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Researchers find 
website decreases 
suicidal thoughts in 

new doctors

By SANJAY REDDY

Daily Staff Reporter

Upon beginning residency, 

newly licensed doctors often 
feel a combination of inferiority, 
stress and sleeplessness that 
can lead to an increase in 
suicidal thoughts. Fortunately, 
a recent study co-conducted by 
a University researcher shows 
the benefit of a new web-based 
tool to lessen, or even eliminate, 
these feelings.

The study was published in 

early November in the Journal 
of 
the 
American 
Medical 

Association 
Psychiatry. 

Researchers 
concluded 
that 

a 
free 
cognitive 
behavioral 

therapy website can cut the rate 
of suicidal thoughts in first-year 
residents in half. The program 
included four weekly interactive 
modules that covered topics 
like understanding the links 
between 
thoughts, 
emotions 

and behaviors and teaching the 
ability to challenge unrealistic 
thoughts.

Srijan 
Sen, 
associate 

professor of psychiatry at the 
University, 
and 
Constance 

Guille, assistant professor of 
psychiatry 
and 
behavioral 

sciences 
at 
the 
Medical 

University of South Carolina, 
led the research team. The web-
based tool, called MoodGYM, 
offers the same type of therapy 

that mental health professionals 
offer in therapy sessions. It 
was developed at Australian 
National University.

To carry out the study, Sen 

and Guille requested the help 
of 199 medical interns, another 
term for first-year residents. 
Half 
of 
the 
interns 
were 

assigned to use MoodGYM, and 
the other half received general 
information on depression and 
suicide and contact information 
for mental health professionals.

Of those who just got general 

information 
about 
mental 

health, one out of five thought 
about 
suicide 
sometime 
in 

their medical internship year. 
However, only one out of eight 
of the interns who used the 
MoodGYM app thought about 
suicide. 
Additionally, 
most 

assigned to the app continued 
to use it all year.

Guille said a focus of this study 

is to emphasize the importance 
of depression prevention rather 
than treatment after its onset.

“We are showing that we 

can prevent the onset of suicide 
ideation, as opposed to treating 
it once it is already there,” Guille 
said. “It is much more difficult 
to get people into treatment 
once they have mental health 
problems, 
so 
there 
is 
an 

advantage to preventing the 
onset.”

Sen said one of the biggest 

implications of this finding 
is that web-based cognitive 
behavioral therapy, and tools 
like it, can be used to help 
others in high-stress, high-
pressure situations. He said this 
could extend to undergraduates 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily

Project Elephant came to the Diag on Monday after Asian-American students felt overlooked at the University’s 
recent Diversity Summit. LEFT: Education junior Samantha Suh discusses issues of diversity with a visiting scholar. 
RIGHT: Engineering senior Sean Jiu and Business senior Derek Siew speak about Asian-American representation.

Demonstration 

addresses minority 
community’s role in 
diversity discussions

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

The cold didn’t stop three 

students from standing in the 
Diag all day Monday with a 
wooden cutout of an elephant 
to advocate for Asian-American 
inclusion on campus.

LSA senior Brendan Wu, 

Engineering senior Sean Liu 

and Business senior Jennifer 
Liu created the event, which 
they called Project Elephant, 
in response to the last week’s 
University-wide 
Diversity 

Summit.

Sean Liu, who is co-chair of 

the University’s United Asian 
American Organization, said 
the 
demonstration’s 
name 

stems from the common idiom 
of the “elephant in the room” 
— meaning an important and 
potentially awkward topic that 
is clearly apparent to all, but 
not discussed.

“We 
felt 
like 
elephants 

in the room where we were 
invited to the party, but not 

active participants,” Sean said. 
“There are issues, there are 
voices, there are people that 
are being left out and they are 
elephants in the room, and we 
want to talk about them.”

While 
attending 
events 

related to the summit, the 
three students said they felt 
as 
though 
Asian-American 

voices were excluded from the 
conversations about diversity 
on campus, prompting the Diag 
demonstration. 

“We felt like we were not 

included in the discourse and 
presentations of the Summit,” 
Wu said. “In some instances, 

Student-run 

teams will work 
over three months 
to develop startups

By GENEVIEVE HUMMER

Daily Staff Reporter

‘Tis 
the 
season 
for 

entrepreneurship.

Dozens of people gathered 

in the East Liberty Street 
headquarters of TechArb, an 
incubator for student startups 
sponsored by the University’s 
Center for Entrepreneurship 
and 
the 
Samuel 
Zell 
and 

Robert H. Lurie Institute for 
Entrepreneurial Studies, for 
the launch of its semi-annual 
startup program Monday night.

The incubator, which was 

founded in 2009, selects a 
number of startups each fall, 
winter and spring semester 
to participate in its out-of-
the-classroom crash course in 
business development.

This fall, TechArb selected 

21 teams from 50 applications, 
which TechArb director Ryan 
Gourley said is the highest 
number of applications the 
incubator has ever received.

See WEB, Page 3
See ELEPHANT, Page 3
See TECHARB, Page 3

Chad Carr 
dies after 
battle with 
brain cancer

COMMUNITY

Carr, 5, united ‘U’ 
community with 
strength during 
yearlong fight

By JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor

The Michigan football faithful 

received 
sad 
news 
Monday 

afternoon when Chad Carr, the 
5-year-old grandson of former 
Michigan 
coach 
Lloyd 
Carr 

and former Hall of Fame safety 
Tom Curtis, passed away after a 
yearlong fight with brain cancer.

Carr was initially diagnosed 

with an inoperable brain tumor 
called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine 
Glioma 
in 
September 
2014. 

In 
June, 
doctors 
escalated 

his 
treatment 
and 
began 

to provide him some relief. 
But two weeks ago, with his 
condition worsening, Carr went 
into hospice care after several 

attempts 
at 
recovery 
were 

unsuccessful.

Carr’s 
disease 
has 
united 

Wolverines 
and 
rivals 
alike. 

On Nov. 14 at Indiana, the 
Michigan football team wrote 
“#CHADTOUGH” on its helmets 
and dedicated its 48-41 victory to 
Carr. A week later, Michigan State 
and Ohio State wore decals in 
support of Carr on their helmets 
during their game in Columbus. 
More 
statements 
of 
support 

turned up on social media after 
Carr’s mother, Tammi, tweeted 
the news of his passing.

After Carr was diagnosed, 

his 
family 
established 
the 

ChadTough Foundation to raise 
awareness for rare pediatric 
brain tumors such as Carr’s.

“It’s 
incredible 
sadness, 

and I don’t know if it’s going 
to get better any time soon,” 
said 
Michigan 
coach 
Jim 

Harbaugh 
during 
a 
weekly 

radio appearance Monday night. 
“Heaven got stronger … heaven 
has another angel now.”

RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily

Engineering freshman Shivam Sharma, center, makes repairs to a blimp with guidance from his team members during testing for an introductory aerospace 
engineering course in Francois Xavier-Bagnoud Building on North Campus on Monday. 

BLIMPIN ’

Students, faculty to 
attend UN session 
to brainstorm new 
treaty after Kyoto

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

A team of eight University 

students 
and 
two 
faculty 

members will travel to Paris 

for two weeks at the beginning 
of December to observe the 
process of negotiating a new 
treaty 
to 
address 
climate 

change.

The team will attend the 

United Nations’ Conference of 
Parties, with representatives 
from more than 190 countries 
and 
nongovernmental 

organizations, including other 
universities.

The COP will focus on 

creating a treaty to replace the 

Kyoto Protocol, which expires 
in 2020. The Kyoto Protocol 
is an international agreement 
that was adopted in 1997 at the 
United 
Nations 
Framework 

Convention on Climate Change 
to create binding emission 
reduction 
standards. 
The 

conference in Paris will also 
focus on reducing emissions.

“The Conference of Parties 

happens every single year, 
and broadly its role is to help 
nations 
around 
the 
world 

to work to figure out how 
to 
reduce 
or 
manage 
our 

impact on the environment,” 
said Engineering sophomore 
Allison Hogikyan, a member 
of the team. “This particular 
COP we need to rewrite the 
international agreement.”

Hogikyan said the main 

reason the UN allows observing 
parties to attend the COP is to 
increase the transparency of 
the event.

See PARIS, Page 3

RESEARCH

ENVIRONMENT

Web therapy
helps first-year
med students

‘Project Elephant’ calls for 
inclusion of Asian students

TechArb
kicks off 
incubation 
program

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

‘U’ group plans Paris trip 
to observe climate talks

