EUN Lid jigan IajM Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, November 15, 2013 TOPSY-TURVY michigandaily.com GREEK LIFE Up to three sororities may come to campus Business senior Eric Tan practices break dancing at Angel Hall with his performance group, EnCore. The group held its annual Fall Bar Night Thursday ACADEMICS LSA planning new center 1T AS Delta Phi Epsilon will lose house to Gamma Phi Beta By CHRISTY SONG Ditly StaffReporter There will be some new Greek letters on campus in the coming years as a chapter of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority returns next fall and the University considers add- ing two additional sororities. Due to a record number of students during registration for recruitment and with the quota limiting 62 recruits per pledge class this year, a committee made up of representatives from each campus sorority decided to extend the sorority community and invite three more organizations to join. In addition to Gamma Phi Beta, chapters of Alpha Omicron Pi and Kappa Delta may find their way to campus in the next four years. The process of looking for new sororities began in Winter 2012. The committee accepted pack- ets of infor sation from national sorority organizations that were interested in joining the Univer- sity community and narrowed the applicants. While Alpha Omicron Pi and Kappa Delta have been invited to join campus, whether or not they will join depends on if the Greek community feels it's ready for new additions when the time comes for the chapters to join. The committee wants to ensure the growing number of new members experience the same tight-knit community previous generations shared without being overcrowded, said LSA senior Emily Goor, the president of the Pan-Hellenic Council. Although Gamma Phi Beta is joining next year, the sorority has a long history with the Uni- versity, going back to 1882, when it was brought to campus. One of its founders, Frances E. Haven, was the daughter of a University professor and six of their national presidents were members of the University's chapter. Upon hear- ing of the chapter openings, Goor said the sorority seemed really excited to jump onboard. While the addition of Gamma Phi Beta has been met with excite- ment, it has caused a logistical problem for the University's chap- ter of the Delta Phi Epsilon soror- ity. DPhiE has been renting Gamma See SORORITIES, Page 3 Social Innovation Alliance will work to find solutions By JENNIFER CALFAS Daily StaffReporter Fight the power! Construc- tively, of course. As part of the Victors for Michigan fundraising cam- paign, LSA hopes to raise $400 million; a fraction of the cam- paign's $4 billion goal. Pending donor support, the college has already announced its inten- tion to begina Social Innovation Alliance Center to find solutions to expansive social issues. Although the center's plan- ning is still in its early stages, SIA aspires to have a $4 mil- lion endowment and contribute funds to annual fellowships, one-credit mini-courses, sum- mer innovation grants and an annual social innovation chal- lenge as a result of the campaign. Specific programs will be devel- oped as donor support increases. The new center will partner with optiMize, a student-run organization with an analogous mission. Philip Deloria, LSA's associ- ate dean for undergraduate edu- cation, wrote in a statement that the center reflects larger goals within the college such as using a diverse education to challenge and solve real-world problems. "The Social Innovation Alli- ance unites the energy and ideas of committed students with a support structure that will enable them to bring those ideas to fruition," Deloria wrote. After serving as optiMize's organizational sponsor, LSA has expanded its commitment to the center's creation. Since students founded the organization, Delo- ria said the Social Innovation See CENTER, Page 3 SCIENCE 'U' plans for self- . ." drivng vehicles Ann Arbor will be the first American city with a fleet of autonomous cars By ANASTASSIOS ADAMOPOULOS Daily StaffReporter Last May, the University launched The Michigan Mobility Transformation Center, a govern- ment-industry partnership that focuses on improving transpor- tation safety, sustainability and accessibility. Recently, the center announced an eight-year plan to make Ann Arbor the first U.S. city with a fleet of networked, driver- less vehicles. Peter Sweatman, director of the University's Transportation Research Institute, said the Uni- versity will partially fund the $100 million project, and additional aid will come from private and federal contributions. In addition to the auto industry, 0 companies in the communication and information industries are participating in the project. The U.S. Department of Transportation initiated the Safety Pilot Model Deployment under the Trans- See VEHICLES, Page 3 HOSPITAL Medical faculty clinch prestigious research awards Professors honored by AAMC at meeting in Philadelphia By JULIA LISS Daily StaffReporter Earlier this month, two faculty members of the University Medical School received top awards from the Association of American Medical Colleges at a meeting in Philadelphia. Huda Akil, who is a pro- fessor of neuroscience in psychiatry, won the Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences. Akil studies the biology of the brain with a particular focus on mood, emotions and addiction, oth in humans and animals, inthe hopes of devel- oping possible treatments for psychiatric disorders. Akil said she was "surprised and honored" to win the award and felt strongly that it was the shared efforts of her team as a whole that deserved recognition. She plans on con- tinuing her research on the role of emotion because she believes it is still one of the least understood and impor- tant aspects of the brain. "I feel that when emotions go wrong in a chronic way, when people feel stuck with their emotions, the price of that is really very high on the person themselves, on their family and on society in gen- eral," Akil said. The other award recipi- ent was Gilbert Omenn, who received the David E. Rogers Award. Omenn is a professor of internal medicine, human genetics, and public health and is director of the Center for Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics at the Univer- sity. He said he was pleased to earn the recognition, because it's a lifetime award that was named after a doctor whom Omenn knew personally. "I actually worked directly with him, so that was really quite wonderful," Omenn said. The David E. Rogers Award was presented as a monetary prize as well as an engraved glass sculpture. Though Omenn could not specify exactly what he plans to do with the money at this time, he promises to donate it to a new or existing initiative at the University involving medi- cine and public health. Omenn is currently look- ing forward to holding a leadership role in the Human Proteome Project, an interna- tional research goal similar to the Human Genome Proj- ect. Additionally, he and his colleague are competing for a grant toward their BigData project. ENTREPRENEURSHIP University receives award for encouraging economic growth Award recognizes work with public and private sectors By HILLARY CRAWFORD Daily StaffReporter The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities recent- ly granted the Economic Pros- perity Award to the University for its efforts integrating entre- preneurial education with state- wide economic initiatives. The APLU, the oldest higher education association in the United States, is a research and advocacy organization with 219 university members. The APLU's Commission on Inno- vation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity, which established the Economic Pros- perity Award, encourages mem- bers to assess their own work in regional economic development. Northern Illinois University, the University of Cincinnati and the State University of New York also received the award. The APLU said the four universities were chosen because they col- laborated with both private and public sector business partners and actively promoted statewide economic growth. Marvin Parnes, managing director for the University's Institute of Social Research, had a role in applying to the award during his time as the Univer- sity's associate vice president for research. He said as a public institution, the University has an obligation to be "more delib- erate in helping improve the economy." 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