus to prepare our teams for intercollegiate athletic competition

The first recipient of a $3,000 Dean’s Merit Scholarship for Brazil Scientific Mobility Program (BSMP) alumni is using the award, coupled with a return on investment in cows, to realize her dream of coming back to Wayne State for her master’s.

John Hannigan, Ph.D., a professor of obstetrics and of psychology at Wayne State University, and jointly appointed to the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, won the 2017 Henry Rosett Award for substantial contributions to the field of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).

History buffs may be aware that the fourth and final season of the AMC television show Turn: Washington's Spies kicked off last week. But local viewers might be surprised to discover that Wayne State University’s namesake, Anthony Wayne, will enter the story in episode four.

As part of the initiative, a full-time suicide prevention coordinator will be hired and nearly 4,000 people across the university will participate in the three-year project. Other key roles will include staff and faculty from Wayne State’s Department of Psychology, Dean of Students Office and the Office of Multicultural Student Engagement.

Wayne State students work alongside renowned faculty experts to address health disparities ailing Detroit’s population such as asthma, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Through interdisciplinary research, programmatic pathways and collaborative partnerships, Wayne State students are making a measurable impact in communities at home and around the world.

StoryCorps, a renowned nonprofit organization celebrating the stories of everyday Americans, will record interviews in Detroit from June 29 to July 28, 2017 as part of its cross-country MobileBooth tour. Having collected more than 65,000 interviews from Americans in all 50 states, StoryCorps has gathered one of the largest single collection of human voices ever recorded.

A team of Wayne State University and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute researchers recently received funding from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to expand the use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in cancer therapy.

“Happy 18th Birthday! Local Citizenship Kit” celebrates Detroiters becoming eligible to vote by sending them a local citizenship kit in the mail on their 18th birthday. The kit will include Detroit-themed gifts and an illustrated guide to local elections. A portion of the boxes will also include personal messages from a loved one encouraging them to vote.