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City and ‘U’ oppose new Trump-led travel ban CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily
Hundreds marched from the Diag to the Federal Building on East Liberty in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Friday night. There have been numerous protests nationwide in response to President Donald Trump’s policy decisions, including his executive order on immigration over the weekend.
Thousands protest immigration executive order at DTW airport Airports across the nation fill with demonstrations in response to Trump legislation RIYAH BASHA Daily News Editor
Nearly 5,000 people took over the Detroit Metropolitan Airport international terminal Sunday afternoon to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order preventing individuals
from certain Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Attendees stopped lanes of traffic and filled the terminal, chanting: “Let them in” and “This is what democracy looks like.” Organizers from the Michigan Muslim Community Council and the Michigan chapter of the Women’s March on Washington
arranged the protest in under 24 hours, joining similar movements at airports across the country over the weekend. Trump’s order, signed on Friday, severely restricts immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries including Yemen, Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya and Syria for 90 days, suspends
all refugee resettlement for 120 days and bans Syrian refugees indefinitely. A New York federal judge — who is also a University of Michigan alum — overturned part of the ban Saturday evening to allow travelers currently detained at airports into the country. Protesters first demonstrated See PROTEST, Page 3A
A2 mayor Christopher Taylor, ‘U’ Pres. Schlissel pen statements against order MAYA GOLDMAN Daily Staff Reporter
The Ann Arbor community reacted negatively to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the travel and resettlement of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries to the United States that was issued last Friday. Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor issued a statement on his Facebook page Sunday afternoon condemning the actions of the Trump administration thus far, saying people must stand up and fight the president’s harmful policies. “Trump and his supporters have polluted something beautiful
— the honor of the United States and its people,” Taylor wrote. “The world looking in, ourselves looking about us, we must now reasonably question the continued truth of that reputation. Are we in fact a decent and just people? Is the United States of America a force for good? Do we as a people have the courage to try to make the world a better place, or are we debilitated by weakness and fear?” Taylor went on to say Ann Arbor was committed to protecting the constitutional rights of its citizens and all Americans. He mentioned questions of citizenship would not hinder this commitment, hinting at Trump’s most recent executive order. See REACTIONS, Page 3A
University funds big data projects Judges see Student led for social, health science research play relays startups,
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Three teams of specialists to receive $3 million in funding from Data Science Initiative
Contest geared at new startups sees innovative technology, software
Researchers at the University of Michigan will be using big data — large data sets that need to be computationally analyzed — to predict when individuals will be affected by diseases like depression and Hepatitis C. Big data will also be used to understand the applications of single-cell gene sequencing — examining genetic information from individual cells — through three projects that were recently funded. The three projects, M-CHAMP, the Michigan Center for SingleCell Genomic Data Analysis and the Intern Health Study, are receiving $3 million in funding from the Michigan Institute for Data Science as part of the Challenge Initiatives Program, which challenges data scientists and other research investigators to solve real-world problems in areas of transportation research, learning analytics, social sciences and health sciences. The program is part of the University’s plan to invest $100 million in Data Science Initiatives and infrastructure, which was announced in September 2015. Brahmajee Nallamothu is leading the Michigan Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction project, which includes research investigators from LSA, the College of Engineering, the School of Nursing, the School of Public Health and the Medical
TYLER COADY
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The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship’s Startup Competition completed its first nonqualifying round on Friday afternoon in front of a crowd of over 200 students, faculty and local businesspeople at the Stamps Auditorium on North Campus. The competition, began at the beginning of the month with a series of auditions of more than 40 student startups pitching to the Center for Entrepreneurship. Only 13 teams made it through to the actual competition, all aiming to win the final cash prize of more than $15,000 in funding for their startup. The projects range from all different fields, but the majority are based on development of technology and software. For this round, each startup was given one minute to make its pitch to a panel of four judges from Ann Arbor and Detroit investment and business development firms, See STARTUPS, Page 3A
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School. Nallamothu noted the goal of all three projects was to help researchers understand the vast amounts of data that were spread throughout multiple disciplines. “The big goals of all the projects, in my opinion, are to help us start to make sense of all the information that is currently surrounding us in a diverse set of fields,” Nallamothu said. “The stakes are really high for us to succeed, because these new tools can be transformational across all these areas: social sciences, health, transportation and learning analytics.” M-CHAMP focuses on two
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areas: acute lung injury following critical illness and chronic Hepatitis C virus infection. Nallamothu explained, while there are current ongoing studies trying to predict the outcomes of patients, they aren’t as comprehensive and complex as M-CHAMP. “Currently, most studies take a ‘snapshot’ view of how patients are doing to predict how they will do in the future,” Nallamothu said. “Longitudinal data that is collected over time often goes ignored because of the complexity of including all of this information into statistical models. We want to change that and help improve our
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ability to predict how patients will do over time.” The Michigan Center for Single-Cell Genomic Data Analysis, another project receiving University funding, analyzes single-cell genomics data. The group will use this information in applications concerning cancer and cell development. This team of researchers come from LSA, College of Engineering, School of Public Health, the Medical School, the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and the Comprehensive Cancer See RESEARCH, Page 3A
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1969 riot in Malaysia
Over 100 in attendance for Malaysian Cultural Night at Mendelssohn RACHEL LEUNG Daily Staff Reporter
Thirty students performed a play in rememberance of the 1969 racial riots in Malaysia as part of the eighth annual Malaysian Cultural Night on Sunday night, which also the celebrated the Lunar New Year. The play, written by Ross sophomore Jeevan Netraaj Singh, tells the story of a Chinese boy named Lee who was orphaned because of the race riots. Throughout the plot of the play, he develops a deep resentment for Malays, blaming them for the death of his mother, but his feelings of hatred change when he is eventually adopted by a Malay family. LSA junior Aifa Muhammad Radzi, the publicity director of the Malaysian Cultural Night Board, explained the topic of the race riots is generally avoided in Malaysian schools. “Why we highlight it in the play is that we don’t actually talk about it a lot in Malaysian history classes,” Radzi said. “In Malaysia, it’s still considered a sensitive topic.” See MALAYSIA, Page 3A
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