The University of Michigan 
Biosciences Initiative recently 
set aside $5.6 million to fund 
the creation of the Michigan 
Concussion 
Center. 
The 
center, which will be led by 
Prof. Steven Broglio, director 
of the NeuroTrauma Lab, 
will focus on understanding 
concussion 
prevention, 
treatment 
and 
long-term 
consequences.
Twenty 
years 
ago, 
concussions were not taken 
seriously as a real injury. 

Because there was so little 
information available on the 
nature and ramifications of 
the injury, it was common for 
football 
players 
who 
got 
knocked out during a game 
to be put back in 10 minutes 
later. Today, though, doctors 
and researchers have come 
a long way in understanding 
concussions, 
and 
strong 
efforts have been made to 
improve injury assessment 
and treatment. Still, there 
remain 
many 
unanswered 
questions, 
particularly 
in 
grasping what the long-term 
effects are.
The Michigan Concussion 

Center’s 
structure 
will 
revolve around three main 
cores: research, clinical and 
outreach. To meet the needs 
of the different cores, the 
center has pulled together 
faculty members from across 
different University campuses 
and 
disciplines. 
Andrea 
Almeida, 
clinical 
assistant 
professor of Neurology, who 
will co-direct the clinical 
care core at the Michigan 
Concussion Center, stressed 
the collaborative nature of 
the project. She also cited the 
center’s unique ability to draw 
on expertise from all over the 
University to produce a more 
comprehensive line of 
concussion research.
“The 
Michigan 
Concussion 
Center 
is 
exciting because it will 
allow us to build on 
our strong foundation 
and 
enhance 
existing 
collaborations 
by 
unifying diverse faculty 
and 
staff 
across 
the 
University making U of 
M an international leader 
in the field of concussion 
education, research and 
clinical care,” Almeida 
wrote in an email to The 
Daily.
Getting a concussion 
can be scary. Business 
sophomore 
Kelvin 
Chang suffered a mild 
concussion earlier this 
semester 
after 
falling 
off his bike when his 
front mud-guard came 
loose. He believes the 
concussion 
negatively 
affected his performance 
in school.
“I 
felt 
constantly 
sleepy 
and 
lack 
of 
motivation afterwards,” 

Chang wrote in an email 
interview with The Daily. “I 
would go as far as saying that 
my grade dropped due to my 
concussion. I was lucky that 
it was a mild case and the 
sleepiness went away after a 
week. However, may it be the 
concussion or the sophomore 
slump, I have been finding it 
harder to concentrate on work 
afterwards.”
Even though Chang has 
recovered, he is still worried 
about the ways his injury 
might continue to affect him.
“I am still worried to this 
day if I am experiencing 
effects that I simply don’t 
know,” he said.
Chang is not alone in 
holding these concerns, and 
long-term effects will be the 
primary focus of the Michigan 
Concussion Center, according 
to Broglio.
“The big question everyone 
is asking is, ‘What happens 
30 years later?’” Broglio said. 
“We really want to get into 
what the long-term effects 
are. And if there are long-
term effects that we have to 
be worried about, how do we 
mitigate them, how do we 
prevent them, what can we do 
on the front end, to stop the 
things on the back end?”
Most long-term studies on 
concussion effects are still 
in their initial stages. One 
current study takes college 
students and follows up with 
them every year for 30 years 
after 
they 
graduate. 
The 
study currently has 30 sites 
across the country and 45,000 
participants.
Thirty years is a long 
time to wait for results, 
and Broglio said there are 

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“The U.S. has found domestic ways to avoid the prohibition of separating children from 
their parents, to avoid the duty not to detain refugee claimants other than briefly and 
after showing it to be necessary in the individual case, and generally to give asylum 
to people who meet the agreed definition of a refugee, including all of the rights that 
go with it,” Hathaway said. “This is not just a series of acts that are internationally 
prohibited but they are acts that are fundamentally at odds with our own core values 
and with our own history.”

Law professor James Hathaway, director of Program in Refugee and Asylum Law

