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Michigan’s
legislature
is taking the next step to
ensure that the state remains
at the forefront of driverless
car research. Last week, the
Michigan Senate approved four
bills looking to push forward
autonomous vehicle research in
the state.
The
package
now
moves
from the Republican-controlled
Senate,
where
it
has
been
approved, to the House. The bill
will allow for testing of the cars
on 122 miles of roads throughout
the state. If passed, the bill will
also allow for the American
Center for Mobility to redevelop
the Willow Run Airport for more
autonomous vehicle testing and
research.
“This opens everything — as
long as you have everything
working and you pass all the
standards that we set forward,”
Sen. Mike Kowall (R–White
Lake), one of the bill’s sponsors,
told the Detroit Free Press.
Michigan is actively pushing
to
stay
the
top
state
for
autonomous driving competing
with states such as Florida,
Arizona and California, also
centers of development for self-
driving cars. Michigan is one
of only seven states that allows
testing autonomous cars in a
public setting.
Along with other research
facilities strewn across the state,
the University of Michigan has
large stakes in this research
as the host of Mcity: 32 acres
on North Campus dedicated
to testing the capabilities of
driverless cars in association
with the Michigan Department
of Transportation.
Mcity
opened
in
July
2015
in
collaboration
with
the
University’s
Mobility
Transformation Center. The site
is currently lead by corporate
partners such as Ford, Toyota,
State Farm Mutual Automobile
Insurance and General Motors.
It operates as a real-life setting
for engineers to test and make
their way toward completely
autonomous cars. Engineers are
currently working on a series
of projects aimed at connecting
cars to each other and to
their environment. The new
legislation has the potential to
change the purpose and inner-
workings of Mcity as research is
moved beyond the “lab” and into
a real world setting.
However,
the
recent
legislation has also garnered
opposition from tech giants like
Google. Google is now contesting
the recent legislation, charging
that the language of the bills
exclude
companies
such
as
Google that are new to making
cars.
An MCity representative was
unable to comment on the recent
legislation.
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As part of an almost $3 million
grant from the National Science
Foundation, Nancy Love, University
of Michigan professor of civil and
environmental engineering, and her
team of researchers will be installing
special waterless urinals and “source-
separating” flush toilets in the G.G.
Brown building on North Campus
to direct all urine to a holding tank.
The urine will eventually be used as
fertilizer in the Matthaei Botanical
Gardens.
“We believe our work will take
urine-derived fertilizer to a point
where it’s safer than synthetic
fertilizers and biosolids,” Love wrote
in a press release.
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endeavor to explore the technology,
systems requirements and social
attitudes associated with urine-
derived fertilizers.
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technological innovation is the biggest
challenge the team will face, as the
team has doubts as to whether or not
people will want to use fertilizer that
comes from urine.
“We can throw all the technology
in the world at this problem and make
no progress towards implementation
unless the second area is advanced —
and that’s the social behavior piece,”
Love wrote in a press release. “We’re
investigating the attitudes people
hold towards the use of urine-derived
fertilizers and will be testing and
evaluating educational interventions.”
Rebecca Hardin, associate
professor in the School of Natural
Resources and Environment and
researcher for the project, said while
the research team is made up of grad
students and professors, the origin
of the project can be traced back to
undergraduates.
“The project arose, in part,
through the dialogue fostered by a
student driven forum,” the digital
media platform ‘It’s Hot in Here,’ ”
Hardin said. “A podcast produced
over a year ago now was the first
conversation about the potential of this
project.”
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excellence at the Business School,
emphasized in an interview with
The Michigan Daily that the
purpose of the change is to admit
more students to Ross who have a
demonstrated interest and talent
for business through the pre-
admissions system.
“Currently
business
is
the
number
one
intended
major
for students coming out of high
school,” Wooten said. “Because of
the high demand, more students
are looking to be accepted before
their freshman years at college.
Therefore, in trying to eliminate the
barrier for students to get into the
business school, this change will
give more students an opportunity
to know if they will become Ross
students right out of high school.”
This shift in admissions policy
is, in part, designed to resemble
admissions at other elite business
schools such as Indiana University
and University of North Carolina —
something that some Ross students,
like Business sophomore Arjun
Prakash, welcomed.
“I think it will make us more
competitive against those schools
especially.” Prakash, who was a
pre-admit, wrote in an email. “If
a student has an assured seat in
the business program at, say, NYU
Stern, he/she may not want to risk
enrolling at Michigan with the
chance of not getting admitted to
Ross as a sophomore. I think the
move will cause the university’s
yield as a whole to increase, since
students can choose Michigan with
the full confidence that they will be
studying the major they want.”
In the past two years, Ross has
already begun to expand their
preferred admissions enrollment
from 181 students in 2015 to 261
students in 2016. This change has
also coincided with an expansion
in class size from 580 students
to 625 students between 2015
and 2016. Meanwhile, external
transfer students accounted for 1%
of incoming students in 2015. The
other 473 were accepted through
the regular admissions process.
Despite the increase in the
number of pre-admits, the Business
School will still be aiming to add
100 transfer students each year
to the incoming class who are
transferring from other colleges
at the University, according to
Wooten.
Wooten
also
pointed
to
the
importance
of
fostering
academic diversity within the
BBA program, emphasizing the
need for individuals who have
complimentary academic interests
outside of business, as a benefit of
increasing pre-admission.
“By increasing the number of
pre-admits, most of our incoming
students will not have the concerns
about being accepted and will feel
more free to pursue different
academic interests, not just what
they think we want to see,” Wooten
said. “And this is something that is
very important to us; we want all
of our students to be exploratory
learners since we do consider Ross
to be a liberal arts business school.”
Prakash
echoed
Wooten’s
sentiments, writing that he agreed
that the preadmission program
enables academic freedom during
their freshman year.
“Having the safety net of
being a preferred admit certainly
helped my general morale of
being a freshman that wanted
to
study
business.”
Prakash
wrote. “It allowed me to focus on
extracurriculars
and
academic
classes for my long-term benefit
rather
than
a
short-term
admissions gain. I wasn’t afraid
to take challenging computer
science classes at the expense of
lowering my GPA, and I strived for
leadership because I really wanted
it.”
While
the
current
regular
admissions
application
mainly
focuses on academic achievement
in
college,
the
preferred
admissions application is designed
to showcase student affinity and
interest in business fields.
ROSS
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