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Researchers receive funds for rocket development ARNOLD ZHOU/Daily
Aerospace prof. given $4.2 million grant from United States Air Force
Knight-Wallace journalists Bastian Obermayer and Laurent Richard discuss security concerns related to investigative journalism in the League on Wednesday.
Investigative journalists discuss privacy concerns in 21st century
Panama Papers’ Bastian Obermeyer, Laurent Richard present as part of Dissonance Series COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter
Two Knight-Wallace Fellows, Bastian Obermayer and Laurent Richard, presented Wednesday evening on a panel titled “Privacy and Security Challenges in Investigative Journalism.” Law
Prof. Gautam Hans facilitated the event, which was part of the Dissonance speaker series. Obermayer and Richard were part of the team of journalists that published the Panama Papers, a leak of 11.5 million documents that belonged to the law firm Mossack Fonseca. These documents detailed how more than 200,000
offshore entities served as shell corporations for uses such as tax evasion, fraud and other illegal purposes, with links to dozens of world leaders. The panelists discussed keeping sensitive information from being disclosed and how to contact sources while maintaining their safety as journalists and the
safety of the sources. “The question of the privacy and the safety of the sources or the journalists have been always in the history of journalism very central,” Richard said.
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Karthik Duraisamy, an assistant professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department and his team received a grant from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to investigate computational simulations related to rocket engine safety. The team was considered an underdog in the field but beat out competition from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Stanford University for the $4.2 million grant. Duraisamy said the problem
his team hopes to solve for the Air Force is designing systems to make rocket takeoff safer. He emphasized that his team members are not rocket builders — that they are just refining a computer simulation that helps catalyze the design cycle. “Instead of designing, building, testing, blowing up and going back to the drawing board, what we want to do is run simulations of it virtually on computers,” Duraisamy said. His project focuses on streamlining the process using computers rather than overhauling rocketry in general. See ROCKET, Page 2A
CSG deliberates on proposal aimed Ford panel Innovation talks rights, at boosting freshmen voter registration entered in
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concerns of ambiguity
Hours before polls open, eMerge candidate presents resolution with University housing
Policy conversation reviews intersection of human rights and military life
With just hours remaining before polls opened for the 2017-18 Central Student Government elections Tuesday evening, Public Policy junior Nadine Jawad, the eMerge vice-presidential candidate who currently serves as an executive policy adviser, made a final proposal to the current assembly. Jawad introduced a resolution encouraging University of Michigan Housing to integrate voter registration into required first-year student events, an idea outlined in the party’s platform. The resolution, citing a study that found fewer than half of University students voted in 2012 and 2014, states that since all firstyear students are required to attend various Welcome Week events organized by University Housing, they should also integrate voter registration into transitional activities. After six months of meeting with the administration and the University’s Residence Hall Association, Jawad tabled a discussion wherein she argued incorporating voter registration into required University Housing activities makes the most sense.
NICOLE TSUNO For the Daily
John Dudley Hutson, a former U.S. Navy officer and judge advocate general of the Navy, joined author and former Marine Phil Klay as well as former Army officer Ian Fishback Wednesday evening on a panel in the Ford School of Public Policy. The panel, part of Ford’s Policy Talk series, aimed to confront ambiguities created by the intersection of national security and human rights. The discussion was moderated by Hardy Vieux, the legal director at Human Rights First and the Ford School Towsley Foundation policymaker in residence. Vieux directed his first question at Hutson, asking if the perception of human rights and national security as incompatible spheres still exists today. Hutson argued the two do not conflict, and instead, human rights form the basis for national security — especially in regard to the war on terror.
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DYLAN LACROIX Daily Staff Reporter
“We think that if we can get freshman when they first come here who haven’t registered to vote yet to register, we’ll make it easy through the first meeting,” Jawad said. Upon meeting with RHA and LSA student government, Jawad agreed with suggestions that the initiative must be a collaborative effort between all organizations
involved with required firstyear student events. RHA President Sujay Shetty, an LSA sophomore, endorsed the resolution, and placed it on the agenda for the next two RHA Executive Board Meeting agendas. “I thought it was a great idea,” Shetty said. “I couldn’t find any factors which would make it so it shouldn’t be passed.”
During her presentation to the assembly, Jawad argued the most effective way to integrate voter registration into the firstyear events would be through incorporating it into RA training each year.
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March Madness-style tournament aims to find best STEM discovery RASHEED ABDULLAH Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan’s discovery of gut bacteria in ill lungs has been entered into STAT Madness, a contest inspired by the NCAA’s March Madness tournament and run by STAT health news, aimed at finding the best innovations in science and medicine. A research team lead by Dr. Robert Dickson of the University’s Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care discovered an increase in the severity of a patient’s illness was coupled with an increase in the amount of gut bacteria in the place of regular lung bacteria. They concluded critical illness in the lungs affects the microbiome — microorganisms living in the body — more so than had been previously thought. The research team was trying to determine was whether microorganisms or the body’s response to infections was responsible for intense critical illnesses. JOSHUA HAN/Daily
Public Policy junior Nadine Jawad, vice-presidential candidate for CSG, debates campus issues in the Student Pulications Building on Monday.
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Vol. CXXVII, No. 51 ©2017 The Michigan Daily
NEWS.........................2 OPINION.....................4 ARTS.........B-SECTION
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SUDOKU.....................2 CLASSIFIEDS...............6 SPORTS....................7