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Sarah Winchell Lenhoff
College of Education
Associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies and the Leonard Kaplan Endowed Professor Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Ph.D., was awarded the 2025 Skillman Visionary Award. She was recognized for her work as the founding faculty director of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research, a research-practice partnership with Detroit schools and community-based organization working to equitably improve student attendance and engagement.
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Arts, Culture & Society
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Professor Donovan Hohn awarded prestigious 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship
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Dancing her story: Honors student brings thesis to life through movement
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Rewriting the fall: Wayne State University theatre examines the cost of power in Erin Shields’ ‘Paradise Lost’
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Summer music, theatre camps abound at WSU's College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts
Business & Economy
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Winter 2026 Warrior Impact cohort bolsters Detroit startups through unique “micro-internships”
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Business and Community Law Clinic strengthens Detroit
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TechTown releases 2025 impact report
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Status, Power, and Supply Chains: Ilitch School researcher expands our understanding of how suppliers and buyers interact
Health
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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
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Inside the practicum: How Wayne State public health undergrads shape health in Detroit
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Ph.D. candidate hopes her research in health literacy and hypertension can save lives
Science & Technology
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TechTown and Detroit Hacker House host first AI build-a-thon event
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Multifaceted AI research positions WSU as a leader in new era of technological transformation
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Wayne State astronomers capture unprecedented view of neutron star environment
Sustainability & Environment
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Michigan Mobility Fellows celebrates inagural 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
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Grand Challenges: Wayne State researchers are tackling Detroit’s toughest environmental problems
