2 - Tuesday, Aprill1, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Prof. plans future of education NICE TIE GautamAhuja is the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration and professor of Strategy in the Ross School of Business. He spent 12 years as the chairperson of The Strategy Area at the Business School and is a. Ph.D. coordinator. BusinessWeek ranked Professor Ahuja second on their list of "Most Popular Profs at Top Business Schools." He is cur- rently on a taskforcefor redesign- ing the MBA program. Could you describe MBA task force you are apart of? We are basically looking at the MBA program and what should the MBA graduates from our institution be prepared for as they enter the work force and look forward to the next 20 or 30 years. So from that per- spective, we've gone deep into trying to understand what are precisely the skills required for an MBA, and what are the ways we can use the experience they have at the Ross School of Busi- ness to develop those skills. What is the biggest change the MBA program is going to experience? As of now, the task force is still working. It's going to take several months more yet. The way things work, the task force will come up with a draft. That draft will then be reviewed fur- ther by the school and faculty, and at some time be voted upon by the faculty. Right now, we're nowhere near that stage yet. What is your favorite class to teach? I teach this class on advanced competitive analysis. I think my problem is that, I find, that every morning that I am teach- ing the class, I am excited. It's difficult for me to see which one of the elements of the course is more exciting. I tend to like all of them. - MAX RADWIN ADAM GLANZMAN/Daily LSA sophomore Ryne Menhennick marches with United Students Against Sweatshops from the Diag to Fleming Administration Building Monday. i s } r $f5% CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES l Masterclass: Global Studies Obama visits Birth control Ppm11,cin tol ; BY JENNIFER CALFAS It was confirmed Sunday that the president would be*coming to Ann Arbor to give a speech about raising the federal minimum wage. He will speak at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Intramural Sports Building on South Campus. Tickets are free to students. Men's lacrosse BY MINHDOAN Despite a statistically solid performance, the men's lacrosse team recorded a 15-12 loss against Air Force this weekend. After falling behind early, the Wolverines were unsuccessful in mounting a second half comeback, but showed signs of resilience on the field. BY EMMA MANIERE Recent trials, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius are ruling on whether Obama's contraception mandate interferes with the company's desire not to sell Plan B, Ella and IUD for religious reasons. HI W IREF Student march BY EMILIE PLESSET Students marched and sang around campus on Sunday afternoon to raise awarness about Taiwanese rights, after the Chinese government passed an agreement that would jeopardize the island's future. Read morefrom these blogs at michigandaily.com 1 G1 1, UJ 1V11 Q111 WHAT: Houston Sym- phony percussionist Brian Del Signore will present a clinic on using digital tools and computers to provide an in-depth critique of the students' playing. WHO: School of Music, Theatre and Dance WHEN: Today at 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Moore Building Singer Carmen Souza WHAT: Portuguese singer Carmen Souza will be sing- ing at The Ark tonight, with her own twist of jazz, fusion and other contemporary sounds. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark, 316 S. 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Winter term (January through Apri isn5 s yearlong (September through April> is0$195. University affilates are subiet to a reduced subscription rate. On-ampus subscriptions for fal term are $3s5.Subscriptions must be prepanl The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. Challenge aims to boost interest in STEM fields Virtual reality device allows students to look at anatomy Students across several colleges to conduct April event By PAULA FRIEDRICH Daily Staff Reporter ground of technically challeng- ingenough to be interesting and to produce interesting results and for people to learn some- thing, but not so difficult that someone who hasn't done this before couldn't figure out how to do it," said Stanford student Robert Jackson, the projects used for a variety of reasons. The challenge will offer prizes for highest altitude, best design, best photograph and best experiment. The challenge sets param- eters for what the most basic launch should entail, including a weather balloon with a para- Almost 100 weather balloons team lead for the Stanford Stu- chute and a radar reflector so across the world will attempt dent Space Initiative, which that it is detectable by planes, a to reach the edge of the atmo- started the challenge. camera and a GPS locator. sphere as part of the Global After teams launch their bal- "And then teams put in other Space Balloon Challenge in two loons, they will send in their things," Jackson said. "Humid- weeks. data and photographs to be ity sensors, temperature sen- 'The challenge -- run by stu- judged. The highest altitude sors, altitude sensors, wind dents from the University, category is straightforward, speed, and then the projects Stanford University and the with the highest altitude win- get exponentially complex from Massachusetts Institute of ning, but best design and exper- there." Technology - aims to excite iment willbe judged by industry While organizing GSBC is people about science, technol- experts. The photo finalists will a collaborative effort between ogy, engineering and math- be judged through social media students at their respective ematics by introducing them to channels. schools, Engineering gradu- a hands-on but achievable proj- High altitude balloons, or ate student Nathan Hamet, the ect. Participants will release space balloons, are large weath- project lead for Michigan Bal- their balloons the weekend of er balloons that can rise up to loon Recovery & Satellite Test- April 18. 120,000 feet into the air. From bed, said it's also a collaboration "Balloons are a good middle there, space balloons can be between every team participat- ing. Organizers have set up a forum to let teams talk to each other to work out any kinks in the process. "Not only are we able to give our knowledge to less expe- rienced people, but the teams 8 1 5 7 that have more experience in, let's say, electrical engineering 7 V6G may be able to help us out with a problem," Hamet said. Duderstadt Library 3D world brings in-depth learning experience to life By KAITLIN ZURDOSKY Daily StaffReporter Inside the Duderstadt Library is a three-dimensional virtual world open to all depart- ments, including the Michigan Immersive Digital Experience Nexus and one of its latest proj- ects - the human cadaver. Just one pair of 3D glasses and a joystick gives users full access to the hologram-like human body. When the user steps onto the platform, the image seems to appear within centimeters of their eyes and they are able to control and perceive a vari- ety of cross-sections within the organs, tissues and bones any- where within the body. "It seems like it would only be in movies you could do this, but you are doing science," said Assistant Dentistry Prof. Alex DaSilva, the director of the Headache & Orofacial Pain Effort lab. "You are learning and doing research - you are going one step further into a learning experience," According to DaSilva, the MIDEN is a tool that has helped him to further his research in a way that no other experience has. He brings residents from the School of Dentistry as well as doctoral students to work inside the virtual reality lab. "It's a creative but effective way to see information," DaSilva said. "These are real slices of data, and you can enlarge them, rotate them and expand the area in which you are interested. Cuts that you can see here are extremely hard to do in a tradi- tional lab. The slices and ways you can dissect and look at the cadaver is amazing." According to the software developers, the 3D illusion occurs from a process called active ste- reo. Two images are projected onto the screens, and the images switch back and forth at about 110 times per second. The lenses on the glasses are liquid crystals that alternate from dark to clear and are synchronized with the images projected on the MIDEN screens, powered by six comput- ers. The glasses are accompa- nied with trackers, delivering a 3D illusion to the individual's two eyes at his personal location within the MIDEN. "It's similar to the way we can make amovingimage out of stills because you have persistence of vision - your brain stitches them together into motion even though it's a bunch of still pic- tures," said software developer Ted Hall. "It's a similar idea - if we can switch back and forth between the left and right imag- es fast enough, you can perceive the images in 3D." The human cadaver is one of many demos used in the MIDEN. Students and professors in the Taubman College of Architec- ture and Urban Planning, the mechanical engineering and civil engineering departments within the College of Engineer- ing and the School of Art & Design, among other schools, have also used the MIDEN for a variety of projects. "I would say hardest thing is that we have to deal with very large data sets, in terms of per- formance and backing up mem- ory," said software developer Sean Petty said. DaSilva has been working extensively with Eric Maslowski and the other developers. He has high hopes that these types of experiences with real data will be applicable outside of the lab environment and eventually within classrooms and other accessible learning areas. "This notion of these vir- tual reality 'caves' (such as the MIDEN) has been around since the early 1990's," Hall said. "For me, it's sort of the holy grail of virtual reality visualizations." WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY'S SEXUAL MISCONDUCT POLICY? COME TO THE MICHIGAN DAILY'S PANEL ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 AT 4 P.M. IN THE KUENZEL ROOM OF THE MICHIGAN UNION Participants in the discussion include Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones, Director of SAPAC Holly Rider-Milkovich, Director of OSCR Jay Wilgus and Anthony Walesby, the University's Title IX Coordinator 0