Wayne State University News

A Wayne State University researcher is working to help mathematics teacher candidates make the transition from solving problems to helping others to solve them.

Insulin is the most potent physiological anabolic agent for tissue-building and energy storage, promoting the storage and synthesis of lipids, protein and carbohydrates, and inhibiting their breakdown and release into the circulatory system.

Even with its flaws, higher education is good for America and good for the world, according to Allan Gilmour, the former Ford executive turned president of Wayne State University.

Marie Thornton, former Detroit School Board member, center, asks a question during a public meeting with Kevyn Orr, emergency manager for the city of Detroit, unseen, at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Monday, June 10, 2013.

On June 6, professors in Wayne State University's Department of Physics kicked off WSU's only National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program.

Saturday's third-annual Heroes Gala, honoring longtime board member Barbara Van Dusen, raised more than $700,000 to benefit the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Newly appointed Wayne State University president M. Roy Wilson talks with press following a special board meeting electing him on Wednesday June 5, 2013 at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Newly appointed Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson will earn a base annual salary and other benefits that will exceed $500,000 a year, according to his five-year contract, which became available Monday.

Newly appointed Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson will earn a base annual salary and other benefits that will exceed $500,000 a year, according to his five-year contract, which became available Monday.

Universities are coming under fire for offering degree programs in which graduates have little likelihood of finding good-paying jobs, or finding jobs at all.

Members of the Northern Guards Supporters soccer group sway the bleachers at a Detroit City FC soccer game on June 14, 2013 .

The program is for children in kindergarten-fifth-grade and includes a light meal.

Using joy to jumpstart urban revitalization is the focus of a forum this week at Wayne State University in Detroit.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the great bard of the Jazz Age, famously said that there were no second acts in American lives.

She is currently employed with Ennis Center for Children. She is the daughter of Dana Russell and Frederick Switzer.

Koehler-Smith, of Croswell, has been a funeral director with Pollock-Randall and Marysville Funeral Homes since completing her resident training there in June of 2011.

She was born in Chicora, PA to parents William Mills and Wardie Donaldson. She was a graduate of Plymouth High School and received a bachelor's degree from Wayne State University.

A farmers market customer gets a free sample of pea shoots from Rising Pheasant Farms.

Kevyn Orr, emergency manager for the city of Detroit, speaks at a public meeting at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Monday, June 10, 2013.

Detroit's creditors will begin to learn on Friday morning what they can recover without driving the financially troubled city into bankruptcy when the city's emergency manager unveils his restructuring plan.