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LGBTQ DISCUSSIONS
RESEARCH
New director of Cancer Center talks future plans
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Jim Toy, a longtime Michigan LGBTQ activist, discusses changes in LGBTQ issues over the years with students in West Quad Wednesday.
LSA Dean Martin announces new fellowship to promote diversity
Program will fund fifty new postdoctoral fellows over the next five years TIMOTHY COHN Daily Staff Reporter
LSA Dean Andrew Martin announced the formation of a new postdoctoral fellowship program last Thursday, to be administered through the LSA National Center for Institutional Diversity, aimed
at promoting racial and gender diversity among graduate students. Currently, the goal for the program is to accept 50 postdoctoral fellows over the course of the next five years. NCID Communications Assistant Devin Walker said this fellowship will provide recent Ph.D. recipients from underrepresented
ELECTION
Out-of-state students opt to vote in Michigan Campus weighs pros and cons of absentee voting in 2016 election CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporter
With the presidential election just weeks away and a growing number of the University of Michigan student body from out of state, many students faced the decision of whether to vote at home by absentee ballot or to register to vote in Ann Arbor before Tuesday’s deadline to register to vote in Michigan. Both processes are similar, requiring potential voters to fill out the registration forms or request an absentee ballot online. When requesting an absentee ballot, voters send in a request by mail to their local election clerk, then receive their ballot in the mail and vote prior to Nov. 8. In a recent poll done by The Michigan Daily, 91 percent of a sample of University students reported they were registered to vote. Of that 91 percent, 38 percent reported they were registered in Ann Arbor, 23 percent responded they were registered elsewhere and 38 percent said that they intend to vote absentee. Engineering sophomore See REGISTRATION, Page 3A
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minority and gender populations with the opportunity to conduct University of Michigan sponsored research and hone their teaching skills. “Recipients of the fellowship will have two years of University funding that will cover their salaries and the costs of their research and travel,” Walker said.
“The postdoctoral fellows are also expected, during this time, to teach at least one course in their area of study.” The fellowship is limited to recent doctoral degree recipients who did not complete their degree at the University. “Anyone who has their doctorate See POSTDOC, Page 3A
Eric Fearon cites collaboration and quality of research as factors for success ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter
In September 2016, Eric Fearon, professor of internal medicine, pathology and human genetics, was named the new director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Fearon laid out a number of goals for the center including continuing multidisciplinary collaboration, recruiting top leaders in the field and increasing initiatives for improving patient cancer care. Prior to arriving on campus for his first University
role, Fearon completed his M.D. and Ph.D. in biology and a program in human genetics from Johns Hopkins University. Fearon has since held a number of leadership positions and honors in these areas, including his appointment as associate director for basic science research at the University of Michigan, being honored as a member of the Association of American Physicians and serving as deputy director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Fearon said he feels honored to take on this role at the University, noting what he called its unique ability See CANCER, Page 3A
Regent Deitch emphasizes inclusion, ‘U’ receives balancing tuition costs in reelection bid grant for SCIENCE
Democrat aims to promote diversity, defeat “Trumpism” for fourth term RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
Regent Larry Deitch (D– Bloomfield Hills) is finishing his 24th year on the University of Michigan Board of Regents — and hoping for eight more. As Deitch looks to kick off his campaign for a fourth term, though, he emphasizes the quality of his experience over his resume’s length. “People who know me know I’m not a status quo kind of person,” he said. “Experience is invaluable, but it’s not a special knowledge or window. I’m not going to get too nostalgic.” Deitch will be up for re-election as a Democratic candidate for regent on the Nov. 8 general election ballot. An attorney by trade with Bodman PLC, a law firm in Detroit, as a regent he has been heavily involved in campaigns surrounding inclusion — namely, by leading a successful effort in 1993 to include “sexual orientation” on the University’s non-discrimination statement. Deitch has also had a role in the selection of the two most recent University presidents, Mary Sue Coleman and Mark Schlissel. Deitch’s opponent, Republican businessman Ronald Weiser, is a former ambassador to Slovakia, and also boasts a long relationship with the University, sponsoring his namesake Center for Europe
and Eurasia, and the Center for Emerging Democracies. He has run for the position unsuccessfully before. In an interview, Deitch said he deems Weiser’s political views fundamentally “incompatible” with the University. He highlighted Weiser’s affiliation with the state Republican party and current position as vice chair to the finance committee
responsible for raising fund for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign in Michigan. He also referred to recent weeks of incidents around campus climate, in which students protested over flyers targeting Black, LGBTQ and Muslim individuals — which he said stemmed from from the current political climate. “What I’m focused on in this
moment is defeating Donald Trump and Trumpism,” Deitch said. “It clearly influenced attitudes, some of which manifested with the racist posters. I will use my position (as regent) as a bully pulpit to call campus together.” Citing his experience with the sexual orientation inclusion campaign, Deitch said he stands in full support of See REGENT, Page 3A
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Regent Larry Deitch attends a University of Michigan Regents meeting at the Michigan Union on April 21st, 2016.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVI, No. 11 ©2016 The Michigan Daily
adolescent health care
$2.83 million in funding to support University project ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter
University of Michigan researchers recently received a $2.83 million grant from the federal government to expand adolescent health care, particularly with regard to mental health and risky sexual activity that can lead to teen pregnancy. A team at the University’s Adolescent Health Initiative will head the research, in part by expanding its work into 40 states nationwide. The fiveyear grant was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Adolescent Health. According to the Center for Disease Control, 14 percent of high school students in the United States reported not using any method to prevent pregnancy during sexual intercourse in 2015, and nearly a quarter of a million babies were born to 15 to 19 year old girls in 2014. AHI Director Lauren Ranalli said AHI, now in its fourth year, has implemented strategies to train all staff involved in patientSee GRANT, Page 3A
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