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Ross alumni honored on Forbes’ “30 under 30” The pair co-founded application which aims to send mail as easily as email KEVIN BIGLIN
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Source: Michigan Medicine 2015 Annual Report
The University Health System rebranded as Michigan Medicine
Name to better reflect collaboration between education, research and patient care CARLY RYAN & RASHEED ABDULLAH Daily Staff Reporters
The University of Michigan Health System has been renamed Michigan Medicine in an effort to ref lect the collaboration between the system’s education, research and patient care branches. The new name, which took effect on Jan. 9, signifies the appointment of a single leader of both the University Medical
School and Medical Affairs for the University of Michigan. Marschall S. Runge, M.D., will serve in that position, putting him in charge of both the medical school and hospital operations. The name of the University Medical School is not changing, but it will remain a part of Michigan Medicine. Runge is dean of the University Medical School, executive vice president for medical affairs and CEO of Michigan Medicine. Before
coming to the University, Runge was the executive dean for the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, a professor of medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill and chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Medicine. The University’s Board of Regents approved this combined position in September, hoping it would facilitate more seamless implementation of the system’s three-part mission: patient care, education and research. “Becoming Michigan Medicine is more than a
name change,” Runge said in an article from Michigan Medicine. “This new name ref lects a growing trend among world-class academic medical centers to showcase the integration of their missions: medical education, health care research and patient care.” Medical School student William Froehlich said in an interview with the Daily though some people worry the new name erases the health system’s history and tradition, See MEDICINE, Page 3
Two University of Michigan Ross School of Business alumni and former classmates, Harry Zhang and Leore Avidar, were honored on the Forbes 30 Under 30 rankings under the category Enterprise Technology for co-founding Lob.com, a company that specializes in sending physical mail as easily as email through a suite of application program interfaces. After beginning as an idea in 2013, Lob now operates out of San Francisco with a team of more than 25 individuals. According to their website, Lob creates customized pieces, sends them on their customers’ behalf, helps A/B test different variants and tracks mail as it’s delivered. This occurs all under the idea that “sending physical mail should be as easy as sending email.”
SACUA addresses “unfair” demotion Bill signed to aid Nat. for faculty through new resolution
Avidar said they are empowering developers to build applications. “Our goal is to enable developers and enterprises to build applications that they couldn’t previously,” he said. Prior to creating Lob, Zhang, who graduated in 2011, began as a product marketing manager at Microsoft, where he worked as a domain expert in direct mail, taking 60 to 90 days to send out millions of pieces of mail at a time. Avidar, who also graduated in 2011, gained experience working in the web services department at Amazon, where he learned how to build and sell APIs. At Amazon, Avidar said it took 30 seconds to send one million emails. The two domain experts were able to combine their respective talents in making an API similar to Amazon’s, which could send physical mail as easily as email on an automated schedule. “We were domain experts See ROSS, Page 3
GOVERNMENT
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Guard with tuition cost
The committee will present resolution to the Senate Assembly on Jan. 23
MI DNR approves 2017 deer cull plans
Synder signs legislation to streamline 10 million dollar college program
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs had their first meeting of the winter semester on Monday to discuss the Academic Affairs Advisory Committee resolution to protect faculty from unfair demotions. The committee discussed whether it should endorse the AAAC’s resolution regarding salary cuts and demotions of tenured and tenure-track professors. This resolution was written in response to a tenured professor receiving a notice from their department chair that their salary was being reduced by 10 percent. Those in attendance di d not give any identifying details about this incident. According to Dan Sharphorn, the former Deputy General Counsel of the University of Michigan, it is legally acceptable to reduce a professor’s salary by 10 percent each year for a certain amount of years or 30 percent overall. However, most issues involving salary reductions are problematic because they do not follow due process, said SACUA member John Lehman, who is also a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. He and the other AAAC members drafted a resolution that they will present to the Senate Assembly —
HEATHER COLLEY Daily Staff Reporter
On Monday, Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation that will streamline tuition assistance for members of the Michigan National Guard. House Bill 6013 was introduced in November to the Michigan Legislature and sponsored by state Rep. Bruce Rendon (R–Lake City). It was referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs, which reported on the bill with recommendation without amendment. In December, the bill was referred to the committee on Veterans, Military Affairs and Homeland Security, all of whom favored the bill without amendment, and recommended its immediate effect. The bill seeks to adjust the Michigan National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, which is housed within the state’s Department of Military and Veteran Affairs, in assisting members of the National Guard in paying for higher education. Michiganbegan revamping See TUITION, Page 3
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the governing body of the University which represents the interests and concerns of faculty — at its meeting on Jan. 23. The resolution calls for the enforcement of due process in situations where salary is lowered. The AAAC is a committee of the Senate Assembly, while SACUA is its executive branch. “The AAAC is not comfortable with these actions
that have been taken,” Lehman said. “What we are saying is that the Senate Assembly hereby declares that any reduction to an individual faculty member’s base academic salary constitutes a demotion, and entitles the affected faculty member to all of due process provisions … We’re not saying you can’t do it, you just have to follow the bylaws.” After Lehman’s presentation of the resolution, the SACUA
members moved into a discussion of whether or not they would endorse the resolution for the Senate Assembly, attempting to find the boundaries of what constitutes a demotion. SACUA Vice Chair Dave Wright, a Business School professor, said there was a key flaw in the recommendation. He was concerned with how See SACUA, Page 3
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The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs discusses a resolution at their weekly meeting in the Fleming Administration Building on Monday.
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The elimination will occur over a two week period starting Jan. 30 ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources approved Ann Arbor’s 2017 deer cull plan Friday. Which aims to eliminate 100 deer over the course of two weeks from Jan. 30 to Feb. 13. This year’s deer management program will introduce deer sterilization for the first time. According to the city, between the hours of 3 p.m. and 5 a.m. from Jan. 22 to 29, professionals from White Buffalo Inc. will dart doe with tranquilizers to conduct ovariectomies — surgical procedures that remove ovaries — on them at a temporary surgical site. Every sterilized deer will have a numbered ear tag attached to it, and one doe from each group will be fitted with a radio collar to track migration patterns and analyze survival rates. The program aims to sterilize at least 50 deer by the end of the week. City Councilmember Jason Frenzel (D–Ward 1) said the sterilization aspect was added in response to anti-cull groups, which have been demanding See DEER, Page 2
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