0 0 0. 0. . , IM Wednesay, Fbruar 8, 202 // he Sttemen RESEARCH From Page 4B ducted less frequently and protests involve animals instead of explosives, the federal government's involvement in research con- tinues. Today, the National Institutes of Health and the federal government support the largest part of the University's $1.2 billion research budget. Last year the NIH alone gave the University more than $570 million for health-related studies. Forty-five percent of the research budget goes to medicine-related studies, 15 percent to engineering, 10 percent to public health and 7 percent to social research. Edie Goldenberg, a former LSA dean who is now a public policy and political science professor, saw the expansion of research not only in biomedical but other fields as well, while she served as dean from 1989-1998. "During my time in LSA, Michigan - became the (second) largest research Uni- versity in terms of amount of funding, after Johns Hopkins," Goldenberg said. With increased funding and encourage- ment of research, the work at the University flourished. Other institutes were built and soon garnered more national recognition. The University's Institute for Social Research is one of the leading centers for survey research and houses five centers: the Center for Political Studies, the Inter-uni- versity Consortium for Political and Social Research, the Research Center for Group Dynamics, the Survey Research Center and the Population Studies-Center. ISR is not housed within a specific school, but the Institute for the Humanities, the University's humanities research center, is in LSA. Goldenberg said the institute is amongst the best of its kind. "The social sciences here at Michigan are very strong," Goldenberg said. "They are really something to be proud of at Michigan and they generate a lot of research activity, perhaps more than most other social science departments in other places." The University prides itself on encourag- ing interdisciplinary work between fields and departments by housing strong core areas for research, including medicine, engi- neering, public health and social research, Forrest said. "All of these four schools are strongly cou- pled to other schools around campus that are much broader in scope and vision," Forrest said. "We're so collaborative that it allows us to look at multi-dimensions of the same problem." Ken Warner, dean of the School of Public Health from 2005-2010, said that when he was asked by Duderstadt to chair a commis- sion to search for a new provost, the Univer- sity's interdisciplinary work was something many candidates said differentiated it from other schools. "I don't think you could find another uni- versity that has as many schools and colleges as we do that are ranked in the top 10 in their fields," Warner said. "We have breadth and we have depth." Warner, who said he was attracted to the University because of its reputation for research, has developed classes he said wouldn't be able to teach without his research. "One of the advantages of a university like this for the students is that they are really learning state-of-the-art knowledge and methods," Warner said. "Most of the faculty are very '" " * * active on their scholarship and their research. It means they're up to date, and it means the stu - dents are learn- ing what's really current." Likewise, first-hand involvement in research for undergraduates is something the University receives national acclaim for now, but it increased tenfold while Goldenberg was - dean of LSA, she said. "There was a tiny little pro- gram called . a.. . . . . UROP that had 14 students when I became dean, and now it's, I think, pushing 1,000," Goldenberg said. "So that was a big ramping up of that program." University President Mary Sue Cole- man, a biochemist by trade, openly supports research growth. Coleman participated in research as an undergraduate for a summer and felt the experience was important. "It was totally different from taking a course," Coleman said. "I think it was one of the reasons that I probably decided to go on INTERNET From Page 4B successful and efficient network, as opposed to other universities around the country. "All the other proposals that were sub- mitted to NSF would have built much less capable networks," Van Houweling said. "(Other university networks) would have gotten saturated. There wouldn't have been enough resources to make them work, and the notion of these Internet pro- tocols that we now depend on for every- thing would have gotten a black eye.'It might have been the end of the Internet." Atkins said if the University did not step up, the Internet could have ended up as a much more closed environment that was segmented between telecommunications companies. Echoing Atkins's words, Van Houwel- ing said the telecommunications compa- nies were against the open structure of the Internet he helped create, "Of course, none of the telephone com- panies thought this was a good idea," Van Houweling said. "From their point of view, the only way to run a network was with a ' :\ . ^ ^ ")i\ \'' n.\\::: N \ ':\ :t:: \ :: i " I Wednesday, February 8, 2012 The Statement-E3, tweets of the week #Superbow l('- a week of daily stories Jim Gaffigan m , en The Super Bowl is like the Super Bowl of Super Bowl references Adam Sc hefter .A<-am h2 Get your excuses ready: 7 million people call in sick to work today Tw itteir.t.i In the final three minutes of the Super Bowl tonight, there were an average of 10,000 tweets per second. -eb Andy Borowitz 4r, w zr:rt BREAKING: NFL Sets Next Year's Halftime Show Starring Dame Judi Dench I 5r> I MCKENZIE BEREZIN/Daily The University of Michigan Health System is under review after it waited six months to report the discovery of child pornography that was found on an employee's flash drive. )Os -to Present in graduate school." The University has increased the diver- sification of its funding by starting part- nerships with industry and allowing businesses to contribute funds, which less- ens dependency on federal funds should they diminish. Last year, for instance, saw no increase in federal funding. Vice President for Research Stephen Forrest said the lack of increase is to be expected now as well as in the future. "If we look over the next decade we're going to see a slowing in the growth of " federal funding." Ultimately, what Duderstadt says drives research at the University - soci- ety's wants - is what Forrest calls the " University's great asset. "Michigan is spectacularly well posi- tioned in that world," Forrest said. "We * do a tremendous amount of really basic " research, but where our greatest strength is in doing research which somehow con- nects pretty closely to societal needs, * whether it's in the social sciences, engi- neering or medicine." hierarchical control structure, and the Internet has a distributed control struc- ture." Looking back on what his team achieved, Van Houweling said he believes the Inter- net could have been created only in an aca- demic setting. "The only place in the world the Inter- net could have been invented was.at a uni- versity, because we're the only people who understand that good things happen when nobody is in charge," he said. scabbed knees and mcdonald's [status update] by marisa winter How many phone calls have you gotten about Walk of Shame Shuttle? Too many. I've kept count of total number of states who have tried to contact me - 28 states and Canada. Where's the weirdest place you've woken up? In my car in a field off of a visitor's parking area. I ate a McDonald's breakfast. Mcdonold's breakfasts: that's the story of my life. Tell me your best drunk story. I was walking (not running) and tripped on the cement. The next day I had to go to UHS because my knees were swollen. I had crutches for three weeks. At my sorority mock awards, I got "Most Likely to Have Scabbed Knees." TruMich, a student organization dedicated to promoting mass transit on campus, is working with the University to create an MCard-based bike sharing program. Kelly ann Wargo creator of Walk of Shame Shuttle The University is working to improve the Central Campus Transit Center to ensure the electronic boards at the bus stop show real- time information.