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May 2013

Wayne State researcher appointed adjunct foreign professor at prestigious Karolinska Institute
Posted: Thursday, May 2, 2013

Mark Luborsky Detroit - Mark R. Luborsky, Ph.D., director of aging and health disparities research in the Institute of Gerontology (IOG), and professor of anthropology and gerontology at Wayne State University, has been appointed adjunct foreign professor at the prestigious...

Wayne State University researcher’s technique can help nanoparticles deliver drug treatments
Posted: Monday, May 6, 2013

DETROIT - A Wayne State University researcher has successfully tested a technique that can lead to more effective use of nanoparticles as a drug delivery system. Joshua Reineke, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences...

Wayne State University researcher's technique helps robotic vehicles find their way, help humans
Posted: Friday, May 10, 2013

DETROIT - A Wayne State University researcher understands that the three most important things about real estate also apply to small ground robotic vehicles: location, location, location. In a paper recently published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Weisong...

Wayne State researcher aims to make STEM education more accessible to Native American students
Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Detroit - Underrepresented minorities comprise approximately 30 percent of the U.S. population, but only 10 percent are college educated in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Native Americans (and Aboriginal Canadians) are the least represented minority group in...