The last few winters have
not been favorable for deer
in Ann Arbor. Since City
Council approved a deer
management
program
in
2015 to reduce the size of the
local population, 274 have
been killed and 78 surgically
sterilized. The city’s fourth
deer cull began Jan. 2,
closing parks across Ann
Arbor with the aim of killing
up to 150 deer by the end of
the month.
Sharpshooters
from
White
Buffalo
Inc.,
the
Connecticut-based company
that has carried out the
program for the last two
years, will hunt deer on
public and private property,
including land owned by
the University of Michigan,
through Jan. 27.
Christopher
Dick,
a
professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology at the
University
of
Michigan,
said the cull is necessary to
keep the deer population in
check and protect the local
ecosystem.
“They basically eat away
at the forest understory,
so there’s no regeneration
of the forest,” Dick said.
“What happens when you
have these deer take off is
this destruction of their own
habitat if there’s no kind
of predation. If you want
Ann Arbor to have healthy
parks and vibrant forests
that take up carbon and help
mitigate climate change, if
you want a safe environment
for kids to grow up and not
be worried about ticks and
diseases
associated
with
overabundance of deer, then
we really have to think about
managing this urban deer
population.”
Deer
management
has
cost the city more than half
Ken
Powell,
Arthur
F.
Thurnau Professor, Professor
of Aerospace Engineering and
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
faculty liaison at the University
of Michigan, held a lecture
regarding the issue of diversity
within
the
aerospace
field,
focusing
on
implicit
biases,
stereotype
threats
and
the
accumulation of disadvantage.
About 50 students and faculty
attended the lecture Thursday
afternoon.
Powell used social science
research to discuss the hiring
process of faculty within the
STEM fields, as well as statistics
about
the
general
diversity
and its challenges within the
U-M
Aerospace
Engineering
Department.
He
further
encouraged students to properly
respect professors and to also
hold professors to the same
standards.
“Each of your professors are
experts and there’s no question
about that, trust me … so treat
them accordingly and try to take
them as experts in their fields
first,” Powell said. “On the flip
side, I think you need to hold
us as faculty at a similarly high
professional standard.”
Powell gave students further
A recent article by Online
College Plan named the University
of Michigan as the best online
college for pre-medicine degrees
in the country, scoring 189 points
out of the total 200 points.
There is no defined pre-med
major at the University. However,
according
to
Outline
College
plan, most students interested
in medical school tend to pursue
degrees in biology, chemistry, or
physics. In order to be considered
for the ranking list, the schools
must have at least a partial online
program in at least one of the three
majors, have proper accreditation,
be based in the United States and
operate as a nonprofit institution.
The University qualified for
the ranking system because even
through students must attend
campus part-time to complete
a biology, chemistry or physics
degree, the University also offers
many online classes through
Coursera. The first fully online
degree programs offered at the
University began in spring of 2018
and have continued to expand.
Though the University does
offer some online programs, they
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Fourth year
of deer cull
controversy
sparks debate
Federal gov’t shutdown can affect
University research, proposals
DESIGN BY WILLA HUA
Protests surround protecting local
ecosystems and animal sterilization
LEAH GRAHAM
Daily News Editor
Researchers say continued closure may result in larger, long term consequences
The
partial
federal
government
shutdown
is
affecting a number of U.S.
agencies, including ones that
fund research at the University
of Michigan.
The shutdown, which began
on December 22st, 2018, over
a spending bill surrounding
President
Trump’s
proposed
border wall, has lasted 21 days
with no clear end in sight. In
the meantime, approximately
800,000 federal workers have
been furloughed or are working
without pay.
National Science Foundation,
the
National
Aeronautics
and
Space
Administration,
the
National
Oceanic
and
Atmospheric
Administration,
part of the Department of
Commerce and the National
Endowment of Humanities are
among the federal agencies
funding
University
research
that are being affected. Federal
institutions funded over half
of the University’s research
spending money in fiscal year
2018.
Alex
Piazza,
Senior
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE
Managing News Editor
The Ross School of Business
Bridge program will graduate
its
first
student,
Rackham
student
Abram
Ayala,
this
year in June. The Business
Bridge program began last
summer and is one of various
bridge
programs
available
to
undergraduate
and
graduate students possessing
different academic interests.
These
bridge
programs
are
transitional
programs
to doctoral study with an
emphasis
on
attracting
a
diverse student body into the
field of work.
In
2010,
the
Rackham
Graduate School was awarded a
grant from the National Science
Foundation titled “Building
Bridges, Creating Community,
and Wise Mentoring: Building
Institutional
Capacity
to
Enhance Diversity in STEM
Disciplines”
which
allowed
them to create and fund four
STEM
bridge
programs.
Before the Business School
program, there were programs
for
applied
mathematics,
applied
physics,
ecology
First Ross
Bridge
Program
graduates
ACADEMICS
Faculty, participant
discuss representation
in academia as main
goal of organization
CATHERINE NOUHAN
Daily Staff Reporter
DANYEL THARAKAN/Daily
Ken Powell, the Arthur F. Thurnau professor of aerospace engineering and DEI faculty liaison, speaks on implicit biases and their impacts in a lecture about
the lack of diversity in the aerospace field Thursday in the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building.
Professor addresses diversity issues in
aerospace field during lecture series
Emphasis placed on implicit biases, stereotypes and aggregation of disadvantage
PARNIA MAZHAR
Daily Staff Reporter
‘U’ holds
top online
pre-med
degrees
ACADEMICS
‘U’ freshman retention
and graduation rates
contribute to top rank
AMARA SHAIKH
Daily News Editor
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