…The University of Michigan introduced a new study to investigate the relationship between biosensors and health results earlier this month, following a pilot program in September. The Michigan Predictive Activity and Clinical Trajectories (MIPACT) study is analyzing information from Apple Watches to see if it can offer accurate data on health and wellness. Dr. Sachin Kheterpal, an associate professor of anesth...…
…The second Democratic presidential debate will be hosted in Detroit on July 30 and 31. The Democratic National Convention approved 12 debates, which will start in June 2019. The DNC told the Detroit Free Press the primary debate will host approximately 20 candidates including Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren. DNC Chairman Tom Perez told the Detro...…
…When LSA sophomore Aidan Sova transferred from Michigan State University this school year, he didn’t expect an increase in his cost of living. Sova, who self-identifies as a student of low socioeconomic status, said upon his arrival to campus, the major economic disparities between students at University of Michigan became abundantly clear to him. Sova is an associate director of the Association of Big Ten Students, a forum for ...…
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…Sunday afternoon, students and Ann Arbor residents gathered for the annual FestiFools public art parade on South Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor. Papier-maché puppets created and controlled by University of Michigan students and volunteers, along with other artists and dancers, performed under the theme “Dancin’ FOOLS.” The parade, organized by WonderFool productions, is one in a series of public art parades the grou...…
…On Monday afternoon, students and professors from the University of Michigan Data Science for Music Challenge Initiative conducted live research in Hill Auditorium during a musical performance and informational presentation before nearly 200 community members. James Kibbie, chair of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Organ Department, and Daniel Forger, professor of mathematics, received a grant from the Michigan Institu...…
…More than 60 students gathered in the Michigan League for the second-ever Coming Out Speak Out, an open-mic event for the LGBTQ+ community. The event was hosted by Stonewall Democrats, the LGBTQ+ issue committee of College Democrats at the University of Michigan. The first Coming Out Speak Out was hosted in 2017. To begin, LSA senior Colleen Grogan and LSA freshman Neil Jain, Stonewall Democrats co-chairs, introduc...…
…In the fall of 2013, the Black Student Union e-board sat in a room in Palmer Commons to discuss the possibility of a new hashtag. They hoped the hashtag, #BBUM — or, Being Black at the University of Michigan — would create an opportunity for Black students at the University to share their experiences on campus. Little did the e-board know, the hashtag would lead to a movement that six years later resulted in the relocation of the ...…
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…Thursday morning, hundreds of students, faculty, alumni and community members filled the new home of the Trotter Multicultural Center on South State Street. University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel, Regent Ron Weiser and Cynthia Stephens, the 1st District Court of Appeals judge, were among the speakers at the Trotter Center’s opening ceremony. Alphonse Pitawanakwat, a lecturer in the Native American Ojibwe language, ...…
…Housing disputes tend to be between a landlord and a tenant, but in LSA junior Samantha Goldstein’s and her roommates’ case, their disagreement found them allied with their landlord and fighting against their neighbor’s landlord. Now, Goldstein and her landlord, Kaveh Esmael, are speaking out about their neighbor’s abusive proprietor. Goldstein and her six roommates live in a house on South University Avenue between Wal...…
…About 50 people gathered Friday night in the Forum Hall of Palmer Commons for the 2019 Mental Health Monologues, sponsored by the University of Michigan’s chapter of Active Minds. This is the fourth year Active Minds, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about mental health among college students, has put on the show. Students and alumni prepared monologues about their personal struggles with mental health. Nu...…
…In the past academic year, the Office for Institutional Equity, the entity on campus charged with investigating complaints of discrimination and harassment, has been widely talked about on campus. After a ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in September 2018, OIE had to change its policy regarding student sexual misconduct complaints to include an in-person hearing between the accused and the accuser. In October 2018, Th...…
…The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History reopened on Sunday at its new location in the Biological Sciences Building. This marks the second of three phases of officially reopening the museum, with the third to occur in fall 2019. Plans to build the new Biological Sciences Building began in 2011, and the University decided to move the museum into the new building. The museum was housed in the Ruthven Museums Bui...…
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…On Monday evening, about 50 students attended a fireside chat hosted by Lean In at University of Michigan in the Ross School of Business. The event discussed women in politics, and panelists included local Michigan state representatives as well as politically active campus leaders. The event began with each panelist talking about her own background. Michigan state Rep. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor, discussed the insp...…
…Thursday night, about 100 Kessler Scholars gathered to listen to Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II in the Michigan League Ballroom for their annual banquet. The banquet serves as a final celebration of the scholars’ hard work throughout the year. In his address, Gilchrist discussed his path from engineer to politician and the resilience he learned along the way. The Kessler Presidential Scholarship Program was created by Fre...…
…“The mission of the Michigan China Forum is to connect Michigan with China by inviting key figures across different industries to discuss the latest and most controversial topics,” Shang said. “We’re committed to empowering future leaders of the United States, China and beyond to excel in the global landscape. The forum will serve as a platform for students and young professionals across different cultures to gain insights, d...…
…On Tuesday afternoon, while pro-Israel and Jewish student groups held their annual Israel Day on the Diag event, about 15 students in support of Palestine gathered in the corner of the Diag and held a Palestinian flag. The Diag Day is centered around the celebration of Israel, but dissenters arrived to represent Palestine. The event prompted a passerby to call the Division of Public Safety and Security, despite the gatherin...…
…The University of Michigan will begin offering optional active attacker training to students, faculty, staff and community members through a program called “Capable Guardian: Instruct, Evacuate, Shelter, Defend.” The training is provided through the safety and security company Threat Suppression Incorporated and will be implemented by the Division of Public Safety and Security. Melissa Overton, deputy chief of police ...…
…2A — Thursday, April 11, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Margo Beth Flemming @wordnerdmargo Guys, Ann Arbor is college town heaven The Black Sheep Michigan @blacksheepmichigan Umich students are more dedicated to standing 45 min in line for free ice cream than literally anything else Terra Schroeder @tschroe10 Also for the record, I’m not mad anyone is leaving Umich for the NBA I just get sad when they leave earl...…
…FOOL MOON 2A — Monday, April 8, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News ALLISON ENGKVIST/Daily Ann Arbor residents light up Kerrytown with different luminaries during Foolmoon Friday night. DESIGN BY VIVIAN HARBER OH BABY puzzle by sudokusyndication.com It’s more about the overall experiences of womanhood, however that’s defined. ALYSSA MCMURTRY Daily Staff Reporter TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behin...…
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…On March 25, President Donald Trump expressed support for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to be fully funded in a Grand Rapids rally. This turnaround came after an initial 90 percent budget cut for the initiative as outlined in the 2020 budget plan for congressional approval just weeks before. In the 2020 budget plan released March 11, Trump proposed to cut the $300-million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative by $270 m...…
…Dreams2Reality, a program for metro Detroit high school students sponsored by PILOT, concluded their year- long program Monday with Dream Day, a day-long event in the University of Michigan School of Education. PILOT is a student- led organization with a goal to develop leadership skills and encourage campus engagement within underrepresented communities. LSA sophomore Una Jakupovic is a member of PILOT and co-led D...…
…2 — Thursday, April 4, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News The Detroit News @detroitnews A UM alumna made history Tuesday for African American women and the LGBTQ community when she was elected the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chicago. Jonathan Overpeck @GreatLakesPack Spring has hit@UMich! The hammocks are emerging on the Diag. Flowers blooming. Nice! BK @bankrollbeek The most umich thing I ever seen ...…
…Thursday, more than 150 students, alumni, faculty, donors and community members — including demonstrators — gathered in the University of Michigan Biological Sciences Building for a ribbon cutting ceremony and to hear remarks from University President Mark Schlissel and other campus leaders. Interim LSA Dean Elizabeth Cole began the event by thanking those who have dedicated time and resources to the building and noted many pe...…
…On Tuesday evening, the University of Michigan Central Student Government held its second-to-last meeting of the semester in the Michigan League to discuss resolutions for moving Assembly meetings to Thursday evenings and codifying Wolverine Consulting Group, a free consulting service provided by CSG to student organizations. The Assembly also approved a resolution organizing healthy snack distribution in campus libraries ...…
…PA SSOVE R SE DE R 2A — Monday, April 22, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News CARTER FOX/Daily The table is set for a Passover Seder hosted by students in coordination with Michigan Hillel Saturday night. DESIGN BY VIVIAN HARBER MOLLY WU puzzle by sudokusyndication.com TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers Stanford Lipsey Student...…
…Burns said, in her experience, she has never seen such a concrete commitment asserted at a conference. She said conferences are usually a place for speakers to voice their opinions to an understanding audience rather than roll out plans. “This was a pretty unprecedented event,” Burns said. “It says a lot about her commitment to reproductive rights and protecting women in the state of Michigan.” Kaylee Tegethoff, Michigan’...…
…SOUTH BEND, IN — Mayor Pete Buttigieg officially announced his candidacy for president of the United States Sunday afternoon in South Bend, Indiana. Crowds began to gather as early as 8 a.m. for the 2:30 p.m. announcement, with thousands of supporters packing into the town’s former Studebaker automaker factory. If elected, Buttigieg would not only be the first openly gay president but also the country’s youngest president at...…
…2 — Thursday, April 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Dr. Mark Schlissel @DrMarkSchlissel Thanks to @TheBSU student activists our @UMich Trotter Multicultural Center is a new home for unity, learning, reflection & hope. It shows the potential of what we can be as a great institution & what we must do together to advance excellence, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Black Sheep Michigan @blacksheepmichigan it’...…
…A group of approximately 50 students, faculty and community members gathered Monday night in the ballroom of the Michigan League for an open mic night, showcasing the stories and experiences of Asian/Pacific Islander Americans. Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs hosted the open mic night as a part of the Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. The event, titled “hAPIness: Open Mic Night,” was co-hosted by ...…
…Thursday, the city of Ann Arbor and the Ann Arbor District Library held a forum at the library on race and class equity in Washtenaw County as the final event of its annual sustainability series. Approximately 100 students and community members attended the event. Teresa Gillotti, Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development director, emphasized the difficulty of the commute for much of the city’s Bl...…
…On my laptop, you’ll find a bookmarked folder labeled “Beauty,” which is completely filled with articles on KBeauty — Korean Beauty, for short. You’ll see that my skincare and makeup routine is made up of only Korean products and that my email inbox is cluttered with newsletters from Soko Glam, a U.S. website that curates KBeauty products, and the Klog, a KBeauty blog. Suffice to say, you’ll probably come to the conclusion that I ...…
…In 2013, the AFDI sued King County, Washington, for refusing to post a bus advertisement titled “The Faces of Global Terrorism.” Another branch of the AFDI called “Stop Islamization of America,” had already been blocked from attempting to post similar advertisements a year earlier in New York City’s subway system. By 2015, the case was brought to the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, where Muise and Yerushalmi claimed ...…
…In the wake of the University’s announcement of their intention to purchase renewable energy from Michigan-based company DTE Energy, Overpeck referenced the importance of making lasting efforts to promote carbon neutrality beyond campus. “We’re really all in this together,” Overpeck said. “Not just trying to find ways to make the University carbon neutral as fast as we can, we just got out first big wind purchase ann...…
…Bouman explained the research team’s process to CNN. “We developed ways to generate synthetic data and used different algorithms and tested blindly to see if we can recover an image,” Bouman said. “We didn’t want to just develop one algorithm. We wanted to develop many different algorithms that all have different assumptions built into them. If all of them recover the same general structure, then that builds your confidenc...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, April 8, 2019 — 3A Dearborn, Michigan is the epicenter of Muslim/ Arab American culture. It is a microcosm of the Middle East with people from every Arab country (i.e. Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, etc). There is such a diverse presence of nationalities and cultures that all contribute their own traditions while sharing similar traditions w...…
…He said this indicates there are presumably rules as to which progressions are aesthetically pleasing to listeners and which our intuition tells us should be avoided in composition. “There is some sort of an interesting structure to this,” Forger said. “Right now, we’re trying to figure out what is that structure.” Forger explained the primary goal of their project is to determine the psychological or neurological basis for patte...…
…Bryan identified the need for accessible food for students, especially because a full-service grocery store is not located on the University’s campus. Bryan explained that the Food Sustainability Program teamed up with organizations like the Office of Student Life, Wolverine Wellness, the Office of Financial Aid and CAPS to form a task force and determine the need behind this initiative. “There is need here, there are students ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, April 9, 2019 — 3 In an interview with The Daily, LSA freshman Andrew Gerace suggested that while this was an important step to address concerns over sexual misconduct, more should be done by SMTD to address this issue. “I think it will help students feel more comfortable. And that’s an important step to take,” Gerace said. “But I think what the music school needs to grapple with ...…
…By examining the intentions of Israeli and Palestinian groups, both past and present, Lieberman engaged in a conversation with attendees, contemplating the future of negotiations between the two nations. “From the 1990s to about 2014, the two-state solution was the official goal of the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, the PA,” Lieberman said. “Today most commentators agree that the two- state solution is on life su...…
…“It really started decades and decades ago when folks were calling for a new Trotter to recognize Black student rights in general, since the ’70s and ’80s and ’90s,” he said. Collier earned his Bachelor of Arts in Afroamerican and African Studies and Sociology from the University in 2014. He currently serves as the senior coordinator of operations for Relay Graduate School of Education in New York City. At the Trotter Center, Co...…
…“This year we really wanted to build up the festival,” Singh said. “So really focusing on what different sections we want, so arts and music, live service, sustainability and so on … . We really wanted to focus on bringing out more interactive organizations — we want this to be more about showcasing what exactly your org has to offer to the University and what community value you bring to campus.” Singh also said the group inv...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, April 22, 2019 — 3A wq“Kayleah... Kayleah… KAYLEAH.” My mother always repeated her statements in threes, louder each round, without any care if I had responded or not. It didn’t matter to her whether it was at the dinner table, the grocery store, in the quiet aisles of the library, or while driving on the freeway with me in the car… sitting next to her. And with every ...…
…(Regarding OIE’s priorities in investigations,) that’s a little bit of a difficult question because I would say our priority of course is always to address all of the matters, right. And as quickly as possible, which is difficult to do, especially as we’ve had really significant increases over the last couple of years and the number of reports that we’ve received, and to do them again in that fair and appropriate way, make sure th...…
…As a child, I never worried about making mistakes. If my knees were scraped when playing outside, they healed, so I stood on the highest playground structure trying to look past the horizon. Growing up, I continued having this dauntless quality, always questioning how I could change the color of the sky or how I could solve a derivative in an unconventional way. For this reason, the liberating medium of acrylic paints became my fa...…
…Ken Kollman, a professor of political science, is familiar with constitutional law and believes it’s best for free speech to be uninhibited until it becomes threatening. “I think like most faculty I’m generally in favor of free speech unless it’s dangerous and incites violence,” Kollman said. “When possible, when there’s no threat to the people or the public order, then it’s better to allow people to speak on campuses.” The second...…
…According to Warren, her experience as the only female Democrat in the Michigan Senate for four years has made her realize female perspectives are essential. “We tend to fight amongst each other for one seat at the table, but we need to stop fighting for that one seat and start demanding the five spots at the table that we deserve,” Warren said. “Women’s voices at the table change conversations.” Other panelists said it ...…
