46F 46F (t4c i'c . t an4,.)at Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 18,2013 michigandaily.com ADMINISTRATION officials promise no layoffs in transition RYAN REISS/Daily Jadyn Freeman, Zoey Taylor and Sara Finachea experiment with chemicals and food dye to make 'elephant toothpaste' during FEMMES, Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering and Science, at the Medical Science building Saturday. STEM passion starting early FEMMES hopes to inspire young girls to pursue science fields By BROOKE PEARCY For TheeDaily Most fourth, fifth or sixth graders don't get the chance to learn from a college professor about how the brain sends sig- nals to muscles or how a pros- thetic limb works. That's unless they attended the capstone event held Satur- day by Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering. FEMMES is a student-run organization that hosted the first of its two capstone events. The group of both graduate and undergraduate students arranged for girls to spend a day participating in activities in different science, technolo- gy, engineering and math fields. The Michigan chapter of the organization was started in 2011 after the national group was founded in 2006 At Duke University. Glory May Bradley, one of the 130 girls from nearby schools who attended, has returned to the event for the third time to further explore scientific con- cepts. "I like doing all of the experi- ments," Bradley said. "And I've liked science since I could talk." Rackham student Abigail Garrity, the co-president of FEMMES, hopes the girls will leave with exactly the feeling Bradley described. "I want them to walk away with asense of self-efficacy and empowerment," Garrity said. "I want them to walk away inspired and excited about the experiments and the activities that they participated in." Each of the activities at the event was created and taught by students and University professors. Activities ranged from making ice cream with liquid nitrogen to creating glow sticks. See STEM, Page SA Centralization of support services will move HR and finance staffs By SAM GRINGLAS Daily StaffReporter Though many faculty and staff have expressed concern with the implementation of the University's new Shared Services Center, Uni- versity officials assured faculty last week that no layoffs will result from the planned integration of human resource and financial ser- vices into the consolidated office, From the centralized location, they will provide those services to the University at large, rather than being placed with specific depart- ments or colleges. In preparation for the merging of services, 50 finance and human resources positions were unfilled over the last few months, allowing the University to maintain posi- tions for all current employees impacted by the change. Additionally, staff members who accept similar positions in the Shared Services Center are not likely to see a decrease in their base salaries. University spokes- man Rick-Fitzgerald said admin- istrators completed individual meetings with affected staff mem- bers Friday. Many of the employees affected are responsible for services like billing, employee expense reim- bursements, travel benefits, ven- dor payments or registering new employees through Wolverine Access. Traditionally, departments or colleges have retained their own employees who handle these duties. Inthe new Shared Services Cen- ter, each employee will likely spe- cialize in one of these tasks. Each staff member would focus on one area of the shared services spec- trum at a University-wide level. The center will open in April and the remaining department- level finance- and human-resourc- es staff will transition there by See TRANSITION,,Page 5A STUDENT GOVERNMENT CSG elections to fill recently vacated seats W W Th ernm Wed fill sl repr cour recru ing t Al asser gene demi resen this Wint Th avail asser Grad LSA, Infor Scho parti dates Tinners to take tive ActionParty and forUM - along with some indepen- office during dent candidates. Currently, the only con- inter semester tested seats are for the LSA representatives, with two By AMRUTHA candidates running with SIVAKUMAR forUM, one with DAAP and Daily StaffReporter, one as an independent. Law School student Bryson Nitta, se Central Student Gov- the election director, said it sent will hold elections will likely be difficult to attain nesday and Thursday to a high voter turnout for the pots vacated by recalled fall elections because most esentatives over the races are uncontested. se of the semester, but In an e-mail interview, siting candidates is prov- LSA sophomore Meagan o be a challenge. Shokar, vice speaker on the though the elected assembly, said the majority mbly representatives are of representatives elected in rally elected for full aca- March "have been fine with c-year positions, the rep- attendance" and those who atatives who are elected left the assembly or have been week will serve only recalled for missing more er 2014. than six meetings. is cycle, there are six "Each and every represen- able seats on the CSG tative wants the best for the mbly: two from Rackham student body and all of us at uate School, two from CSG want an assembly filled one from the School of with representatives who mation and one from the have the time to dedicate to ol of Public Health. Two representing their college or es are running candi- school's needs, wants, and - the Defend Affirma- See ELECTIONS, Page 5A SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN Allowing Saturday to just be Saturday EVANSTON, Ill. - For almost 58 minutes of game time, this was about as bad as football can 'be played. Neither Michigan nor Northwest- ern could score points - not because the defenses' were play- ing particu- larly well, but because the EVERETT offenses were COOK just that bad. Atonepoint in the fourth quarter, the Wild- cats had the ball deep in their own red zone and were forced to punt. It traveled a grand total of seven yards. The Wolverines got the ball on the 10-yard line. You couldn't ask for more of an offensive gift. They lost a yard and had to kick a field goal. It was ugly football. North- western dropped four potential interceptions. Two of them would have been pick-sixes. There were a combined 14 punts. On top of that, it was rainy and windy, aprecursor to the massive storm that hit Chi- cago on Sunday morning. See SATURDAY, Page 5A ZAK WITUS/Daily Stephen Rush, an associate professor in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, speaks at the MCubed Symposium Friday. MCubed event showcases interdisciplinary research Faculty members collaborate on humanities-related research projects By CHARLOTTE JENKINS Daily StaffReporter More than 200 "cubes" pre- sented research at the MCubed Symposium Friday in Rackham Auditorium and the Michigan League. Launched in the fall of 2012, MCubed is the first part of the University's Third Century Ini- tiative, a five-year $50 million plan that aims to promote inno- vation and collaboration within the University. MCubed's goal is to empower faculty members in different departments and col- leges to work collaboratively to produce research that will have a large societal impact. A "cube" is made up of three University faculty members from different disciplines who engage in humanities-related projects. Each cube received at. least $60,000 of the $15 million in funds available from the pro- gram to hire one undergradu- ate student, graduate student or postdoctoral researcher to help* them with their research. 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