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Broadcast from the heart of Detroit, the Today@Wayne Podcast presents insightful interviews with Wayne State University administrators, faculty, staff and other experts about the news, research and issues that most impact our campus, our city and our country. Hosted by Darrell Dawsey, the podcast airs weekly.
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Episode description Ronald E. Brown and son R. Khari Brown, co-authors of Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics, talk about how churches impact the political views of their members and help shape their sense of activism.
About Ronald Brown Ronald E. Brown is an associate professor of political science at Wayne State University. He regularly teaches Introduction to American Government courses, Religion and Politics and Detroit Politics to predominantly undergraduate students. Professor Brown participates in dinner and dialogue sessions with Detroit voters via CitizenDetroit, a nonprofit organization. While the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the in-person dinner sessions, the goal is to resume these vital citizen activities. Professor Brown’s collaborative national survey research projects with R. Khari Brown explore the associative relationships between civil-religious discourse, public policy attitudes and political participation.
R. Khari Brown R. Khari Brown, Ph.D., is an associate professor of sociology at Wayne State University and the president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. He teaches classes and does research on the sociology of religion. His research explores how race impacts the relationship between religion and social-political behaviors and attitudes. He is a co-investigator of National Politics Study, a project funded by the Louisville Institute, Issachar Fund and University of Michigan. The National Politics Study is a biannual study that assesses American political attitudes and behaviors and religious life. He also served as a consultant for the Pew Research Center’s 2020-2021 survey on African American religion.
Additional resources Read the Browns’ recent article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/what-americans-hear-about-social-justice-at-church-and-what-they-do-about-it-168713
Learn more about the Browns’ book, Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics: press.umich.edu/9956589/race_and_the_power_of_sermons_on_american_politics
Follow R. Khari Brown on Twitter: twitter.com/kalebnbrown
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Episode Notes Detroit Lions linebacker and former Wayne State University football star Anthony Pittman talks with host Darrell Dawsey about his career, watching a former teammate win the Super Bowl, and what he sees ahead for the Lions and himself.
About Anthony Pittman was born Nov. 24, 1995, in Beverly Hills, Michigan. Pittman played at Birmingham Groves High School, where he was all-league and district as a senior. He played college football at Wayne State, where he was a two-year team captain and two-year All-Great Lakes Conference performer. During his college career, Pittman recorded 181 career tackles and saw action on special teams for the Warriors. After going undrafted in the 2019 NFL draft, he signed with the Detroit Lions.
On Dec. 4, 2019, Pittman was released from the Lions’ practice squad. He was resigned to the practice squad on Dec. 9, and promoted to the active roster on Dec. 27.
On Sept. 5, 2020, Pittman was waived by the Lions and signed to the practice squad the next day. He was placed on the practice squad/COVID-19 list by the team on Dec. 22, and restored to the practice squad on Jan. 2, 2021. He signed a reserve/future contract on January 5, 2021.
In 2021, Pittman starred on special teams and started one game on defense for Detroit. Pittman racked up 18 tackles, including nine solos, one pass defended and one QB hit.
Additional Resources Follow Anthony Pittman on Twitter https://twitter.com/__Pittman__
Read how Pittman stepped up his workout routine to secure a new role with the Lions https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2021/08/02/wayne-state-product-anthony-pittman-transforms-body-role-under-new-detroit-lions-staff/5458422001/
Watch Pittman’s “Under the Helmet” video segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G_8L6pFg68
Watch Pittman’s Wayne State University football highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M727WRzHzM
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Episode description Dr. Herman Gray, the chair of the Wayne State University Department of Pediatrics and former president and chief executive officer of the DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, shares his family’s story to highlight the power of living Black history.
About Herman Gray, M.D., M.B.A., is the chair of the Wayne State University Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Gray is a former president and chief executive officer of the DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Gray’s history with Children’s Hospital of Michigan dates to the late 1970s, when he served as chief pediatric resident. While with CHM, he also served as vice president of graduate medical education, pediatric residency program director, chief of staff and chief operating officer. Under his leadership, the residency program developed several innovative programs and successfully recruited a significant number of minorities. He was named president and chief executive officer of CHM in 2005. He left that position in September 2015 to become president and chief executive officer of United Way for Southeastern Michigan.
Dr. Gray received his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1976 and a master of business administration from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2003. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has served as chief medical consultant for the Michigan Department of Community Health – Children’s Special Health Services and as vice president and medical director of Clinical Affairs for Blue Care Network. A child and family advocate, Dr. Gray has been honored numerous times for his humanitarian efforts related to pediatric health care, particularly for children with special needs. He has served on a variety of state and national committees, and is one of the founding commissioners on the U.S. Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission.
Additional Resources
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Follow the School of Medicine on Twitter https://twitter.com/waynemedicine/
Watch Dr. Gray as he presents the new Detroit facility for Wayne Pediatrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEie5zrAeyw
Read more about the WSU School of Medicine’s impact on Black history https://today.wayne.edu/medicine/news/2022/02/01/black-history-month-monumental-moments-at-the-wsu-school-of-medicine-41260
Episode description A new criminal justice initiative designed to create a prison to higher education pipeline is sparking hopes for reduced recidivism and improved quality of life for former inmates. Stephanie Hartwell, dean of the WSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a principal investigator on the project, talks with host Darrell Dawsey about the life-changing potential of this pilot program.
About Stephanie Hartwell became dean of Wayne State’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — the university’s largest college — in 2018. She is a professor of sociology and an adjunct professor of psychiatry.
A renowned sociologist, Hartwell conducts both large- and small-scale research and evaluation projects focusing on transitions from institutions to the community, with emphasis on vulnerable populations — including formerly incarcerated people released from corrections and victims of gun violence with mental health and substance abuse issues.
Hartwell earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1995 and was an assistant professor of psychiatry at the UConn School of Medicine prior to joining the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston, an institution that shares Wayne’s State’s social justice mission. She was a professor of sociology at UMass Boston for 21 years and was honored to receive the Chancellor’s Medal for Distinguished Teaching in 2012. Additionally, Hartwell was an adjunct professor of psychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School. Prior to joining WSU, she was interim dean of UMass Boston’s College of Public and Community Service while also an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
Hartwell has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has been awarded approximately $8 million in grants to fund her research. She currently serves on the ROCA evaluation advisory board and holds leadership roles with the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the International Academy of Law and Mental Health.
Additional resources Read about WSU’s new higher education program for formerly incarcerated individuals: clas.wayne.edu/news/new-wayne-state-university-program-creates-college-pipeline-for-formerly-incarcerated-individuals-43220
Follow Stephanie Hartwell on Twitter: twitter.com/SteffiHartwell
Listen to Dean Hartwell discuss community partnerships during a radio interview: clas.wayne.edu/news/dean-hartwell-talks-community-partnerships-with-wjr-am-43166
Follow the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) on Twitter: twitter.com/waynestateclas
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Watch videos from CLAS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/WayneStateCollegeofLiberalArtsandSciences/videos
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This week, [someone], [someone else] and [another person] cover [topic].....
Topics discussed:
- Topic A
- Topic B
- Topic C
Links mentioned in this episode:
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- http://second-example.com
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Episode notes Guy Stern, a former WSU provost, vice president and distinguished professor of German literature who recently turned 100 years old, talks about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor, World War II veteran, scholar, administrator and community pillar.
About Gunther “Guy” Stern was born Jan. 14, 1922 in Hildesheim, Germany. He was the only member of his five-person family to escape to the United States in 1937, where he was assisted by an aunt and uncle in St. Louis and an American-Jewish agency. Later, despite his best efforts, he was unable to secure passage overseas for the rest of his family and learned that his whole family had been deported to the Warsaw Ghetto, where they died.
Stern began studying romance languages in 1940, later studying German. In 1942, he volunteered for naval intelligence but was initially rejected because he was not born in the United States; he was subsequently drafted in 1943. In 1944, he landed in Normandy three days after D-Day as a member of the Ritchie Boys: a special military intelligence unit composed mainly of German, Austrian and Czech refugees and immigrants to the United States, mostly of Jewish descent. Part of Stern’s duty was the interrogation of German prisoners of war and defectors. He was member of IPW Team 37, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
Following the war, Stern returned to his studies, earning a bachelor of arts in romance languages in 1948 from Hofstra University, and then a master of arts in Germanistics in 1950 as well as a Ph.D. in 1953 from Columbia University. After teaching at Columbia, he received an assistant professorship at Denison University, and was later named professor and head of the German language and literature at the University of Cincinnati. Stern later became head of the German and Slavic studies department at the University of Maryland. Until his retirement in 2003, he served as a distinguished professor of German literature and cultural history at Wayne State University and intermittently as senior vice president and provost. He was also a visiting scholar at the German universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Potsdam and Munich.
Stern is currently the director of The Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills. He is one of the founders of the Lessing Society at the University of Cincinnati, acting as its president from 1975 until 1977. As an author and editor, Stern has published several books and compilations on German literary history, focusing primarily on literature on emigration and immigration. In 1998, he gave a lecture at the 60th anniversary of the Kristallnacht at the German parliament Bundestag in Bonn.
Stern has been honored with several awards throughout his life, among them the Great Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1987 and the Goethe Medal in 1989. He has also received an honorary doctorate from Hofstra University.
Stern is married to the German author Susanna Piontek. He turned 100 on Jan. 14, 2022.
Additional resources Learn more about Stern’s memoir, Invisible Ink: wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/invisible-ink
Read about Stern’s work at Wayne State: clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/ad5422
Watch a CBS News report about Stern: cbsnews.com/news/ritchie-boy-guy-stern-world-war-ii-2022-01-02
Watch the 60 Minutes segment on the Ritchie Boys: youtube.com/watch?v=nFwnh1eG6BI
Learn more about the Zekelman Holocaust Center: holocaustcenter.org
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Episode Description Associate professor Elizabeth Stoycheff, Ph.D., talks about her research into the power of social media, why so many users struggle with conflicting feelings about the platforms and how to regulate our social media use for the better.
About Elizabeth Stoycheff, Ph.D., teaches journalism, new media, international communication and quantitative methods. She has been named a Promising Professor by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and earned the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2017. She was also awarded a Scripps Howard Visiting Professor in Social Media. Her research focuses on the role of new media in shaping public opinion about democracy, media censorship and press freedom, which is grounded in a range of contexts from the Arab Spring to Russia-Ukraine relations to NSA internet surveillance. She is an expert in online privacy and government monitoring as well as disinformation ("fake news") campaigns. She specializes in big data comparative surveys, natural experiments and formal experimental designs.
Additional Resources Follow Elizabeth Stoycheff on Twitter https://twitter.com/estoyche
Follow Prof. Stoycheff on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.stoycheff
Read Prof. Stoycheff’s article “How Facebook Went from Friend to Enemy” https://theconversation.com/how-facebook-went-from-friend-to-frenemy-110130
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Episode Notes WSU alumnus and high-profile attorney Reginald M. Turner, president of the American Bar Association, joins host Darrell Dawsey to talk about his tenure as head of the nation’s leading organization of legal professionals, the ever-present need for diversity and the important role Wayne State plays in preparing students, especially Detroiters, for successful careers.
About Reginald Turner is president of the American Bar Association, the world’s largest voluntary association of lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals.
A lawyer with Clark Hill in Detroit, Turner is an accomplished litigator, government affairs advocate, and strategic advisor.
Turner is past president of the National Bar Association and the State Bar of Michigan. He served as chair of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession and the ABA Commission on the Lawyer's Role in Assuring Every Child a Quality Education. In the ABA House of Delegates, he served as the state delegate for Michigan and as chair of the Rules & Calendar Committee, the Committee on Issues of Concern to the Profession, and the Committee on Credentials and Admissions. He is a past chair of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.
Among his numerous presidential, gubernatorial, mayoral, and county executive appointments, Turner served as a White House Fellow and as an aide to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros during the Clinton administration and represented Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer on the Detroit Board of Education from 2000 to 2003. In 2003, Governor Jennifer Granholm appointed him to the Michigan State Board of Education, and he won a statewide election for a full term in 2006.
Turner earned his bachelor’s degree at Wayne State University and law degree at the University of Michigan Law School.
Additional Resources Follow Reginald Turner on Twitter https://twitter.com/ABAPresident
Read Hour Detroit magazine's interview with Turner https://www.hourdetroit.com/community/reginald-turner-jr-new-american-bar-association-president/
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Episode Description Director of experience design and the African American history program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, WSU alumnus and Detroit native Christopher Wilson, this year’s keynote speaker at WSU’s celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., discusses King’s legacy then and now.
About In leading experience design at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Christopher Wilson works to engage visitors in conversation about our nation’s rich and diverse history. Chris founded several major program series at the Smithsonian, including History alive! theater programs, interactive and emotional presentations of stories of America’s past that resonate in the nation’s present; the National Youth Summit series, engaging high school students nationally and internationally in conversation about relevant history; and the History Film Forum, an exploration of film as public history. Chris has worked on exhibitions including Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life, American Democracy, and The Greensboro Lunch Counter. Chris spent 18 years at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation before moving on to the Smithsonian in 2004 to take the role of director of the African American History Program at the National Museum of American History. In this role, he oversaw the program’s rich collection of oral histories, interviews and recordings, as well as researched and produced programs primarily focused on the civil rights movement. He earned his bachelor’s from the University of Michigan and his master’s in history from Wayne State University. He has earned numerous accolades for his innovations in education and publishes book reviews and articles for Smithsonian magazine. Chris is currently working to relaunch his Time Trials program, which explores history and memory, as a series of graphic novels and a television program.
Additional Resources Learn more about Wayne State’s annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King https://events.wayne.edu/2022/01/14/annual-rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-tribute-2022-91024/
Follow Christopher Wilson on Twitter https://twitter.com/wolverinewilson
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Episode Notes Dr. Larry Brilliant, a Detroit native and 1969 graduate of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, discusses the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy, why he created Pandefense Advisory 16 years ago, his time at Wayne State, the joys of a service-oriented life and his advice for current college students.
About Dr. Larry Brilliant has enjoyed numerous achievements. He worked as a key member of the successful World Health Organization Smallpox Eradication Programme for southeast Asia as well as the WHO Polio Eradication Programme. He co-founded and serves as chairman of Seva Foundation, an international nonprofit organization known for preventing and treating blindness and other visual impairments. Seva's projects have given back sight to more than 5 million blind people in two dozen countries.He co-founded The Well, one of the first online communities, which has been the subject of multiple books and studies and is considered a precursor to today’s social media platforms.
He was vice president of Google and the founding executive director of Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google.
He has served on the board of the Skoll Foundation, the philanthropic organization established by former eBay president Jeff Skoll, and continues to serve as a senior advisor. He was also president and CEO of the Skoll Global Threats Fund. He was chair of the Advisory Board of the NGO Ending Pandemics.
And he currently serves as CEO of Pandefense Advisory, founded in 2020 in response to the pandemic and the successor to Pandefense, an interdisciplinary network of experts that help organizations respond to pandemics.
Dr. Brilliant is a CNN medical analyst. He authored Sometimes Brilliant, a memoir about working to eradicate smallpox, and a guide to managing vaccination programs entitled, “The Management of Smallpox Eradication.” He is the recipient of numerous awards including the TED Prize, Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and many more.
Additional Resources:
Larry Brilliant’s Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Brilliant
Read Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History https://www.amazon.com/Sometimes-Brilliant-Impossible-Adventure-Spiritual/dp/0062049232
Pandefense Advisory https://pandefense.com/
Dr. Brilliant on NPR discussing what needs to be done after vaccine boosters https://www.marketplace.org/2021/10/28/what-needs-to-be-done-after-covid-vaccine-boosters/
Seva Foundation https://www.seva.org/site/SPageServer/?NONCE_TOKEN=1866AFFB5EC0519929C0EB23E0BBBA0B
Larry Brilliant TED Talks https://www.ted.com/speakers/larry_brilliant
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Episode Notes John Corvino, dean of Wayne State University’s Irvin D. Reid Honors College, talks with host Darrell Dawsey about the importance of crafting strong and effective ideological arguments that nevertheless encourage civility and humanity even in disagreement.
About John Corvino is dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College, having succeeded founding dean Jerry Herron in May 2018. He is also a professor in the Wayne State Philosophy Department, which he joined in 1998 and where he served as department chair from 2012 to 2017.
Corvino holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. from St. John’s University, New York, whose own honors program he credits for a strong educational foundation. Much of his scholarly research focuses on controversial “culture war” issues regarding ethics, sexuality and marriage. He is the author of numerous articles, as well as three books from Oxford University Press: Debating Same-Sex Marriage (with Maggie Gallagher, 2012), What’s Wrong with Homosexuality? (2013), and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination (with Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis, 2017).
An active “public philosopher,” Corvino has also written for The New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, The New Republic, Slate, Salon, Commonweal and other popular venues, and he has appeared on CNN, ABC, FOX, MSNBC, CSPAN, and other TV and radio networks. His online videos have received over 2 million views.
Additional Resources Follow John Corvino on Twitter https://twitter.com/johncorvino
Check out John Corvino’s “Better Argument” series on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsolewfmUXE_AY3M9y-I-70kdFG0QqNmm
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Episode notes Hilary Marusak, Ph.D., joins host Darrell Dawsey to talk about the findings of a new study that looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of young people in metro Detroit and how the findings inform the necessary steps to helping them heal.
About Dr. Marusak received her Ph.D. in translational neuroscience in 2016. Her primary research interests are in identifying the effects of early adversity (e.g., abuse, violence exposure, medical trauma) on brain and behavioral development in children and adolescents. Her long-term goal is to develop interventions capable of reducing psychiatric symptoms and improving quality of life for young people affected by early stress and/or mental health problems.
Additional resources Follow Hilary Marusak on Twitter: twitter.com/hmarusak Follow Hilary Marusak on Facebook: facebook.com/hilary.marusak Read Hilary Marusak’s report “Are the kids really alright? Impact of COVID-19 on mental health in a majority Black American sample of schoolchildren”: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016517812100442X?via%3Dihub Read about Hilary Marusak's award from the Society of Neuroscience https://today.wayne.edu/medicine/news/2021/11/10/neuroscientist-hilary-marusak-phd-wins-accolades-for-public-outreach-advocacy-and-education-46477
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Episode Notes WSU Director of Athletics Rob Fournier and Detroit Pistons Vice Chairman Arn Tellem sit with host Darrell Dawsey inside Wayne State University’s new basketball arena — which opens Nov. 5 — to explain how the university and the NBA team collaborated to make the new facility a reality.
About Rob Fournier is entering his 22nd year as WSU's director of athletics. Under his leadership, Wayne State University has enjoyed its top 18 NACDA finishes, with top three NACDA finishes occurring in 2009 (11th), 2014 (14th) and 2010 (21st). Meanwhile, the university has also had 50 Conference Coach of the Year recipients, and Wayne State teams have won 39 conference regular-season titles, 15 league tournament titles and 10 postseason regional, super regional or national titles. Fournier was named the 2008 NACDA Central Region Athletic Director of the Year.
In 2019, Fournier initiated and negotiated a contract with the Detroit Pistons for the new 3,000-seat, $28.3 million basketball arena on the Wayne State campus, which will also be the home to the Pistons’ G-League squad, the Motor City Cruise. The new facility is slated to open Nov. 5.
Prior to joining Wayne State, Fournier served as the senior associate commissioner and general counsel for the Mid-American Conference.
Arn Tellem is vice chairman of Palace Sports & Entertainment (PS&E), which includes the Detroit Pistons basketball franchise. He joined PS&E in August 2015 following a distinguished career as one of the top player agents in sports. As a representative of ownership, Tellem has broad responsibility for business strategy, planning and development, and strengthening the connection between PS&E and the community. With respect to the Detroit Pistons, Tellem is responsible for league-related initiatives as one of the team’s alternate governors on the NBA Board of Governors.
Tellem has represented more than 500 professional athletes in his career. He joined PS&E following nine years at Wasserman Media Group, where he served as vice chairman and oversaw the Team Sports Division. In 1989, he founded Los Angeles-based Tellem & Associates, which was acquired in 1999 by SFX Entertainment, the world’s largest producer and marketer of live entertainment. Tellem served as CEO of SFX Sports until he joined Wasserman.
Additional Resources • Watch the promotional video for the new WSU basketball arena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru7e6L_OWYQ • Follow WSU Athletics on Twitter https://twitter.com/waynestwarriors • Follow WSU Athletics on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wsuwarriors • Follow WSU Athletics on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/waynestateathletics/ • Follow the Detroit Pistons on Twitter https://twitter.com/DetroitPistons • Follow the Pistons on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/detroitpistons • Follow the Pistons on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/detroitpistons/ • Watch the WXYZ-TV report on the new arena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Hy5yK_Vi0 • Read Arn Tellem’s Spo...
Episode notes Wayne State alumnus Jeffrey Williams, a former running back for the Warriors football team and the current assistant director of mental health and wellness in the athletics department at the University of Tennessee, talks with host Darrell Dawsey about the mental strain that often confronts student-athletes and sports pro alike.
About Jeffrey Williams played football at Wayne State University from 2010 to 2013 and was a member of the 2011 NCAA Division II Tournament runner-up team. He is also a national competitive Olympic weightlifter. A licensed clinical social worker, Williams joined the University of Tennessee athletics department in December 2020 and serves as the assistant director of mental health and wellness for all UT student-athletes. Williams has experience working in schools, private practice and community mental health settings. His primary responsibility is providing individual and group counseling to Tennessee student-athletes. He also consults with coaches and teams, sets up educational seminars, and conducts assessments on an as-needed basis. Williams also holds a master’s in social work — specializing in cognitive behavior therapy — from Wayne State University.
Additional resources
Read more from Jeffrey Williams about the mental toll of sports on athletes: socialwork.wayne.edu/news/hearing-the-silent-struggles-social-work-alum-charts-new-territory-as-sports-social-worker-44193
Follow Williams on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-williams-lmsw-4baa10109
Follow the School of Social Work on Twitter: twitter.com/WSU_Social_Work
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Episode Notes Professor Jorge Chinea, director of the Wayne State University Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, joins the podcast to talk with host Darrell Dawsey about the 50th anniversary of the center, its ever-growing impact on the city’s Latino communities and why Hispanic Heritage Month should matter to us all.
About Jorge L. Chinea specializes in colonial Latin American history and has researched the themes of immigration, settlement, and colonial exploitation of the Hispanic Caribbean. His book, Race and Labor in the Hispanic Caribbean: The West Indian Worker Experience in Puerto Rico, 1800-1850 (2005), received a Wayne State University’s Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award in 2006. A revised, augmented Spanish-language edition of the book was released in 2014 by the School of Hispanic-American Studies in Seville, Spain, the Office of the Official Historian of Puerto Rico and Wayne State University. He has researched or lectured in Guyana, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Spain and Austria. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Society for Irish Latin American Studies and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He is a former resident scholar of the U.S. Library of Congress (Winter 2000) and former contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies (2002-2008).
From 2010-12 he served on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Humanities Council and sits on the Advisory Board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. Currently, he is Professor and Director of the Center for Latino & Latin American Studies at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (USA).
Additional Resources
Follow Jorge Chinea on Facebook. facebook.com/jorge.chinea.7 Follow the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on Twitter. https://twitter.com/WayneStateCLAS Check out Jorge Chinea in these selected media clips: • CBS Detroit: Mayor: Trump's executive order does not apply to Detroit detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/01/27/mayor-trumps-executive-order-does-not-apply-to-detroit/ • Royal Oak Tribune: The end of DACA program for undocumented youth: 'I even have trouble sleeping' www.dailytribune.com/news/the-end-of-daca-program-for-undocumented-youth-i-even/article_342fbdb1-dc52-5eaf-90b1-2de88cf269c1.html • The Guardian: Puerto Ricans living in Detroit: A view to two crises highlights 'powerlessness' www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/11/puerto-rico-detroit-bankruptcy-debt-crisis • Radio Francia International: Comienza la Batalla de Detroit es.rfi.fr/economia/20131023-comienza-la-batalla-de-detroit
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Episode Notes Dr. Phil Levy joins host Darrell Dawsey to discuss his groundbreaking efforts to research and address hypertension in underserved local populations, especially African American communities in Detroit.
About Phillip Levy, M.D., M.P.H. is the Edward S. Thomas Endowed Professor at Wayne State University, where he currently serves as assistant vice president for translational sciences and clinical research innovation, and associate chair for research in the Department of Emergency Medicine; in addition, he is also the chief innovation officer for the Wayne State University Physician Group. Levy has overseen more than 90 funded studies from various entities since his arrival at Wayne State in 2002, including the CDC, NHLBI, NIMHD, PCORI, AHRQ, EMF, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Related to this work, Levy has published more than 220 manuscripts and textbook chapters over the past decade and has been an invited lecturer on cardiovascular disease more than 220 times. While most of his research has focused on uncontrolled hypertension, hypertensive heart disease and heart failure (and related health disparities), he has also been at the forefront of efforts to better understand the evolution in biomarker evaluation of myocardial injury.
Additional Resources Click here for a full list of publications featuring Levy.
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Show Notes In the wake of massive flooding in Detroit this summer, Prof. William Shuster, chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the WSU College of Engineering, sits down with host Darrell Dawsey to explain why the city floods so badly and what can be done to solve the problems.
About William Shuster is the chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the College of Engineering. His research interests include urban hydrology with an emphasis on stormwater and wastewater management; hydraulics of urbanized soils and regulation of contaminant fate and transport processes; rendering of ecosystem services from urbanized landscapes; issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in services from civil-environmental infrastructure; demolition science. He is affiliated with the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Read a Q&A with William Shuster. https://eng.wayne.edu/cee/about/meet-the-chair.php
Listen to Shuster’s interview with WDET. https://wdet.org/posts/2021/06/28/91128-flooding-has-become-all-too-common-in-southeast-michigan-but-aging-infrastructure-remains-the-same/
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Episode Notes Recently, the State of Michigan granted Wayne State University $7 million to investigate the potential therapeutic effects of cannabis to improve military veteran patients’ quality of life and reduce post-traumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms that can precede suicide. In this episode, lead researcher Leslie Lundahl, Ph.D., talks with host Darrell Dawsey about her team’s research, the grant and the evolution of public opinion about the social acceptability of marijuana.
About Lundahl’s overall research objective is to advance our understanding of addictive behaviors, with the goal of developing new treatment approaches and improving existing options for individuals who seek help for their substance use disorders. To this end, she has focused her scientific endeavors in several key areas: identifying factors (e.g., personality, environmental, pharmacological) that are potential determinants of drug seeking behavior; developing and refining human laboratory models (e.g., cue-induced and stress-induced craving/use, drug discrimination, subjective effects, choice procedures) to efficiently and rigorously test mechanisms of action that underlie drug-taking behavior and contribute to relapse, as well as test candidate medications for pharmacotherapy; understanding factors that might predict treatment retention and treatment outcomes; and using this knowledge to improve existing treatment options and guide development of new, better-targeted treatment approaches for substance use disorders. Although most of her work involves cannabinoids, she has also conducted studies on alcohol, nicotine, MDMA, cocaine and opioids.
Additional Resources Read about the $7 million grant to WSU to study marijuana’s potential therapeutic effects on vets https://today.wayne.edu/medicine/news/2021/08/19/wayne-state-school-of-medicine-wins-7-million-from-state-to-explore-therapeutic-effects-of-cannabis-for-veterans-44891
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EPISODE NOTES As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, lecturer Saeed Khan, who serves as director of Global Studies at WSU, visits the Today@Wayne Podcast to talk with host Darrell Dawsey about the attacks and the resulting two decades of political fallout that re-shaped America.
ABOUT Saeed Khan is a WSU lecturer in Near East & Asian Studies and the director of Global Studies at WSU.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Follow Saeed Khan on Twitter Check out Saeed Khan on the Craig Fahle Show Read Saeed Khan’s essay for the Conversation on the vast diversity among American Muslims
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Episode Notes Laurie Lauzon Clabo, Ph.D., dean of the College of Nursing and chief health and wellness officer, joins Today@Wayne podcast host Darrell Dawsey to discuss her efforts to help steer the university through the COVID-19 outbreak. In this conversation, she also shares how the pandemic is reshaping public health and education for the future.
About Laurie Lauzon Clabo was appointed the eighth dean of the College of Nursing at Wayne State University in April 2015. Dean Clabo has a strong background in academic leadership, including 10 years of experience as a dean. From August 2020 until July 2021, she served as Wayne State’s interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.
Dean Clabo is a nationally recognized expert in nursing education with a proven record of leadership. An alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows program and the AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program, she has served in a variety of leadership roles in professional organizations. Dean Clabo is a member of a number of editorial boards and a frequent national speaker on issues related to workforce development, interprofessional education and competency-based education. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
Additional resources Read Dean Clabo’s full biography (https://nursing.wayne.edu/profile/fx1599) Follow Dean Clabo on Twitter (https://twitter.com/LLauzonClabo) Follow Dean Clabo on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/laurie.clabo) Selected publications:
- o Giddens, J., Lauzon Clabo, L. M., Gonce-Morton, P. Jeffries, P., McQuade-Jones, B., & Ryan, S. (2014). Re-envisioning clinical education for nurse practitioner programs: Themes from a national leaders’ dialogue. Journal of Professional Nursing. 30(3), 273-278.
- o Papp, K., Huang, G.C., Lauzon Clabo, L.M., Delva, D., Fischer, M., Konopasek, L., Schwartzstein, R., & Gusic, M. (2014). Milestones of critical thinking: A developmental model for medicine and nursing. Academic Medicine. 89(5), 1-6.
- o Lauzon Clabo, L.M., Giddens, J., Jeffries, P., McQuade-Jones, B., Morton, P., & Ryan, S. (2012). A perfect storm: A window of opportunity for revolution in nurse practitioner education. Journal of Nursing Education. 51(10), 539-541.
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Announcer: Welcome to Today@Wayne, a podcast that engages and informs the Wayne State University campus community. With news, announcements, information and current event discussions relevant to the university’s goals and mission, Today@Wayne serves as the perfect forum for our campus to begin a conversation or keep one going. Thanks for joining us.
Darrell Dawsey: Welcome to the Today@Wayne podcast. I’m Darrell Dawsey. As we draw closer to the fall semester and the likely return of faculty, staff and students to campus, many of us also find ourselves taking inventory in the past year — and not just in terms of the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken, but also in terms of the triumphs we witnessed throughout this fight. Communities have banned together, heroes have emerged and leaders have stepped up. At Wayne State, one of those leaders who helped shepherd the university through the pain of the past 18 months is Dr. Laurie Clabo, who stepped away from her post as the dean of the WSU College of Nursing to become the interim provost and chair of the WSU Campus Health Committee, a group critical to helping to shape the university policy in the face of the pandemic. With a new provost now installed, Dr. Clabo [is] returning to...
Episode Notes One of the leading voices on the economic and social issues impacting Detroit, Wayne Law professor Peter Hammer joins the Today@Wayne Podcast for a sobering discussion with host Darrell Dawsey about the growing number of voter restriction bills popping up around the country, including in Michigan, and the threat they pose to the future of voting rights — especially for voters of color.
About Peter J. Hammer was named the A. Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair at Wayne State University Law School in fall 2018. Hammer has taught at Wayne Law since 2003 and is the director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights. The Keith Center is dedicated to promoting the educational, economic and political empowerment of underrepresented communities in urban areas and to ensuring that the phrase "equal justice under law" applies to all members of society. Hammer was instrumental in editing and compiling Judge Damon J. Keith's biography, Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith (2013). Additional Resources
[Peter Hammer's biography](law.wayne.edu/profile/ar7084#definition-Biography)
[Information about the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights](law.wayne.edu/keith-center)
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Selected publications
- Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith (Peter J. Hammer, ed., with Trevor W. Coleman) (Wayne State University Press) 2013
- Living on the Margins: Minorities and Borderlines in Cambodia and Southeast Asia (editor) (The Center for Khmer Studies) 2009
Transcript ANNOUNCER: Welcome to Today@Wayne, a podcast that engages and informs the Wayne State University campus community with news, announcements, information and current event discussions relevant to the university's goals and mission. Today@Wayne serves as the perfect forum for our campus to begin a conversation or keep one going. Thanks for joining us.
DARRELL DAWSEY: I'm Darrell Dawsey, and welcome to the Today@Wayne Podcast. With voter restriction bills popping up in state legislatures all across the country, including right here in Michigan, we thought today would be a fitting time to examine the issue of voting rights and where its future lies. Joining us for our discussion today is Peter J. Hammer. Peter is the A. Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair at Wayne State University Law School and the director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, which is dedicated to promoting the educational, economic and political empowerment of underrepresented communities in urban areas, and to ensuring that the phrase "equal justice under law" applies to all members of society. Peter has become a leading voice on the economic and social issues impacting the city of Detroit. Welcome, Peter Hammer.
PETER J. HAMMER: It's a pleasure to be here, Darrell.
DAWSEY: All right, great to have you. We've heard a lot about what's going on in Georgia with the passage of those very restrictive laws governing the ballot. Folks can't even go give people water if they're standing in line, but right here in Michigan, we've also had several voting rights bills that are being bandied about in our state legislature. And I was hoping you could talk a little bit about some of that proposed legislation and some of the stuff that voting rights advocates specifically should be most concerned about.
HAMMER: Well, thanks, Darrell. I want to sort of give a little bit of context. I'm thinking about how Judge Keith would approach an issue like this. And there were very few things that got him more exercised then talking about voting rights and that's because it really was the lifeblood of the civil rights movement and people fighting and dying for the right to vote. And so that always was incredibly close to his heart and something that he cared passionately about. But he would very clearl...
Episode notes Legendary labor attorney and WSU Law School alumnus Bruce Miller joins Today@Wayne podcast host Darrell Dawsey for a lively look back on Miller’s decadeslong fight on behalf of civil rights, unions, and working people throughout metro Detroit and the nation.
About For decades, Bruce Miller has stood with the labor and civil rights movements as an activist, advisor and attorney. He was successful in establishing the right of retired workers to draw workers’ compensation benefits. He represented employees in a case against the Ex-Cell-O company that took 12 years to litigate and resulted in awards to the plaintiffs in excess of $3 million. He has been involved in litigation throughout the country on behalf of unions and worker rights. Miller has recently been appointed as general counsel for the Metro AFL-CIO.
In the fight for civil rights as attorney for the Detroit Branch NAACP, Miller was successful in protecting citizens from police abuse; caused the first agreement for goals and timetables at First Federal Savings and Loan Association, resulting in the first integration of the downtown banking community; outlawed the notorious Poindexter Homeowners’ Ordinance that was designed to segregate the city of Detroit; and won many other fights in the struggle for civil rights.
Additional resources • Learn more about Bruce Miller and his law firm, Miller Cohen PLC • Read about Bruce Miller’s longtime fight for justice • Follow Miller Cohen PLC on Facebook
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Announcer: Welcome to Today at Wayne, a podcast that engages and informs the Wayne State University campus community. With news, announcements, information and current event discussions relevant to the university's goals and mission, Today at Wayne serves as the perfect forum for our campus to begin a conversation or keep one going. Thanks for joining us.
Darrell Dawsey: Welcome to the Today at Wayne podcast. I'm Darrell Dawsey. As an attorney for the Labor Hall of Fame and general counsel for the Metro Detroit AFL-CIO in Detroit, attorney and Wayne State Law School alumnus Bruce Miller has spent nearly six decades earning a well-deserved reputation as a staunch advocate of workers' rights. Even as a student Miller found himself involved in the struggle for equal rights for all. As a high school student in Manhattan in your own 1940s, he formed the first interracial club in the school, the Brotherhood Club, after race riots broke out in the school lunch room. Miller went on to form the Interracial Youth Committee, an organization that's spread to many schools throughout New York City.
Darrell Dawsey: He remained true to that mission in his professional life as well. Along with his work for local labor unions, Miller has also worked with organizations like the NAACP and others, taking up fights against police brutality, gender discrimination, and racist employment practices. The pro-labor attorney has even taken unions themselves to task, winning one of the first affirmative action cases against the Laborers Union of Michigan many years ago. Now at age 93, Miller, one of the principles of law firm Miller Cohen PLC, continues to burnish that reputation. His firm has become one of the preeminent civil rights and employment firms in Michigan, and he's joined these days by son Powell in continuing that fight to right wrongs. And we're happy to have him here with us on the Today at Wayne podcast. Welcome Bruce Miller.
Bruce Miller: Well, th...
Episode Notes In this episode, supply chain management expert Kevin Ketels, a professor at Wayne State’s Mike Ilitch School of Business, sits down with host Darrell Dawsey to assess the rebound of the supply chain in the region and country as the nation seeks to return to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic. Ketels explains why the country is on track to bounce back — but isn’t out of the woods just yet.
About Kevin Ketels is a Lecturer in global supply chain management. He is the host of the annual Healthcare Supply Chain Forum and faculty lead for study abroad in Netherlands, Germany and Poland. For nine years, Kevin served as the CEO of KMED LLC. KMED Inventory offered health care inventory management services to hospitals and pharmacies nationally. KMED Research was a clinical research site management organization that operated clinical trials in SE Michigan on behalf of many global pharmaceutical companies.
Kevin has more than 25 years of corporate marketing management and agency experience at companies including Dell Financial Services in Round Rock, Texas, and State Street Corp in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Episode notes In this episode of the Today@Wayne podcast, Dr. Mark Schweitzer, new dean of the WSU School of Medicine, sits down with host Darrell Dawsey to discuss his expansive vision for the medical school, the school’s current impact on the city and state, and how medical education nationwide is being reshaped by a once-in-a-generation pandemic.
About Mark Schweitzer, M.D., a preeminent radiologist, is the dean of the Wayne State University School of Medicine and vice president of health affairs for Wayne State University.
In addition to his leadership role in the School of Medicine, as vice president of health affairs, Dr. Schweitzer works with the deans of Wayne State’s College of Nursing and Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on clinical training issues, developing avenues to strengthen collaboration between the three schools to advance interprofessional, team-based approaches to health care.
A medical scholar and educator, Dr. Schweitzer is an outstanding administrator who has served in many hospital and medical practice roles, including vice chair for clinical practice and chair of the information management group for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. A lecturer for Harvard Medical School, Dr. Schweitzer is extensively published and holds a number of medical patents.
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Transcript Announcer: Welcome to Today@Wayne, a podcast that engages and informs the Wayne State University campus community with news, announcements, information and current event discussions relevant to the university's goals and mission. Today@Wayne serves as the perfect forum for our campus to begin a conversation or keep one going. Thanks for joining us.
Darrell Dawsey: Welcome to the Today@Wayne Podcast, I'm Darrell Dawsey. If the last year-plus has reminded us of anything, it's the critical importance of well-trained, dedicated medical professionals. From physicians and nurses to medical technicians and researchers, with a legacy deep rooted in educational excellence and training, the WSU School of Medicine has played a major role in staffing those professional ranks, both throughout Detroit and statewide. In fact, nearly 40% of Michigan's practicing physicians received all or part of their medical training at WSU. And, of course, this role is helping Michigan turn the tide in its fight against coronavirus, other diseases and the health disparities that come with them.
Darrell Dawsey: Announced in January 2020 is the latest dean of the School of Medicine. Dr. Mark Schweitzer is the person now tasked with furthering that legacy. A preeminent radiologist, Dr. Schweitzer is — along with being the dean of the School of Medicine — also vice president of health affairs at Wayne State. Consequently, Dr. Schweitzer works with the deans of Wayne State's College of Nursing and the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on clinical training issues, developing avenues to strengthen collaboration between the three schools to advance interprofessional team-based approaches to health care. And we've got him here with us today on the Today@Wayne Podcast. Welcome, Dr. Schweitzer.
Mark Schweitzer: Thank you Darrell, happy to be here.
Darrell Dawsey: All ri...
Episode Notes WSU infectious diseases expert Dr. Teena Chopra shares with host Darrell Dawsey her thoughts on the nation’s progress in battling COVID-19, the urgent need to be ready for the next outbreak, and how her upbringing in India helped ready her for a medical career in Detroit.
About An infectious disease specialist, Dr. Teena Chopra is a professor of internal medicine, infectious diseases, for the Wayne State University School of Medicine, as well as the corporate medical director of infection prevention and hospital epidemiology at the Detroit Medical Center. Dr. Chopra also serves on the Wayne State University Campus Restart Committee, assisting with university preparations and responses related to COVID-19. She has offered her expertise on the virus and infectious disease precautions in a number of local and national media outlets, and has been published in numerous medical journals.
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- • Healthline: How COVID-19 affects children compared to adults
- • CBC: U.S. infectious disease specialist addresses spike in COVID-19 cases in 23 states
- • The 74: Plans to administer ‘nation’s report card’ in 2021 to proceed despite concerns over reliability and funding during pandemic
- • Mlive: Michigan’s coronavirus cases have flattened in recent weeks, but don’t break out the bubbly just yet
- • Bloomberg Law: COVID-19 reinvades U.S. states that already beat it back once
- • The New York Times: Doctors heavily overprescribed antibiotics early in the pandemic
- • dBusiness: Wayne State University publishes new findings of potentially deadly bacterial infection linked to COVID-19 in older patients
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Episode Notes As Juneteenth celebrations around the country become more prominent, Ollie Johnson, Ph.D., chair of the Department of African American Studies at Wayne State, sits down with Today@Wayne Podcast host Darrell Dawsey to explain why the observance has grown in popularity and the significance it has for the current American political landscape.
About Ollie Johnson is chair and professor of the Department of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Johnson has conducted extensive research on the Black political experience in the Americas. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Books by Ollie Johnson • Kwame Dixon and Ollie A. Johnson III, Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America (New York: Routledge, 2019) • Ollie A. Johnson III and Rosana Heringer, eds., Race, Politics, and Education in Brazil: Affirmative Action in Higher Education (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) • Ollie A. Johnson III and Karin L. Stanford, eds., Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003)
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Transcript Announcer: Welcome to Today at Wayne, a podcast that engages and informs the Wayne State University campus community with news announcements, information and current event discussions relevant to the university's goals and mission. Today at Wayne serves as the perfect forum for our campus to begin a conversation, or keep one going. Thanks for joining us. Darrell Dawsey: Welcome to Today at Wayne Podcast. I'm your host, Darrell Dawsey. June 19 marks the observance of an important yet too often overlooked milestone in American history — the anniversary of Juneteenth. Although President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 and saw it enacted the following year, word of the order freeing Black people held in bondage throughout the South took years to spread. In fact, it wasn't until June 19, 1865, that word finally reached Galveston, Texas, a state where an estimated 250,000 people were still being subjected to the horrors of American enslavement. And even that event didn't end slavery completely; it wasn't until December 1865 that Blacks enslaved in Delaware and Kentucky were freed. The emancipation of the enslaved in Texas symbolized the ultimate death of the nation's most dehumanizing institution. So significant was the event that June 19 would forever be known as ‘Juneteenth.’ Fast-forward to 2021, and a growing number of Americans around the country are now joining in Juneteenth celebrations that were once very limited in scope. Here to talk with us about the surge in celebrations as well as about the significance of the holiday is Ollie Johnson, Ph.D., the chairman of the Wayne State University Department of African American Studies. The author and coauthor of multiple books, including Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Johnson is a widely respected scholar of Black history and social movements. Welcome, Dr. Johnson. Dr. Johnson: Welcome, thank you for having me. Darrell Dawsey: Absolutely, always good to talk with you, always good. So let's just jump right into it. Let's just say: What is Juneteenth? Just talk a little bit about the day itself and what it marks. Dr. Johnson: Juneteenth is a celebration of African American freedom. I li...
Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson offers a rare glimpse into his remarkable personal history while discussing his upcoming memoir, to be published by WSU Press.
Episode notes In this episode of the Today@Wayne Podcast, WSU President M. Roy Wilson talks with host Darrell Dawsey about his soon-to-be-published memoir, his transformative professional journey from medicine to education administration and growing up as a multisport athlete.
About Dr. M. Roy Wilson became the 12th president of Wayne State University on August 1, 2013. Since assuming leadership, President Wilson has pursued his vision to transform the university into the preeminent public, urban research university known for academic and research excellence.
WSU VP Ned Staebler joins the Today@Wayne Podcast to discuss the 10th anniversary of the Office of Economic Development and investment in Detroit post-pandemic.
Episode notes Ned Staebler, WSU Vice President for Economic Development, joins the Today@Wayne Podcast to discuss the university's continued investment in Detroit, the city's push for economic recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and why Detroit remains the economic engine of the state.
About Ned Staebler serves as Vice President for Economic Development at Wayne State University and as President and CEO of TechTown, Detroit's most established business incubator and accelerator. He leads both organizations' efforts to strengthen the Detroit region's neighborhoods, businesses and leaders, overseeing a range of activities around innovation and entrepreneurship, business development and attraction, talent retention, transit and mobility, and placemaking. Ned previously served as the Vice President for Entrepreneurial and Capital Services at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. In this role, he was responsible for the oversight of the Michigan Strategic Fund Board and the 21st Century Jobs Fund, a $2 billion, 10-year initiative to transform Michigan's economy. Ned also spent nearly a decade in the private sector, working in both startup and Fortune 150 environments in the U.S. and London.
Episode Notes In the latest episode of the Today@Wayne Podcast, host Darrell Dawsey chats with WSU Graduate School Dean Amanda Bryant-Friedrich, Ph.D., as she explains why masters degrees are more important than ever and why government and universities must broaden access to graduate school for more Michiganders.
About Amanda Bryant-Friedrich, Ph.D., is currently dean of the Graduate School and a professor in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Her research interests center around the study and use of naturally and synthetically modified nucleosides and nucleotides in the determination of disease etiology and drug design and development. She is a fellow of the American Chemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She also is a leadership fellow of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Additional Resources Check out Dean Amanda Bryant-Friedrich’s biography
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Episode Notes In its inaugural show, the Today@Wayne Podcast welcomes Wayne State University Police Department Chief Anthony Holt. Widely respected for his progressive approach to law enforcement, Chief Holt talks with host Darrell Dawsey about the critical importance of community policing and explains why WSUPD has become a leader in de-escalation training.
A career law enforcement officer, Chief Holt has earned notice since become chief of WSUPD for his deep commitment to community policing and law enforcement accountability. He helped WSU establish itself as a leader in de-escalation training and recently opened the headquarters of the National De-Escalation Training Center on Wayne State’s campus.
About Anthony Holt, current WSU Chief of Police, has held several positions within the university's police department since he joined the force as a police officer in 1977. He rose through the ranks to sergeant, lieutenant, captain and now chief during a career spanning more than 30 years. He is a graduate of the Wayne State University Criminal Justice Program.
Additional Resources Learn about the National De-Escalation Training Center.
Read more of Chief Holt’s thoughts about community policing, de-escalation and the future of law enforcement.
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