David
Blaauw
and
Dennis
Sylvester,
electrical
engineering
and
computer
science
professors
at
the
University of Michigan, are
this year’s recipients of the
2019 Distinguished University
Innovator Award, an honor
given to University faculty
who have both developed and
marketed innovative ideas or
technologies.
The two professors will
be recognized on Oct. 22
at Celebrate Invention, an
event
honoring
inventions
and
entrepreneurship
from
University staff members.
Blaauw and Sylvester first
began doing research together
at the University in 2001,
focusing on the development of
low power integrated circuits.
Blaauw said the award is an
appreciated acknowledgement
of the work the researchers
have done and recognized
students as a major factor in
moving the research forward.
“We
don’t
think
about
awards very much,” Blaauw
said. “It’s nice because we’ve
been working for a long time
together … It’s a nice milestone
to mark, and I can reflect on all
the work that (our) students
have done.”
Sylvester also echoed the
importance of students in
transformative
research.
He said he has worked with
multiple students who believe
in a technology and have the
ability to take it to the market.
Though he and Blaauw play
a role, Sylvester said, the
students become the key driver
in the success of the product.
“It’s a testament to the
area of work that I’ve been
investing a lot of my time and
career into, Sylvester said.
“Between David and I, we’ve
worked with probably 100
Ph.D. and master’s students
over the last 15 to 16 years on
these topics. All of them play
a role in moving the research
forward and eventually getting
into commercialization and
impact and industry.”
When they first began
working
together,
Blaauw
and Sylvester focused on
computer-aided
design
which generated software to
create computer chips. They
later decided to design and
build the chips themselves
and
have
been
working
closely ever since, Sylvester
said.
Hundreds
of
students,
faculty and local community
members gathered in Rackham
Auditorium Friday to hear former
United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice discuss life,
career and her reflections on
several specific points of policy.
Rice served as Secretary of
State under President George
Bush from 2005 to 2009. She was
the first Black woman to hold
the position, after working as
Bush’s national security advisor
from 2001 to 2005. Currently,
she is the Denning Professor in
Global Business and Economy at
the Stanford Graduate School of
Business.
The
event
was
held
in
conjunction with then opening
of the Weiser Diplomacy Center.
The
Center
was
established
with funding from University
of Michigan Regent Ron Weiser
(R) and his wife Eileen Weiser
in order to institute a leading
school of international policy in
the Midwest. Since its launch,
the center has been committed
to bringing in speakers from the
world of international diplomacy
within a wide range of viewpoints.
University
President
Mark
Schlissel introduced Rice and
pointed out her unique position
as a figure both in the worlds of
policy and academia.
“It would be hard to imagine
someone
who
typifies
the
confluence
of
academia
and
international affairs better that
Secretary
Condoleezza
Rice,”
Schlissel said. “Her extraordinary
career has furthered both, always
fueled by her deep commitment to
public service.”
Rice began her undergraduate
career as a student at the
University of Denver with the
intention of becoming a classical
pianist. After attending the Aspen
Music Festival the summer after
her sophomore year, she realized
she was underprepared compared
to her classmates. As a result,
she happened to take a course in
international politics at the end of
her junior year, and immediately
felt a calling to a new career path.
“I wandered into my course
at the end of my junior year in
international politics that was
taught by a man named Josef
Korbel — who happened to be
Madeleine Albright’s father,” Rice
said. “He opened up this world of
diplomacy to me ... and I knew all
of a sudden what I wanted to be.”
LSA
senior
Kate
Westa,
co-president of WeListen, an
organization aimed to foster
bipartisan
conversation
on
political
topics
attended
the
event. She explained to The
Daily that while she had always
looked up to Rice, she specifically
appreciated
the
ideological
diversity of the speakers the
Weiser Center brings, as it
allowed
her
to
understand
diplomacy in a comprehensive
way.
“I
have
looked
up
to
Condoleezza Rice since I was
probably 8 years old—I used to
write to the White House about
her,” Westa said. “I think hearing
all aspects of the foreign services
and everything related to foreign
policy is very important—we’ll
hear
from
former
Secretary
(Hillary) Clinton as well. I
think it’s so important to hear
the different aspects of the job
and the different perspectives
because there is so much going on
in international relations.”
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Monday, October 7, 2019
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
The Michigan Community
Scholars Program celebrated
its 20th anniversary at Palmer
Commons on Friday night with a
dinner, sing-alongs and remarks
by community members. Over 50
people attended the celebration.
MCSP
is
a
learning
community founded within LSA
in 1999, focused on community
service and social justice. Like
other
living-and-learning
environments at the University
of Michigan, MCSP students live
and take classes together in the
West Quad Residence Hall.
David Schoem, founder and
director of MCSP, opened the
event by welcoming everyone
back to Ann Arbor. He explained
he created MCSP to be a force of
good among competing social
tensions.
“The challenge facing MCSP,
today and in 1999, is in the face
of despair and violence and
hate in the broader society, how
can we embrace and put all our
positive and good together in an
educational setting?” Schoem
said. “In a community that
actually lives and breathes and
learns the values of dialogue
and diversity … this has been the
great opportunity of MCSP.”
In
his
speech,
Timothy
McKay, LSA associate dean for
undergraduate education, called
MCSP one of the signature
successes of LSA. According to
McKay, the program exemplifies
how
higher
education
institutions
should
teach
students the ability to engage in
civic and public life.
“The work of MCSP rests at
the very heart of the purpose of
liberal arts education,” McKay
said.
“It
aims
to
cultivate
precisely this kind of full-fledged
participatory readiness … and it
helps the rest of the college see
how that might be done.”
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Daily Staff Reporter
Michigan Business Women
and Women Who Launch hosted
a “Be a Boss” event, featuring five
alumni from the Ross School of
Business’s MBA program Friday
night in Blau Hall.
The panelists first discussed
their backgrounds and their
inspirations for their careers.
Marlo Scott, an award-winning
business leader recognized for
innovation and a champion of
small businesses, was inspired by
developing a sense of community
and spreading the depth of
culture from her work with
her previous company Sweet
Revenge, a cupcake restaurant
that paired sweets with wine and
beer.
Ross alumni
share work
experiences
as women
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On
September
30,
U.S.
District Court Judge David M.
Lawson ordered the University
of Michigan to lift previous
punishments
imposed
upon
a student accused of sexual
misconduct.
Previously,
the
accused student was found to
have violated the University’s
sexual misconduct policy and
was told to either withdraw
from the University or be
expelled.
According to court records,
the
accused
student
was
found
in
violation
of
the
sexual misconduct policy after
having sex with an intoxicated
freshman at a party hosted by
his fraternity in January 2016.
Student accused of sexual
misconduct is no longer
banished from campus
LIAT WEINSTEIN
Daily Staff Reporter
‘U’ researchers
receive honor
for technology,
development
Professors named 2019 Distinguished
University Innovator Award recipients
Former Secretary of State talks
foreign policy, career trajectory
Condoleezza Rice visits Rackham as part of Weiser Diplomacy Center Series
BARBARA COLLINS
Daily Staff Reporter
RUCHITA IYER/Daily
Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, discusses her life, career and policies at Rackham Auditorium Friday morning.
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