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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan football
team will host UNLV
at noon Saturday. The
Wolverines beat Oregon State,
35-7, last week, while the Rebels
lost to No. 10 UCLA, 37-3.
2
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Environment
law lecture
WHAT: Avi Garbow,
Environmental Protection
Agency general counsel,
will discuss his work with
the EPA.
WHO: Michigan Law
WHEN: Today at 11:50
a.m.
WHERE: Room 0225,
South Hall
Nursing School
grand opening
WHAT: Open-house
tours, ribbon cutting
ceremony, reception and
remarks to celebrate
the grand opening of
the School of Nursing.
WHO: School of Nursing
WHEN: Today at 11 a.m.
WHERE: 426 North
Ingalls Street
Wednesday’s GOP debate,
hosted by CNN, drew
a
record-breaking
22.9
million viewers for the channel,
CNN
reported
Thursday.
The debate is the second of 12
during the primary season for
the Republican candidates.
1
Landslides
lecture
WHAT: Jonathan Godt,
coordinator of the U.S.
Geographical Survey
Landslide Hazard
Program, will discuss
landslide science.
WHO: Earth and
Environmental Sciences
WHEN: Today at 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Room 1528,
Clarence Cook Little Bldg.
New Orleans annouced
this
week
that
an
unnamed
donor
will
pay for four Confederate
statues to be removed from
the city, the Times-Picayune
reported
Thursday.
The
cost to remove the statues is
estimated to be at $126,000.
3
Art musuem
after hours
WHAT: The University
of Michigan Museum of
Art offers extended hours,
featuring a special exhibit
from Tyree Guyton, creator
of the Heidelberg Project.
WHO: UMMA
WHEN: Today from 7 p.m.
to 10 p.m.
WHERE: UMMA
War in 17th
century China
WHAT: Ken Swope,
University of Southern
Mississippi professor, will
discuss conflicts during
the transition between the
Ming and Qing dynasties.
WHO: Confucius Institute
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m
to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Koessler Room,
Michigan League
Protein disease
Symposium
WHAT: Three guest key-
note speakers from Harvard,
Stanford and Max Planke
Institute will discuss mol-
ecules and machines.
WHO: Center for the
Discovery of New Medicines
WHEN: Today from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Kahn Auditorium
UM3D lab fall
open house
WHAT: Demonstrations
of what the lab can do,
including virtual reality,
rapid prototyping, motion
capture and animation.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: Today from 12 p.m
to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Duderstadt
Center first floor, Digital
Media Commons
Discussion
on Detroit
WHAT: Robert Fishman,
professor of architecture
and urban planning, will
talk about Detroit history.
WHO: Taubman College
of Architecture and
Urban Planning
WHEN: Today from
6 p.m to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Auditorium, Art
and Architecture Building
TUESDAY:
Professor Profiles
THURSDAY:
Student Voice
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
LEFT: Michigan fans tailgate
before
Saturday’s
defeat
of
Oregon State. (Ruby Wallau/
Daily)
RIGHT: Virginia Tech engineering
senior
Christina
Nguyen
demonstrates some of her drone
modifications during MHacks on
North Campus on Saturday. (Rita
Morris/Daily)
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EarthFest encourages students
to embrace sustainable lifestyle
Two-year program
to begin in the fall
2016 semester
BY ALLANA AKHTAR
Daily Staff Reporter
The University’s Board of
Regents approved a two-year
undergraduate major program
through the School of Public
Health at their monthly meet-
ing Thursday.
The program — through
which students will be able to
declare a public health major
beginning in the fall 2016
semester — will focus on “the
importance of critical think-
ing applied to important health
problems of the 21st century,”
according to an action request
written by University Provost
Martha Pollack and Martin
Philbert, dean of the School of
Public Health.
“What I think is important
to note is that this isn’t a pre-
professional degree, it’s a lib-
eral arts degree focused on the
kinds of problems that public
health researchers study,” Pol-
lack said in an interview with
The Michigan Daily on Tues-
day. “And I think it’s going to be
a really wonderful addition to
the selection of opportunities
for undergraduates.”
Gary Harper, a professor
in the Public Health School’s
Department of Health Behav-
ior and Health Education who
helped develop the major, said
public health is an important
area to study due to its strong
presence at the intersection of
health and policy.
Everything
from
second-
hand smoking, the effects of
natural disasters and personal
wellness, Harper noted, fall
under the umbrella of “public
health.”
“Public health is so pervasive
and it is so around us in every-
day life,” Harper said. “It is
really important that students
have a good understanding of
what public health is, what it
does and how to think about
world issues from a public
health perspective.”
Though a new major to the
University, faculty and stu-
dents have been expressing
interest in the major and work-
ing toward developing the con-
centration.
LSA junior Aditi Rao, an LSA
Student
Government
repre-
sentative, helped lead student
efforts to create a minor in
public health — and also con-
sulted with faculty about the
new major — after many stu-
dents voiced interest in a public
health degree through an LSA-
SG survey.
Like Harper, Rao touted
the forthcoming public health
degree as an interdisciplinary
program that will encompass
a combination of medicine, the
environment and public policy.
“Allowing
undergraduates
to obtain a degree in public
health will open many oppor-
tunities and provide a more
interdisciplinary
education,”
she said in an e-mail interview.
“Being knowledgeable about
a field like public health is so
important today, as the field is
so relevant whether it’s regard-
ing environmental issues or the
next vaccine at a local or global
level.”
Harper said he and other
faculty developed the degree
program with student interest
in mind. He said the course-
work will teach students about
the impact public health can
have on local and global com-
munities, and will incorporate
active learning and field work.
“We have really been devel-
oping a program that provides
a liberal education approach to
public health,” he said. “I think
students will enjoy both the
depth and the breadth of infor-
mation that will be provided.”
The program will feature
three
concentration
areas:
public health sciences, global
public health and community
public health. These areas will
“encourage
study
abroad,”
according to the action request.
Students will apply during
their
sophomore
year
and
begin public health studies as
a junior, similar to application-
only undergraduate programs
such as the Ford School of Pub-
lic Policy.
Board of Regents approve new
undergrad public health major
Annual event
draws hundreds of
students to Diag
BY ALYSSA BRANDON
Daily Staff Reporter
The
University’s
annual
EarthFest
celebrated
waste
reduction,
healthy
environ-
ments and climate action with a
Diag event on Thursday.
Geared toward educating stu-
dents about sustainability, the
festival featured games and free
food from local eateries. Attend-
ees were also encouraged to
visit tables and booths manned
by more than 50 sustainability
groups.
The event, which has been
held on campus for almost 20
years, drew hundreds of stu-
dents over the course of its four-
hour duration.
Barbara
Hagan,
sustain-
ability representative in the
University’s Office of Campus
Sustainability, said EarthFest
primarily focused on sparking
student engagement by show-
casing the work of sustain-
ability-based organizations on
campus.
“It highlights some of the
work that all of the student
groups as well as the internal
departments and external non-
profits do to protect the environ-
ment,” she said. “We encourage
new students to come and talk
to the student groups to see
which one they might want to
get engaged in.”
Circle K, Planet Blue and
Michigan Dining were among
the 50 participating organiza-
tions. Members of the Univer-
sity’s Solar Car team were also
present with their award-win-
ning solar car.
Members of the LSA Stu-
dent Government staffed tables
where attendees could pick up
small wildflower planters to
take home.
LSA senior Tanner Korponay,
chair of the LSA Student Gov-
ernment subcommitte, Taking
Responsibility for the Earth and
Environment, said EarthFest
demonstrates the importance of
sustainability on campus.
“(EarthFest makes) students
realize that they can be sustain-
able in very simple ways around
their homes and around campus
by doing very simple things,” he
said.
LSA sophomore Uriel Lee, an
LSA student government rep-
resentative, said she EarthFest
is way of celebrating and giving
back to the planet.
“It tells students how to be
sustainable, but more so, it also
shows a little appreciation for
Mother Earth,” Lee said. “It’s
raising awareness about the dif-
ferent things students can to do
to help the environment and be
sustainable at the same time.”
Hagan said, she hoped the
event helped students find orga-
nizations through which they
can join the cause.
“It would be awesome if it
was an opportunity for students
to connect with a student group
that is aligned with their own
ideas of what they want to work
on, and then dive in and become
involved and make a difference,”
she said. “They can achieve that
and have fun in the process and
meet people they’ve never met
before.”
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
LSA Dean Andrew Martin addresses the Board of Regents in the Michigan Union on Thursday.
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