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Scientists receive 
flu research grant

$34.3 million will be 
used to develop 
more effective 
vaccines

A 
team 
of 
international 
scientists 
secured 
a 
$34.3 
million, seven-year grant from 
the National Institute of Allergy 
and 
Infectious 
Diseases 
for 
their international research on 
influenza, 
commonly 
known 
as the flu. The team includes 
Aubree Gordon, University of 
Michigan assistant professor of 
epidemiology, and Paul Thomas, 
professor at St. Jude Children’s 
Research Hospital.
Gordon 
said 
her 
group’s 
research could provide more data 
to create better flu vaccines and 
lead to new insights into immune 
system responses.
“I was incredibly excited, and 
it took a little while to sink in,” 

Gordon said. “I think vaccines 
are one of the best tools that we 
have to improve global health. 
I think this grant in particular 
may have broader impacts as 
I think it will provide insight 
into the development of the 
immune system in addition to our 
influenza-specific findings.”
The seven-year observational 
study will consist of a team 
of 
international 
experts 
in 
immunology and virology, two 
new cohorts in California and 
New Zealand and one existing 
cohort 
in 
Nicaragua. 
Each 
location has different flu seasons 
and vaccination rates, with rates 
being highest in Los Angeles and 
lowest in Nicaragua. Gordon 
believes each area may have 
different strains of influenza, so 
the vaccines may be different.
The 
three 
locations 
could 
help determine if immunity is 
affected by different flu seasons in 
different hemispheres.

State Rep. 
announces bill to 
forbid styrofoam in 
Michigan 

On Friday afternoon, state 
Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, 
announced a bill to ban most 
single-use polystyrene foam at 
a press conference in Bandemer 
Park on the shore of the Huron 
River. Rabhi was joined by 
members 
of 
Environment 
Michigan, the state-level muscle 
of 
environmental 
advocacy 
group Environment America.
“Single-use polystyrene, as 
was stated, is such a scourge of 
our environment,” Rabhi said. 
“It impacts our waterways and 
it impacts the environments 
that we all love. We’re standing 
here on the banks of the Huron 
River in beautiful Ann Arbor, 
Michigan, on a gorgeous sunny 
day, and all around us there are 
people enjoying this beautiful 
asset in our community. The 
worst thing that could happen 
is if we continue to allow 
those polystyrene, single-use 
containers to be used and then 
not recycled and thrown into 
our waterways.”
Rabhi’s bill would ban the 
use of unenclosed polystyrene 
foam — commonly referred to as 
styrofoam — at the state level, 
with exceptions for medical, 

veterinary 
and 
research 
purposes. 
Small 
businesses 
could also be exempt from 
the law if the business can 
prove there are no reasonable 
alternatives.
This 
legislation 
is 
associated with a companion 
bill which would earmark 
revenue from violations of 
Rabhi’s bill to a state fund 
promoting clean water and 
mitigating plastic pollution. 
The companion bill is being 
introduced by state Rep. Jim 
Haadsma, 
D-Battle 
Creek, 
who Rabhi said was a leader 
on this issue, though meetings 
in his district kept him from 
attending the event.
Environment 
Michigan 
Director 
Nathan 
Murphy 
thanked Rabhi and Haadsma 
for their work and said single-
use plastics like styrofoam are 
not worth the harm they cause 
to wildlife and water bodies.
“We need to ban single-
use convenience plastics like 
styrofoam, which is one of 
the worst offenders,” Murphy 
said. “These bills will make a 
real difference for our waters 
and our water life.”
A study from the Rochester 
Institute of Technology found 
22 million pounds of plastic 
debris enter the Great Lakes 
every year from the U.S. and 
Canada and plastic accounts 
for approximately 80 percent 
of the Great Lakes shorelines. 

Rabhi advocates 
to ban styrofoam

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