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Chad Carr dies after battle with brain cancer Carr, 5, united ‘U’ community with strength during yearlong fight By JAKE LOURIM RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily
Engineering freshman Shivam Sharma, center, makes repairs to a blimp with guidance from his team members during testing for an introductory aerospace engineering course in Francois Xavier-Bagnoud Building on North Campus on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT
‘U’ group plans Paris trip to observe climate talks Students, faculty to attend UN session to brainstorm new treaty after Kyoto By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
A team of eight University students and two faculty members will travel to Paris
for two weeks at the beginning of December to observe the process of negotiating a new treaty to address climate change. The team will attend the United Nations’ Conference of Parties, with representatives from more than 190 countries and nongovernmental organizations, including other universities. The COP will focus on creating a treaty to replace the
Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2020. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that was adopted in 1997 at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to create binding emission reduction standards. The conference in Paris will also focus on reducing emissions. “The Conference of Parties happens every single year, and broadly its role is to help nations around the world
to work to figure out how to reduce or manage our impact on the environment,” said Engineering sophomore Allison Hogikyan, a member of the team. “This particular COP we need to rewrite the international agreement.” Hogikyan said the main reason the UN allows observing parties to attend the COP is to increase the transparency of the event. See PARIS, Page 3
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TechArb kicks off incubation program
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‘Tis the season for entrepreneurship. Dozens of people gathered in the East Liberty Street headquarters of TechArb, an incubator for student startups sponsored by the University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and the Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, for the launch of its semi-annual startup program Monday night. The incubator, which was founded in 2009, selects a number of startups each fall, winter and spring semester to participate in its out-ofthe-classroom crash course in business development. This fall, TechArb selected 21 teams from 50 applications, which TechArb director Ryan Gourley said is the highest number of applications the incubator has ever received. See TECHARB, Page 3
WEATHER TOMORROW
HI: 47 LO: 35
The Michigan football faithful received sad news Monday afternoon when Chad Carr, the 5-year-old grandson of former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr and former Hall of Fame safety Tom Curtis, passed away after a yearlong fight with brain cancer. Carr was initially diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma in September 2014. In June, doctors escalated his treatment and began to provide him some relief. But two weeks ago, with his condition worsening, Carr went into hospice care after several
RESEARCH
Web therapy helps first-year med students Researchers find website decreases suicidal thoughts in new doctors By SANJAY REDDY Daily Staff Reporter
Student-run teams will work over three months to develop startups By GENEVIEVE HUMMER
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HALEY MCLAUGHLIN /Daily Project Elephant came to the Diag on Monday after Asian-American students felt overlooked at the University’s recent Diversity Summit. LEFT: Education junior Samantha Suh discusses issues of diversity with a visiting scholar. RIGHT: Engineering senior Sean Jiu and Business senior Derek Siew speak about Asian-American representation.
‘Project Elephant’ calls for inclusion of Asian students Demonstration addresses minority community’s role in diversity discussions By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter
The cold didn’t stop three students from standing in the Diag all day Monday with a wooden cutout of an elephant to advocate for Asian-American inclusion on campus. LSA senior Brendan Wu, Engineering senior Sean Liu
and Business senior Jennifer Liu created the event, which they called Project Elephant, in response to the last week’s University-wide Diversity Summit. Sean Liu, who is co-chair of the University’s United Asian American Organization, said the demonstration’s name stems from the common idiom of the “elephant in the room” — meaning an important and potentially awkward topic that is clearly apparent to all, but not discussed. “We felt like elephants in the room where we were invited to the party, but not
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active participants,” Sean said. “There are issues, there are voices, there are people that are being left out and they are elephants in the room, and we want to talk about them.” While attending events related to the summit, the three students said they felt as though Asian-American voices were excluded from the conversations about diversity on campus, prompting the Diag demonstration. “We felt like we were not included in the discourse and presentations of the Summit,” Wu said. “In some instances, See ELEPHANT, Page 3
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attempts at recovery were unsuccessful. Carr’s disease has united Wolverines and rivals alike. On Nov. 14 at Indiana, the Michigan football team wrote “#CHADTOUGH” on its helmets and dedicated its 48-41 victory to Carr. A week later, Michigan State and Ohio State wore decals in support of Carr on their helmets during their game in Columbus. More statements of support turned up on social media after Carr’s mother, Tammi, tweeted the news of his passing. After Carr was diagnosed, his family established the ChadTough Foundation to raise awareness for rare pediatric brain tumors such as Carr’s. “It’s incredible sadness, and I don’t know if it’s going to get better any time soon,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh during a weekly radio appearance Monday night. “Heaven got stronger … heaven has another angel now.”
Upon beginning residency, newly licensed doctors often feel a combination of inferiority, stress and sleeplessness that can lead to an increase in suicidal thoughts. Fortunately, a recent study co-conducted by a University researcher shows the benefit of a new web-based tool to lessen, or even eliminate, these feelings. The study was published in early November in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry. Researchers concluded that a free cognitive behavioral therapy website can cut the rate of suicidal thoughts in first-year residents in half. The program included four weekly interactive modules that covered topics like understanding the links between thoughts, emotions and behaviors and teaching the ability to challenge unrealistic thoughts. Srijan Sen, associate professor of psychiatry at the University, and Constance Guille, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, led the research team. The webbased tool, called MoodGYM, offers the same type of therapy
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that mental health professionals offer in therapy sessions. It was developed at Australian National University. To carry out the study, Sen and Guille requested the help of 199 medical interns, another term for first-year residents. Half of the interns were assigned to use MoodGYM, and the other half received general information on depression and suicide and contact information for mental health professionals. Of those who just got general information about mental health, one out of five thought about suicide sometime in their medical internship year. However, only one out of eight of the interns who used the MoodGYM app thought about suicide. Additionally, most assigned to the app continued to use it all year. Guille said a focus of this study is to emphasize the importance of depression prevention rather than treatment after its onset. “We are showing that we can prevent the onset of suicide ideation, as opposed to treating it once it is already there,” Guille said. “It is much more difficult to get people into treatment once they have mental health problems, so there is an advantage to preventing the onset.” Sen said one of the biggest implications of this finding is that web-based cognitive behavioral therapy, and tools like it, can be used to help others in high-stress, highpressure situations. He said this could extend to undergraduates See WEB, Page 3
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