The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com RESEARCH From Page 1A This has compelled researchers like Ruth, who is researching a potential therapeutic solution for arthritis- inducedinflammation,totailortheir proposals to a broader audience. "I don't know if the best science is going to get funded since things are going so quick," Ruth said. "You may have (a reviewer) who's an expert in science but not necessar- HEALTH CARE From Page 1A physical exams for job applications, or getting prescriptions refilled for the next six months or a year, get- ting birth control pills and general female checkups." But once students graduate, they no longer have free access to the ser- vices at UHS, and many health care coverageprogramsthattheirparents may have don't cover students once . they graduate. As a result, 34 per- cent of college graduates didn't have health insurance a year after gradu- ation, accordingto a 2006 study in a U.S. News & World Report article. LSA senior Tracy Lent, made one last visit to UHS, said she is anx- ious about a possible future without health insurance. She added that she is keeping her fingers crossed she won'tget sick in the near future. "I don't think I can afford getting my own policy right now without ily someone in your field." Despite its drawbacks, Ruth said there may be some advantag- es to the new application process. While the stimulus grant appli- cations are not as rigorous as they have been in the past, Ruth said they may offer a testing ground for novel ideas that may not have had sufficient backing to receive grant funding in the past. For new research investigators in particular, the stimulus plan may ultimately provide an opportunity to establish having a real job," she said. "Right now, it's kind of like playing a game of Russian roulette." LSA senior Julie Foster, said she headed to UHS for one final check up because she doesn't know if she will have health insurance during graduate school. "I want to make sure I am up to date with all my prescriptions and am healthy and am getting every- thing checked out before summer," she said. Foster added that if it turns out she doesn't have health insurance in graduate school, she will make do without. "The day I graduate is the day my (parents') insurance coverage ends," she said. But LSA senior Chanel Hamilton, who also took advantage of UHS's services before her upcoming gradu- ation,said she needs health insurance to pay for her monthly treatments and she's not sure if she'll be able to afford it after she graduates. themselves in the field. At the "State of Research at the University" discussion last week, University Vice President for Research Stephen Forrest com- mented on the importance of the boost in federal funding, despite the nation's economic troubles. "It's one of the ironies of our age," Forrestsaid."The United States seems to be going broke, but we've never found so much money in research." Forrest said research funding nationwide has been sagging for Being without health insurance temporarilycouldmeanthatstudents will search for jobs with sufficient health benefit packages, making the job hunt even more challenging. Winfield said with the current job market, students willhave even more trouble than usual finding jobs that offer adequate health insurance. "Thebiggestproblemis withthe job marketas it is - my guess is that more students will go out and get jobs that will not have health insurance," he said."Everybodyexpectsthatstudents will try to get into graduate programs because the job market is so weak right now, but those programs gener- ally don't have health insurance." LSA senior Jessica Maurice also recently went to UHS for a last min- ute checkup. She said she is fortu- nate that she found a jobwith health insurance but, because she has lung disease, is concerned about the kind of coverage she will get. "I need to have a low co-pay to afford all of the medication and more than six years with renewed interest coming only recently with the stimulus plan and the federal budget outlined for the 2009 fiscal year. "We finally have an adminis- tration that really gets it," he said referring to the Obama adminis- tration's focus on research. "They understand, ina fundamentally dif- ferent way than we've seen in the last 20 or 30 years, the relationship between innovation and economic strength." treatmentthatIneed,"said Maurice. "AndIam off my parent's insurance as soon as I leave school." But LSA senior Mike Tikh said though the company where he will be working won't be providing health insurance he has a noncha- lant attitude about the situation. "At first, I guess I will have to go without it for a little bit. And hope- fully when I start earning enough, I'll try and try to buy health insur- ance privately," he said. Tikh added that during his time at the University, he has rarely used his UHS benefits. "I haven't really been using it all that much the past few years - I haven't had physicals," he said. "It's more of a convenience know- ing that it's there." Though some students might rush in for checkups and physicals before their times at the Universityend, stu- dents who purchased health insur- ance through the University are still covered through August, Klever said. FUNDRAISING From Page 1A and Oklahoma State University - are reducing their fundrais- ing staffs. Other schools - like the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Michigan - have continued to fill vacant positions in their develop- ment offices. The University is not cut- ting back on its development staff, even though its operations are already considerably larger than other peer institutions, like UCLA. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that UCLA employs 270 development staffers, while the University of Michigan has approximately 480 staffers. May said the larger operation at the University can't be attrib- uted to one factor, but that there are several contributing causes - including the University's extremely large alumni base of approximately 475,000 people. May explained that paired with the sheer size of the alum- ni base, is the fact that they are spread throughout the country - requiring a national fund devel- opment strategy. On the other hand, May said UCLA's alumni are more heavily concentrated in California - meaning their fund development office doesn't have to reach out to as many alumni or travel across the country as Thursday, April16, 2009 - 7A often. "Forty percent of our alumni live outside the state of Michi- gan ... but they give about 60 percent of the money," May said. "We have to go a lot of places to bring out alumni to the Univer- sity." Additionally, May said the University's fundraising opera- tions are so large because they support the Athletic Department, the Flint and Dearborn campuses and the Museum of Art, in addi- tion to each of the University's schools and other University entities. The University finished its national record-breaking Michi- gan Difference Campaign in December. The capital campaign raised about $3.2billion,breaking the previous record for a public institution fundraising campaign set by UCLA in2006. May said another capital cam- paign would be implemented in the future, but that until the economy improves, the Develop- ment Office will focus on improv- ing internal operations and thanking donors who gave in the last campaign. "We sort of call this year the year of the big thank you," he said. 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Interns are paid a stipend of $4,500 for ten weeks during the sum- mer and aretaimed at students who are completing their sophomore or junior undergraduate year this spring. In keeping with the terms of the NIH grant, we especially encourage applica- tions from individuals from minority groups that are currently underrepre- sented in biomedical and behavioral research. The deadline for application is 17 April 2009. Your application must be up- loaded at the following site: - http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/pro- fessionals/sammer internship.shtml Questions about the program? Please email La Cheryl Wicker at lwicker@umich.edu BIOENERGY From Page lA of developing a biomass harvester thatwill efficientlyconvertbiomass into biofuels. The objective of the biomass harvester is to affordably provide farmers with a tool to efficiently process waste into biofuel. It does this through a thermochemical decomposition process and by effectively controlling heat losses during the process. Funding for the project stands currently at $50,000 per year, but officials at the institute are hoping to increase funding to $200,000 per year. Students at the University and around the state are also working to develop biofuel technology. Algal Scientific Corporation, which is made up of students from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, devel- oped a wastewater treatment sys- tem that grows algae in order to simultaneously treat wastewater and produce the raw materials for biofuel. The team won the inaugural Clean Energy Prize on March 20 in a competition sponsored by DTE Energy, the University, the Masco Corporation Foundation and The Kresge Foundation that awards entrepreneurship in the develop- ment of clean energy technology. Team Algal Scientific Corp. took the top prize of $65,000. 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