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UMHS
and
CVS
Health
includes
both
CVS/pharmacy
and
MinuteClinic,
and
will
be available at CVS pharmacy
and
MinuteClinic
locations
nationwide.
“We are always searching for
new opportunities to provide our
patients with the absolute best
patient care possible,” said David
Spahlinger, executive vice dean for
clinical affairs at the University’s
Medical School, in a press release.
“This affiliation presents us with a
unique opportunity to collaborate
with CVS health care providers
and enhance our system of care
for our patients to better meet
their needs.”
The connection will allow —
only with patient consent — the
electronic sharing of messages
and alerts from CVS/pharmacy
to UMHS-affiliated physicians
in situations such as medication
compliance. MinuteClinic will
also be able to electronically share
patient visit summaries with the
patient’s UMHS primary care
physician.
Currently, when a patient
is seen at a MinuteClinic or
other
urgent
care
clinics,
communicating what happened
at those visits to their primary
provider is not as connected.
Providers rely on faxes, mail
and the patients themselves to
remember
and
communicate
what happened at visits with
other health care providers, Choe
said. The new clinical affiliation
between UMHS and CVS aims to
provide better continuity of care.
“Having this ability to connect
through our EHR allows us to
communicate more efficiently and
in a timely fashion without having
to burden the patient,” Choe said.
The system will also provide
aggregate data on interventions
conducted by CVS pharmacists
to UHS to improve a patient’s
adherence to their medication.
CVS Spokeswoman Christina
Beckerman emphasized that the
new association will benefit both
providers and patients.
“This relationship offers a new
access point and improves care
coordination
and
medication
management, which are critical
to a patient’s health,” Beckerman
said. “UMHS and CVS want to
ensure that our patients receive
and have access to the best
possible care and that means that
care is coordinated, no matter
where it is delivered”.
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brought up a lot of great points,”
said Sheena Martenies, Ph.D.
candidate in the University’s
Department of Environmental
Health Sciences. “You can’t just
stop with challenging an issue,
you have to move forward and
deal with it. I thought that was
very inspirational.”
The symposium also included
information sessions on studies
from the Detroit URC, such as
ones on researching the social
determinants
—
demographic
characteristics, exposure to air
pollution, social environments —
of health inequities.
In
an
interview
after
Satcher’s address, Linda Pappas,
communications specialist for
the Detroit URC, described the
symposium as a two-fold event
to both celebrate the center’s
research
and
to
encourage
young adults to pursue the
fields of public health and urban
research.
“One, to celebrate 20 years
of success in fostering health
equity through community-based
participatory
research
(and)
really celebrating how community
comes together with academics to
do research to benefit the health
of communities,” she said. “But
then also to inspire people for the
next generation to take on this
important work.”
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negative: Positive triggers that
prompted an admissions officer
to probe an applicant’s social
media included interesting talents
or special awards, as well as
for scholarship considerations,
while negative triggers included
disclosure of a criminal record
or disciplinary action, as well
as an anonymous tip about
inappropriate behavior.
LSA freshman Susie Meaney
said she did not feel as though her
social media would have affected
her college prospects last year.
“I’m also very conscious of
what I post regardless, so I didn’t
really feel like I had a lot to worry
about,” Meaney said.
Engineering sophomore Matt
Schafer, on the other hand,
expressed his discomfort with
the practice. Schafer said posts
on social media profiles are not
necessarily representative of the
candidate.
“It’s a little unfair because
someone might have just like,
said something stupid, being silly
on Twitter, on Facebook, and
that would end up possibly not
letting them into the college they
really wanted to get into, when
everything else, they had qualified
for, or not getting a scholarship
that they really needed,” Schafer
said.
Meaney also said she feels
this practice is unfair, as it
disproportionately benefits high
schoolers who were aware of an
admissions officer’s likelihood of
checking social media.
“Basically, if someone had
maybe an older sibling or a cousin
that had gone through something
like that, then they were more
conscious, but I think some people
hadn’t heard from other people
that, ‘Oh, colleges actually do look
at your social media,’ and those
people didn’t really care (what
they posted),” Meaney said.
The survey also found that
social media could both positively
and negatively affect a prospective
student’s
application.
Thirty-
seven
percent
of
admissions
officers said an applicant’s social
media had positively affected
their view of the candidate, but
an equal 37 percent said it had
negatively affected their decision.
Positive
findings
included
previously
undisclosed
community
involvement
or
leadership roles, while negative
findings included evidence of drug
or alcohol use, criminal activity or
otherwise inappropriate behavior.
The
University
admissions
website does not explicitly say
they check social media profiles,
though they state valuing traits
outside of an applicant’s test
scores, such as “evidence of
leadership, awards and service.”
“We look at each student as a
whole package, a combination of
talents, interests, passions, and
skills,” the website states. “In this
way, we can look beyond grades
and test scores to recruit the
most dynamic group of students
possible.”
Engineering freshman Niko
Sawan said using social media
as a measure of judgment for
admissions is justified since a
serious candidate would already
be wary of posting inappropriate
content on social media.
“I don’t see a problem with
them checking social media,”
Sawan said. “If you’re really
worried about your stuff on (social
media), there’s so many ways to
make yourself private, change
your name, do all this stuff. So
if you’re really serious about
applying to college, I don’t think
there’s any reason for you to have
something that would make the
difference between you getting
into college or not.”
Despite the fact that some
may be unaware that college
admissions can look at applicants’
social media, Meaney said overall
she feels it’s justified in verifying
jobs and awards as well as
allocating scholarships.
“I think that your social media
pages are kind of like an extension
of yourself and can kind of reveal
more than you would put in an
application,” Meaney said.
Schafer
echoed
Meaney’s
sentiments, and said reviewing
an applicant’s social media allows
a college admissions officer to
get a more holistic view of that
applicant.
“I think it’s okay to a certain
extent. It definitely does give
admissions officers a different side
to the person, so it’s not just what
I’m trying to show you. When
you’re doing an (application), you
kind of put all the good qualities
about you, not necessarily the bad
ones, so social
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a mission to Mars right now,”
Billings said.
Billings
added
that
he
learned
extraterrestrial
colonization is going to be
different from the image
that media and pop culture
portrays.
“You have this concept
from sci-fi of how you see
manned missions and how
you see media pick up on that
but then when you get down to
reality it’s a lot different but it’s
still possible and even in our
future,” Billings said.
Billings and Katz both
expressed their excitement
that the University was able
to get ahold of a speaker like
Logan.
Logan also held a Q and
A
session
with
students
following the presentation.
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damages caused at Boyne were
determined to be non-malicious.
Four
members
of
SAM
fraternity,
including
the
chapter’s former president and
treasurer, have faced criminal
charges on accounts of malicious
destruction of property and the
provision of alcohol and drugs to
minors over the incident.
Mary Beth Seiler, director of
Greek life at the University, said
the events served as a call to
action for members of the Greek
life community.
“It was a huge wake up call
I think for everybody,” Seiler
said. “I think there was a lot
of surprise at what ultimately
happened to the organizations
that
were
involved.
Maybe
organizations
didn’t
realize
when it first happened how big
it could get and what that public
opinion meant.”
In September 2015, University
President Mark Schlissel held
a
community-wideGreek
life
assembly that required at least 70
percent of all chapters to attend
— an unprecedented action for a
University president. Fraternities
and sororities were told that if
they didn’t meet the attendance
requirement, they would face a
$1,000 fine and social probation.
The
meeting
marked
the
first time the entire Greek
community,
including
the
National Pan-Hellenic Council
and Multicultural Greek Council,
gathered in the 170-year history
of Greek life on campus.
Central topics of the September
meeting included a pressing
need for Greek organizations to
curb sexual assault and alcohol
abuse, stemming from what was
characterized by administrators
as
excessive
party
culture.
Schlissel warned students their
behavior
would
ultimately
devalue their own degrees and
taint the University’s national
image.
“The value of their degrees
are gonna go down because the
reputation of the University
of
Michigan
won’t
be
the
excitement in the Big House or
our teams doing well under our
fantastic new coach,” Schlissel
said at the September meeting.
“It’s not gonna be the kids who
receive the Rhodes Scholarships
and the Fulbright Scholarships,
and the famous professors who
do the work that you’re going
to get reflected on for, or the
National Medal for the Arts that
our faculty won this past week.
It’s going to be the ‘Shmacked’
videos. So it’s really up to you
what the value of your education
is going to be, what the reputation
of this institution’s going to be.”
Speaking
to
Schlissel’s
September
statement,
Seiler
said she had concerns over
the heightened visibility and
therefore
negative
scrutiny
Greek life organizations attract
on campus.
She said Greek life tends to be
a target for scrutiny due to the
6,000-person
membership
as
well as visible letters on clothing
and houses. She noted, however,
that the poor decisions of some
organizations
unfairly
reflect
poorly on others.
In an interview with the Daily
directly following September’s
mass meeting, one fraternity
member — choosing to remain
anonymous due to Greek life
chapters’ strict rules prohibiting
members of organizations from
speaking to news or media
outlets
—
expressed
similar
sentiments, saying Greek life
receives magnified scrutiny for
campus-wide issues.
“If anything, a lot of the
times when incidents happen
it’s people from outside of the
organization that come to our
parties
and
cause
trouble,”
he said at the time. “So, it’s a
message that really should have
been transmitted to the entire
University.”
Seiler
said
she
thought
Schlissel’s comments may not
apply to all Greek life members,
and that she hoped joining a
Greek life organization would not
devalue a Michigan education.
“I would certainly hope that it
wouldn’t devalue the education,
and that would be the last thing
inclusion of ZP, a highly purified
form of nisin, as opposed to
some
other
commercially
available forms of nisin, which
are concentrated at 2.5 percent.
Kapila said the ZP is the most
effective.
Kapila said they are currently
working to see if the bacteriocin
could be toxic to cancers in other
areas of the body aside from
head and neck cancer cells. She
said it would be beneficial to try
to do the experiment and feed
the mice the nisin milkshake
prior to injecting them with the
tumor cells to see if they can
prevent the cells from initially
even taking root.
Ultimately, Kapila said she
is hoping to do a clinical trial,
but finding funding has been a
setback.
Though
the
research
suggests that nisin could help
prevent the development of
cancer cells, this does not mean
overconsumption of products
that
contain
preservatives
such as nisin will be beneficial
to one’s health. One common
misconception is that over-
consuming
products
that
contain
these
and
other
similar preservatives will have
positive effects and reduce the
likelihood of developing cancer
cells. This is not true, Kapila
said.
“The preservative that’s in
the food, there is a shelf life to
it,” Kapila said. “So by the time
people ingest foods that have
nisin in it, a lot of it is probably
broken down. So the amount
of it that people actually ingest
is not anywhere near to the
quantities that have been tested
in the animal models or the cell
models.”
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grateful to have been recognized.
Goold works on the Detroit
Design/Build Dreamscape, which
helps renovate the landscape
of the James and Grace Lee
Boggs School through utilizing
sustainable technologies.
“I was completely taken by
surprise,” Goold said. “I am really
overwhelmed with gratitude. It is
really such an honor to be named
a Spirit Award winner, especially
with the namesake of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.”
Munson
and
Christopher
Kendall, former dean of the
School of Music, Theatre & Dance,
were also honored at the event for
their efforts to promote diversity
in their various schools. The two
spearheaded an effort to increase
diversity events on North Campus,
as well as encourage and increase
minority representation within
their respective schools.
This year’s awards are the first
to include a collaboration between
the deans and students in planning
the event. Derrick Scott, Director
of Inclusion and Multicultural
Engineering
Programs,
said
students showed a desire to help,
so
they
accommodated
their
ambition.
“This is the first time the
students have come together the
way that they have,” Scott said.
“Once they did, we said we are
going to find a way to make sure
we can blend it with them.”
This new partnership resulted
in a new addition to the event:
the Agents of Change gallery.
The gallery, which highlights
the importance of diversity and
community on campus, has been
on display since Jan. 8, and is
a combined effort among the
different schools located on North
Campus.
The idea for the gallery initially
came from Stamps in Color, a
student organization aimed at
promoting diversity for students
in the Art and Design school. The
project started with the goal of
creating an event to better honor
Martin Luther King Jr. on North
Campus, ending with the exhibit,
which
aimed
to
incorporate
aspects of every school on North
Campus.
Amy Kamdem-Wandji, LSA
and Art & Design senior and one
of the founders of Stamps in Color,
said the organization wanted to
make students on North Campus
more aware of the importance in
promoting diversity.
“The
conversation
doesn’t
happen very much up here,”
Kamdem-Wandji
said.
“We
wanted to do something where
for once the focus was here.
We wanted to say, ‘Hey North
Campus, you too have to talk about
this. This matters in your work
and your schoolwork.”
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