News
-
A time to reflect and heal: Wayne State recognizes National Day of Healing from Racism with daylong virtual events on Tuesday, Jan. 18The Wayne State campus and surrounding communities are invited to virtually celebrate our common humanity and engage in an ongoing discussion about creating a more just and equitable world as part of the National Day of Healing from Racism on Tuesday, Jan. 18.
-
WATCH: Wayne State University's 2022 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. TributeWith theme "Looking Back to Looking Ahead," the event's keynote speaker is Wayne State's 2021 Distinguished Alumnus Awardee Christopher W. Wilson, Director of Experience Design at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
-
Pathologists' Assistant Diversity Initiative hosts lecture on gender affirming surgeries Jan. 27The WSU Applebaum Pathologists’ Assistant Diversity Initiative is pleased to announce its first college-wide diversity guest speaker. Join the student org on Zoom for "Gender Affirming Surgeries" presented by Dr. Miriam Hadj-Moussa, assistant professor of urology at the University of Michigan.
-
Student pharmacists to benefit from free training session to recognize and respond to opioid overdoseOverdoses are escalating in Wayne County, with individuals from large urban communities being disproportionately affected. Student pharmacists are urged to prepare themselves to become a community responder to suspected opioid overdoses using naloxone nasal spray.
-
Commencement Speaker Spotlight: Physical therapy graduate aims for inclusivity alongside her degreeToday@Wayne features DPT student Bana Odeh as she prepares to deliver the student address during Commencement at the Fox Theatre in Detroit at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 14. "The most fulfilling part of working in health care is being given the chance to help identify and address someone’s needs. Physical therapy should be responsive, and tailored to each patient,” Odeh said. “In this profession, you’re spending hours over the course of weeks or months with each patient – you get to build relationships with people and the learning goes both ways.”
-
Provost launches Wayne State Pathway to Faculty program“The future of higher education is created by those entering the academy today. Wayne State will be a major driver in this future by welcoming diverse individuals to our institution who are passionate about creating environments where all students at all levels can thrive,” said Graduate School Dean Amanda Bryant-Friedrich. “Through this program, members of each entering pre-faculty cohort will gain the support and experience to create this environment at WSU.”
-
Student pharmacist organizations commemorate World AIDS Day“Today my fraternity brothers and I are passing out red ribbons around campus in honor of World AIDS Day,” said Jad Kawas, Kappa Psi’s chairman for philanthropy. “This day is important in the fight against HIV/AIDS, as it reminds that there is still a vital need to raise awareness and money, fight prejudices and educate people about how we as a global community can work together to stop the transmission of the virus.”
-
New deadline: Support Wayne County Toys For Tots through EACPHS Holiday Giving by noon on Thursday, Dec. 16To brighten this holiday season for those who are less fortunate, the EACPHS Social Amenities Committee is supporting the Wayne County Toys for Tots-Downriver Chapter. Please place unwrapped toy donations in the bins outside Student Affairs or in the Mortuary Science building student lounge. Monetary donations can be sent via PayPal (ac4659@wayne.edu), Venmo (@Robert-Hellar), Cash App ($RobertHellar) or Zelle (3135202788).
-
Anti-Infective Research Lab Fellow Graduate Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir honored with Warrior of Distinction Award for outstanding DEI effortsAbdul-Mutakabbir is an assistant professor at Loma Linda University’s schools of pharmacy and medicine in California.
-
Meditation room reservations now being taken for new space in Student Affairs suiteThe meditation room is available Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., and can be reserved in 15-minute increments through links under Student Resources and Action for Change Resources.
-
Dr. Brittany Stewart to serve as pharmacist core administrator for WSU's new Center for Multiple Chronic Diseases Associated with Health DisparitiesAssistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice Brittany Stewart is a co-investigator on the $18 million grant the university was awarded by the National Institutes of Health to intercept chronic disease in Black communities.
-
World Medical Relief honors Angels of Mercy, WSU Applebaum student orgs and community volunteers“Our fraternity is proud to work so closely with World Medical Relief. We believe in the good work that they do here in Detroit as well as all around the globe,” said Kappa Psi President Noah Trotter. “As future pharmacists, ensuring that patients get access to life-saving medications is important to us and we are more than willing to volunteer our time and talents with World Medical Relief to make this happen.”
-
RTT class highlights cross-cultural understanding as critical to patient care"As health care professionals, we encounter a diverse population of patients, and it is part of our professional responsibility to make sure all our patients feel comfortable and respected," Kagen said. "This class showed the importance of respecting and appreciating each other's customs, traditions, religions and uniqueness."
-
Do or do not – there is no try: Dr. Phil Pokorski leads by examplePokorski serves as assistant clinical professor on both sides of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, teaching pathophysiology — the study of how disease or injury affects the body — to PharmD students as well as those studying health sciences. It can be a tough course but WSU Applebaum students appreciate Pokorski, affectionately calling him Yoda because of his tendency to quote the Jedi master.
-
Kappa Psi brothers win Outstanding Professional Program Award from Professional Fraternity AssociationWSU’s Kappa Psi brothers have made an impact not only in the metro Detroit area; they have also garnered national attention, recently winning the prestigious 2021 Outstanding Professional Program Award from the Professional Fraternity Association (PFA), besting thousands of professional fraternities from all across the nation.
-
WSU Applebaum students share health info with Detroit community at African World FestivalUniversity dancers, musicians and poets participated in the wide array of cultural offerings, while WSU Applebaum teamed up with the School of Medicine, the College of Nursing and others to provide free services in the Health Is Wealth area.
-
2021-23 cohort begins Applebaum PharmD Leadership & Scholars ProgramWayne State University third-year student pharmacists Sara Barakat, Kelly Kepley, Klea Noskey and Brooke Penny will each receive a $4,000 scholarship – as well as a $2,000 budget to build on the work of earlier cohorts to advance community-ambulatory pharmacy practice.
-
WSU Applebaum part of team earning award from Association of American Medical Colleges for telehealth equity effortsAssociate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Coordinator of Interprofessional Education Aline Saad said, "We were part of this Telehealth Training Course. Nine pharmacy students completed the requirements, along with myself and Pharmacy Preceptor and Adjunct Assistant Professor Rima Charara, PharmD."
-
WSU Applebaum to promote community health at Detroit's 38th annual African World FestivalWayne State students and faculty from health professional programs across campus will provide free health services, including COVID-19 testing at Wayne Health’s mobile testing units and blood pressure screenings at WSU’s “Health Is Wealth” area.
-
Model D: Pharmacist, WSU alumna Tania Begum serves Bengali communityBegum opened Community Rx Pharmacy in 2013 with co-owner Mahbubur Motlib after seeing Bangladeshis were moving northward into Warren and Sterling Heights. “We don't have a Bengali-speaking pharmacy in this location… we want to be with the people and be their support center, a resource center for them,” she says.
-
WSU establishes new Center for Emerging and Infectious DiseasesThe Center for Emerging and Infectious Diseases builds on the university’s experiences in combating COVID-19 to prepare Detroit and the state of Michigan to tackle pandemic diseases. The center is the first of its kind located in an urban setting within the state.
-
Wayne State University joins URC partners in mandating vaccination for all students, faculty and staff coming to campus"As we have from the beginning of the pandemic, we are today revising our campus response to respond to emerging evidence and local data. To best protect the health and safety of our campus community, Wayne State will require all students, faculty and staff who plan to be on campus during the fall semester to receive their COVID-19 vaccination. Proof of your vaccination must be submitted by Aug. 30 for you to be allowed on campus," said WSU President M. Roy Wilson.
-
Masks are required inside WSU buildings now through Sept. 15 for everyone, regardless of vaccination status"Full vaccination of our campus community will eventually eliminate the need for masks and allow a renewed sense of normalcy in our interactions. Beginning today through Sept. 15, however, when we can be more confident in our overall vaccination status, masks will be required indoors for everyone, regardless of vaccination status," said WSU President M. Roy Wilson. "At that point, we will revisit the mask requirement, and hopefully eliminate it. Of course, masks will not be required if you are working alone in your office. We recognize that this is inconvenient, but it is temporary, and more important, safe."
-
PharmSci-Urban Sustainability PhD candidate Zoha Siddiqua turns to nature for answersA look inside Siddiqua's summer day spent collecting data on pollinator insects at Detroit's Chandler Park with her research advisor, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences David Pitts, T-RUST Program Director Darrin Hunt, and their junior lab assistants led by Chandler Park Program Director Yvette Bass-Pullom.
-
Kappa Psi brothers receive Up to Us scholarship to Harvard Business School programThe prize results from the Wayne State team placing sixth in the nation while winning the Most Creative Campaign special award from the Up to Us national debt awareness competition. Part of their semester-long effort concentrated on the economic impact of COVID-19, the CARES Act, spending habits of Americans during quarantine, unemployment and the pandemic’s burden on the American health care system.
