Dee Dee Bridgewater's Jazz Club grand opening, WSU Dept. of Music swings into '26 Detroit Jazz Festival
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Martina Guzmán
Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights
Martina Guzmán, director of the Race and Justice Reporting Initiative at the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, received a $350,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to expand VERDAD: Verifying and Exposing Disinformation and Discourse, an AI-powered tool she founded that monitors disinformation on Ethnic-language radio stations across the U.S.
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Wayne State in the news
Arts, Culture & Society
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Dee Dee Bridgewater's Jazz Club grand opening, WSU's Dept. of Music swings into'26 Detroit Jazz Festival
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Q&A: WSU alumnus' book a mini time capsule of Creative Warriors, Cass Tech musician connection
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New music, communication majors added to WSU's College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts curriculum
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Wayne State University faculty, alumni among 2026 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda awardees
Business & Economy
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Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Detroit program reaches 1,000-graduate milestone
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One year of Warrior Impact: 80+ students worked nearly 10,000 hours at 50 local employers
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Human first, AI second: Exploring how AI can connect local economies
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WSU’s APEX Accelerator helps Detroit businesses compete
Health
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Community voices help shape next chapter of Well Wayne Stations initiative
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Equipment donation to EACPHS' RTT program supports hands-on learning, student success
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Wayne State advances behavioral health crisis care through provider training
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Construction advances on Health Sciences Research Building as steel arrives
Science & Technology
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WSU chemistry chair and AVP for research and innovation named fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
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Wayne State research advances technology for faster, more secure internet
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TechTown AI Build Night events drive workforce innovation, digital literacy in Detroit
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WSU Planetarium celebrates Statewide Astronomy Night at Belle Isle
Sustainability & Environment
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Wayne State student Jonathan Teh earns national recognition as two-time Udall Scholar
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Michigan Mobility Fellows celebrates inaugural year, opens applications for second cohort
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Gardening safely in Detroit’s soil
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RRAM as a solution to the environmental cost of AI
