2A - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 The Michigan Daily ichigandaily.com 2A - Wednesday, October15, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom WE AIN'T LION UCLA survey indicates recent grads have more debt The University of California, Los Angeles conducted a survey that looked at doctoral alumni from schools in the UC system and their student loan debt, The Daily Bruin reportedTuesday. UCLA conducted the survey for the first time this year and looked at graduates with doctoral degrees over the last 40 years. 26,000 alumni were surveyed, but only 7,200 responded. Of the respondants, 99 percent said they were employed. Unsurprisingly, the surveyalso showed that alumni who gradu- ated in recent years were more likely to have student debt than alumni who graduated in the 1970s. Princeton seeks investigator for sexual assault cases Princeton University is cur- rently scheduled to hire an external investigator to assist in handling sexual assault cases, The Daily Princetonian reported Monday. The investigator's job will be focused on properly handling cases that arise during academic vacations. This addition will be the sec- ond staff hiring related to sexual assault cases since Princeton was pressured by the U.S. Depart- ment of Education's Office for Civil Rights after the issue gained attention nationwide over the past year. PAUL SHERMAN/Daily The Nittasy Lisa attempts ts fire up Peas State funss at the football game Saturday. Mich igan defeated Penn State by a score of 18-13. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES JFK speech By EMMA KERR John F. Kennedy announced the idea for the Peace Corps during a historic speech in Ann Arbor 54 years ago this week. Kennedy was touring Michigan during his presidential campaign and made a stop on campus. NWSc Tree moving By SAM GRINGLAS The University has sched- uled a date for movinga 250-year old bur oak tree. A Texas-based company will transport the tree to a new location off Tappan Avenue to make way for a new aca- demic buildingon the Ross School of Business campus. Game jam WHAT: Studentswill teamup to create a video game in 48hours.Games will be judged on theme, mechanics, aesthetics and technology. WHO: Wolverine Soft WHEN: Today from 12 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Duderstadt Center, 3rd Floor, Windows Training Rooms Patriotic exhibit WHAT: In homage to the bicentennial of our national anthem, the University Library is holding an exhibitthis semester illustrating the Star Spangled Banner's influence on U.S. culture. WHO: University Library WHEN: 8 a.m. to 11p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library, Room 100 WHAT: This lecture will focus on the "ever-wandering stranger" in Middle Armenian literature, and how and why literary conventions traveledbefore our globally interconnected age. WHO: Armenian Studies WHEN: Today from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work, Room 1636 workshop WHAT: This workshop will allow you to schedule an appointment to meet with a career coach and psychology major adviser to discuss career goals. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Today from10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: East Hall ASP lecture Psychology UNC, Chapel Hill Dance Marathon to change name The University of North Carolina's chapter of the Dance Marathon organization will be changing its name to the Caro- lina For the Kids Foundation. The program had been named UNC Dance Marathon since being founded in 1997, The Daily Tar Heel reported Tuesday. UNC senior Evan Sherwood, Carolina For the Kids' executive director, said the previous name didn't wholly communicate the organization's mission to the community. -JACK TURMAN T H REE T HINGS YO U SH OULD KNOW TODAY The World Health Orga- nization said if drastic measures are not taken soon, the Ebola epidemic could reach 10,000 new cases per week, ABC News reported Tuesday. Currently, the WHO is working to con- tain the spread. This week, the State- ment Magazine looks at the University's innovative approach to preparing students for life in film and theatre, as well as a personal statement about procrastination. >PFOR MORE, SEESTATEMENT, PG.IB1 A deadly storm sys- tem damaged the Southeast, NBC News reported Tuesday. Thirteen tornadoes were reported Monday from Texas to Ala- bama, along with lightning and hail. 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WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m WHERE: Michigan Theater CORRECTIONS 0 Please report any error in the Daily to corree- tions@michigandaily.com Ford School hosts talk on impact of social work Lecturer shares. research regarding hypermarginalized populations By CHARLOTTE JENKINS Daily StaffReporter While many students decamped from Ann Arbor for Fall Break Friday, Megan Comfort, a research sociologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, presented her research on integrating social work and ethnography with what she calls hypermarginalized populations - people in extreme poverty affect- ed by mental illness, poor health, substance use, incarceration or homelessness. Comfortspoke in apresentation for the Ford School of Public Poli- cy titled "Integrating Social Work and Ethnography with Hypermar- H-S ginalized Populations." The talk was co-sponsored by the School of Social Work Learning Community on Poverty and Inequality. Comfort's new research study, which involved the innovative step of incorporating a social worker into intervention-based research in addition to a researcher. The study followed 20 impoverished residents of Oakland, Calif., between the ages of 26 and 59. None of the 20 participants had stable housing, and many suffered from mental illness, substance abuse, sexual abuse and repeated incarceration. She aimed to investigate how the impoverished navigate their surroundings and how the addi- tion of a social worker can affect their experiences. Comfort used the case of"Char- lie," the pseudonym for a partici- pant in the study, to illustrate the challenges hypermarginalized populations face. Charlie is a 46-year-old, HIV- 5-M positive man who suffers from social phobia, depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and drug and alcohol addiction. He has been repeatedly incarcerated and had been unable to secure perma- nent housing because of his felony record. Ultimately, Charlie's social worker was able to secure him subsidized housing. However, his parole officer told him he was legallyunable to live there because the housing was outside of the county where he was incarcer- ated. This left Charlie with the choice between living illegally in a stable home or living legally on the street. Comfort repeatedly mentioned and critiqued the "Kafkaesque" bureaucratic institutions that the extremely poor must navigate. She also presented the case of "Crystal," a 35-year-old woman on probation and parole. Crystal became homeless at age 11, began using drugs at age 14 and is a sur- vivor of repeated physical and sex- ual abuse. She has been in and out of jail, at one point returning four days after she was released. On one occasion, Crystal went to the hospital following a violent sexual assault. She arrived there wearing only underwear, and was treated and released that night without shoes and only wearing a hospital gown. She had no identifi- cation or money. Since Crystal had chosen not to press charges for sexual assault, she was not eligible to be taken in by a domestic violence center, leav- ing her with nowhere to go. Comfort explained how Crystal was able to find shelter because she called her social worker, underscoring the importance and value of social workers and the impact they're able to have on the communities they serve. Public Policy Lecturer Megan Tompkins-Stange said the presen- tation will stick with her and alter the ways she thinks about this work moving forward. "In this paper you have given voice to thevoiceless," she said. GRANT From Page 1A there was also a focus on recent Taubman Scholars and the con- tributions that they are making with their own research proj- ects. The Alfred A. Taubman Medi- cal Research Institute prides itself in supporting clinician- scientists with the resources to make advances in biomedical research that will translate to. real world solutions to those suf- fering from life-threatening dis- eases. With such a goal in mind, the Institute's tagline reads, "where scientists create cures." Part of the Institute's success lies in its expanding influence. From its conception with four Taubman Scholars and no clini- cal trials, it has grown to encom- pass 31 Taubman Scholars and 51 clinical trials. "I think that our biggest accomplishment is our growth and our outreach and really meeting our mission because we are scientists and we are creat- ing cures," said Neurology Prof. Eva Feldman, director of the Taubman Institute. Carl June, a professor of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylva- nia, introduced his promising research that will hopefully lead to a cure for leukemia. Dr. June's work is particularly compelling to clinicians because it intro- duces an alternative to previous cancer treatments, chemother- apy and radiation, in the hopes that it will produce not only bet- ter survival rates, but also fewer side effects. Oncology Prof. Max Wicha, deputy director of the institute, said June's work is extremely innovative because he "has brought together these two areas of research, that is the area of gene therapy and the area of tumor immunotherapy, to actu- ally genetically engineer the body's immune cells to specifi- cally fight cancer." After being introduced by both Wicha and Alfred Taub- man, the founder and chair of the Taubman Institute, June delved into the specifics of the origins of his research, where the research currently stands today, and what he envisions for the future. June's treatment caters to patients by using their own T cells - a type of white blood cell is important for immunity - to personalize immunotherapy. His gene transfer therapy allows the cancerous body to overcome tolerance, or the activation of the immune system that ultimately prevents the body from destroy- ing the tumor, through synthetic biology. Through this synthetic biolo- gy, the body's own immune cells can be fundamentally changed so that they are able to attack cancerous tumors. After testing his new therapy with three adults, June moved toward helping children, affirm- ing the importance in doing so by relaying that the number one cause of disease-related pedi- atric deaths is leukemia. Treat- ment options for these children are especially limited to those who may fail bone marrow transplants, which are already dangerous to begin with. With his new therapy, June found a 90 percent response rate in his trial patients. The first patient that he treated, a young girl, has been cancer free for more than two years. June also discussed the potential for his new therapy to go beyond leukemia to solid tumors. Clinical trials are being initiated to look into this possi- bility, although there are poten- tial complications regarding cell toxicity. While his results are very promising, Dr. June also rec- ognized some of the problems that his new treatment will face. There will be regulatory and manufacturing challenges, in part due to the high cost of treat- ment, a function of the treatment specificity. June reminded the audience that patients and doctors will need to be fully educated on the new treatment - patient issues as common as diarrhea, when treated traditionally, potentially become life threatening. In his presentation, June expressed his excitement about the potential effect that this new therapy could have on children with leukemia. "I loved taking care of patients, and I thought that I would do that the rest of my life," June said. "Then I started having the opportunity to do some research, and it gradually became what I do 100 percent of the time." This experience seems to encapsulate the Institute's motto, and Taubman himself summed up the importance of Friday's event. "I think that (biomedical research) is important to any- one who realizes that there's so much sickness around, so much ill health, and if you're ina posi- tion where you can bring people together, and you can get great minds together," he said. "We can solve sickness and make peo- ple healthier. I think that there is a great opportunity." 6 6 I In a September 2012 talk in Ann which will occur on the first day REGENTS Arbor, Ross announced plans for ofclassesin fall 2015. Inexchange, From Page 1A Blau to succeed him as the com- the new academic facility will be pany's chief executive. named Jeff T. Blau Hall. According to the regents' com- The University is in the middle the Business School, a current munication, Blau has agreed to of the Victors for Michigan fund- member of its advisory board and "release" the University from its raising campaign, which is aiming the CEO of Related Companies, previous agreement to name the to raise $4 billion over the next the real estate firm Ross founded. school's auditorium after him, few years. miC h iga nda i y.co m 6 t 1 a