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2A — Thursday, March 23, 2017
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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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very mixed emotions. Half
“lol bye” and half “do I really
have to graduate?”
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already is.)
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
ARNOLD ZHOU/Daily
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.”
ROCKET
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We give them
efficient
computational
simulation
techniques