Impact stories

Scholarships help student study science and culture in Japan
Creating opportunities
Student Call Center hits $1 million mark for first time
Social work alumna models "service first" values with endowed scholarship
Ilitch Business alumnus and family donate $500,000 to catalyze innovation and entrepreneurship
Finding aligned values
Surprise gift to LaGatella Scholarship supports LGBT community
Positive planning
Freedman family multiplies opportunity at School of Social Work
Pivotal Moments campaign hits fundraising goal of $750 million, and still going strong
Estate gift supports virology research at the School of Medicine
Empowering social entrepreneurship
Frederick Hessler ’70 supports Ilitch School’s Student Success Center
For the Moment: Campaign Update, Spring 2018
Neff Endowed Memorial Lectureship advances art therapy at Wayne State
Staff member honors alumni parents with named scholarship
Generations of empowered women transforming lives
Scholarships help finance major look toward the future
Endowed nursing lectureship will focus on the future of nursing and health care
Entrepreneur and astronomer gifts a dark sky observatory, names it in honor of childhood friend
Alumna inspires future physicians through endowed scholarship
Tranquility on campus then, now and always
W.K. Kellogg Foundation's $2.4 million grant expands Wayne State racial equity initiative
A veteran in serving others
Gretchen Valade increases commitment to Wayne State jazz program to $9.5 million