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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Expanding Diversity
Through the Arts
WHAT: Panel discussion
featuring professors from the
School of Music, Theatre &
Dance on how the arts have the
potential to expand diversity.
WHO: Residential College
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: North Quad, room
2435
Christmas Caroling at the
Hospital
WHAT: Students can join in on
Christmas caroling for patients at
St. Joseph’s hospital.
WHO: Student Organizations:
Christian Challenge
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: St. Joseph’s Hospital
Jazz Concert
WHAT: Performance by the
campus jazz ensemble and their
director, Marcus Elliot.
WHO: School of Music, Theatre
& Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore
Building, McIntosh Theatre
Startup Workshop
WHAT: Workshop to assist
students in identifying several
tools to use when assessing the
financial viability of a startup
business.
WHO: Innovate Blue
WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School of
Business, room R2220
Identifying Good
Business Ideas Lecture
WHAT: Justin M. Berg, assistant
professor of business at Stanford,
will give a talk on how leaders can
accurately identify and judge new
business ideas.
WHO: Innovate Blue
WHEN: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School of Business
Tour Guide Recruitment
WHAT: Meeting featuring a
panel of student tour guides
providing an overview of the
application process and duties of
the position.
WHO: Office of Undergraduate
Admissions
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Student Activities
Building, Maize and Blue
Auditorium
Orientation Leader
Informational Meeting
WHAT: Meeting going over the
responsibilities and benefits
of being a summer orientation
leader featuring a panel of former
student orientation leaders.
WHO: Office of New Student
Programs
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Pierpont Commons, E.
Boulevard Room
Finals Therapy Dogs
WHAT: Relax and reduce
finals stress with the loveable
therapy dogs from Therapaws of
Michigan.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Shapiro Undergraduate
Library, Design Lab 1st floor
Sen. Debbie Dingell (D–Mich.)
announced Thursday that the
University of Michigan will be given
a $2,470,600 grant from the U.S.
Department of Transportation’s
University Transportation
Centers to research connected and
automated vehicles.
The grant will establish
a Center for Connected and
Automated Transportation on
campus as well as on efforts to
investigate vehicle safety and
congestion management through
the usage of connected vehicle
systems.
The funding will also be used by
the Ann Arbor Connected Vehicle
Test Environment, an initiative by
the University’s Transportation
Research Institute that implements
connected vehicles and
infrastructure around Ann Arbor,
and Mcity, an off-roadway testing
facility for automated vehicles.
“We are at the cusp of a major
transformation in the auto industry,
and the University of Michigan is
leading the way in the research and
development of new technologies
that will shape the future of
mobility,” Dingell said in a press
release. “This grant will give U-M
new tools to address the critical
transportation challenges facing
our nation by promoting connected
and autonomous technology
research and education.”
According to the press release,
the research will include observing
characteristics of traffic flow and
how to incorporate connected
and automated vehicles, as well
as regular vehicles. Additionally,
transportation infrastructure
design and planning for CAVs,
cybersecurity management of CAVs
and impacts of CAVs on a global
scale in terms of safety, efficiency
and environmental effects will be
implemented.
The grant given to the
University is one of 35 five-
year grants awarded through
the government’s University
Transportation Centers program.
The University will be the leader of
a group of colleges and universities
on the project, including
Washtenaw Community College,
Purdue University and others.
“I’m also pleased that
Washtenaw Community College
will be a partner in this project, as
they will bring a unique perspective
and skill set to this important effort.
This partnership demonstrates
the level of expertise the state of
Michigan has in this critical field,”
Dingell said.
This is not the first time in the
past few months the University has
received funding for autonomous
vehicle research. In August, the
Toyota Research Institute gave
$22 million for autonomous vehicle
research at the University. The
Toyota funding and research is
overseen by UM Associate Profs.
Ryan Eustice and Ed Olson, and
Toyota is also a founding partner
of the University’s Mobility
Transformation Center, which
operates Mcity.
In a September interview
with the Daily, Olson said the
funding being given to research on
autonomous vehicles is crucial for
the scientific realm to get off the
ground.
“The problems that we are
working to solve are the best kind:
really hard,” he said. “Fundamental
research is needed to solve these
problems and so TRI is investing
in both internal research and
university partnerships like the one
at UM.”
— CALEB CHADWELL
BRIEF: REP. DINGELL ANNOUNCES TRANSPORTATION GRANT
For
Michigan
hockey
players,
the
academic
expectations
are
lain
out
during
the
recruitment
process.
Coach Red Berenson doesn’t
take the subject lightly. If
his
athletes
are
becoming
Wolverines on the ice, then
they’re going to have to put in
the work in the classroom as
well.
“I’ve made it a priority that
school
is
important,”
said
Berenson. “You’re not coming
here just to play hockey,
you’re coming here to go to
school and I want you to get
something out of this. This is
a great school, and you’ve got
to work hard to do well, and if
you’re not interested in school,
don’t come here.
“So we tell them that in
the recruiting part of it, and
then when they get here, they
realize we mean it. Over the
years, I have sat players out
from practices or games or
given them a week off and said,
‘Stay away until you get school
straightened out.’ Whatever
it takes so they know to me,
school comes first.”
Michigan’s
players
face
the ultimate challenge, then
— not only do they have to
balance the hectic and intense
schedule of being a Big Ten
athlete, but they also need
to
take
their
schoolwork
seriously. And at a school like
Michigan, that schoolwork can
be exceptionally demanding.
Junior
defenseman
Sam
Piazza can attest to this. As
a student of the College of
Engineering, Piazza has to
take classes based heavily
around
math
and
science.
He is also a student majoring
in
mechanical
engineering,
which means that he has
to participate in labs with
other students. These labs
give students the project of
building something, and are
expected
to
complete
the
projects within their groups.
“I always grew up liking
math and science, and when
I applied here, I just applied
to
engineering,
because
I
thought that if I didn’t like it,
I could transfer out of it more
easily than transferring into
it,” Piazza said. “I ended up
liking the intro classes and
chose
mechanical
partially
because they had the most
class availability time-wise,
but I do enjoy it. It’s working
out really nicely.”
When Piazza was a freshman
and sophomore, it was easier to
balance his time between his
academic schedule and hockey.
This year, though, Piazza has
found himself on the ice much
more than he had his freshman
and sophomore years, even
notching the game-winning
goal for the Wolverines’ first
away game at Ferris State. So
far this year, he’s tallied four
assists and three goals.
There are days such as
Tuesday where Piazza can
be found in the lab for time
frames as long as four hours
before hockey practice. And on
Fridays and Saturdays, Piazza
can be found on the ice, battling
for pucks and attempting to
generate good opportunities
for his teammates.
Despite the stark differences
of these situations, though,
Piazza
has
handled
these
responsibilities with maturity
and dedication, and that is
exactly what Berenson expects
out of his players.
“He’s a good example of
what we’re talking about, a
As Michigan hockey player, Piazza
balances athletics and engineering
Coach Red Berenson says ‘I’ve made it a priority that school is important’
LANEY BYLER
Daily Sports Writer
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