The Ann Arbor community
reacted negatively to President
Donald
Trump’s
executive
order banning the travel and
resettlement of citizens from
seven Muslim-majority countries
to the United States that was
issued last Friday.
Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher
Taylor issued a statement on his
Facebook page Sunday afternoon
condemning the actions of the
Trump administration thus far,
saying people must stand up and
fight the president’s harmful
policies.
“Trump and his supporters
have polluted something beautiful
— the honor of the United States
and its people,” Taylor wrote.
“The world looking in, ourselves
looking about us, we must now
reasonably question the continued
truth of that reputation. Are we
in fact a decent and just people?
Is the United States of America a
force for good? Do we as a people
have the courage to try to make
the world a better place, or are
we debilitated by weakness and
fear?”
Taylor went on to say Ann Arbor
was committed to protecting the
constitutional rights of its citizens
and all Americans. He mentioned
questions of citizenship would not
hinder this commitment, hinting
at Trump’s most recent executive
order.
Researchers at the University
of Michigan will be using big
data — large data sets that need
to be computationally analyzed
— to predict when individuals
will be affected by diseases
like depression and Hepatitis
C. Big data will also be used to
understand the applications of
single-cell gene sequencing —
examining genetic information
from individual cells — through
three projects that were recently
funded.
The three projects, M-CHAMP,
the Michigan Center for Single-
Cell Genomic Data Analysis and
the Intern Health Study, are
receiving $3 million in funding
from the Michigan Institute
for Data Science as part of the
Challenge Initiatives Program,
which challenges data scientists
and other research investigators
to solve real-world problems in
areas of transportation research,
learning analytics, social sciences
and health sciences. The program
is part of the University’s plan to
invest $100 million in Data Science
Initiatives
and
infrastructure,
which
was
announced
in
September 2015.
Brahmajee
Nallamothu
is
leading the Michigan Center for
Health Analytics and Medical
Prediction project, which includes
research investigators from LSA,
the College of Engineering, the
School of Nursing, the School of
Public Health and the Medical
School.
Nallamothu noted the goal
of all three projects was to help
researchers understand the vast
amounts of data that were spread
throughout multiple disciplines.
“The big goals of all the
projects, in my opinion, are to
help us start to make sense of all
the information that is currently
surrounding us in a diverse set
of fields,” Nallamothu said. “The
stakes are really high for us to
succeed, because these new tools
can be transformational across
all these areas: social sciences,
health,
transportation
and
learning analytics.”
M-CHAMP focuses on two
areas: acute lung injury following
critical
illness
and
chronic
Hepatitis
C
virus
infection.
Nallamothu
explained,
while
there are current ongoing studies
trying to predict the outcomes
of
patients,
they
aren’t
as
comprehensive and complex as
M-CHAMP.
“Currently, most studies take
a ‘snapshot’ view of how patients
are doing to predict how they will
do in the future,” Nallamothu
said. “Longitudinal data that is
collected over time often goes
ignored because of the complexity
of including all of this information
into statistical models. We want to
change that and help improve our
ability to predict how patients will
do over time.”
The
Michigan
Center
for
Single-Cell
Genomic
Data
Analysis,
another
project
receiving
University
funding,
analyzes
single-cell
genomics
data. The group will use this
information
in
applications
concerning
cancer
and
cell
development.
This
team
of
researchers
come from LSA, College of
Engineering, School of Public
Health, the Medical School, the
Department of Computational
Medicine
and
Bioinformatics
and the Comprehensive Cancer
The University of Michigan
Center for Entrepreneurship’s
Startup
Competition
completed
its
first
non-
qualifying round on Friday
afternoon in front of a crowd
of over 200 students, faculty
and local businesspeople at the
Stamps Auditorium on North
Campus.
The competition, began at
the beginning of the month
with a series of auditions of
more than 40 student startups
pitching to the Center for
Entrepreneurship.
Only
13
teams made it through to the
actual competition, all aiming
to win the final cash prize of
more than $15,000 in funding
for their startup. The projects
range from all different fields,
but the majority are based on
development of technology and
software.
For this round, each startup
was
given
one
minute
to
make its pitch to a panel of
four judges from Ann Arbor
and Detroit investment and
business development firms,
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SPORTS...........B SECTION
City and ‘U’
oppose new
Trump-led
travel ban
Thousands protest immigration
executive order at DTW airport
See REACTIONS, Page 3A
CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily
Hundreds marched from the Diag to the Federal Building on East Liberty in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Friday night. There have been numerous
protests nationwide in response to President Donald Trump’s policy decisions, including his executive order on immigration over the weekend.
ANN ARBOR
A2 mayor Christopher Taylor, ‘U’ Pres.
Schlissel pen statements against order
MAYA GOLDMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Airports across the nation fill with demonstrations in response to Trump legislation
Nearly 5,000 people took over
the Detroit Metropolitan Airport
international terminal Sunday
afternoon to protest President
Donald
Trump’s
executive
order
preventing
individuals
from certain Muslim-majority
countries from entering the U.S.
Attendees stopped lanes of traffic
and filled the terminal, chanting:
“Let them in” and “This is what
democracy looks like.”
Organizers from the Michigan
Muslim
Community
Council
and the Michigan chapter of the
Women’s March on Washington
arranged the protest in under 24
hours, joining similar movements
at airports across the country
over the weekend.
Trump’s order, signed on Friday,
severely restricts immigration
from
seven
Muslim-majority
countries
including
Yemen,
Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya
and Syria for 90 days, suspends
all refugee resettlement for 120
days and bans Syrian refugees
indefinitely. A New York federal
judge — who is also a University of
Michigan alum — overturned part
of the ban Saturday evening to
allow travelers currently detained
at airports into the country.
Protesters first demonstrated
RIYAH BASHA
Daily News Editor
See STARTUPS, Page 3A
Judges see
startups,
select first
finalists
BUSINESS
Contest geared at new
startups sees innovative
technology, software
TYLER COADY
Daily Staff Reporter
DESIGN BY MICHELLE PHILLIPS
University funds big data projects
for social, health science research
Three teams of specialists to receive $3 million in funding from Data Science Initiative
RASHEED ABDULLAH
Daily Staff Reporter
Out of luck
The Michigan men’s
basketball team suffered
from a lackluster shooting
performance in its 70-62 loss
to Michigan State in East
Lansing.
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See RESEARCH, Page 3A
See PROTEST, Page 3A
Thirty students performed a
play in rememberance of the 1969
racial riots in Malaysia as part
of the eighth annual Malaysian
Cultural Night on Sunday night,
which also the celebrated the
Lunar New Year.
The play, written by Ross
sophomore
Jeevan
Netraaj
Singh, tells the story of a
Chinese boy named Lee who
was orphaned because of the
race riots. Throughout the plot
of the play, he develops a deep
resentment for Malays, blaming
them for the death of his mother,
but his feelings of hatred change
when he is eventually adopted by
a Malay family.
LSA junior Aifa Muhammad
Radzi, the publicity director of
the Malaysian Cultural Night
Board, explained the topic of the
race riots is generally avoided in
Malaysian schools.
“Why we highlight it in the
play is that we don’t actually
talk about it a lot in Malaysian
history classes,” Radzi said. “In
Malaysia, it’s still considered a
sensitive topic.”
See MALAYSIA, Page 3A
Student led
play relays
1969 riot in
Malaysia
CAMPUS LIFE
Over 100 in attendance
for Malaysian Cultural
Night at Mendelssohn
RACHEL LEUNG
Daily Staff Reporter
POTUS PROTESTS