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computer science, including
the invention of dynamic
instruction scheduling, a
method in which computer
hardware
can
issue
instructions out of order,
as well as pioneering the
revolution in very large-
scale integration design.
Many
years
prior
to
joining University faculty
in 1985, Conway worked at
IBM Research, where she
was fired when she began
her gender transition. After
retiring from the University
in 1998, Conway started
publicly
discussing
her
transgender
history
and
has worked for the past 20
years to protect and expand
the rights of transgender
people.
Nabel,
president
of
Brigham
Health
and
professor of medicine at
Harvard Medical School,
has also been recommended
to
receive
an
honorary
Doctor of Science degree.
Nabel
was
previously
worked at the University
Medical School and was
named
director
of
the
Cardiovascular
Research
Center in 1992. She was
appointed
Michigan
Medicine’s
chief
of
cardiology in 1997 and was
the first woman to fill the
role.
As
a
renowned
biomedical
researcher,
Nabel
has
focused
her
research on furthering the
understanding of the genetic
causes
of
cardiovascular
diseases. She has authored
over 250 articles, holds 17
patents and served as the
director of the National
Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute at the National
Institutes of Health.
Dove,
a
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
poet,
is
scheduled to receive her
Doctor of Fine Arts at
Winter
Commencement.
Dove
joined
University
of
Virginia
faculty
in
1989 and is currently a
commonwealth
professor
of English. She was named
U.S. poet laureate in 1993,
the second woman, first
African
American
and
youngest person to carry
the title ever.
Former
President
Bill
Clinton awarded Dove the
National Humanities Medal
in 1996 and former President
Barack Obama presented
her with the National Medal
of Arts in 2011. She is one
of only four authors to ever
receive both awards.
Hackett is set to receive
his
honorary
Doctor
of
Laws
degree.
Hackett
received his Bachelor of
General Studies in 1977
and played football under
coach
Bo
Schembechler.
After graduation, he worked
for and eventually became
president
and
CEO
of
Steelcase Inc., making him
one of the youngest CEOs
of a Fortune 500 company.
After retiring from this
position in 2014, Hackett
became
the
University’s
interim athletic director.
Hackett
began
his
16
month-tenure in 2014, and
oversaw new branding for
the department following
scandals surrounding the
departure of predecessor
Dave
Brandon.
He
negotiated the University’s
largest apparel contract ever
with Nike and hired football
coach Jim Harbaugh. He
and his wife Kathy continue
to support the University
through two endowments
for Public Policy students
and donations to programs
at the University Depression
Center.
The four individuals are
scheduled to receive their
honorary degrees on Dec. 16
at the Crisler Center.
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the future generations.
“One thing you see happen
is that in societies where you
have smaller family sizes and
population growth is chiefly
coming from net migration,
those
societies
are
often
societies where you don’t see
the same level of enthusiasm
in the idea of investing in the
next generation,” Salam said.
A 2016 report by National
Academics, on the other hand,
found children of immigrants
contribute
more
to
state
fiscal coffers than do other
native-born Americans, while
immigrants make up roughly
14 percent of annual economic
output.
Salam claimed issues of
social
mobility,
instability
created
by
populism
and
ethnic inequality would be
exacerbated by open border
immigration policy. He said
when immigrants first come to
the U.S., they largely become
a part of the working class,
which can create feelings of
isolation and anger.
“If you are increasing the
number of folks who are
vulnerable to technological
displacement or competition,
you’re then creating a class of
people who have every reason
to believe that they’re being
cheated by the system,” Salam
said.
To face these challenges,
Salam wants to put in place
an immigration policy that
favors
skilled
immigrants,
thus
tightening
the
labor
market
for
lower-skilled
workers and giving them more
opportunities.
“Given those challenges,
it makes sense in the future
to say let’s have a skills-
based immigration policy, in
which we prioritize people
who will be able to provide
for
themselves
and
their
families,” Salam said.
In response to a question
about how law enforcement
should work at the border,
Salam emphasized his belief
that immigration policy goes
beyond what happens at the
border. One point he made
was many people who want to
emigrate to the U.S. have no
means to do so.
“Dealing with the situation
reactively – we are just going
to react to the people who
show up at the border – does
not actually deal with the
underlying crisis,” Salam said.
“And the underlying crisis
is a crisis of public security,
that there are hundreds of
thousands of people who are
in no position to move.”
A Diag demonstration last
week by the Latinx Alliance for
Community Action, Support
and
Advocacy
criticized
inhumane enforcement at the
borders.
“There
(are)
people
in
Central America and all of
these countries struggling and
trying to come to the U.S. for
more educational, economic
opportunities, and who are
facing violence, persecution in
their communities...especially
in interactions when it comes
to border patrol,” LSA senior
Yezenia Sandoval said last
Tuesday.
Salam’s
talk
drew
a
number of people, including
Engineering junior Naman
Shah, an international student
from Singapore. Shah came to
Salam’s talk because he was
curious about how people feel
about immigration in the U.S.,
as Singapore is dealing with
similar issues.
“I was invited by a friend,
and immigration is a topic that
we’re facing as well, so I’m
just interested to hear another
view on it from another
country where the norms are
different,
the
expectations
are different,” Shah said.
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Artist Martin Vargas speaks about his art at the opening reception for his solo gallery “Painting His Way Home” at the Detroit Street Filling
Station Wednesday. Martin is a self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison. His work has been displayed at the Annual Exhibition of Art by
Michigan Prisoners for the past 23 years and one of his works was acquired by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
as well as chemical and
automotive engineers to
the process of how these
fuels will be created and
utilized in the modern
world.
Cardinale
said
though other groups are
researching
this
issue,
different
factors
make
their project unique.
“There’s
two
things
that are unique about our
project,” Cardinale said.
“We are one of two, maybe
three, universities in the
world that have experts
from the biologists from
the chemical engineers to
the automotive engineers
that
all
work
together
in a unified sequence to
grow algae in literally an
open pond to putting it in
an engine to determine
whether
or
not
we’ve
designed them properly.”
The
project
initially
began back in 2016 with
funding
from
MCubed,
an
organization
that
gives funding to various
research
projects
and
ideas. This initial project
led to a $2.5 million dollar
grant from the National
Science Foundation, and
eventually
allowed
for
the recent Department of
Energy grant. Cardinale
said he attributes much of
the success of the project to
the MCubed group.
“(The
research
team)
would have never worked
together, never even talked,
I mean we’re not even on
the same campus, and if
it wasn’t for the MCubed
getting us together for
some
preliminary
data,
we’d never have gotten
$4.5 million in grants,” he
said.
With
the
intent
of
working
on
an
environmentally-conscious
source
of
fuel,
Andre
Boehman,
mechanical
engineering
professor
and research team leader,
said the recent reports
by
the
United
Nations
Intergovernmental
Panel
on
Climate
Change
reminded him of what the
team is working for.
“Now we have a chance
to make significant strides
to improve sustainability
transportation, and that’s
really one of our major
goals,
is
to
make
the
transportation sector more
sustainable,”
Boehman
said. “Since this weekend
when the latest U.N. report
from the climate change
panel came out, things are
accelerating it seems. The
models which have said,
‘Oh, you’re overpredicting,’
these
dire
predictions,
things are actually worse,
and they are getting worse
faster, we have to act.”
LSA
freshman
Madi
Foster said she is glad
to see the school taking
steps
towards
global
sustainability.
“I
feel
like,
overall,
everyone should be doing
more
research.
This
is
nice, but I feel like it’s a
stepping
stone,”
Foster
said. “Obviously our earth
is getting worse from our
inaction, but I think it’s
good that we’re making
these
steps
because
it
will lead to more action
and eventually turn back
climate change instead of
making things worse.”
With the new funding,
the team hopes to have
this version of the project
begin at the start of 2019,
according to Boehman.
“The big thing is getting
swift and effective launch
of the project, and one of
the things we’re working
on right now is completing
necessary paperwork for
the launch of the project,”
Boehman said. “We hope
the project will officially
be in place by Jan. 1.”
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administration to demonstrate
adequate cause for sanctions
“in a hearing of record before
an elected faculty body.” In
an interview with The Daily
on
Wednesday,
Tiede
said
the University had not yet
responded to the letter.
“The reason I pointed to the
severity of the punishment
is
that
we
do
recognize
that minor sanctions, such
as a letter of reprimand,
can be imposed without a
full hearing. The ‘due’ part
in due process is always
relative to the severity of the
punishment,”
Tiede
said.
“But a major sanction, and
what I was appealing to in
the letter was that I think
most people would consider
being ineligible for a merit
increase and ineligible for a
sabbatical for some period of
time to be not akin to a letter
of reprimand but to have
material consequences.”
The
premise
of
the
standards, Tiede said, was that
faculty are “better qualified”
than
administrators
to
determine
“whether
a
particular action of a faculty
member was a proper exercise
of academic freedom or was
not.”
In the open letter addressed
to Cole, graduate students
from the University expressed
their support for Cheney-
Lippold and Peterson, writing
the
University’s
response
had
also
been
politically
motivated.
“The university president’s
statement declares that ‘U-M
strongly opposes a boycott of
Israeli academic institutions,
and
no
school,
college,
department or unit at our
university endorses such a
boycott,’” the letter read. “This
is an explicitly political stance
in support of the apartheid
state of Israel and, therefore,
cannot be considered neutral,
but,
rather,
one
wholly
aimed at shutting down BDS
activism
on
campus
and,
more generally, on silencing
support of and solidarity with
Palestinians.”
On Sept. 24, the Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
University Affairs released
a
statement
on
faculty
responsibilities
with
regard to writing letters of
recommendation, referencing
the AAUP’s Statement on
Professional Ethics.
“Within
the
guidelines
set forth by the American
Association
of
University
Professors,
and
‘demonstrate(ing) respect for
students,’ faculty should let a
student’s merit be the primary
guide for determining how
and whether to provide such
a letter,” SACUA’s statement
read.
In
a
public
forum
for
regent
candidates
Monday,
incumbent candidate Andrea
Fischer Newman (R) said
SACUA
had
condemned
Cheney-Lippold.
Michael
Atzmon, a SACUA member
in the audience, responded
the statement was not a
condemnation.
Writing
on
behalf
of
Peterson in a letter dated Oct.
15, the American Political
Science Association said the
sanctions
“raise
questions
of
procedural
fairness”
due to the lack of clarity
surrounding an instructor’s
obligations to write a letter of
recommendation.
“That the instructor we are
concerned about is, in this case,
also an early career graduate
student
only
heightens
our concerns that outsize
sanctions may be imposed
on one who could reasonably
argue
that
the
vague,
unspecified,
and
changing
norms
regarding
writing
letters
of
recommendation
were not adequately conveyed
in advance,” the letter read.
On
Oct.
9,
University
President
Mark
Schlissel
and Provost Martin Philbert
published
an
open
letter
to the campus announcing
the creation of a panel to
“examine
the
intersection
between political thought/
ideology and faculty members’
responsibilities to students,”
and “make absolutely clear
that
faculty
members’
personal
political
beliefs
cannot interfere with their
obligations to our students.”
The letter from the APSA
also expressed the concern
that the sanctions “give at least
the appearance of pressuring
instructors to conform to
the university’s position on
what the university has itself
termed not only an issue of
university values but also a
matter of political belief.”
The letter defended Cheney-
Lippold’s
participation
in
the academic boycott on the
grounds that the opportunity
to study at Israeli universities
is not equally accessible to all
students in the United States.
The letter specifically noted
the case of Lara Alqasem, who
was detained at Ben-Gurion
Airport for 15 days on her
way to study at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem on a
student visa because of her
former position as president
of the University of Florida’s
chapter of Students for Justice
in Palestine, which is a part of
the Boycott, Divestment, and
Sanctions movement.
“Given
the
unequal
opportunities to study abroad
in Israel - which in many
ways violates the University
of
Michigan’s
own
Non-
Discrimination Policy - the
decision to not recommend
a student to such a program
is not only legitimate, but far
from punishable,” the letter
read.
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