Presidents Council

Dr. Jay Noren Resigns as 10th president of Wayne State University
July 20, 2010/Wayne State University

The Board of Governors of Wayne State University today accepted with regret the resignation of Dr. Jay Noren as president, effective August 6, 2010. Dr. Noren has been Wayne State’s 10th president since August 1, 2008, after a distinguished career in higher education at a number of prominent universities.
Students Picking Major by Matching Passion, Demand
July 7, 2010/Detroit Free Press

Competition is so fierce for the physician assistant program at Western Michigan University that only 4% of the more than 900 people who applied for the master's-level program got in last year.

In fact, nearly all health-related programs statewide are experiencing surges in popularity.
Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage
July 1, 2010/The New York Times

By Motoko Rich

BEDFORD, Ohio — Factory owners have been adding jobs slowly but steadily since the beginning of the year, giving a lift to the fragile economic recovery. And because they laid off so many workers — more than two million since the end of 2007 — manufacturers now have a vast pool of people to choose from.

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Mammoth on the Course: LSA Paleontologists Carefully Extract an 11,000-year-old Mammoth, While Golfers Pause to Watch
July, 2010/University of Michigan LSAWire

Professor Dan Fisher and Scott Beld (M.A. ’81, Ph.D. ’02) are driving through a rainstorm from Ann Arbor to the Morrison Lake Country Club near Saranac, Michigan. Despite the rain, the paleontology professor and research associate are determined to get to the course to continue excavating the tusk of an 11,000-year-old mammoth.
Dow, MSU, Ferris State Named To Energy R&D Team
July 29, 2010/GLITR, Technology

The United States Department of Energy has selected Dow Building & Construction, a business group within the Advanced Materials Division of Midland-based Dow Chemical Co., to lead a multi-year project that will combine research and residential in-home testing to develop enhanced home energy efficiency retrofit solutions and best practices. Dow will work in partnership with Habitat for Humanity, as well as Michigan State University and Ferris State University, with select contributions from Duke Energy, DTE Energy Corp. and Exelon Corp.
Hands-On Education Knows No Limits
July 23, 2010/Michigan Tech

Second-year software engineering student Nikoli Wiens with his flugtag team's flying platypus.

The platypus is rare among mammals, laying eggs rather than bearing live offspring. Even rarer is a 200-pound platypus egg that hatches into a helicopter as it careens off a 30-foot cliff into the water.