If you want to maximize the amount of financial aid your student is eligible for, the 2019-20 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) submission process is now open. Wayne State is providing some incentives to encourage students to file early. Students who have completed the admission application and filed their FAFSA by Dec. 1 will be eligible for priority consideration for merit scholarships; additionally, they will be entered into a drawing for the chance to win one of five $500 book scholarships. 

As WSU Senior Associate Provost for Student Success Monica Brockmeyer recalls, newly arrived President M. Roy Wilson hadn’t even settled into his office chair before one of Wayne State’s most pressing concerns — ensuring equitable achievement outcomes for students of color — landed on his desk. Fortunately, thanks to Brockmeyer and many others who’d been toiling to address the issue, those concerns also came with a solid plan of action.

A group of anthropology students has broken ground on the first-ever archaeological excavation in Hamtramck. Located on the city's south side, the site is home to the former "Old Hamtramck Center." Constructed in 1914, the center was once home to the police and fire departments, shops, private homes, and the Nut House — a bar that became popular after prohibition. The students have already discovered toys, buttons, bottle fragments and even a spent bullet casing near the site of the old police station.

Long-term exposure to arsenic can cause cancer of the skin, lungs, bladder and kidneys, as well as other skin changes such as pigmentation and thickening. Fei Chen, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutical science in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, received a $1.31 million grant to identify potential target-based strategies of therapy for cancer caused by arsenic.