Faculty News
- Nabil Sarhan receives National Science Foundation grant to develop a high tech, more efficient security system
- Posted: Monday, March 16, 2009
Nabil Sarhan, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in WSU's College of Engineering and resident of Dearborn, Mich., received $290,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop a security system that performs computer-automated, real-time threat detection at a...
- Ob/Gyn resident wins national honor for paper
- Posted: Monday, March 2, 2009
A third-year resident in the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has won a national honor for a paper outlining how cervical canal cells can indicate problem pregnancies, and perhaps more importantly has possibly developed a simple test to screen for...
- Medicine faculty crack code between human genome and nuclear matrix
- Posted: Monday, March 2, 2009
A team of Wayne State University School of Medicine researchers has unraveled the secret of interactions between the human genome and the nuclear matrix, a finding that could lead to genetic treatments for myriad diseases and disorders. The findings were published in and featured on the cover of...
- Wayne State researcher heads $1 million study on effectiveness of personal coaching for college students with ADHD
- Posted: Monday, February 16, 2009
Sharon Field, EdD, professor of administrative and organizational studies and co-director of the Center for Self-Determination and Transition in Wayne State University's College of Education, is leading a $1 million study announced today by the Edge Foundation, a national Attention Deficit...
- Wayne State researcher studies gene that contributes to breast cancer disparity in Caucasian and Asian women
- Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2009
DETROIT- New research from Wayne State University's School of Medicine has identified a gene that may contribute to the racial disparity in breast cancer incidence among Asian and Caucasian women, providing a novel target for diagnoses and treatment for both races. A study by Avraham Raz, Ph.D...
- Wayne State University plays role in study revealing seasoned airline pilots may be at risk of DNA damage from ionizing radiation
- Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2009
DETROIT- Airline pilots who have flown for many years may be at risk of DNA damage from prolonged exposure to cosmic ionizing radiation, suggests a study published in the scientific journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. James D. Tucker, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of...
- WSU researcher receives grant to study the neurobiology of depressed adolescent daughters of depressed mothers
- Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2009
DETROIT - Major depressive disorder affects 1 in 20 teenagers at any point in time, yet its neurobiology remains poorly understood. Frank MacMaster, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research assistant, was awarded nearly $60,000for a Young Investigator Award from NARSAD, the world's largest donor-supported...
- First study of war-related mental disorders among Iraqis 10 years post-Gulf War published by researchers at WSU and Basrah University, Iraq
- Posted: Saturday, November 1, 2008
A team of researchers from WSU in collaboration with Basrah Medical College in Basrah, Iraq, recently released a study published in The New Iraqi Journal of Medicine on war-related mental health disorders among Iraqis ten years after the Gulf War. Bengt Arnetz, professor of Family Medicine and...
- Cindy Bir named 2008 Crain’s Women to Watch Honoree
- Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008
On September 15, 2008, Crain’s Detroit Business named 15 Detroit-area women as Crain’s Women to Watch, and the College of Engineering’s own Dr. Cindy Bir was among the honorees. Dr. Bir, associate professor of Bioengineering, is the lead scientist for the popular...
- Dr. Frederic Pearson Hosting Civic Leadership Program for Middle Eastern Students
- Posted: Thursday, August 7, 2008
University students from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and other Middle Eastern and North African countries have gathered on Wayne State's campus to take in all the inter-cultural living, leadership and civic activism that Detroit has to offer. Wayne State's Center for Peace and Conflict Studies...