The Latest Breaking News from Wayne State University

Brief fire causes evacuation but no injuries at historic Detroit college building

Fire caused the evacuation of a historic building owned by Wayne State University in Detroit

The Independent UK · Apr 1

More than 50% of Detroit students regularly miss class – and schools alone can’t solve the problem

Thousands of K-12 students in Detroit consistently miss days of school.

The Conversation · Jul 30, 2025

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining the literature that everyone from doctors to engineers rely on to make decisions about human lives.

The Conversation · Jan 29, 2025

College in Detroit suspends in-person classes because of pro-Palestinian camp

Wayne State University in Detroit has suspended in-person classes and encouraged staff to work remotely

The Independent UK · May 28, 2024

Many in Michigan don't know how — or whether — they'll vote in the general election

NPR spoke to autoworkers, college students and Black churchgoers in the Detroit area about the general election. Many aren't excited about their likely choices, with some unsure they'll vote at all.

WEKU · Feb 28, 2024

United Auto Workers union hails strike-ending deals with automakers that would raise top assembly-plant hourly pay to more than $40 as 'record contracts'

The United Auto Workers union agreed on a tentative new contract with General Motors on Oct. 30, 2023, days after landing similar deals with Ford Motor Co. on Oct. 25 and Stellantis, the global automaker that makes Chrysler, Dodge and Ram vehicles in North America, on Oct. 28. The pending…

The Conversation · Oct 29, 2023

Anti-Reagan cartoons and a jacket from Cesar Chavez: inside the UAW archive

As the United Autoworkers strike continues, the collection tells the story of organizing – and how little has changed

The Guardian - US · Oct 3, 2023

Rodriguez obituary

Singer-songwriter who rose to international stardom as the subject of the film Searching for Sugar Man

The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2023

US autoworkers may wage a historic strike against Detroit’s 3 biggest automakers – with wages at EV battery plants a key roadblock to agreement

The United Auto Workers union, which represents nearly 150,000 employees of companies that manufacture U.S.-made vehicles, kicked off in mid-July 2023 the labor negotiations it undergoes every four years with the three main unionized automakers.

The Conversation · Aug 7, 2023

U.S. maternal mortality rates too high

Those numbers reflect a worldwide problem, but the U.S. in particular has an abysmal record

Salon · Aug 7, 2023