Tiara Hinton always wanted to be a doctor. This year, that dream will come true — but not in the way she had imagined while growing up in Maryland. When she walks across the Wayne State University commencement stage this December to become Dr. Tiara Hinton, she will have earned her doctor of philosophy from the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences' Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences with a concentration in medicinal chemistry.

Developing successful study habits can be difficult for some students, but Wayne State’s Study Skills Academy is here to help. The Study Skills Academy is a free, university-wide program that offers a variety of services — including one-on-one and group study skill support, guest lectures, and individual consulting for faculty and staff — to enhance student success.

V. Lonnie Peek Jr. had barely started classes as a Wayne State student before he began making university history. A grad student pursuing his master’s in social work, Peek had been attending for all of one day in the fall of 1967 when he stumbled across a mass of protestors congealing in a building atrium on campus.

An interdisciplinary team of students from Wayne State University and the University of Detroit Mercy took first place in a sustainability pitch competition, hosted virtually in early February by Wayne State and the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation. The trio of Knicko Mojica, a junior civil engineering student at Wayne State; Lilly Solomon, a senior studying political science and romance languages at WSU; and Alexander Kalaj, a first-year student at UDM, received a $2,500 prize as well as a MoGo gift card. They were among 50 applicants from the two institutions and Lawrence Technological University chosen to participate.