2 Thursday, July 18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Bio-artography displayed by University researchers at fair Thursday, July 18, 2013 S The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com - Recruiting, Europe trip highlight summer work Scientific images reworked as artistic pieces up for sale By WILL GREENBERG Daily StaffReporter A crowd descended upon Ann Arbor on a sizzling Wednesday afternoon for the first day of the city's 54th annual Art Fair, which features hundreds of booths exhibiting art, selling food and hawking products and promotions, as well as displaying work from University researchers. The fair itself is a combination of four separate fairs: the Ann Arbor Art Fair, Ann Arbor's South University Art Fair, the State Street Area Art Fair and the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair. The fair runs until Saturday. In total, it covers over 30 city blocks with lltt artists and an estimated half million people in attendance. The artists hail from all over, coming from 38 different states and four countries along with local Ann Arbor artists. Art Fair spokesperson Daniel Cherrin said the event is a kind of two-way street: Ann Arbor hosts the artists so they can be included in one of the nation's largest art fairs, while in return the event brings business to the city. "The city itself is raw, the Art Fair itself is another way to bring people into the city and to enjoy what it has to offer," he said. "It's a Michigan tradition." Cherrin said this year the fair has expanded walking space to better accommodate foot traffic, added shuttle services and increased parking options. To address the projected 90-degree weather, Cherrin said there will be misting stations along South University Avenue and State Street as well as an air- conditioned trolley which will tour the fair. 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One cuy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked upat the Daily's oficetar $2. Suhscriptions tfr tall term, starting in Seytemher, uia U.S. mail are $110. Winter term (January through April) is $115, yearlong (September through April)is$195. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscniption rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Callegiate Press. By ALEXA DETTELBACH Daily Sports Writer Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico does a lot of traveling by plane these days. For starters, there's the never- ending cycle of recruiting visits all over the country, followed by the visits back home to Ann Arbor to preside over her players and check in on practices. Then there's the upcoming trip to Europe with the Michiganwomen'sbasketball team. And in between all of it, is a vaca- tion - a trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. with her family. "I got an opportunity to take my girls to Disney World," Barnes Arico said. "I've been trying to do it for years and last year getting hired in the springI didn'treally have the opportunity, so I had a chance to do that and (also) to visit with my fam- ily in the offseason." But after the success of last sea- son, in which the Wolverines fin- ished 22-11 and advanced to the se'ond round of \Ithe NCAA Tou.- work out on their own with our strength coach doing some lifting and conditioning." And for all the successes last season, Barnes Arico and Michigan will have have a lot of holes to fill this season. The Wolverines lose five seniors to graduation, all of whom were an integral part of the team, as they accounted for over 80 percent of the offense. Their grad- uation turned the Wolverines into an inexperienced squad overnight. Highlighting the inexperience are Michigan's three freshmen as well as the addition of junior trans- fer guard Shannon Smith from North Carolina. In addition, four players who tore their ACL last summer are back with the team after not playing all of last season. "Obviously we have four new kids and four returners coming off of ACL surgery, so really that's eight kids that haven't played last year and a total of 11 on our roster," Barnes Arico said. "So, we're going to be very inexperienced and very vungn." While the freshmen new faces arrived to campus during the last week of June, Smith has been in Ann Arbor since the spring semes- ter. During her freshmen season in 2010-2011 at UNC, Smith was a dynamic scorer but only played in eight games before takinga medical redshirt due to a lingering illness. In Smith's sophomore cam- paign, she played in 25 games and averaged 3 points per game and 13 minutes per game. Smith, who still has two more years of eligibility, sat out the 2012-2013 season before transferring to Michigan "We're fortunate Shannon has been here for both (the) spring ses- sion and summer session and she's just been an absolute pleasure to have around," Barnes Arico said. "She really made a commitment to doing well in the classroom in her first semester here and did a great job. She's just such a competitive kid and really truly loves the game of basketball and has been a winner every place that she's been. "She is in the gym nonstop when she's not in study hall or in class. She spends her free time in the gym really working on her game, and I'm excited to have her because she really wants to win. She's very competitive and she wants to bring her winning spirit to our program." The rest of the new faces - freshmen guards Siera Thompson, Paige Rakers and Danielle Wil- liams - have been on campus for a couple of weeks and have been hard at work both on and off the court. "They've had a wonderful tran- sition," Barnes Arico said. "The three of them are outstanding young ladies from great fami- lies and they're doing really well. Academically, they've all gotten off to a really great start (and) socially, they're adjusting to life in Michigan, life as a college stu- dent. They're great kids and we're expecting big things from them." The Wolverines are taking a for- eign trip to France and Spain to play three games. The trip will allow Michigan to have ten practices in the summer and begin full practice before many other teams. It won't just be all fun, though, as the Wol- verines are expected to make stops to Lake Como, the Pantheon, Col- osseum and Eiffel Tower. "We're excited about (the opportunity) to get a jump start on things," Barnes Arico sail "We' really fortunate to have thie tinme in the summer to get some workouts under our belt." Amid the transitioning players and continuous workouts, Barnes Arico has also been in and out of Ann Arbor traveling to recruit players. Soon, formal practices will be back in session and will be added to the running list on Barnes Arico's plate. If the plane rides are what it takes to get ahead of the game and continue winning, then Barnes Arico wouldn't have it any other way. Trip Details After announcing its plans ear- lier to take a trip to France and Italy from August 19-29, the Michi- gan women's basketball team has released further details of the trip. The 10-day long trip will begin on the 19th when the Wolver- 40 ines depart Ann Arbor, heading through the night to Paris - the location of their first game, which will take place on Aug. 23. Two more games in Europe will follow for Michigan, as it stops in Lake a Como on the 24th and Rome on the 27th to complete its menage a trois. In between the three games, the Wolverines will makes stops in the south of France and Florence before heading back to Ann Arbor on the 29th. Of course, Michigan wouldn't be ready for its series of games if not for practice. The Wolverines will commence their preparation on Thursday, July 18th for four days before completing the rest of their, ten allowed summer practices in August. 12o Your Yo ga witha rope build $70 STRENGTH 30 days unlimited release classes stress russayog.com 215 s. state ann arbor -I--M 'M'RL'NE LACASSE/Uaiy University researcher Jennifer Freeman describes a photograph to visitors at a booth of bio-artography, microscopic images originally captured during scientific research. people know that the Art Fair is coming up and it's something that we all plan for," he said. Though the fair does not include work from the School of Art and Design, it does feature some pieces from University faculty. Among these includes "bio-artography", a science- meets-art creation by University researchers. Bio-artography is composed of pictures taken during lab work through microscopes and features the naturally occurring art within living cells. Deborah Gumucio, professor of cell and developmental biology and head of the bio-artography project, said she and her colleagues started selling these pictures at the Art Fair in 2005 as a way to raise money for young student-scientists to attend meetings across the country. Gumucio said the process involves faculty from five University schools and 27 different departments with researchers submitting images they have taken during the course of their work. Light and color is then added in to the received pictures. Gumucio and five faculty members in the School of Art and Design then vote the pieces that will be displayed. The images portray anything from cancer to stem cells, Gumucio said. She added that on top of being visually pleasing, the pictures have the appeal of being from actual work done at the University. Because of this, Gumucio said the pictures both raise money and help to educate and engage the public on science. Through her work, she has spoken at high schools, forums and meetings to discuss the way that science and art can be used to promote each other. "We'll start talking about something - let's say the induced 'iuripotenit sten cells," Gumucio said. "And now you have an opportunity to tell them what the differences are between whole-organ stem cells in an adult versus pluripotent stem cells that you make from an adult versus embryonic stem cells." Gumucio said the project typically puts forth about 100 pictures, which usually generate about $9,000 to $10,000 - half of which goes to preparing the images and the other half to the students. Gumucio said since 2005, the project has sent over 60 students to meetings nationwide. Theresa Reid, executive director of Arts Engine and one of the five artists that vote on the images used in the project, said the images are "fantastic" and that she really supports the bio- artography project. "(Gumucio and her colleagues have) been encouraged to see the beauty of their scientific work in ways that I don't think they otherwise would have," Reid said. TODD NEEDLE/Daily Coach Kim Barnes Arico will have to replace 80% of her offense this coming season. nament, expectations are high for both Barnes Arico and her team. They know there's no time to rest. "The young ladies had an oppor- tunity to go home after they fin- ished the winter semester, but for the most part I think actually 100 percent of them chose to stay," Barnes Arico said. "They got about a week break where they had a chance to go home and see their family and kind of unwind after our season, and our season lasted longer than it typically dines 'Their they all came back and started to New NCAA rules stipulate that teams can work out together in the summer for two hours per week. The Wolverines have practice twice a week at the end of May and throughout all of June. "This is the first summer where coaches are allowed to work out their teams," Barnes Arico said. "(It) has been great for us because it really gives us an opportunity to help work on their game and really develop our relationships especial- ly with our new kids as long as sith the returning kids in the prgram."