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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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