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Thursday, August 4, 2016
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Kellie Halushka remembered
fondly for wit and individualism
OBITUARY
By
BRANDON
SUMMERS-
MILLER
Summer Managing News Editor
Kellie Halushka, vice president
of membership of the Inter-
Cooperative
Council
in
Ann
Arbor, is fondly remembered for
her involvement at the University
of Michigan, both academically
and socially, and for her candid
spirit. Halushka was a rising
LSA senior studying English
who had been accepted to the
sub-concentration
in
creative
writing.
Halushka, who passed away
suddenly after an accident July
10, 2016 at 20 years old, was
originally from Troy, Michigan.
Halushka served as the vice
president
of
membership
of
the ICC as a firm believer in
intentional
communities
and
creating safe spaces for people to
openly express themselves.
School of Information senior
Carolyn Gearig, a longtime friend
and former Daily staff editor, said
she would always remember how
Halushka would keep a positive
attitude even when she struggled
in her personal life.
“Even when things were really
bad she just was also funny and
really witty,” Gearig said.
“A lot of people say she was
really the only person who they
felt
like
understood
them,”
she said. Halushka will also be
remembered for her uniqueness
and dedication to being entirely
herself.
Recent
LSA
alum
Alex
Heimbaugh, a close friend of
Halushka’s, said one way she
would remember her friend is
by the way she treated all people
with a sense of dignity and
kindness.
“I guess I feel really lucky
because sometimes this happens
to people and there’s loose ends
or people don’t know how they
felt about them, but we all knew
Kellie loved us a lot,” Heimbaugh
said. “She was good at that.”
solution,” Assari said. “If you
undo the effects of education on
number of chronic conditions or
the progress of (CMC), education
would still have some effect on
mortality. The way education
and the way race influence
mortality may have similarities
and differences.”
Julia Carter, an epidemiology
student at the University of
Pittsburg, has been working with
Assari for her summer internship
through the Michigan Institute
for Clinical and Health Research
in the Immersion in Health
Disparities Research Program.
Carter said she and Assari see
racial disparities like these in
every aspect of health. However,
aside from the factors that could
play a role in the risk of mortality
mentioned in Assari’s study,
Carter said she thinks culture is
another element that needs to be
considered.
“Culture plays a big part in
health
disparities,
especially
along race lines,” Carter said.
“For
minority
populations,
culture isn’t often times taken
into
account.
For
example,
obesity — if you go and see a
primary
care
physician
and
they don’t take into account the
contextual factors as to why you
might be obese or why a minority
individual might be obese, the
interventions proposed are not
going to be effective.”
Carter agreed with Assari’s
findings
that
race
and
socioeconomic status work both
together and separately.
“Race
and
(socioeconomic
status)
are
so
interlinked,”
Carter said. “It’s so hard to
separate those two because they
go so hand in hand. At what
point do you know if this is a
race thing or a (socioeconomic
status) thing, given that race
and (socioeconomic status) are
linked?”
Additionally,
Carter
said
showing
different
stratified
levels of socioeconomic status
— rather than limiting research
to simply poor versus wealthy —
is crucial in showing a negative
progression in health and chronic
conditions.
PREMATURE
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companies.
“I think the benefit of academic
accounting, in at least my part
of it, is we are very unbiased,”
Shakespeare said. “We provide
neutral
perspectives
of
how
the world works and what the
information is. I think in that
regard, being neutral observers
helps inform standard setters.
… If we can improve on efficient
capital allocation, then I think the
economy is better off.”
Both
the
Center
and
Shakespeare
have
a
central
mission to help people understand
the relevance of accounting within
a business.
“We want to create people
who will be thought leaders
in accounting, whether it be
Ph.D.s, whether it be practicing
accountants,”
Shakespeare
said.
“Having
a
really
deep
understanding of what I would
call the institution of accounting —
the world of accounting — is really
important in trying to identify
how do you attract the very best
into accounting.”
Entrepreneurship – Bridging
Gaps
Peter
Adriaens,
University
professor of entrepreneurship, was
hired by the University in 1992, but
he did not begin his career at the
Ross School of Business. Instead,
he was a professor of civil and
environmental engineering in the
College of Engineering, working to
develop engineering technologies
related to sustainability efforts.
Yet, Adriaens said he realized
that for his “applied research” to
be considered in the marketplace,
he had to first consider business
models.
Adriaens
soon
made
the
switch
from
engineering
to business, hoping to teach
entrepreneurship to engineering
students, where business models
are designed based on the types of
investments they could receive.
Following
his
work
with
entrepreneurship, Adriaens made
one final transition to teaching
finance
to
design
financial
technologies and create finance
models — an area in which he
continues to work today.
Adriaens uses his roots in
environmental
engineering
in
conjunction with his knowledge
of finance to work on a number
of projects, including the Global
CleanTech Cluster Association.
Adriaens,
co-founder
of
the
Switzerland-based
association,
said his primary focus with the
company is to provide global clean
technology.
With
more
than
10,000
companies
in
27
countries
worldwide incorporating the use of
54 economic development clusters
— geographic concentrations of
firms that address the common
needs of the businesses within
the cluster — Adriaens said he
helps develop regional economic
activities that help countries and
regions transition from traditional
fossil fuel economies to green
economies. Some green economies
include water sustainability, LED
lighting and coastal energy, which
refers to developing companies on
coastal locations to create energy.
“Including the U.S. and in
Europe and Canada and all the
developed economies, we have
over the last 100 years essentially,
in an unlimited way, accessed
all natural resources, all natural
capital,”
Adriaens
said.
“The
natural capital — this is water, this
is soil, this is anything that you use
that nature provides you, trees,
water, soil quality, biodiversity.
We’ve used it to actually create
wealth from that. But we have not
really sustained that or reinvested
in that.”
Because
of
this,
Adriaens
listed a number of reasons why
Global CleanTech is crucial to
all countries involved, including
environmental policy decisions as
well as from a moral and financial
standpoint. Adriaens mentioned
a recent emphasis on circular
economy,
which
produces
no
waste and pollution since the
products reenter the system.
“Right now we’re really starting
to think about circular economies,
so these are economies that not
only take out but also put back in,”
Adriaens said. “And the question is
how one does that from a financial
perspective, how one does that
from a material perspective, how
one does that from an emissions
management perspective.”
Adriaens is also the CEO of the
KeyStone Compact Group, which
is an asset management firm that
designs and structures investment
funds or pension funds to make
investing in sustainability easier
globally. Adriaens said he hopes
to continue this type of work by
developing financial technology
to analyze the financial risk
of an investment opportunity,
using the design and execution of
new investment instruments to
bring a variety of funds into the
sustainability space.
ROSS
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