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2A — Thursday, October 27, 2016
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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
The University of Michigan
announcedTuesday that the
academic platform CTools — which
was launched in 2004 — will be
entirely phased out by the end of 2017.
According to the press release,
CTools users, both faculty and
students, will be able to set up
CTools project sites to be used for
research, information storage,
and collaborative purposes with
the permission of the office for
Information and Technology
Services from December to
February, whereupon the ability to
create new pages will be entirely
disabled. However, all classes are
not permitted to use CTools as their
educational platform.
Already the process of switching
from CTools to Canvas — which
was piloted by all academic units at
the University during the 2014-2015
academic year — began September
2014. Starting this year, all courses at
the University were required to use
Canvas over CTools.
Currently, CTools is being used
for the creation and maintenance of
project sites, according to the press
release, which noted that about
60,000 sites remain online. However,
fewer than 6,000 were active during
the last year.
This shift, according to Sean
DeMonner, the executive director
of ITS Teaching and Learning, is
potentially a result of the convenience
of other, more modern technologies.
“Use of CTools Project Sites
continues to decline — likely the
result of several newer collaboration
tools being available to campus.”
DeMonner said. “Most people find
that tools like U-M Google and U-M
Box better meet their needs.”
Throughout the University-wide
shift to Canvas, there will be systems
in place, such as the Migrations
Champions program, to assist
faculty and student site owners in
transferring data from CTools to the
new platform.
During the spring and fall of 2017,
ITS is scheduled to transfer project
site data from CTools to Box — which
is a cloud-based data storage system
that is available to all University
faculty, staff and students. Any site
manager will have the option to
personally download their site data,
or have their site deleted.
Site managers will also be
presented with the option of having
their CTools site data transferred
to Canvas, where it will safe from
deletion and can be accessed past the
CTools elimination date.
DeMonner noted that transition
to Canvas has already shown
promise, and that the willingness
of the faculty and students across
the University to embrace the new
platform will likely ensure a smooth
phase-out for CTools.
“Any large-scale change requires
support from many individuals
across our campus,” DeMonner
said. “Canvas was a success due in
large part to our partnerships with
individuals in each school and college.
We plan to use a similar model as we
move project sites to other solutions.”
— TIM COHN
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For
Ashley
Gearhardt,
University of Michigan assistant
professor of Psychology and
winner
of
the
prestigious
2017 Henry Russel Award, her
research on food addiction
and eating disorders is deeply
connected with the way humans
interact with one another.
Gearhardt
has
a
long
history of involvement with
the
University
Psychology
Department,
starting
with
her time as an undergraduate
student majoring in psychology,
and
continuing
when
she
entered the role of researcher
and teacher at the University.
While pursuing her Ph.D.
at Yale University in clinical
psychology,
Gearhardt
researched alcohol use at Yale’s
psychology
laboratory.
She
decided to study food addiction
using
a
similar
technique,
leading
her
to
create The
Food and Addiction Science
Treatment Lab. The FASTLab
includes a real-life fast food
restaurant
simulation
that
was inspired by Gearhardt’s
doctoral research.
“Investigating what factors
contributed
to
excessive
drinking
in
a
cue-rich,
naturalistic
environment
allowed us to do much more
real world research,” Gearhardt
said. “I wanted to do the same
thing with food, so we built the
fast food restaurant.”
About 71 percent of 20+
year olds in the United States
were overweight or obese in
2014 according to the CDC, a
chronic illness which could lead
to death. Gearhardt said she
believes national obesity must
be addressed through gathering
research about the nature of
food addiction.
Food
addiction
and
obesity are issues that have
direct influences on college
students. College students are
a population at risk for weight
gain,
according
to
studies
conducted
by
the
National
Institute of Health that found
college
freshmen
are
more
likely to gain weight during
their freshman year than the
general population.
The purpose of her data
analysis is to better understand
how
factors
in
the
food
environment,
such
as
food
product placements and food
commercials, can encourage the
onset of food addiction.
“The rates of obesity are
going up all over the world and
this is accompanied by changes
in our food environment where
foods high in fat, sugar and salt
are now easily accessible, cheap,
and heavily advertised,” she
said.
FASTLab
itself
analyzes
the effects of food addiction
through various neurological
and behavioral measures, such
as brain imaging or observations
from the field. Gearhardt said
after she and her team visited
and observed a number of fast
food restaurants in the area,
she developed a prototype for
a typical fast food restaurant,
including the color, menus,
lighting and other aspects of
those locations.
She also noted that media may
impact the prevalence of obesity
and
fast
food
consumption
among
undergraduates,
making research on marketing
important,
especially
for
college-aged
students
who
are especially vulnerable to
the messages conveyed on TV
advertisements and in other
forms of media.
“College-aged students and
MADELINE GERSON
Daily Staff Reporter
Professor of psychology discusses
research on obesity, eating disorders
Ashley Gearhardt connects food with social connections
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