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New app lets patients map their pain in 3-D imagery Doctors say the technology will make communication with patients easier ZACK BLUMBERG For the Daily
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Dr. Sandra Gonzales, Associate Professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education at Wayne State University, discusses the state of Latinx education at the Alumni Association Building Wednesday evening.
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The Michigan Hispanic Collaborative and the University of Michigan Latino/a Alumni hosted “The State of Latinx Education” panel Wednesday, which drew approximately 60 people for a discussion about the quality of the Hispanic education
environment from elementary to post-secondary levels. The panel opened with a series of guided questions from moderator Anita Martinez, the executive director of the Michigan Hispanic Collaborative. Panelists later answered questions that ranged from the state of elementary education all the way to expectations and issues in the corporate arena. The Latinx
community at the the University of Michigan is the fastest growing underrepresented minority grup on campus; students identifying as Hispanic comprised a record high 5.64 percent of the entire student body. “We’ve got panelists from the high school spectrum and experts, people that touch on community college and four-year institution
access,” Martinez said. “(We) have a representative from the corporate sector just to talk about where there are gaps, if any, where there are opportunities to enhance and to improve high school and college graduation rates.” The five panelists, comprising professors, educators and a corporate executive, discussed the importance of See EDUCATION, Page 2
Over the past several years, University of Michigan-based startup Moxytech has been developing an app that lets medical patients explain their pain to a doctor by drawing it on a 3-D model. Founded in 2014, the company allows users of the app GeoPain to highlight which areas hurt and indicate how much pain they are in to professionals. Moxytech Co-Founder Alexandre DaSilva, director of the University’s Headache and Orofacial Pain Effort, said the app — which was released to the public in September — is an invaluable resource and part of a logical progression in evaluating patients. “I’m a clinician, and when I was doing my doctorate I was looking at the brain of patients with pain, and with the technology they have, they were
much more precise,” DaSilva said. “But in the clinic, it was always subjective. Even though I could look at very high-tech things in the research side, in the clinical side, to correlate things, it was much harder, because I had to ask my patients, ‘zero to ten, what’s your pain,’ which was very subjective.” DaSilva also believes the app is useful for patients because makes it easier for them to accurately describe their symptoms. “I started to create a grid so the patient could put not only the intensity of the pain but where the pain was,” DaSilva said. “So that started to really help me with my research. When I arrived here in Michigan, then I realized that the 2-D map, the drawing, was not really good for the patients, because a body is in 3-D. The patients in the studies, and even those in the clinics, they were excited about this. ‘Hey, I want to use that, for See APP, Page 3
Criminal justice experts talk activism, Active style ‘U’ shutters of learning solutions to inequitable carceral state China Data
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Panelists discussed Ann Arbor-Detroit divide, importance of students taking action
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At the first panel of the Carceral State Project Symposium Wednesday night, panelist Justin Gordon, an activist and University of Michigan alum, asked the crowd of University faculty and students to listen and care about young Black people affected by inequality and mass incarceration. “Why don’t you all listen to us?” Gordon said. “Why don’t you all listen to young Black and Brown people until it happens? You all don’t listen to nobody, until they make you listen. Until See INCARCERATED, Page 3 they break into your house because they ain’t got no food. Or because they sell your kids drugs. That’s why I’m up here, because you all don’t listen, you all don’t care unless somebody do something and make you all care.” This roundtable, the first in a yearly series presented by the Carceral State Project with support from other University departments, centered around the challenge of defining the carceral state. Panelists with expertise on criminal justice and defense, mass incarceration, and conditions in prisons engaged in a dialogue on how to attempt to solve these issues. Before introducing all the panelists, moderator Ruby KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily Tapia, an associate professor in Justin Gordon, Activist and University of Michigan Alumnus speaks on his past experience the carceral system DESIGNwith BY JACK SILBERMAN English and Women’s Studies at the What is the Carceral State Roundtable as part of The Carceral State Symposium at Hatcher Wednesday.
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A new form of teaching dubbed “active learning” has started to slowly make its way into a variety of classrooms at the University of Michigan. This new model attempts to engage students more deeply with content through more mandatory participation in discussions and smallgroup work. This operates in contrast to the traditional “passive learning” technique used in the typical lecture format. Students often admit to missing their packed, 300-seat lectures or losing their attention span. LSA sophomore Victoria Sheetz said she is barely awake when she attends lectures. “I constantly find myself falling asleep due to the monotonous structure of my lectures,” Sheetz said. “A lot of classes have aspects of repetition that don’t make the learning new and exciting. Sometimes, a professor will show us a See LEARNING, Page 3
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and one of the Carceral State Project’s founders, explained the term carceral state for the audience. “The carceral state encompasses the formal institutions and operations and economies of the criminal justice system proper, but it also encompasses logics, ideologies, practices and structures that invest in tangible and sometimes intangible ways, including orientations to difference, to poverty, to struggles for social justice, and to the process of constructing orders at all times,” Tapia said. The Carceral State Project is a new cross-disciplinary initiativeby various professors
to open a new center dedicated to research of America’s prisons and criminal justice system, as well as granting degrees to incarcerated individuals in Michigan correctional facilities. After the panelists introduced themselves, Tapia asked them to recall an experience illustrating the importance of the work they do. Ronald SimpsonBey, the director of Outreach and Alumni Engagement at JustLeadershipUSA, talked about his time in prison and how his experience led him to show mercy for the teenager who killed his son. Simpson-Bey also spoke of how his experiences led him to JustLeadershipUSA, an organization dedicated to
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decreasing the incarcerated population. “Being someone that had been in the system and experienced what I experienced, I did not want to see that child being treated the way I’d seen people treated in prison,” Bey-Simpson said. “So I advocated for him to be tried as a juvenile, instead of as an adult … Fast forward, the work that I do now for JustLeadershipUSA, we are committed to cutting the national prison population in half by 2030.” Mary Heinen McPherson, co-founder and program coordinator of the Prison Creative Arts Project, also talked
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Users of the China Data Center website last week were shocked to discover the site was no longer available. Instead, the University of Michigan research program was replaced with a brief message explaining the CDC was closed effective immediately. The CDC, which collected historical, social and natural science data on China, had been part of the University’s International Institute since 1997 and became a partner in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research in 2012. The University cited results of an internal review as the reason for the shutdown. CDC users, however, and the center’s director still have questions about the sudden shutdown. Faculty and staff forwarded all inquiries regarding the CDC to University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen, who stated the decision was made after
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