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Alum discusses 
climate change

Tim Arvan 
examines 
negotiations on and
off campus

On Sunday night, Citizens’ 
Climate Lobby Ann Arbor and 
Washtenaw 
Climate 
Reality 
hosted an event titled “Climate 
Change Negotiation and Policy 
at Home and Abroad” with 
University of Michigan alum 
Tim Arvan at the Ann Arbor 
District 
Library’s 
Westgate 
branch. 
Arvan 
attended 
the 
United Nations COP24 Climate 
Change Convention in Katowice, 
Poland as a Climate Blue student 
delegate. 
He started the talk by recalling 
his time in Katowice. He said that 
while he did not take part in any 
of the negotiations, his presence 
showed the United Nations’ 
commitment 
to 
exhibiting 

transparency 
in 
its 
climate 
negotiations. Additionally, he 
doscussed the challenges the 
United 
Nations’ 
consensus 
requirement in decision-making 
poses when navigating climate 
change negotiations and creating 
a plan that countries will follow. 
“There’s no way that the UN 
has to force a country to do a 
particular thing,” Arvan said. 
“That means that every single 
nation has to be on board with 
every single significant step that 
we take to solve this problem. 
And right off the bat, that just 
makes it impossible to take more 
than incremental steps over 
twenty four years.”
Arvan 
also 
discussed 
transitions as well as common but 
differentiated 
responsibilities, 
and how he saw examples of 
people worried about the effects 
of the United Nations’ missions 
on their income.

Art & Design 
students work
with people
with Alzheimer’s

The 
walls 
of 
Michigan 
Alzheimer’s Disease Center, a 
research hub and medical center 
for those facing memory loss, are 
dotted with bright watercolor 
paintings — “works of art,” as 
Hank Paulson, the director of the 
center and University professor 
of neurology, calls them. These 
paintings 
were 
created 
by 
patients in the center as part of a 
therapeutic program led by Anne 
Mondro, an associate professor 
at the School of Art & Design, 
and the students of her Memory, 
Aging and Expressive Arts class.
“When 
those 
people 
with 
dementia 
made 
those 
works 
of art, there was a feeling of 
accomplishment 
that 
was 
satisfying to them that basically 
allowed them to be socially 
interacting 
with 
the 
world 
around them to have a positive 
impact themselves,” Paulson said. 
“And I think that is therapeutic.”
For the past 15 years, Mondro’s 
work has provided emotional 
support and brain stimulation 
for those suffering from memory 
loss in a state where Alzheimer’s 
Disease, the most prevalent form 
of dementia, is the sixth leading 
cause of death in the nation. As 

the Baby Boomer generation 
continues to age, the number 
of patients with Alzheimer’s 65 
and older is expected to grow 
22 percent by 2025 and raise 
Medicaid costs by nearly 25 
percent, according to scientists. 
Alzheimer’s and other types of 
dementia progress slowly— the 
average person lives between four 
and eight years after receiving 
the diagnosis — so memory loss 
centers often focus on raising a 
patient’s quality of life through 
programs 
like 
Mondro’s 
art 
therapy. Kathi Tobey, a memory 
loss 
specialist 
at 
Michigan 
Medicine’s Silver Club Programs, 
said art offers those living with 
dementia an outlet for creativity 
in ways words often cannot. 
“(Creative art) doesn’t have 
boundaries,” Tobey said. “As 
memory loss increases, (people 
who are diagnosed) can still can 
be creative, they just are more 
creative in an abstract way. So a 
lot of the art that gets produced 
for our folks with moderate 
memory loss, is more abstract ... It 
doesn’t have to be done a certain 
way, so it offers folks this avenue 
that is open-ended.”
Mondro’s work focuses mainly 
on the intersection of art, illness 
and disease. In 2014, Mondro 
began offering a course to Arts & 
Design students — an outgrowth 
of 
her 
previous 
community 
engagement course, Retaining 
Identity: the role of creativity in 
health care — created in 2006. 

Class uses art to
better livelihood

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