GO BLUE, BABY. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Thursday, March 23, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 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 Tweets Follow @michigandaily Michigan Basketball @umichbball Ready for another. #GoBlue #MarchMadness Michigan Students @UMichStudents Walking around the Major/ Minor Expo as a senior with very mixed emotions. Half “lol bye” and half “do I really have to graduate?” Xavier Simpson @Xaviersimpson3 The new drake iight not all that #OpinionOnTwitter Detroit Free Press @freep Michigan will be the best place to live by 2100 AD, according to @PopSci. (Granted, it 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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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 From Page 1A We give them efficient computational simulation techniques