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smokers,” 
Cherng 
said. 
“Any 

potential effects that e-cigarettes 
have on smoking initiation or 
the overall smoking prevalence 
in the United States is going to 
have a much smaller effect than 
if e-cigarettes have an effect on 
smoking cessation or an increased 
smoking cessation because we have 
so many more current smokers 
using e-cigarettes.”

Consistent 
with 
the 
team’s 

finding, 
statistics 
from 
the 

American Lung Association show 
that 76.8 percent of people who 
recently used e-cigarettes in 2013 
also were traditional cigarette 
smokers.

Cherng said further research is 

imperative for future debates and 
policymaking about e-cigarettes.

“Because the evidence is so scant 

right now about whether or not 
they actually do increase smoking 
initiation among never-smokers 
versus their effect on cessation, in 
terms of the policy implications, 
it’s important to contextualize 
that in e-cigarette regulation,” 
Cherng said, adding: “if we can 
start focusing people towards the 
potential benefits of e-cigarettes 
and also enact legislation that helps 
prevent young kids from using 
them, then what we expect is that 
there is a potential of a huge benefit 
resulting from e-cigarette use if 
they increase cessation.” 

Paula Lantz, associate dean for 

research and policy engagement, 
echoed Cherng’s statements and 

said in an email interview that there 
is merit to the argument that too 
much regulation for e-cigarettes 
could be detrimental.

“(Many) are concerned that 

the FDA might “over-regulate” 
e-cigarettes, in that it will make it 
harder for e-cigarettes to be used 
as a harm reduction approach or 
smoking cessation tool for current 
smokers,” 
Lantz 
said. 
“While 

much more research is needed...
the 
Cherng 
simulation 
model 

forecasts demonstrate quite clearly 
that, under any reasonable set of 
assumptions, the harm reduction 
and 
smoking 
cessation 
gains 

will significantly outweigh any 
increase in youth smoking due to 
e-cigarettes. This supports the 
concerns 
that 
over-regulating 

e-cigarettes will be bad for public 
health.”

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professor 
at 
the 
Institute 
for 

Social Research and professor of 
psychiatry at the Medical School.

Murphy 
was 
unavailable 
to 

comment for this article.

Sanford, the Moses Gomberg 

Collegiate Professor of Chemistry 
and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, 
was youngest of the four inductees, 
and the only professor in the 
group to have started working 
at the University after the new 
millennium.

She 
was 
elected 
for 
her 

130 
published 
papers 
on 
the 

development 
of 
new 
chemical 

reactions that enable the production 
of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, 

positron 
emission 
tomography 

(PET) imaging reagents, battery 
components and fuels in a more 
efficient 
and 
environmentally 

friendly manner.

Standford said none of this 

would have been possible without 
the support of her department 
colleagues and undergraduate and 
graduate students of her research 
group. She also expressed her 
gratitude to fellow NAS member 
Robert Grubbs, her Ph.D. advisor 
and Noble Prize winning chemist at 
Calinforia Institute of Technology.

“(Grubbs) has been an amazing 

advisor, mentor and advocate for 
me throughout my career,” Sanford 
said. “He is a terrific scientist and 
person, and I am constantly inspired 
by his enthusiasm and approach to 
both science and his students.”

depressive symptoms over time 
unless they are Black men.”

However, these findings do 

not suggest Black men do not 
know how to use their education, 
Assari said. On the contrary, 
for Black men, each year of 
education increasingly protects 
the population from engaging 
in risky behavioral patterns. 
Rather, it is the persistent 
societal segregation and social 
barriers present an increase in 
the risk of depressive symptoms 
for Black men, according to 
Assari. 
He 
explained 
that 

negative social barriers lead to a 
restricted access to jobs and an 
unequal pay, both of which lead 
to the potential development of 
depressive symptoms. 

“There is this intersection of 

gender and race which works as 
a huge barrier in this country, 
not only just race,” Assari said.

Assari said these findings 

raise the question as to whether 
this research is something new, 
or whether society has known 
and allowed this to occur.

“We knew discrimination and 

racism exist, and we knew that 
education doesn’t benefit to the 
same level to the Blacks but, to 
my understanding, that we never 
knew— that it may increase risk 
of depression,” Assari said.

Ultimately, 
Assari 
hopes 

public policy can be altered 
to eliminate social barriers. 
In the mean time, he hopes 
that clinicians, while treating 
Black males, keep in mind the 
correlation between depressive 
symptoms and an elevation in 
education level. 

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Ford, a University alum — although 
it is housed in Joan and Sanford 
Weill Hall.

“It’s still the Ford School, named 

after one of our most cherished 
alumni, but the building is named 
after two donors who helped us 
realize the vision for the new 
facility,” Schlissel wrote. “In both 
the Ford and Trotter cases, the 
donors shared U-M’s vision for what 
their gifts could do for our campus.”

Schlissel also referenced an April 

29 meeting between himself, E. 
Royster Harper, the University’s 
vice president for student life, and 
representatives from the Black 

Student 
Union, 
which 
initially 

called for the relocation of Trotter 
two years ago with the #BBUM 
campaign — a viral public discussion 
on the experiences of Black students 
— and has been at the forefront 
of advocating for the center’s 
new central campus location and 
therefore increased accessibility. 

BSU programming chair Jamie 

Thompson, an LSA junior, voiced 
disapproval of the new building’s 
name in an e-mail interview with the 
Daily last week. Thompson wrote 
that, although she understands 
the 
Multicultural 
Center 
itself 

will retain Trotter’s name, she still 
disagrees with it being housed in a 
facility named after Bernstein and 
his wife. 

“Black students have fought for 

the last 40 plus years to provide a 
space on our campus for ourselves 
and for the promotion of diversity 
on our campus,” Thompson wrote. 
“What will it mean for students, and 
students to come, to see building 
after building all named after white 
men? At the end of the day, the 
University will operate as a business 
— caring more about monetary gifts 
than the feelings of its students and 
alumni.”

Thompson 
also 
criticized 

Schlissel’s Ford School/Weill Hall 
analogy, pointing out the inherent 
differences 
between 
the 
two 

buildings in a public Facebook post.

“Unlike the Ford School of Public 

Policy, Trotter is not a college,” 
Thompson wrote. “Trotter stands 
outside of the academic realm and 

serves as a social setting for students 
... It serves as an environment for 
students of color to have a space of 
their own.”

The 
University 
emphasized 

Bernstein and Bendit’s history of 
civil rights advocacy, highlighting 
the couple’s work with groups 
including 
the 
American 
Civil 

Liberties 
Union, 
the 
Michigan 

Civil Rights Commission as well 
as a number of Jewish community 
service organizations at the April 21 
Board of Regents meeting.

Regent Bernstein applauded the 

role of student activists in securing 
the multicultural center’s relocation 
in a press release. 

“Rachel and I are honored 

to support the legacy of all who 
have advanced the enriching and 

empowering mission of Trotter 
since its founding — the generations 
of U-M students who have been 
activists for diversity, and the 
current 
U-M 
students 
whose 

advocacy helped guide the vision for 
this new building,” Bernstein said 
in the statement. “Their movement 
inspires our gift.”

Simpson 
additionally 

underscored the importance of 
student involvement with “A New 
Trotter” — the student committee 
responsible 
for 
planning 
and 

designing the new center. She also 
previewed events hosted by the 
Trotter Center aimed at educating 
the student body on the history of 

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