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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The road to stardom
has been long for wom-
en’s basketball player
Cyesha Goree. It has included
multiple serious injuries and
other lapses of time without
seeing the court. Tuesday, she
played her final home game. >>
FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS PAGE 8
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
The FCC endorsed net
neutrality in a 3-2 vote
by
the
commissioners
Thursday, prohibiting service
providers
from
creating
“fast lanes” for other content
providers
and
effectively
declaring
the
Internet
a
public utility, NPR reported.
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TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
LEFT Engineering senior Antoine Baines reenacts his character for the Black on Wax event at the Michigan League on Monday. (David Song/
Daily) RIGHT Rapper Max Saalberg works on composing music with other members of the Neutral Zone Koel Appel-Kraut and Sam Watson
in the Bside Tuesday. (Virginia Lozano/Daily)
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The man known as
“Jihadi
John,”
who
appeared
in
several
ISIS videos depicting the
beheadings of hostages, was
confirmed to be a college-
educated
Briton
named
Mohammad
Emwazi,
The
Washington Post reported.
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More Photos of the
Week online
Recital
WHAT: Violinist Matthew
Leslie Santana will perform
a set featuring classical
recital pieces for the piano
and violin by composers
Thomson, Copland and
Rorem.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: John Knowles
Paine Concert Hall
Middle East
lecture
WHAT: This conference
will explore Latin America,
Spain and the Middle East.
WHO: Centers for Middle
Eastern and North
African, Latin American
and Caribbean Studies
WHEN: Today at 12 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
Work - Room 1636
Correction appended:
Due to a calculation error,
an infographic that ran in
print on Thursday alongside
the article “State funding
trends impact affordability
efforts” misidentified the
tuition of several schools.
The corrected infographic is
now online with the piece.
Please report any error in
the Daily to corrections@
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Student recital
WHAT: Music, Theatre &
Dance sophomore Melody
Stein will be performing on
the harp, playing through
a set of pieces featuring
the composers Grandjany,
Persichetti, Peschetti and
Vaughn Williams.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Stearns Building
— Cady Room
“Dragon
Wagon”
WHAT: Ann Arbor
bluegrass, folk-rock band
Dragon Wagon will be
performing their music
on a combination of the
mandolin, fiddle, banjo,
guitar, bass and percussion.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark, 316 S.
Main St.
Fusion jazz
WHAT: Iranian artist Rana
Farhan will perform a fusion
of classical Persian poetry
set to contemporary blues
and jazz music alongside
University graduate Jazz
students.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham
Graduate School
Digital Innovation
Greenhouse will
facilitate faculty,
staff projects
By COLLEEN HARRISON
For the Daily
As digital education moves to
the forefront of innovation ini-
tiatives on college campuses, the
University has launched a new
digitally minded program this
semester.
The Digital Innovation Green-
house will push to facilitate
growth in academic software on
campus.
In January, the University’s
Third Century Initiative’s Trans-
formation Grant awarded $1.4
million to the Digital Education
and Innovation department to
form DIG. The funding from the
grant covers three years of work,
which will allow the greenhouse
to work on initiatives such as
opening up data about courses
to students, improving online
tutoring efforts like the E2Coach
program, and helping academic
advisers assist students through
Student Explorer Advising.
By using these programs,
Rachel Neimer, assistant direc-
tor for the Center for Research
on Learning and Teaching and
DIG’s Communities of Practice
team lead, said she hopes teach-
ers will better be able to assist
students through new programs.
“I think this is an exciting
way to create new tools to help
instructors with the most chal-
lenging part of their teaching,”
Neimer said.
Physics Prof. Timothy McKay,
DIG principal investigator, said
one of the main focuses of DIG is
to focus on bringing digital inno-
vation and data-driven programs
to full-scale implementation, as
opposed to scattered use across
the University.
While the University staff and
faculty members behind pro-
grams like E2Coach or Student
Explorer would like to have them
available to everyone, they don’t
currently have the capacity to do
so on their own.
“They build something that
works, they test it out in that
class, they show that it’s effec-
tive, and then they start to talk
about it,” McKay said. “When
they talk about it, everyone else
wants to use it. (The) problem is
that (the) faculty member isn’t
really here to make a tool like
that available to everyone on
campus.”
Through DIG, McKay said he
hopes the programs will grow
from limited availability to hav-
ing nearly unlimited ability.
While DEI’s home sits on the
eighth floor of Hatcher Gradu-
ate Library, DIG will have a lab
on Washington St. McKay said
he envisioned DIG as a step in
between the initial creation of a
project and its implementation.
“The purpose of the Digital
Innovation Greenhouse is to take
things from innovators and grow
them up to maturity, to provide
the support that’s needed to do
that, to have the right kind of
interaction between developers
and users to make sure that as
they develop it, it gets better,” he
said.
James
DeVaney,
assistant
vice provost for Digital Educa-
tion and Innovation, said while
the program currently focuses
on the innovators and making it
easier for teachers to help stu-
dents, he wants to emphasize
creating a community that incor-
porates student voices in a num-
ber of ways.
“Will students be involved?”
he said. “Yes, as developers, as
interns, as personalization fel-
lows to support the kinds of proj-
ects the greenhouse is focusing
on initially.”
Mike Daniel, DEI director of
policy and operations, said the
New program seeks to promote
use of technology in classroom
‘U’ study finds similar addictive
properties in junk food, drugs
Researchers
hope to change
marketing practices
aimed at children
By SANJAY REDDY
For the Daily
Despite efforts to curtail fast
food consumption in the Unit-
ed States, junk food remains
in popular demand — and new
University research released
last week suggests this resil-
ience is in part due to the nature
of the foods themselves.
In a recently published paper
in the Public Library of Science,
University
researchers
con-
firmed that highly processed
foods, or foods with added fats
or refined carbohydrates such
as flour and sugar, have addic-
tive effects.
Researchers
found
these
effects work similarly to those
of common addictive drugs.
Unprocessed
foods,
without
added fats or refined carbo-
hydrates, such as salmon and
brown rice, were not associated
with addictive properties in the
study.
This research suggests that
highly processed foods may
have effects in the brain that are
very similar to those brought
about by drugs like alcohol
and nicotine, said Assistant
Psychology Prof. Ashley Gear-
hardt, a co-author of the study.
“The reward system in the
brain that is triggered by these
drugs may be triggered in the
same way by highly processed
foods,” she said.
This study has several far-
reaching implications, accord-
ing to Rackham student Erica
Schulte, a lead author of the
study. From a public aware-
ness
standpoint,
greater
understanding of the addictive
elements of highly processed
foods could help bring about
policy changes that discourage
its consumption.
Furthermore, Schulte said
the results could help change
the nature of marketing for
highly processed foods, partic-
ularly with regarding children.
“Currently we see market-
ing to children that is unique to
these highly processed, addic-
tive foods,” she said. “We think
that this study could illustrate
how harmful it is to get kids
hooked on these foods at such
an early age.”
Gearhardt said the study
could also help change the
negative stigma that often sur-
rounds people who are strug-
gling to eat healthy and lose
weight.
“Currently the narrative is
that when people struggle to
lose weight, they are not trying
hard enough,” she said. “What
is misunderstood is that there
is an actual addictive process
going on.”
Business sophomore Steph-
anie Fotouhi, a member of
PULSE, a health and wellness
student organization sponsored
by the University Health Ser-
vice, said she thought the new
findings will give both students
and faculty a better sense of the
challenges faced by those fac-
ing eating disorders.
“If we can spread the word
about this, then our classmates
who are struggling with eating
addiction can feel better about
themselves and receive the
right attention and treatment,”
she said.
Gearhardt and Schulte said
future research will seek to
investigate
specific
ingredi-
ents in highly processed foods
that bring out certain genetic
risk factors or vulnerabilities to
trigger an addictive response.
LSA
Student
Govern-
ment and Engineering Stu-
dent Government passed a
resolution
to
recommend
professors include language
regarding sexual misconduct
in their syllabi.
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