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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

22nd Annual Exhibition 
of Art by Prisoners

WHAT: One of the largest 
exhibitions of art by 
incarcerated artists in Michigan 
will be on display.

WHO: The Prisoner Creative 
Arts Project

WHEN: 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Duderstadt Center, 
Media Union

What Can Blind People 
Tell Us About Race?

WHAT: UC-Berkeley Bioethics 
Prof. Osagie K. Obasogie will 
discuss his research with blind 
people on the role of race in their 
lives.

WHO: Eisenberg Institute for 
Historical Studies

WHEN: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. 

WHERE: Tisch Hall, Room 1014

Drop In For Donuts!

WHAT: Coffee, tea and donuts 
will all be provided at this 
information session hosted by the 
Slavic Department. 

WHO: Slavic Languages & 
Literatures

WHEN: 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

WHERE: Modern Languages 
Building, Room 3029

Common Pitfalls for 
Young Lawyers

 

WHAT: Larry Dubin, a 
University of Detroit Mercy 
School of Law professor, will talk 
about common ethical dilemmas 
young lawyers face. 

WHO: University Career Center

WHEN: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

WHERE: Michigan Union, Pond 
Room

De-Stress Through Play

WHAT: Eat free pizza, play 
with play dough, paint and other 
things while learning about how 
it all helps you de-stress.
WHO: Comprehensive Studies 
Program

WHEN: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

WHERE: Angell Hall, Room 1139

Acing the Interview
 

WHAT: The UCC is hosting a 
workshop to help any students 
looking for jobs develop their 
interview skills.

WHO: University Career Center

WHEN: 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

WHERE: Student Activities 
Building, Program Room

Film Screening: A Plastic 
Ocean

WHAT: Come watch the 
documentary “A Plastic 
Ocean” and bring plastic bags 
to exchange for a Planet Blue 
reusable bag.

WHO: Planet Blue
WHEN: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

WHERE: Hatcher Graduate 
Library, Gallery

Workshop with Gary 
Wilder

WHAT: UM Anthropology Prof. 
Gary Wilder will workshop 
his new book, “Freedom Time: 
Negritude, Decolonization, and 
the Future of the World.”

WHO: Romance Languages & 
Literatures

WHEN: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

WHERE: Modern Languages 
Building, fourth floor commons

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Wolvereaders, a student-

run organization from the 

University of Michigan 

Community Scholars Program, 

brought Detroit Tigers mascot 

Paws to Ypsilanti’s Estabrook 

Elementary School Wednesday 

morning for a March is Reading 

Month event.

LSA sophomores Amani 

Echols and Maria Cholack 

founded the organization in 

2016. Wolvereaders travels to 

Estabrook every other week 

and helps second-graders read 

and write letters to their MCSP 

mentors. In an email interview, 

Echols said the organization’s 

goals include getting elementary 

school students excited about 

reading and higher education.

Cholack wrote in an email 

interview the students really 

enjoyed Paws’s appearance and 

she hopes it will inspire the 

children to develop a passion for 

reading.

“It was really rewarding 

to see the second graders so 

genuinely excited about a mascot 

that everyone loves,” Cholack 

wrote. “The students were 

very engaged in the reading 

activity, which was fantastic 

because we really wanted 

them to associate reading 

with having fun. Overall it 

was a great way to bring the 

second graders, University of 

Michigan students and faculty 

together.”

Echols wrote the event 

brought Estabrook into the 

Wolverine community.

“Inviting Paws to be our 

special guest for this week’s 

WolveReaders visit was a 

great change of pace for the 

second graders,” Echols wrote. 

“It was exciting to be able to 

see their faces light up and 

be so engaged in an activity 

centralized around reading 

comprehension. … The event 

was a great way to strengthen 

MCSP’s community partnership 

with the Ypsilanti Public School 

System, specifically Estabrook 

Elementary School.”

- MATT HARMON

ON THE DAILY: FROM TIGER TO WOLVERINE

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Engineering senior Steven Duan participates in the DVN 2017 Appreciation Dinner following 
the annual VSA Diet Vietnam cultural show in East Hall on Wednesday. 

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“You still have to design, 

build and test, but you don’t 
have to design, build and test 50 
designs — maybe you can just 
do three or four and substitute 
the rest of the information with 
computational 
simulations,” 

Duraisamy said. “So that’s our 
expertise — we are experts 
in 
computational 
modeling 

and simulation in this case 
of 
rocket 
combustors, 
but 

in general, many aerospace 
systems.”

Duraisamy also shared his 

thoughts on the technology 
being used for purposes that 
stray from its original intent.

“We give them efficient 

computational 
simulation 

techniques that they can use, 
so in some sense we are like 
tool-builders,” he said. “And 
that is all of basic science. If 
you take anything — if you 
take 
semiconductors, 
they 

were designed because of basic 
research and how they are used 
can be for good purposes or it 
can be used for evil purposes.”

He remained optimistic the 

project would have benevolent 
applications even if the Air 
Force’s agenda were to turn in 
a different direction.

“This is probably less likely 

to go into a missile than going 
into 
space 
and 
launching 

something,” Duraisamy said. 

Ph.D. candidate Nicholas 

Arnold, 
a 
member 
of 

Duraisamy’s 
team, 
said 

even those who intend to 
create 
weapons 
are 
not 

always responsible for their 
ramifications.

“Our research is generally 

for 
the 
research’s 
sake,” 

Arnold said. “If you read some 
books on the first stealth 
fighters and stuff like that — 
like the F-117 — Skunk Works 
and Lockheed Martin didn’t 
do the research that came up 
with the theory that made 
stealth work. Actually, the guy 
who found it found it in a paper 
that was published by a Soviet 
researcher.”

Assistant research scientist 

J.P. 
Sheehan, 
who 
works 

on electrical propulsion of 
rockets, spoke more generally 
on grants coming into the 
University.

“On one side, there’s money 

coming in to support students 
on an hourly basis, but also 
from a project standpoint, 
when a new project comes in, 
that means there’s going to be 
lots of work to do,” Sheehan 

said. “The fact that research 
going on at Michigan is very 
cutting-edge on the academic 
side and industry side is really 
important and adds a lot to the 
prestige of the degree.”

Captain 
Benjamin 
Song, 

assistant 
professor 
of 

aerospace studies concurred, 
saying grants like this one 
improve the standing of the 
University and the Air Force, 
and improve on already strong 
relations between the two. 
He said the effects of a good 
relationship can be felt by 

even by Air Force ROTC 
cadets who are majoring in 
aerospace engineering.

Duraisamy pointed out 

that the grant would also 
help the University on the 
recruiting front because it 
bolsters his reputation as a 
mentor.

“I 
always 
liken 

recruiting grad students 
and 
undergrads 
to 

recruiting 
basketball 

players — it’s the same 
thing, they have all of us 
from many different places 
and then they go with a 
coach,” he said.

Duraisamy talked about 

how the grant coming 
from a public entity was 
especially meaningful.

“Federal 
government 

research is always more 
adventurous, we all covet 
federal 
government 

funds,” he said. “We can 
propose very risky projects 
and 
it’s 
typically 
okay 

whereas private is a little 
bit more conservative.”

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We give them 

efficient 

computational 

simulation 
techniques

