that affect the rank-and-file 
Michigander.”
In the short term, students 

at URC universities contribute 
directly to the state and local 
economies by buying goods and 
services and boosting business. 
In the long-term, their presence 
is more important, according 
to 
Affolter-Caine. 
Students 

who attend these universities 
frequently find career paths in the 
state, often working on projects 
and jobs that can improve the 
lives of Michiganders.
Affolter-Caine also attributes 
the success to innovative services 
and projects developed by the 
universities which directly 
impact the state. She cites 
the Perinatology Research 
Branch, part of the Wayne 
State School of Medicine, 
as an excellent example of a 
university project that helped 
the general public. The PRB 
has discovered a non-invasive 
treatment for women at risk 
for pre-term labor, which is 
now part of standard practice 
in hospitals across Michigan.
Affolter-Caine also cited 
Mcity, a mock city in Ann 
Arbor used to test driverless 
cars, as another excellent 
example.
“There are just not that 
many really unique facilities 
like Mcity,” Affolter-Caine 
said. “And it is bringing 
businesses from all over the 
world to Ann Arbor. It gives 
students an opportunity to 
conduct research and get that 
experience.”
Engineering 
professor 
Glen Daigger, who has been 
acquainted with the URC for 
three years and participated 
in several cross-university 

collaborations, said in addition to 
the raw economic contributions, 
the URC has helped significantly 
in facilitating further cooperation 
between the universities.
He noted that the three 
universities have been working 
together 
to 
improve 
the 
networking 
between 
state 
researchers and practitioners in 
and out of Michigan. 
Like Affolter-Caine, Daigger 
believes that innovation is central 
to the success and impact of the 
URC. He also credits researchers 
and academics for their work.
“If you aren’t doing new things 
and improving and so forth, you’re 
actually going down,” Daigger 
said. “In terms of economic 
contribution, the dollars flowing 
in for research are certainly a 
contribution, but it’s the ideas and 
the people and the enthusiasm 
and so forth that are the biggest 
contribution to continue the 
economic development here in 
Michigan.”
Daigger 
also 
emphasized 
the 
importance 
of 
students 
to the research and economic 
contributions from all three 
universities.
“Every engine needs fuel. The 
research engine needs money. 
One of the other fuels is the 
students,” Daigger said. “They’re 
the hands and the minds and the 
curiosity that really drive much of 
this research.”

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Arul Chinnaiyan, a member of 
the University of Michigan Rogel 
Cancer Center, has received an 
Outstanding Investigator Award 
and $6.5 million grant from 
the National Cancer Institute. 
Over the next seven years, this 
grant will fund Chinnaiyan in 
his research on understanding 
genetic markers and cancer 
treatments that can be targeted 
to specific markers.
“The grant will fund research 
to create new bioinformatics 
resources and identify new 
cancer biomarkers to improve 
diagnosis and ultimately to 

develop new targeted therapies,” 
a Michigan Medicine press 
release said.
The Outstanding Investigator 
Award, rather than funding a 
specific project, presents leading 
researchers 
with 
support 
through a grant nearly three 
times the amount of a traditional 
individual investigator award. 
Through R35, a grant program 
developed 
by 
the 
National 
Cancer Institute, the seven-
year 
extended 
period 
of 
funding is designed to provide 
flexible, long-term support to 
investigators.

“The 
field 
of 
precision 
oncology continues to evolve 
with 
the 
overarching 
goal 
of providing cancer patients 
with enhanced diagnostic and 
prognostic 
capabilities 
and 
better treatments,” Chinnaiyan 
said. “This grant will help us 
identify new biomarkers and 
understand their biological roles 
in cancer progression.”
Chinnaiyan, who is also the 
director of the Michigan Center 
for 
Translational 
Pathology 
and the S.P. Hicks Endowed 
Professor 
of 
Pathology 
and 
Urology at the University of 

Michigan Medical School, is 
considered one of the nation’s 
top researchers in precision 
oncology. 
He 
founded 
the 
Michigan Oncology Sequencing 
Program at the Rogel Cancer 
Center in 2010, which has 
enrolled over 3,000 patients 
and 
has 
produced 
several 
publications. 
The 
program 
researches the sequencing of 
DNA and RNA of metastatic 
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As candles flickered across 
the Diag, members of the 
campus community bowed 
their heads to commemorate 
the second anniversary of the 
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“The September 11 vigil was 
a place for all members of the 
University community to come 
together, to remember and to 
reflect on these tragic events,” 
said MSA President Angela 
Galardi.
The vigil was sponsored 
by the Michigan Student 
Assembly.
Although last year’s program 
did not include music, Music 
School senior Darnell Ishmel 
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night’s vigil. 
LSA freshman Theresa 

Bomer said, “(The national 
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coming together, it’s the entire 
nation”
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Skiles, MSA communication 
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LSA junior Deborah Kim, a 
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song symbolizes freedom,” Kim 
said.
The vigil began with an 
introduction from Galardi 

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Coleman.
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company of others is a great 
comfort. 
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Arbor Police Chief Daniel 
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