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‘U’ researchers receive honor for technology, development Professors named 2019 Distinguished University Innovator Award recipients BARBARA COLLINS RUCHITA IYER/Daily Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, discusses her life, career and policies at Rackham Auditorium Friday morning.

Former Secretary of State talks foreign policy, career trajectory Condoleezza Rice visits Rackham as part of Weiser Diplomacy Center Series JULIA FANZERES & MADELINE MCLAUGHLIN Daily Staff Reporters

Hundreds of students, faculty and local community members gathered in Rackham Auditorium Friday to hear former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discuss life, career and her reflections on several specific points of policy. Rice served as Secretary of State under President George Bush from 2005 to 2009. She was the first Black woman to hold the position, after working as Bush’s national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Currently, she is the Denning Professor in Global Business and Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The event was held in conjunction with then opening of the Weiser Diplomacy Center.

The Center was established with funding from University of Michigan Regent Ron Weiser (R) and his wife Eileen Weiser in order to institute a leading school of international policy in the Midwest. Since its launch, the center has been committed to bringing in speakers from the world of international diplomacy within a wide range of viewpoints. University President Mark Schlissel introduced Rice and pointed out her unique position as a figure both in the worlds of policy and academia. “It would be hard to imagine someone who typifies the confluence of academia and international affairs better that Secretary Condoleezza Rice,” Schlissel said. “Her extraordinary career has furthered both, always fueled by her deep commitment to public service.” Rice began her undergraduate

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career as a student at the University of Denver with the intention of becoming a classical pianist. After attending the Aspen Music Festival the summer after her sophomore year, she realized she was underprepared compared to her classmates. As a result, she happened to take a course in international politics at the end of her junior year, and immediately felt a calling to a new career path. “I wandered into my course at the end of my junior year in international politics that was taught by a man named Josef Korbel — who happened to be Madeleine Albright’s father,” Rice said. “He opened up this world of diplomacy to me ... and I knew all of a sudden what I wanted to be.” LSA senior Kate Westa, co-president of WeListen, an organization aimed to foster bipartisan conversation on political topics attended the

event. She explained to The Daily that while she had always looked up to Rice, she specifically appreciated the ideological diversity of the speakers the Weiser Center brings, as it allowed her to understand diplomacy in a comprehensive way. “I have looked up to Condoleezza Rice since I was probably 8 years old—I used to write to the White House about her,” Westa said. “I think hearing all aspects of the foreign services and everything related to foreign policy is very important—we’ll hear from former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton as well. I think it’s so important to hear the different aspects of the job and the different perspectives because there is so much going on in international relations.” See SECRETARY, Page 2A

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David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, electrical engineering and computer science professors at the University of Michigan, are this year’s recipients of the 2019 Distinguished University Innovator Award, an honor given to University faculty who have both developed and marketed innovative ideas or technologies. The two professors will be recognized on Oct. 22 at Celebrate Invention, an event honoring inventions and entrepreneurship from University staff members. Blaauw and Sylvester first began doing research together at the University in 2001, focusing on the development of low power integrated circuits. Blaauw said the award is an appreciated acknowledgement of the work the researchers have done and recognized students as a major factor in moving the research forward. “We don’t think about awards very much,” Blaauw said. “It’s nice because we’ve been working for a long time together … It’s a nice milestone to mark, and I can reflect on all the work that (our) students have done.”

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The Michigan Community Scholars Program celebrated its 20th anniversary at Palmer Commons on Friday night with a dinner, sing-alongs and remarks by community members. Over 50 people attended the celebration. MCSP is a learning community founded within LSA in 1999, focused on community service and social justice. Like other living-and-learning environments at the University of Michigan, MCSP students live and take classes together in the West Quad Residence Hall. David Schoem, founder and director of MCSP, opened the event by welcoming everyone back to Ann Arbor. He explained he created MCSP to be a force of good among competing social tensions. “The challenge facing MCSP, today and in 1999, is in the face of despair and violence and hate in the broader society, how can we embrace and put all our positive and good together in an educational setting?” Schoem said. “In a community that

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actually lives and breathes and learns the values of dialogue and diversity … this has been the great opportunity of MCSP.” In his speech, Timothy McKay, LSA associate dean for undergraduate education, called MCSP one of the signature

successes of LSA. According to McKay, the program exemplifies how higher education institutions should teach students the ability to engage in civic and public life. “The work of MCSP rests at the very heart of the purpose of

liberal arts education,” McKay said. “It aims to cultivate precisely this kind of full-fledged participatory readiness … and it helps the rest of the college see how that might be done.”

Sylvester also echoed the importance of students in transformative research. He said he has worked with multiple students who believe in a technology and have the ability to take it to the market. Though he and Blaauw play a role, Sylvester said, the students become the key driver in the success of the product. “It’s a testament to the area of work that I’ve been investing a lot of my time and career into, Sylvester said. “Between David and I, we’ve worked with probably 100 Ph.D. and master’s students over the last 15 to 16 years on these topics. All of them play a role in moving the research forward and eventually getting into commercialization and impact and industry.” When they first began working together, Blaauw and Sylvester focused on computer-aided design which generated software to create computer chips. They later decided to design and build the chips themselves and have been working closely ever since, Sylvester said.