More than 100 people showed
up Wednesday afternoon at
South Hall for a panel with
three former general counsels
for the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, hosted by
the University of Michigan Law
School’s Environmental Law
and Policy Program.
The panel, comprising the
EPA’s top lawyers during the
Clinton,
Bush
and
Obama
administrations, intended to
review the major environmental
challenges during each of their
tenures as well as discuss the
future of environmental policy
in the Trump administration.
Stephanie
Campbell,
a graduate student in the
School
for
Environment
and
Sustainability,
said
worries
about
the
Trump
administration drove her to
come to the panel.
“When all this was coming
down last fall, when we heard
who won the election, there
was a lot of worry and concern
inside
the
environmental
school
especially
regarding
what this would mean,” she
said. “This seemed like a good
opportunity to get more of a
practitioner’s perspective.”
Current
law
and
rules
promulgated
by
the
EPA
obligate
it
to
regulate
greenhouse gases, as the EPA
With
close
to
60,000
Americans diagnosed annually,
Parkinson’s disease is the second-
most-common neurodegenerative
disease in the United States
following Alzheimer’s disease.
With
an
elderly
population,
experts are predicting there will
be an increasing prevalence of
Parkinson’s disease with greater
economic burdens on patients due
to treatment and lifestyle changes.
At a Wednesday morning
symposium
held
at
the
Biomedical
Science
Research
Building, seven research experts
discussed current Parkinson’s
disease research and its clinical
implications.
Parkinson’s
disease
is
a
neurodegenerative
disorder
resulting in loss of motor skills due
to the progressive loss of dopamine
in the brain, particularly the basal
ganglia. The symptoms of the
disease are often characterized
by a tremor, rigidity, difficulty
initiating movement and changes
in balance. With the progressive
death of brain cells, quality of life
is also diminished.
The event was hosted by
the
University’s
Morris
K.
Udall Center of Excellence for
Parkinson’s Disease Research,
one
of
nine
such
centers
across the country, to promote
understanding
of
advanced
scientific research and, ultimately,
its translation into cures for the
disease.
The Udall group, supported
by NIH National Institute of
Neurological
Disorders
and
Stroke, was founded in 1997 after
former Congressman Morris K.
Udall, who worked in Congress
despite
a
long
battle
with
Parkinson’s disease until 1991. He
died from the disease in 1998.
Neurologist and researcher
William
Dauer
directs
the
University’s Udall Center.
“My personal interest is in
understanding
fundamental
mechanisms of disease as a
necessary first step to devise
new ways to treat them, at a
minimum to reduce the impact
of neurological disease on people
by making the symptoms better,”
Dauer said. “The long-term goal
would be to devise ways to halt
the progress of disease so many
of these symptoms don’t develop
at all.”
Dauer
spoke
about
the
University’s
Udall
Center
focusing in particular on gait
difficulties that emerge later in
the progression of Parkinson’s
disease. Augmenting cholinergic
signals related to gait problems are
being tested to delay symptoms
associated with walking.
“It would mean a huge amount
to patients if the problems in
walking either didn’t happen or
was delayed. The difficulty is a
LSA senior Natalie Andrasko
has
worked
hard
to
help
University of Michigan students
apply their unique language skills
to a good cause in Washtenaw
County.
That “good cause” would be
LingoMatch, a program created
by three students to connect
bilingual
and
multilingual
students with an immigrant
or
refugee
in
Washtenaw
County struggling to receive
Supplemental
Nutrition
Assistance Program benefits due
to a language barrier.
Andrasko, one of the project’s
team members, alongside LSA
junior Jamie Yeung and LSA
junior Syeda Zaynab Mahmood,
wrote in an email interview
she believes the program is
significant because it allows
students to put their language
skills to work in a meaningful
way,
helping
immigrants
or
refugees get their food stamps.
“It provides bilingual and
multilingual students at the
University of Michigan with the
opportunity to volunteer in a
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Clinton, Bush
Obama EPA
lawyers look
to the future
Japanese-Americans show support
for American Muslims in Michigan
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DESIGN BY AVA WEINER
GOVERNMENT
Cannon says Trump can’t implement
new changes due to valid research
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter
Exploring the similarities between internment camps and post 9/11 discrimination
In February 1942, President
Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt
issued Executive Order 9066,
relocating all people of Japanese
ancestry in the United States,
documented and undocumented,
into internment camps. Fast-
forward 75 years, and Arab and
Muslim Americans are facing
discrimination
in
ways
that
resonate with the memories of
Japanese-Americans.
The internment of Japanese-
Americans
followed
the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
in December of 1941. Nearly
120,000
Japanese-Americans
were sent to the internment
camps, roughly two-thirds of
whom were native-born citizens
in the United States.
Japanese-Americans spent, on
average, three years in the camps,
living in cramped barracks, often
with only a single working light
bulb.
Anti-Japanese
sentiment
was high before the attack on
Pearl Harbor, and even higher
afterward.
The
Japanese
relocation
to
internment
camps was met with nearly no
opposition by the non-Japanese-
American population.
In November of 2016, shortly
COLIN BERESFORD
Daily Staff Reporter
See PROGRAM, Page 3A
Program
addresses
language
barriers
CAMPUS LIFE
LingoMatch to connect
multilingual volunteers
to immigrants, refugees
REMI MURREY
Daily Staff Reporter
JOHN YAEGER/Daily
Dr. Cynthia Chestek presents about the nervous system at the 3rd Annual Udall Center for Parkinson’s Disease
Research Symposium at Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building on Wednesday.
University hosts third symposium for
interdiscplinary research in Parkinson’s
Experts hope to challenge traditional prespectives of medical procedures
YOSHIKO IWAI
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Daily Arts writers profile
both Ann Arbor comedy
clubs and clubs devoted to
comedy on campus.
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To many, the issues we face
today
seem
unsolvable
and
overwhelming:
inequality,
injustice, political unrest and
the increasingly relevant battle
to protect our environment. Yet,
how these issues insect is what
has allowed Dorceta Taylor,
University of Michigan professor
in the School for Environment
and Sustainability, to shape
a
unique
approach
toward
researching
and
examining
the root of these problems.
Taylor holds a Ph.D. from Yale
University
in
environmental
sociology,
and
specifically
focuses on the environment, food
security and urban agriculture,
as well as establishing diversity
within these fields.
For as long as she can
remember,
Taylor
has
been
interested in how things grow,
how certain aspects of the
environment interact and how
humans collaborate with their
surroundings. This has shaped
her interest in environmental
history, justice and food security.
Though she has always been
See RESEARCH, Page 3A
Professor
examines
food justice
in Detroit
RESEARCH
Taylor takes on diversity
in environmental studies
with pipeline programs
KATERINA SOURINE
Daily Staff Reporter