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 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