May 2008
- "Think Like a Cockroach - A New Approach to Research Funding"
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
The February 2008 journal, The Scientist, had an interesting article that is on the Office of the Vice President for Research "highly recommended reading list." The short article, "Think Like a Cockroach - How I survived an extinction event in biological research," focuses how to survive during...
- Dr. Faith Hopp of the School of Social Work Honored with Faculty Scholar Award from the John A. Hartford Foundation
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
Dr. Faith Hopp, assistant professor at Wayne State University's School of Social Work, is a recent recipient of a prestigious $100,000 Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar award - one of ten awards given. The project, "Barriers and Facilitators to Heart Failure Care in Urban Settings,"...
- Retired Wayne State University distinguished professor receives lifetime achievement award
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
Dr. Charles Schuster, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University's School of Medicine, was honored by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) with the 2008 Peter B. Dews Lifetime Achievement Award in...
- Wayne State Physics professors selected to collaborate at world's leading particle physics laboratory in Switzerland
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
A Wayne State research group, led by Drs. Paul Karchin and Rob Harr, professors of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Science were selected to join the Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration at the European Center for Nuclear Research, the world's leading laboratory for particle physics...
- LIMITED SUBMISSION Grant Opportunity - Childhood Cancer Research
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a nonprofit organization raising funds for childhood cancer research. The Foundation has a research grant opportunity with limited submissions for personnel support. These grants are intended for institutions with the potential to participate significantly more...
- WSU start-up, SenSound, announces product to "de-noise" environment for quality control testing
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
SenSound, LLC recently introduced SenQC, a software based quality control system for manufacturers of products in a broad spectrum of industries. SenQC will allow manufacturers to conduct high-throughput 100% in-line and end-of-line pass/fail inspections of components, subassemblies and finished...
- Career Development Grants in Occupational Safety and Health Research (K01)
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) invite grant applications for research career development related to occupational safety and health. The goal of the NIOSH research program is to support research that is relevant and...
- Dr. Diane Chugani receives $5.7 million grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
Dr. Diane Chugani, professor of Pediatrics and Radiology in the School of Medicine at WSU, was recently awarded a $5.79 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health for a study that may open doors to finding a treatment for...
- WSU Ophthalmology Team Publish Study on Glaucoma in Archives of Ophthalmology
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
A team of researchers from the Department of Ophthalmology and the Kresge Eye Institute at WSU's School of Medicine published a study on glaucoma patients with poor health literacy in the May issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The collaborative effort led...
- Blast Injury Symposium - May 15 and 16
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
Blast injuries to US troops and bystanders are being called the signature wound of the current military conflicts. IED's are the cause of most injuries and account for almost 80% of all wounds to U.S. troops. Many troops caught near these explosions suffer symptoms such as perforated eardrums...
- Neuroscience Symposium - May 31
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
Wayne State University will be host to the 39th annual Michigan Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Meeting/Symposium on Saturday, May 31st from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center. The event will feature neuroscience research focusing on human cognition and...
- WSU Researcher is Lead Scientist for Emmy Winning Sports Show...
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
For the past year, Dr. Cynthia Bir, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering, has jetted back and forth from Detroit to Hollywood to serve as the lead scientist for the Emmy Award winning show, "Sports Science" that airs on Fox Sports Network on Sunday evenings at...
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry Receives NSF Career Award
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
Dr. David Rueda, assistant professor of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was recently awarded a $775,000 NSF CAREER award for the project titled, "RNA Folding Dynamics by Single Molecule Temperature Jump Kinetics." The project will study RNA molecules that play an essential...
- School of Medicine Team Receives $1.5+ million NCI/NIH grant
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
Dr. Shijie Sheng, associate professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine and the Karmanos Cancer Institute, along with collaborators Drs. Michael Cher and Ricardo Bonfil of Urology, Dr. Margarida Bernardo and Dr. Xiaohua Li were awarded $1,561,440 from the National Cancer Institute of the...
- New Online Training for HIC and AIC Investigators
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
The Human Investigation Committee (HIC) and the Animal Investigation Committee are no longer using the WSU On-line Responsible Conduct in Research (RCR) training program to fulfill training requirements. Instead, the Committees require that all investigators and study staff (i.e. co-investigators...