1 0 , M o n d a y , J u ly 9 , 2 0 1 2 1 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Novartis MS Edutcation Link Hear Evanthia Bernitsas, MD discuss information about multi ple sclerosis (MS) and a prescription treatment option. July 2, 2012 6:00pm Zingermans Roadhouse 2501 Jackson Road Ann Arbor, Ml 48103 Please RSVP by July 25 2812 by calling 8OQ-973-O362 - Light food and beverages served. 6 NOVARTIS Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation © 2011 Novartis 9/11 T-XMG-1099611 Monday, July 9, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 3 First seen on the game Bakich announces baseball a ssistants W eather Underground when agroup ofexecutivesvisited RESEARCH CENTER them in Ann Arbor. From Page 1A sold to Weather Channel U By COLLEEN THOMAS Daily Sports Editor Two new assistant coaches were named to the Michigan baseball program staff after much speculation about who new head coach Erik Bakich would retain from his staff at Maryland. On Thursday, Sean Kenny and Nick Schnabel were hired as assis- tants to Bakich, where Kenny will serve as the pitching coach and Schnabel will be the recruiting coordinator. Kenny is an Ann Arbor native, having graduated from Pioneer High School. He was at Maryland with Bakich for three years as the pitching coach. The Terrapins had the third-best ERA in the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2012-and set' the program records for strikeouts (464) in 2010. Kenny also helped on the recruiting side, bringing in Maryland's first top-25 recruiting class in 2010. He also developed two future MLB draft picks in his time with the Terrapins. Kenny has served as a recruit- ing coordinator and pitching coach at numerous other univer- sities, and played baseball both at the collegiate and professional level, with Eastern Michigan Uni- versity and the New York Mets, respectively.. Schnabel comes to Michigan after spending three years at East Carolina as the hitting coach and recruiting coordinator. He had much success recruiting, garner- ing nationally ranked recruiting classes in addition to developing talent to send to the next level. Schnabel played ball with Bakich at East Carolina, where Schnabel was named Defensive .Player of the Year in 1999 by the Colonial Athletic Association. "Sean and Nick are among the best in the nation at what they do," Bakich said in a statement released by the athletic 'depart- ment. "We are fortunate to have them join our staff and help lead Michigan baseball back to a cham- pionship level." The name( that o has b indep Las based Under they h er Ch Unive Black closed Int was f Jeff n dent a at We with stude Under Sterer Wh ate in Maste ing Pr a text servic net ho The K-12 Weather to their text before 1995, when the company dissociated from inderground tO the University and became a pub- keepwebste lic company. As dot-com names YW i went on sale, the group missed the domain name weather.com by By STEVE ZOSKI one month. DailyNewsEditor Masters explained that Sam- son had suggested the name as e second of two groups a play on words referencing the d Weather Underground 1960s radical political group The riginated at the University Weather Underground, founded een sold after 17 years of by University alum Bill Ayers. endence. "Back in the early '90s, when t Tuesday, Ann Arbor- it was just this little educational. weather company Weather project at the University, Samson rground announced that thought it would be a cute tongue- ave been sold to The Weath- in-cheek reference to the old radi- hannel - owned by NBC cal group because it also got its rsal, Bain Capital and The start at the University of Michi- stone Group - for an undis- gan," he said. I price. Masters said while Weather he early 1990s, the company Underground sold its resources, ounded by University alum technologies and employees to Masters - Ann Arbor resi- the much larger Weather Chan- nd director of meteorology nel, their website will maintain ather Underground - along independence, still using their several other University large staff in San Francisco made nts, including Weather up of developers and meteorolo- rground President Alan gists. mberg. "We're going to be called ile working on his doctor- Weather Underground LLC, and air pollution meteorology, we will be a pretty much indepen- rs worked with Engineer- dent company with our own CEO, rof. Perry Samson to create - and the goal is to keep doing what t-based University weather we do because we're very innova- e in 1991, before the Inter- tive," Masters said. sted such services. He added that The Weather e weather service spread to Channel has had an interest in the schools and added graphics Weather Underground since 1995 "They got a new CEO in Janu- ary, and they wanted to move aggressively to improve their website, and before then, their leadership ... was never that seri- ous about acquiring us," Masters said. "So this was the first time that there was what we thought was a good offer, and we decided to go with it." Masters said The Weather Channel will be able to take over unique Weather Underground content and technologies like Personal Weather Stations - of which Masters said are about 20,000. Masters added that The Weather Channel's larger fol- lowing will allow the Weather Underground LLC site to get new traffic as well. "They have three times the traffic we do, so a lot of people who haven't heard of us are going to check us out and start using us, and to some degree there will be cross-linking between the two," Master said. Masters said in addition to The Weather Channel's video prow- ess, the partnership will allow the possibility of utilizing their large Twitter following. "Certainly we could use their density of Twitter people that send weather information via Twitter to do some cool projects where you could check out in real time when there's a major weath- er activity happening and sort of look at the Twitter activity going on," Masters said. Cardiovascular Center - said moving IHPI researchers into the NCRC will allow a world of collaboration among the sciences that will benefit health care research. "When we bring those kinds of investigative teams together in a common place and create opportunities for education ... sometimes great things can happen," Eagle said. "Certainly for training programs, having groups of investigators in a common place creates opportunities for cross fertilization." Eagle said the center offers an unprecedented opportunity for the University. "This moment really creates a new opportunity for us to do something quite wonderful," Eagle said. "Measure quality better, maximize safety (and) improve the ability to inform patients and families about the best care." Eagle said the institute plans to bring great minds together to make lasting changes. "I feel very optimistic that these new bridges in health care research are going to be fostered by this new institute," Eagle said. "U of M wants to be an international university, wants to be considered as a place that is helping with thoughts on how we organize and deliver healthcare. This institute has potential to take that to a new level in a critical moment in our nation's healthcare history." Eagle said the center will work with other organizations to improve health care around Mich- igan. "It's entirely likely that the University will be proactive with working with other institutions in the state as a voice to try to help maximize the provision of preven- tive health and health care deliv- ery throughout the state," Eagle said. Last week, the first 80 IHPI researchers and staff were moved to the new building, and in the upcoming months, the more than 400 more who are on their way will make this "the largest university-based health services research institute in the country," by the end of the summer, accord- ing to Dr. Rodney Hayward, pro- fessor of internal medicine, health management and policy and chair of the interim leadership team of the IHPI. "Some of our work will be unchanged," Hayward said. "There's alot ofgreat work already coming, but the greatest changes in the work are people working across these disciplines, not just to bring together different parts of the university, but to bring togeth- er partnerships nationally and in region and state." Daily News Editor Steve Zoski contributed to this report. First seen on -the game HunwiCK likely to play in Europe By MATT SLOVIN Hunwick would be the lone Daily Sports Editor American on the team's current .roster, comprised exclusively of It appears the Shawn Hunwick Austrian and Canadian skaters. story is about to begin yet another On March 28, Hunwick signed chapter. with the NHL's Columbus Blue The former Michigan goalten- Jackets. He entered just one game, der and Hobey Baker Award final- playing the final three minutes of ist is negotiating with EC Red Bull Columbus' season between the Salzburg of the Austrian Hockey pipes.-Hunwick allowed no goals in League, according to Michigan that short time on the ice. He offi- sports information director Rob cially became a free agent on July 1. Tillotson. No formal contract has When the Daily last spoke to been signed as of Saturday night. Hunwick, he was gearing up for It appears nothing will be finalized a summer camp he will run with until at least Monday. Michigan hockey video coordina- Salzburg won the International Ior L.J. Scarpace. The camp is set Ice Hockey Federation's Continen- to begin Monday at Grand Oaks Ice tal Cup in 2010. Arena in Howell, Mich. A NNI TI . 1ENDING WWW.ICC.COOP ( INFO@ICC.COOP The Inter-Cooperative Council 337 E. William St., Ann Arbor, M1 48104 Phone: (734) 662-4414 (exL.100) TERRA MOLENGRAFF/Daly George Bedard & the Kingpins performs on the final night of Top of the Park on Sunday at Rackham Stage.