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Up to three sororities may come to campus Delta Phi Epsilon will lose house to Gamma Phi Beta By CHRISTY SONG Daily Staff Reporter
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Business senior Eric Tan practices break dancing at Angel Hall with his performance group, EnCore. The group held its annual Fall Bar Night Thursday.
ACADEMICS
LSA planning new center Social Innovation Alliance will work to find solutions By JENNIFER CALFAS Daily Staff Reporter
Fight the power! Constructively, of course. As part of the Victors for Michigan fundraising campaign, LSA hopes to raise $400
million, a fraction of the campaign’s $4 billion goal. Pending donor support, the college has already announced its intention to begin a Social Innovation Alliance Center to find solutions to expansive social issues. Although the center’s planning is still in its early stages, SIA aspires to have a $4 million endowment and contribute funds to annual fellowships, one-credit mini-courses, summer innovation grants and an
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annual social innovation challenge as a result of the campaign. Specific programs will be developed as donor support increases. The new center will partner with optiMize, a student-run organization with an analogous mission. Philip Deloria, LSA’s associate dean for undergraduate education, wrote in a statement that the center reflects larger goals within the college such as using a diverse education to challenge
and solve real-world problems. “The Social Innovation Alliance unites the energy and ideas of committed students with a support structure that will enable them to bring those ideas to fruition,” Deloria wrote. After serving as optiMize’s organizational sponsor, LSA has expanded its commitment to the center’s creation. Since students founded the organization, Deloria said the Social Innovation See CENTER, Page 3
HOSPITAL
‘U’ plans Medical faculty for self- clinch prestigious research awards driving vehicles Ann Arbor will be the first American city with a fleet of autonomous cars By ANASTASSIOS ADAMOPOULOS Daily Staff Reporter
Last May, the University launched The Michigan Mobility Transformation Center, a government-industry partnership that focuses on improving transportation safety, sustainability and accessibility. Recently, the center announced an eight-year plan to make Ann Arbor the first U.S. city with a fleet of networked, driverless vehicles. Peter Sweatman, director of the University’s Transportation Research Institute, said the University will partially fund the $100 million project, and additional aid will come from private and federal contributions. In addition to the auto industry, companies in the communication and information industries are participating in the project. The U.S. Department of Transportation initiated the Safety Pilot Model Deployment under the TransSee VEHICLES, Page 3
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There will be some new Greek letters on campus in the coming years as a chapter of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority returns next fall and the University considers adding two additional sororities. Due to a record number of students during registration for recruitment and with the quota limiting 62 recruits per pledge class this year, a committee made up of representatives from each campus sorority decided to extend the sorority community and invite three more organizations to join. In addition to Gamma Phi Beta, chapters of Alpha Omicron Pi and Kappa Delta may find their way to campus in the next four years. The process of looking for new sororities began in Winter 2012. The committee accepted packets of information from national sorority organizations that were interested in joining the University community and narrowed the applicants.
While Alpha Omicron Pi and Kappa Delta have been invited to join campus, whether or not they will join depends on if the Greek community feels it’s ready for new additions when the time comes for the chapters to join. The committee wants to ensure the growing number of new members experience the same tight-knit community previous generations shared without being overcrowded, said LSA senior Emily Goor, the president of the Pan-Hellenic Council. Although Gamma Phi Beta is joining next year, the sorority has a long history with the University, going back to 1882, when it was brought to campus. One of its founders, Frances E. Haven, was the daughter of a University professor and six of their national presidents were members of the University’s chapter. Upon hearing of the chapter openings, Goor said the sorority seemed really excited to jump on board. While the addition of Gamma Phi Beta has been met with excitement, it has caused a logistical problem for the University’s chapter of the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. DPhiE has been renting Gamma See SORORITIES, Page 3
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Professors honored by AAMC at meeting in Philadelphia By JULIA LISS Daily Staff Reporter
Earlier this month, two faculty members of the University Medical School received top awards from the Association of American Medical Colleges at a meeting in Philadelphia. Huda Akil, who is a professor of neuroscience in psychiatry, won the Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences. Akil studies the biology of the brain with a particular focus on mood, emotions and addiction, both in humans and animals, in the hopes of developing possible treatments for psychiatric disorders. Akil said she was “surprised and honored” to win the award and felt strongly that it was the shared efforts of her team as a whole that deserved recognition. She plans on continuing her research on the role of emotion because she believes it is still one of the least understood and important aspects of the brain. “I feel that when emotions go wrong in a chronic way, when people feel stuck with
their emotions, the price of that is really very high on the person themselves, on their family and on society in general,” Akil said. The other award recipient was Gilbert Omenn, who received the David E. Rogers Award. Omenn is a professor of internal medicine, human genetics, and public health and is director of the Center for Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics at the University. He said he was pleased to earn the recognition, because it’s a lifetime award that was named after a doctor whom Omenn knew personally. “I actually worked directly with him, so that was really quite wonderful,” Omenn said. The David E. Rogers Award was presented as a monetary prize as well as an engraved glass sculpture. Though Omenn could not specify exactly what he plans to do with the money at this time, he promises to donate it to a new or existing initiative at the University involving medicine and public health. Omenn is currently looking forward to holding a leadership role in the Human Proteome Project, an international research goal similar to the Human Genome Project. Additionally, he and his colleague are competing for a grant toward their BigData project.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
University receives award for encouraging economic growth Award recognizes work with public and private sectors By HILLARY CRAWFORD Daily Staff Reporter
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities recently granted the Economic Prosperity Award to the University for its efforts integrating entrepreneurial education with statewide economic initiatives. The APLU, the oldest higher education association in the United States, is a research and
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advocacy organization with 219 university members. The APLU’s Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity, which established the Economic Prosperity Award, encourages members to assess their own work in regional economic development. Northern Illinois University, the University of Cincinnati and the State University of New York also received the award. The APLU said the four universities were chosen because they collaborated with both private and public sector business partners and actively promoted statewide economic growth.
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Marvin Parnes, managing director for the University’s Institute of Social Research, had a role in applying to the award during his time as the University’s associate vice president for research. He said as a public institution, the University has an obligation to be “more deliberate in helping improve the economy.” In its application, the University highlighted three innovation programs, including the Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy; the Business Engagement Center; and the Michigan Venture See AWARD, Page 3
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