News for faculty and staff WEEK OF JUNE 8, 2015 VOL. 70, NO. 33

Nearly peaking U-M Peony Garden colors, scents, delight onlookers

By Kevin Brown The University Record In brown corduroys rolled from the bottom, a matching striped top and her feet in brown flats planted on a dirt trail, Tina Kessel of Grand Rapids uses both hands to train a digital camera on a French peony. Her husband James Kessel joins her. They are among 20 on hand this weekday to view the historic University of Michigan Peony Garden. Nearly all share an unscripted activ- ity — smiling. The great impressionist artist Renior painted them. The Chinese 3,000 years ago planted them in imperial gardens. Others cultivated them for STEVE CULVER, THE UNIVERSITY RECORD See Peonies, Page 12 ZhenZhen Zhang, an intern in horticulture at the Matthaei Botanical Garden and Nichols Arboretum, tends to peonies on display. In engaged-learning course, students imagine campus of future

By Laurel Thomas Gnagey Michigan News If you want to transform the campus learning experience to suit the needs of today’s students, who better to ask what that should look like than More online the people who will benefit from the n Students in one U-M course changes? were asked how they would This is the premise behind a course reinvent higher education for called Campus of the Future, co- future generations (video): taught by Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, https://youtu.be/kxvXSQemMac professor of materials science and n The course: engineering, and Mika LaVaque- https://goo.gl/0FNB3A Manty, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science. “We professors don’t always remem- they get that they actually have no ber what it’s like to be an undergradu- limitations they produced some really ate. We have our own ideas about MIKA LAVAQUE-MANTY interesting ideas.” what a classroom should look like and Students Lauren Shepard and Brandon Hopen discuss their poster with Tim McKay, Arthur F The proposals include an enhanced what engaged learning should look Thurnau Professor and professor of physics, LSA. orientation that particularly addresses like as well,” Millunchick said. “I think first-generation students, a required listening to the student voice is really 21st-century friendly,” said Colby Orse, engaged-learning experiences instead meaningful experience (service or important.” a recent graduate who took the course of physical spaces. hands-on learning), and a multidis- The course and its professors chal- as a senior. Orse’s project would match “It became obvious that students are ciplinary project that gives students lenged students to think about what alumni with new students for a univer- just craving these kinds of engaged- the opportunity to solve problems for reinvention of higher education would sity-career-long mentorship, perhaps learning opportunities,” Millunchick clients. require in terms of pedagogy and leading to internships and jobs. said. While they all dreamed big, stu- physical transformation. Millunchick said the first students LaVaque-Manty said they gave stu- dents were realistic about their solu- “What caught my eye is that we got in the course were given a wide- dents a free hand. tions. In a recent class Rachel Jaffe, to be actually involved in the process open call to redesign the university “We have to encourage them and of trying to make the university more experience. Each chose to focus on say anything goes,” he said, “And once See Future, Page 12

Innovation Award STAFF SPOTLIGHT Page 11 China partnership expands with new Ross master’s program Page 3 Ashley Harris, research laboratory specialist intermediate in the “I’ve been reading comics Donors, volunteers recognized for helping Translational Oncology Program, forever, so I’ve got a good feel colleagues in times of need Page 6 and the U-M Crowdfunding Taskforce have been selected as the winning for what’s going to be worth Winning departments announced individual and team recipients of the getting for the collection.” for 2015 Ergonomics Awards Page 8 President’s Staff Innovation Award. INSIDE – David Carter University extends reach to prospective Page 9 Native American students Page 10 2 JUNE 8, 2015 THE UNIVERSITY RECORD record.umich.edu

RESEARCH FOR THE RECORD Getting to work: Cities A procedural error resulted in the publication of incorrect values in the 3-, 5- and 10-Year Average Annualized Return % values in the U-M Investment Funds Update in the May 25 issue of the Record. The with longest commutes corrected report is available online at record.umich.edu/sites/default/ files/150526_investmentsweb_final.pdf. By Bernie DeGroat percent) and Baltimore (19 percent) Michigan News also use trains, buses and ferries to get In a March 25 article titled A New York minute may be an to work. “LSA and Engineering announce instant, but for workers in the Big On the other hand, less than 3 Goldwater and Beinecke scholarship Apple, their commute is anything but. percent of commuters in Oklahoma winners” the photos of two scholar- A new study by Michael Sivak, City; Fort Worth, Texas; Jacksonville, ship recipients were transposed. The research professor at the University Florida; El Paso; Nashville, Tennessee; correct images for Jonathan Haefner of Michigan Transportation Research Memphis; Indianapolis and Louisville Haefner Winsor and Karl Winsor appear here. Institute, found that New Yorkers have commute via public transit. the longest commutes — about 40 Not surprisingly, cities with the minutes — among workers in the 30 highest percentages of public trans- largest U.S. cities, whether it’s by car, portation use also have the lowest per- train, bus, ferry, bike or foot. centages of commuters who drive to In addition to the longest travel time work alone (less than half): New York; to work, New Yorkers also have the Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; Are you considered a in your field? highest percentages of workers who Boston; Chicago; and Philadelphia. specialist use public transportation (57 percent) The national average for solo Isn’t it time you worked with one in mine? and who don’t have a vehicle (46 drivers commuting to work is about percent), and the lowest percentages of 76 percent. Cities such as Louisville, driving to work alone (21 percent) and Oklahoma City, Jacksonville, carpooling (5 percent). Indianapolis, Nashville and Fort Sivak’s study provides a broad Worth all exceed 80 percent. overview of commuting by workers Carpooling is most popular in in America’s biggest cities: who, how, Memphis, Houston, Phoenix, Las when and how time consuming. It Vegas, Detroit, Dallas and San Jose, uses 2013 data from the American Calif. (all at about 12 percent of com- Call today for a complimentary consultation Community Survey, an ongoing muters), and least so in New York, annual survey by the U.S. Census Boston and Washington, D.C. (about 5 Phone 734.998.0746 • Fax 734.780.3003 Bureau. percent). 2950 S. State St, Suite 340 • Ann Arbor, MI 48104 John L. Evangelista, CFP In addition to New York, other cities Sivak’s study also found that walking ® www.university-wealth.com with long commute times include to work is most prevalent in Boston Chicago (34 minutes), Philadelphia (15 percent), Washington, D.C. (14 Registered Representative of INVEST Financial Corporation (INVEST), member FINRA/SIPC. INVEST (32 minutes), San Francisco (32 percent), San Francisco (11 percent), and its affiliated insurance agencies offer securities and certain insurance products and are not affiliated with minutes), Baltimore (31 minutes), Los New York (10 percent) and Seattle (9 Evangelista & Associates or Executive Wealth Management. Advisory Services are offered through Angeles (30 minutes), Washington, percent) and least common in Fort INVEST Financial Corporation and Executive Wealth Management, registered investment advisors. D.C. (30 minutes) and Boston (30 Worth, Oklahoma City, Jacksonville, minutes). The average commute in the El Paso, San Antonio, San Jose, Las United States is about 26 minutes. Vegas, Phoenix, Indianapolis and Cities with the quickest commutes Dallas (all less than 2 percent). include Oklahoma City (21 minutes), About 6 percent of commuters in Columbus, Ohio (21 minutes), Portland, Oregon, ride a bike to work, Louisville, Kentucky (22 minutes), along with 5 percent in Washington, Memphis, Tennessee (22 minutes) and D.C., and 4 percent in San Francisco El Paso, Texas (22 minutes). and Seattle — a rare activity in large While public transportation is far cities in the South and Southwest. and away the most utilized in New The study also showed that the per- York, large percentages of commut- centage of workers with no commute ers in Washington, D.C. (39 percent), — because they work at home — is Boston (33 percent), San Francisco highest in Portland, Denver, San (33 percent), Chicago (28 percent), Francisco and Austin, Texas (all at Philadelphia (27 percent), Seattle (21 about 7 percent).

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PHOTO COURTESY OF ROSS SCHOOL Announcing U-M’s new project with Shanghai Jiao Tong University are, from left, Jun Ni, honorary dean and professor at the UM-SJTU Joint Institute and professor of mechanical engineering; Peisen Huang, dean of the Joint Institute; Ross School Dean Alison Davis-Blake; M.S. Krishnan, associate dean for global initiatives at Ross. China partnership expands with new Ross master’s program

By Tamra Talmadge-Anderson higher education — in the partnership “One of the goals of JI is to make Stephen M. Ross School of Business category. “As a global business our programs more international. The University of Michigan is Ross Dean Alison Davis-Blake and school, partnerships such Through this new partnership with the expanding its biggest international SJTU representatives took part in a Ross School of Business, we bring our partnership, launching a new program special event on May 22 in Shanghai to as this are key to providing international collaborations to a new for engineering students in China who launch the new collaboration. a world-class business level and a new territory,” said Peisen want to earn a Master of Management “As a global business school, part- Huang, dean of the UM-SJTU Joint degree at the Stephen M. Ross School nerships such as this are key to provid- education and giving our Institute. of Business. ing a world-class business education students direct experience “I believe this unique educational The U-M partnership is with and giving our students direct experi- model, incorporating engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the ence in the global economy,” Davis- in the global economy.” and business, will create terrific career University of Michigan-SJTU Joint Blake said. — ALISON DAVIS-BLAKE opportunities for our students. The Institute. The expansion also will create “This new partnership will benefit initiative also offers a timely response new opportunities for faculty research Michigan Ross and SJTU by broaden- to the Chinese government’s recent and student exchange between ing international engagement for our call for national focus on innovation Ross and the SJTU Antai College of students and faculty and providing a return to SJTU to conclude the inno- and entrepreneurship.” Economics and Management. truly unique, cross-disciplinary educa- vative program with a seven-week, Students, parents, faculty and staff SJTU is one of China’s leading uni- tional experience for the JI students to action-based learning capstone project from China and Ann Arbor took part versities. In 2006, U-M partnered with leverage their engineering experience led by Ross faculty at a multinational in the special event, which included it to create the Joint Institute, where with business fundamentals.” corporation based in China. presentations from Davis-Blake, more than 1,000 undergraduates study The new Master of Management The Ross Master of Management Huang and M.S. Krishnan, Ross asso- computer, mechanical and electrical program for the Joint Institute’s program, launched in 2014, is ciate dean for global initiatives. engineering. All courses are taught engineering students will begin in designed to give non-business under- “I’m proud of this unique partner- in English by more than 20 full-time July. Students will study accounting graduates a core grounding in business ship between top engineering and faculty members. concepts in China before depart- principles. The program is ideal for business schools in China and a top Last year, the joint venture became ing for nine months of study at Ross, engineering and liberal arts under- business school in the U.S.,” Krishnan the first U.S.-China collaboration where they will join the Master of graduates looking to add business said. “This will broaden our engage- to win the Heiskell Award — one of Management program in Ann Arbor. acumen to an impressive bachelor’s ment in China, which is a priority of the highest honors in international The Joint Institute students will then degree. our global strategy.”

RESEARCH How well does technology solve social problems? By Mandira Banerjee support system was missing. As a things like programming, Toyama countries, such as Ethiopia, Ghana and Michigan News result, the technology didn’t work,” said, but that’s very different from Tanzania. University of Michigan professor said Toyama, an associate professor believing that every child should have “What makes Digital Green work Kentaro Toyama was in India leading a at the U-M School of Information, a laptop. is that a person who has the farmers’ team studying how to make computers who explores the limits of technol- “Anyone can be a Facebook user, trust mediates their interaction with work better in the classroom when he ogy in a new book, “Geek Heresy: but to be an engineer at Facebook the video,” he said. “It’s the combina- noticed that students far outnumbered Rescuing Social Change from the Cult takes a lot more. To be a good com- tion of trusted human agents and computers at the underfunded govern- of Technology.” puter scientist, it’s essential to have a digital video that has the impact. ment schools. When he was doing the research good math education, and that hardly Without its partners, there would be So, Toyama and colleagues devised in Indian schools in 2004, Toyama requires a computer to teach,” he said. no Digital Green.” a potential solution: software that was the co-founder at Microsoft Technology has to be applied After returning to the United States, allowed multiple children to use a Research India in Bangalore. He was within a broader context that works Toyama spent time tutoring kids at single computer at the same time. involved in more than 50 projects to improve the communities’ ability Lakeside School in Seattle, which Multiple mice could be plugged into focused on finding technological to make the best use of it, he said. In counts Bill Gates as an alumnus. The one PC, and each had its own cursor solutions to poverty, illiteracy, poor poor communities, people are often school has ample technology and edu- on the screen. health and unemployment. Near the overlooked in favor of technology to cates the children of many tech indus- The researchers discovered that end of his stint in Bangalore, he con- bring about social change, when in try executives. Yet, they know that it’s five children at one computer could cluded that technology was not the fact, it is the human forces that are the not technology but adult supervision each learn as much as one child with answer. key to causing real social change. that’s critical for kids’ learning, he said. a computer all to herself. But when Toyama argues that to help people Toyama said that when technol- “These students had round-the- the experiment was replicated in sur- with technology, it’s far better to teach ogy does work, it has a big impact. clock Internet access and could watch rounding schools, it was a failure. them to become technology produc- Digital Green was one of the proj- as many Khan Academy videos as The lesson Toyama learned was that ers — engineers, entrepreneurs and ects that came out of his work at they wanted. Yet, when they needed a technology alone can’t solve problems corporate professionals — than to treat Microsoft. It’s an innovative platform boost, their parents insisted on paying — it’s most effective when it’s paired them as consumers. that lets farmers learn new agricul- for extra human supervision,” he said. with capable underlying human forces. “When you buy an iPhone, you tural methods through videos. Digital “Nothing beats knowledgeable, caring “At the school where (the software) may get some pleasure, but it’s Apple Green is now a nonprofit organization adult guidance for a good educa- worked, we had the support of the employees and shareholders who get with a $5 million annual budget that tion. Technology can augment peda- principal, and the teacher was engaged rich,” he said. works in more than 5,000 villages in gogical strengths, but it exacerbates in learning. But in other schools, that People need computers to learn eight Indian states and several African weaknesses.” 4 JUNE 8, 2015 THE UNIVERSITY RECORD record.umich.edu Changes at Rackham help boost doctoral degree completion rate By Kim Broekhuizen review of doctoral programs, more doctorate at U-M also has dropped during about the policy that were expressed Public Affairs predictable student financial support, that time frame from 6 to 5.4 years. by some faculty and students, and Doctoral students at the University better feedback and mentoring, and One of the Rackham changes was the monitored the process closely. As a result, of Michigan are completing their the adoption of a continuous-enroll- continuous-enrollment policy, which none of the expected fears was realized. degrees at a higher rate than in the ment policy,” says Janet Weiss, dean of went into effect in the fall of 2010. “We continue to see strong applica- past, following changes implemented the Rackham Graduate School. Under the policy, Ph.D. students regis- tions, stable enrollment and narrowing by the Rackham Graduate School. “The campuswide efforts to improve ter each fall and winter semester until gaps in success for students who had Graduate school data indicate more degree completion have had impres- they complete their degrees, unless they been struggling under the earlier system.” Ph.D. students are receiving their sive results over the past 10 years,” are on an approved leave of absence. The dean notes that, as a result, 96 degrees than in the past. Of the Ph.D. Weiss adds. “While good compara- This change, Weiss says, helps the percent of new Ph.D. graduates have students admitted between 2006 and tive data are hard to find, the current faculty and graduate program leaders to obtained professional employment 2010, 79 percent have earned their success of U-M students seems to be keep better track of their students and after completing their degrees. doctoral degrees or are on track to do outstanding compared to peer institu- their academic progress, and to provide As the nation’s second-largest so in the next few years. tions of the scale and scope of U-M.” help to keep students moving forward. producer of Ph.D. graduates (after This compares with a 69 percent Doctoral students also are more “Throughout the implementation University of California, Berkeley), completion rate at U-M a few years likely to complete their degrees in a of continuous enrollment, we worked U-M awarded 874 Ph.D. degrees ago, and with a national completion reasonable period of time. really hard to make sure there were no during the 2014-15 academic year in rate of lower than 60 percent. Since 2005, the number of students who unintended downsides for students or more than 100 different fields includ- “These positive results follow sus- took 10 years or more to complete their for the quality of their scholarly work,” ing the humanities, arts, social sci- tained efforts to improve doctoral degrees has dropped from 7 percent to 2 Weiss says. ences, engineering, physical sciences, education, which include more careful percent. The median time to complete a “Rackham took seriously worries and biological and health sciences.

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STATE UNIVERSITIES Alumni donate $1.5 million to FSU’s College of Pharmacy Players Ferris State University’s College of Pharmacy received a $1.5 million gift from alumni Jeff and Annette Rowe. $1 million of the donation will be used for funding the renovation of the Hagerman Pharmacy Building, while the remaining $500,000 will establish the Jeff and Annette Rowe Joint Pharm.D./MBA Annual Scholarship to help ease financial burden for students admitted to the Pharm.D./Master of Business Administration Program. This donation follows a $5 million gift from Phil and Jocelyn Hagerman to the College of Pharmacy this February. EMU debuts future space for Orthotics and Prosthetics Program Eastern Michigan University has unveiled the areas under renovation in the historic Rackham Building that will house the Orthotics and Prosthetics program, a part of the College of Health and Human Services. The renovation will update the building to include classroom and laboratory space, as well as the Lucille and Otto Becker Clinical Suite, which will feature five patient care rooms. Launched in 2003, EMU’s Orthotics and Prosthetics program is one of only a few accredited master’s degree programs of its kind in the country, and the only one in the state. Partnership donates to MSU for financial education Michigan State University has received a donation of $250,000 from the MSU Federal Credit Union, in partnership with Visa Inc., as funding for the next eight years to underwrite the Financial Peer Education Program. The MSU Federal Credit Union will develop the program’s curriculum, which will focus on budgeting, understanding credit and identity theft, and will provide peer educators to help students establish their budgets. The program will be available to students beginning in fall 2015. COURTESY OF THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC, THEATRE & DANCE PEER INSTITUTIONS Two University of Michigan theatre students act in the 1932 Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute raises $44M in capital campaign production of the play “Berkley Square.” The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has now raised $44 million as part of its capital campaign, which is 63 percent of the campaign’s fundraising goal. The This month in history (124 years ago) campaign began in October 2013 and has set a goal of raising $70 million. Funds raised through June 25, 1891 the campaign will go toward supporting many of the Institute’s programs, including its Fellows “My Darling Louise: program, as well as Radcliffe Research Partners, an undergraduate research program. “Commencement exercises occurred at 10 this a.m. …One thing that University of Minnesota receives $17 million alumni gift looked strange to me was to see the ladies marching in the proces- sion with the boys and going upon the platform with them. Every University of Minnesota alumni John and Nancy Lindahl recently announced a $17 million bequest class, I think, except the law had one or more ladies. Even the doctors commitment to the university. The gift will go towards funding the new Athletics Village. $12 million of philosophy of which there were four contained one lady. The medi- will go towards supporting basketball and football facilities and programming, $2 million to the cal classes each contained several ladies. In the class of pharmaceuti- Carlson School of Management, $2 million to the College of Education and Human Development, cal chemists Miss Greaves was the only lady to 29 boys.” and $1 million to pediatric cardiology research. The Lindahls serve on the Department of Athletics — From the Enoch Jones Price Collection, Bentley Historical Library, Leadership Council. presented in “A Book of Days, 150 Years of Student Life at Michigan” 6 JUNE 8, 2015 THE UNIVERSITY RECORD record.umich.edu

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UMHHC honored for sustainability practices how virtual classes affect achievement, which students are likely to benefit and avenues for improvement. The University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers has been awarded the Greenhealth Emerald UMS Summer Sings accounces schedule Award by Practice Greenhealth. The award recognizes All singers are invited to the University Musical health care facilities with high achievement in mercury Society’s Choral Union Summer Sings no-audition, elimination, waste reduction, recycling, sustainable no-performance evenings of music-making. As many food, green purchasing, energy usage and green as 300 singers from southeast Michigan, northern building design. UMHHC scored well in all of these Ohio and Canada join each session. They sing classic areas, displaying leadership in the local community choral repertoire with respected choral conductors and in the health care sector. This is the 12th and soloists. The first event is June 15, with Mozart’s consecutive year that UMHHC has been recognized. “Requiem” in Stamps Auditorium. It is followed by a July 6 reading of Francis Poulenc’s “Gloria” in Hill Regents meeting set for June 18 Auditorium, and Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” Aug. 3 in The Board of Regents will have its monthly meeting at Stamps Auditorium. All are at 7-9:30 p.m. Admission 3 p.m. June 18 in the Anderson Room, Michigan Union. is $5. Scores are available to borrow. Registration for To offer public comment at the meeting, sign up in each session begins at 6:30 p.m. For more information, advance at regents.umich.edu/meetings/publform. go to tinyurl.com/kcdgg6b. html. Public comments on agenda items will be taken prior to their consideration. Comments on nonagenda Federal funding extends climate research items will follow the regular business agenda. People Researchers at the University of Michigan and with disabilities who need assistance should contact Michigan State University have been awarded $3.65 the Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the million from the federal government to continue University in advance at 734-763-8194. For more about the study of climate change adaptation and climate regents meetings, go to regents.umich.edu. variability in the Great Lakes region for another five years. Funding for the Great Lakes Integrated U-M wins virtual schooling study grant Sciences and Assessments program, a U-M-MSU University of Michigan researchers will share in a $1.6 collaboration, will be provided by the National Oceanic million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s and Atmospheric Administration. The program will Institute of Education Sciences to launch a three- continue to support physical and social-science COURTESY OF PRACTICE GREENHEALTH year study of virtual schooling in Florida. The study research to better understand the regional impacts of Colin Murphy, building systems and energy manager for the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, recently will explore students’ course progression, academic climate change, to expand on the usability of climate accepted the Greenhealth Emerald Award by Practice Green- achievement and teacher effectiveness. The results will information, and to increase knowledge about how health on behalf of UMHHC. help policymakers and school personnel understand that information is disseminated.

Donors, volunteers recognized for Higher-ed funding approved as part of state budget process helping colleagues in times of need By Wendy Frisch One hundred sixty six staff and University Human Resources By Rick Fitzgerald faculty members have contributed to the Public Affairs The Employee Hardship Program helps Emergency Hardship Program, which has Overall higher-education funding for the state’s 15 public employees cope with extreme financial also received generous funding from TCF universities would increase 1.5 percent to $1.5 billion in emergencies due to unexpected situations Bank, the University of Michigan Credit fiscal year 2016, under a state spending plan approved by the such as natural disaster, family crisis, threat Union, former U-M Athletic Director Bill Legislature June 3. of eviction, unexpected death or other Martin and the U-M Skilled Trades Union. The budget now goes to Gov. Rick Snyder for his signature. crises. On May 19, a reception was held at The increase for the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Since its inception in 2009, the program the Michigan Union to recognize donors campus would be 1.4 percent, bringing the total state appro- has made a difference in the lives of and volunteers who together have made priation to $299.4 million. approximately 1,500 faculty and staff that support during times of crisis pos- The increase for the UM-Dearborn campus would be 1.3 members facing temporary financial emer- sible. Associate Vice President for Human percent for a total of $24 million. UM-Flint’s appropriation gencies, family crises or other hardships. Resources Laurita Thomas spoke at the would increase 2.0 percent to $21.8 million. The program has helped employees with event, giving her thanks to the volunteers and Those full appropriations are subject to in-state undergradu- housing and rent during crises, emergency donors for their commitment to helping ate tuition increases of no more than 3.2 percent. The Board auto repairs, avoiding heat or utility shut faculty and staff members in need through of Regents will consider tuition as part of the provost’s budget off, travel help for funerals or family emer- their support of the program. recommendation at its June 18 meeting in Ann Arbor. gencies, and one-on-one consultation to For more information or to become a connect faculty and staff with community supporter, visit emergencyhardship.umich. resources. edu.

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RESEARCH Online survey researchers should be cautious with trick questions

By Jared Wadley unforeseen effects. as normal are considered not being completed the reasoning task first. Michigan News David Hauser, a U-M doctoral attentive. The researchers found that complet- New studies suggest that researchers candidate, and colleague Norbert In the first U-M study, participants ing the trap question first decreased should be careful with setting “trap” Schwarz of the University of Southern received a trap question and the biased thinking and led to more questions for respondents for the sake California, found that answering a Cognitive Reflection Test, a math test correct answers. Thus, completing of accurate research. trap question changes the way people assessing how the analytical abilities of a trap question made participants Researchers use trap questions respond with later questions. participants. Half of the participants think more systematically about later (also known as attention checks and “IMCs cause participants to think completed the trap question before the questions. instructional manipulation checks) to harder when answering survey ques- math test, whereas the other half com- Hauser believes many social scien- assess whether participants are paying tions than they normally would pleted the math test first. tists have used trick questions in their attention to the instructions. However, in order to avoid potentially being Hauser and Schwarz found that work, which have possibly affected most participants see these trick ques- tricked again,” Hauser said. completing a trap question first their results. He says that while some- tions and become cautious about their IMCs in surveys look like normal increased participants’ analytical times deeper thinking may be desir- answers, potentially altering a study’s questions. However, hidden in a large thinking scores on the math test. able for ensuring that participants are results. block of instructions are specific com- For the second study, participants paying attention, it also could lead to A pair of University of Michigan mands that tell participants to ignore received a trap question and a reason- study results that might not otherwise studies show that these instructional the specific question and to submit ing task assessing biased thinking. occur when participants are thinking as manipulation checks, or IMCs, a non-intuitive response instead. Again, half of the participants com- they normally would in everyday life. which are popular measures used by Participants who miss those special pleted the trap question before the The findings appear in the latest researchers for online surveys, have instructions and answer the question reasoning task, whereas the other half issue of SAGE Open.

RESEARCH Overconfidence leads to underestimating financial risk

By Terry Kosdrosky before the financial crisis and under- or market crashes. This variation in confidence levels Stephen M. Ross School of Business estimated risk. That’s quite puzzling,” Given the human tendency to be over time can explain why otherwise Studying events like the 2008 finan- said Schmalz, assistant professor of overly afraid of near-term risks, over- rational people missed risk that in cial crisis in hindsight leads many to finance at the Stephen M. Ross School confidence is necessary for profits and hindsight looks obvious and amplifies ask, “How could they have gotten it so of Business. “Given they are the innovation, Schmalz said. If nobody bubbles, and why everyone acts timid wrong?” experts, why were they still so bad at took chances, few things of value after a market crash when the risks are New research by University of it?” would be created. lower, he said. Michigan professor Martin Schmalz His study, “Anxiety, Overconfidence, People know they will be nervous “A moderate amount of over- finds that overconfidence — under- and Excessive Risk Taking,” with before making a risky move, he said. confidence is just at the sweet spot estimating risks — can be a rational Thomas Eisenbach of the Federal So they signal the move to others, counteracting our irrational fears,” response to fear, or “anxiety,” but the Reserve Bank of New York, indicates which helps prevent them from back- Schmalz said. “That’s something that balance between the two can fluctuate that there’s a balance between over- tracking or “chickening out.” They also can help economists understand over time. confidence and fear that can get out of tend to ignore negative opinions or the role human nature plays in the “So many CFOs were overconfident whack during times of robust profits facts about what they’re about to do. market.” Amazing River Cruising USE MAIL ORDER AND SAVE! Offers With The University of Michigan’s mail order prescription drug program offers convenience and cost savings.

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WiFi upgrade approved for Winning departments announced for 2015 Ergonomics Awards buildings on Ann Arbor campus By Patty Giorgio ITS Communications By Juanita Day More online MHealthy Communications More online The university’s executive officers Four university areas were have approved a plan to upgrade WiFi n Campus WiFi Upgrade n recognized with MHealthy Ergonomics Hero Awards connectivity for faculty, staff and stu- Project: itcom.itd.umich.edu/ website: mhealthy.umich. wireless/wifi-upgrade/ Ergonomics Awards for imple- edu/ergoawards dents in 275 academic, administrative menting ergonomic solutions in and residential buildings on the Ann their workplace. Arbor campus. Winning areas have decreased accepted each spring. Silver “Meeting the challenge to provide risk factors and reduced or pre- winners are recognized with a pervasive WiFi connectivity anytime, “Students expect a vented employee discomfort certificate of recognition and anywhere is essential to the university’s by adding or modifying equip- bronze winners receive a letter of ability to conduct its mission. We need seamless transition from ment, redesigning work pro- commendation. ubiquitous WiFi to collaborate, offer academic buildings to the cesses or offering educational The MHealthy Ergonomics engaged teaching and learning, and opportunities. Awareness Team continues conduct team science. The university residence halls.” Both winners in the Silver Level to accept nominations for its continues to step up to this chal- — JEFF WRIGHT category were recognized for Individual Ergo Hero Award. lenge,” said Laura Patterson, associate installing height adjustable com- This award recognizes faculty and vice president and chief information puter workstations. They are: staff members who are indepen- officer, in announcing the project. n Ross MBA Admissions dently reducing ergonomic risks Wireless connectivity is a passion- at U-M. Today’s college students are Processing Team. for themselves or others by using ate topic on campus these days, and mobile. Regardless of whether they are n Canton Health Center recommended postures, work for good reason. According to a recent studying, socializing or working, they OBGYN. strategies or equipment. Huffington Post article, there were more are almost always connected. Bronze Level winners are: Any employee can nominate mobile devices than people on Earth in “Students expect a seamless transi- n Michigan Institute for another employee by submitting a 2013, with 71 percent of mobile com- tion from academic buildings to the Clinical & Health Research, which short online form, hr.umich.edu/ munications flowing over WiFi. residence halls. They do their work redesigned its office area for a mhealthy/programs/ergonomics/ Information technology governance everywhere, but especially at home,” more collaborative and efficient awards/ergoaward-individual. groups representing schools, colleges said Jeff Wright, director of the Housing cubical-free environment. html. The ergonomics team also and units across campus supported the Information Technology Office. n Accounts Receivable in the encourages nominations for recommended campus WiFi upgrades “We’re excited to work with ITS to Shared Services Center, which supervisors and managers who as the No. 1 IT funding priority on the bring Housing’s WiFi service up to the offered in-office ergonomic con- support their staff. Recipients are Ann Arbor campus. campus standard, to better serve our sultations to department staff . recognized with an Ergo Hero IT representatives from across campus residents both now and in the future.” Nominations for department- lapel pin and a congratulatory worked to identify and prioritize build- Students are not the only group level Ergonomics Awards are certificate. ings included in this project, which are on campus with a growing need for to receive upgrades over the next three expanded WiFi coverage. years. The effort does not include the “Wireless network connectivity is an Dearborn and Flint campuses, Medical integral part of enabling the work of School or U-M Health System. teaching and research at the university. “Our goal is to bring the network Having ubiquitous WiFi access is now to a consistent standard of cover- an expectation of students, faculty and age, capacity and capability,” said staff — wherever they are on our cam- Andy Palms, executive director of puses,” said David Sweetman, direc- ITS Communication Systems. “The tor of LSA Information Technology Want to Shine? network needs to allow our students, and chair of the Unit IT Steering faculty and staff to connect anytime Committee. and anywhere in the facilities where “The campus WiFi capital project they teach, learn, work and live. helps keep Michigan competitive “We also need to deliver a consis- among peer institutions. This project tently positive WiFi experience to also positions Michigan with the infra- prospective students, parents, alumni structure necessary for the continual and guests.” growth we will see in number and He added, “WiFi is the preferred variety of wireless devices brought to technology for an increasingly mobile campus in the coming years.” population. In the past year, most large Work on the $24 million, three- carriers announced they will provide year project will kick off immediately. voice over WiFi, making access to this Residence hall upgrades will begin technology even more important at at Bursley Hall and South Quad, and U-M.” project teams will complete upgrades Students are a driving force behind on as many classrooms as possible the effort to improve WiFi capabilities before the start of the fall term.

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By Wendy Frisch and Matt Snyder Human Resources Communications Ashley Harris, research labora- tory specialist intermediate in the Translational Oncology Program, and the U-M Crowdfunding Taskforce have been selected as the winning individual and team recipients of the President’s Staff Innovation Award. President Mark Schlissel presented their awards on June 4 at the Voices of the Staff 10th annual meeting, which took place in the Crisler Center. Harris will receive a $2,000 award; the members of the U-M Crowdfunding Taskforce will share a $3,000 prize. Harris’ innovation, the One Day

Closer initiative, is a community AUSTIN THOMASON, MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY AUSTIN THOMASON, MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY outreach effort on behalf of the President Mark Schlissel presents President’s Staff Innovation Awards to the U-M Crowdfunding Taskforce (above left) and Ashley Haand (right). Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Translational Oncology Program that offers insights into cancer research and individual and team finalists. Schlissel president for human resources. serves as an opportunity to enhance More information selected the winning individual and “Together we’ve made a difference. community and academic partnership, team. And moving forward we will continue n Individual Award Finalists awareness and pride. Andrei Duma The award presentation was the to do so by helping prepare U-M for The idea behind One Day Closer Alex Fischter capstone event of the Voices of the the future of work.” th was for researchers to donate a Renju Jacob Staff 10 annual meeting. Voices of the The President’s Staff Innovation Saturday to come to work, for compa- Jeffrey Micale Staff is a volunteer-based employee- Award was created in 2013 to honor nies to donate supplies to support that engagement initiative that works on staff members who find creative solu- work, and to engage the public in this n Team Finalists special projects, including this award, tions to improve efficiency, productiv- Lauren Ranalli, Margaret Riley, special day of research to see firsthand Jennifer Lane and Vani Patterson to improve the U-M workplace for all. ity, cost savings, health or culture at the important research done at U-M for the Adolescent Health Initiative More than 600 staff members have the university. Two awards are pre- that each day moves scientists one day Daniel Eisenberg, Trish Meyer, served as members. sented annually and both teams and closer to a cure. William Heininger and Barbara “I am so grateful to all of the individuals may be nominated. Harris’ proposal culminated in the Hansen for the Athletes Con- amazing people who work at making Finalists for the individual and team first One Day Closer event on June 7, nected Initiative Michigan the best it can be,” said awards also were recognized at the 2014, and a second event, expanded Learn more Laurita Thomas, associate vice award ceremony. to include science, technology, engi- neering and math groups from across n President’s Staff Innovation the university and the local region, on Award: May 9. hr.umich.edu/piaward/index.html The U-M Crowdfunding Taskforce Think you’re getting a was selected for the team award for Giving Blueday, the university’s first Adam Dunn, David Morris, Denise great deal now from large-scale crowdfunding effort involv- Cope, Emily Mathews, Helen Harding, ing schools, colleges, units and student Hunter Greenfield, Janice M. Glander, organizations across all three U-M Jillene Kristy Verdier, Karen Scimeca, Verizon or AT&T? campuses , which took place from Katy Wallander, Kelly Lee Roan, Laura midnight to 11:59 p.m. Dec. 2, 2014. Arendsen Rowe, Linda Douglas, Lora K. We’ll cut your rate plan in half — even after their discounts. New systems, communications plat- Newmeyer, Matthew J. Adams, Matthew forms and creative approaches were Rizner, Melissa Cox, Peggy Powers, key components of the plan for Giving Regis Vogel and Susan St. Charles. Blueday, which exceeded its fundrais- Commenting on the creativity of ing goal by 225 percent, yielded the the winning nominations, Schlissel greatest number of first-time donors said, “I am continually inspired by the of any prior annual giving appeal and creativity, passion and commitment exceeded its goal of creating more than demonstrated by our Michigan staff. 1 million campaign impressions by It is my great pleasure to support this more than 2000 percent through inno- well-deserved recognition of our staff.” Now available for U-M employees. vative use of social media and peer-to- Nominations were reviewed by peer sharing. the Voices of the Staff Program For more details visit your local Sprint store ... find it atsprint.com/storelocator Members of the taskforce include Management Team to select the 10 JUNE 8, 2015 THE UNIVERSITY RECORD record.umich.edu University extends reach to prospective Native American students By Deborah Meyers Greene (at Campus KinoMaage) on your Public Affairs thinking about college? The university’s pipeline to under- Respondent C: “Just seeing the represented prospective students campus. Just being able to get out extended its reach recently with the of my hometown and being able to launch of Campus KinoMaage, an on- breathe in air from a different place. campus residential experience geared And then being able to walk around to Native American students. and see what great potential college KinoMaage means “to share teach- could have if you just gave it a chance.” ings” in Anishinaabe, the language of Respondent D: “Just the whole the Three Fires People — the Ojibwe, weekend. Meeting new people, learn- Odawa and Bodewadmi. In 1817, ing about different things. … It just these tribes made the University of gave me a boost in my confidence.” Michigan possible by their gift of sub- stantial acreage, with the expressed Camp KinoMaage motto: wish that their descendants might one G’wii kinomaadizomi day be students at the university. (We will teach each other) Some of their descendants were among JEANNA FOX The cycle will begin again June 21, the participants of Campus KinoMaage’s From left: Rachel Smith, Andrew Innerebner and Jillian Lowler celebrate their successful tower when Camp KinoMaage convenes for inaugural session May 15-17, sponsored design in the College of Engineering science challenge. a fifth year. by the Center for Educational Outreach Rising seventh- and eighth-graders in collaboration with LSA. Campus KinoMaage participants provides essential reinforcement.” from all 12 Michigan tribes will arrive “President Schlissel has urged the learned about the university and about The student participants seemed to at the Biological Station to conduct entire university community to prioritize Anishinaabe culture on campus. They agree in their responses to a survey at water-quality tests, participate in diversity, inclusion and equity. We know took tours of Central and North cam- the program’s end. lessons in Anishinaabemowin — the through experience and research that puses and the Natural History Museum, Q: What was your biggest “take- language of the Peoples of the Three the pipeline to higher education is an and participated in a science challenge away” from Campus KinoMaage? Fires, participate in Anishinaabe effective means of doing so,” said CEO activity at the College of Engineering. Respondent A: “When you go to crafts, and organize and convene their Executive Director William Collins. CEO’s Real on College theater college, you aren’t alone. Even though own mini-pow wow and feast. “To be most effective, the pipeline has troupe presented an interactive perfor- you are leaving your family, you find a Additionally, they will enjoy those to be open before high school. So our mance, and members of U-M’s Native new group of people and those people staples of the camp experience: s’mores, initial focus was Camp KinoMaage resi- American Students Association joined want to help you.” camp fires, swimming and fun. dential science camp for middle school them for an ice cream social. Respondent B: “The necessity to go Current U-M students Schuyler students at the university’s Biological “We stay in touch with camp alumni to college. Through the lectures, tours Robinson and Native American Station near Pellston, Michigan. Now by email, newsletters and social and experiences, I learned the impor- Student Association member Rebecca our new Campus KinoMaage program media,” said program director Jeanna tance of lifelong learning.” Lynn will be on hand to provide extends that pipeline into high school.” Fox. “But the on-campus experience Q: What was the greatest influence college access guidance. Poll shows most Americans support renewable-energy standards

By Greta Guest in place,” said Barry Rabe, professor in renewing or expanding these n A strong majority (74 percent) Michigan News of public policy and director of the requirements. of Americans agree that state govern- Despite recent attempts in many Center for Local, State, and Urban Opponents of renewable-energy ments should require a set portion of state legislatures to repeal or weaken Policy. statutes often argue the policies need- all electricity to come from renewable- renewable-energy requirements, a The survey is a joint effort of lessly increase the cost of electricity. energy sources such as wind and solar University of Michigan poll finds that CLOSUP at the Gerald R. Ford School The survey found public support was power. a majority of Americans — of every of Public Policy and the Muhlenberg closely linked to the price premium of n Support for renewable-energy race, income and education level, and Institute of Public Opinion at a state’s standards, and so it is reason- requirements is highest (87 percent) religious and political affiliation — Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. able to assume that public support for among those who believe in global support such mandates. Renewable portfolio standards are such mandates might wane if the costs warming. Even so, 39 percent of A majority of Americans surveyed active in 28 states from Washington to increase, Rabe said. Americans who do not believe the as part of the National Surveys on Maine. In the last two years, there have “However, given that very few climate is changing support state Energy and Environment said they’d been proposals to weaken or repeal Americans are knowledgeable about renewable-energy requirements. be willing to spend an extra $25 per these standards in many states. Just their state’s renewable-energy policies, n When asked if their state year for more renewable energy — a last week, Kansas downgraded its stan- it is unlikely that current efforts to requires a set portion of electricity to number that exceeds the average $15 dard to a voluntary target, and repeal roll back these statutes are the result come from renewable sources, most per year cost premium of current pro- bills are making their way through the of a groundswell of public dissatisfac- Americans (59 percent) volunteered grams. However, once the cost rises to state legislatures in North Carolina tion or concern over the current costs that they didn’t know. Among those $50 per family per year, that support and Texas. of renewable-energy requirements,” who did answer, only half answered dwindles. In addition, renewable-energy said Christopher Borick, a political correctly. “Though there is wide support for requirements are set to expire this science professor and director of the The random telephone survey of the idea of renewable-energy require- year in seven more states, includ- Muhlenberg College Institute of Public 751 American adults was conducted ments, few Americans know whether ing Michigan and New York. None Opinion. in April. The survey had a margin of or not their state currently has them of these states have succeeded Key findings include: error of 3.6 percent.

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STAFF SPOTLIGHT Librarian expands video game, comic book collections

By Jordan Swope The University Record Meet David Carter Nestled in the basement of n Title: Video game the Duderstadt Center is the archivist, programming and Computer and Video Game reference librarian. Archive, managed by librarian David Carter. n At U-M: 20 years. Shelves line the back wall, n On comic books: “I’ve holding 6,000 different video been reading comics forever, games. A large television is in the so I’ve got a good feel for corner where a student sits, con- what’s going to be worth troller in hand, engaged in beating getting for the collection.” the level. Old and new computers with 60 different gaming systems surround the room. what’s going to be worth getting It’s a gaming enthusiast’s dream. for the collection.” “If you come here on a Friday In addition to those respon- afternoon, this place is packed,” sibilities, Carter works on many Carter says. special projects and library initia- Carter’s position has evolved tives. One such project includes over time. He came to U-M in an annual pre-conference for the 1988 to earn his Bachelor of Ann Arbor District Library’s “Kids Science degree in electrical engi- Read Comics” convention, in neering, continuing on to earn which librarians, educators, car- his master’s from the School of toonists and others come together Information in library science. for a day and explore how to bring He worked at the library as a comic books into the classroom, student, first hourly then as a uni- use them in teaching, and how to versity library associate. Leaving get kids interested in drawing and the library system for about expressing themselves. seven years, Carter worked for Another project is “Mini- the School of Information on the Comics Day,” where students and Internet Public Library project. local cartoonists come together to He returned to the library in LON HORWEDEL create mini-comics for a day. 2002 as an engineering librarian, David Carter is video game archivist and programming and reference librarian at the In addition, Carter and his though his position has evolved Art, Architecture and Engineering Library at the Duderstadt Center. He and some col- colleagues are putting together over time. Today he works at the leagues proposed and created the Computer and Video Game Archive. a symposium on gender and Art, Architecture and Engineering gaming this fall, capitalizing on a Library at the Duderstadt Center associates. He also teaches a the comic books, graphic novels popular topic of discussion in the as a video game archivist, pro- digital research class through LSA. and video games for their collec- gamer-sphere. gramming librarian and reference Another large component of tions. Originally managed by the Though his job keeps him busy, librarian. Carter’s job is the Computer and art librarian, the comic collec- Carter finds time to sing bass with Carter has several major areas Video Game Archive, which he tion was handed over to Carter the Ann Arbor Civic Chorus for of responsibility and he says there and some colleagues proposed after he helped her decide which fun. Although, he can’t deny that is no such thing as a typical day and created. Carter does the col- books to buy due to his personal his job is fun, too. for him. He coordinates reference lection development and strategic interest in comics and graphic “It’s funny that my job is dealing services for the AAEL, working direction for the archives, as well novels. with comic books and video as part of a library-wide team as outreach, instruction and man- He laughs at the idea of being a games,” Carter laughs. “If you to answer any questions people agement related to them. “comic book expert.” would have told 12-year-old me, I may have. He manages three He also does collection devel- “I’ve been reading comics would have been like, ‘You can get graduate student university library opment for the library, buying forever, so I’ve got a good feel for paid for that?’”

RESEARCH Lowering the volume nationwide could reap big savings

By Laurel Thomas Gnagey could yield substantial savings in urbanization over recent decades is a long-term effort that will result in Michigan News health care costs associated with car- undoubtedly has meant increased improved health and decreased noise Reducing noise pollution in the diovascular disease, in addition to noise pollution. annoyance, both of which have sub- United States wouldn’t just impact reducing annoyance and preventing In fact, a 2013 study estimates that stantial benefits to society,” he said. hearing but could save $3.9 billion in noise-induced hearing loss,” Neitzel more than 100 million people are He said a side benefit could be health care spending by lowering the said. exposed to unhealthy levels of noise reductions in other important prevalence of health issues associated The team’s finding are reported in that put them at risk for hearing loss, environmental hazards, such as air with excess noise. the American Journal of Preventive sleep disruption, annoyance and car- pollutants. University of Michigan School of Medicine. diovascular disease. “The Environmental Protection Public Health researchers have cal- The primary culprits in noise pollu- In particular, noise represents an Agency has responsibility for reduc- culated that a 5-decibel reduction in tion are road traffic and aircraft, along environmental stressor that impacts ing noise exposures in America, but excess noise could lower the preva- with construction, industrial and rec- sleep, relaxation and concentration, their Office of Noise Abatement and lence of hypertension by 1.4 percent reational activities. which can contribute to the two forms Control has not been funded since the and coronary heart disease by 1.8 In guidelines that are nearly 40 years of cardiovascular disease, the research- early 1980s,” Neitzel said. “Re-funding percent, or 1.2 million and 279,000 old, the Environmental Protection ers wrote. of this agency represents an impor- people, respectively. Agency recommended a safe noise Neitzel said there are many ways to tant first step toward reducing noise, The annual cost savings breaks limit of 55 A-weighted decibels (dBA), mitigate noise pollution. and subsequently reducing hearing down to $2.4 billion in direct health but according to an agency study in “The most important one is loss and cardiovascular disease in care costs and $1.5 billion in produc- 1981, nearly 60 percent of Americans increased focus on controlling noise America.” tivity gains, said Richard Neitzel, assis- were exposed at levels of 58 to 65 dBA. exposures at their source. In other Other authors: Tracy Swinburn, tant professor of environmental health Neitzel and the team used the EPA words, designing consumer products, research area specialist senior, SPH; science. figures in their study, although he said transportation and civil infrastructure, and Monica Hammer, Robert Wood “These results indicate that a greater it likely represents a conservative esti- and buildings with the goal of reduc- Johnson Foundation Fellow at the focus on noise reduction in the U.S. mate of the current levels, as expanded ing human exposures to noise. This Network for Public Health Law. 12 JUNE 8, 2015 THE UNIVERSITY RECORD record.umich.edu

STEVE CULVER, THE UNIVERSITY RECORD STEVE CULVER, THE UNIVERSITY RECORD U-M physical therapist Geeta Peethambaran takes a picture of a peony June 4 in the Nichols Jean-Jacques Bouchard takes a selfie June 4 at the Nichols Arboretum with his co-workers from Arboretum. Child & Family Life, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.

Peonies, from Page 1 medicinal uses. And the U-M Peony peony garden was designed by former “The overall goal is to present the Garden, with nearly 800 peonies and More information Arboretum director Aubrey Tealdi. garden as well as we can and tell some up to 10,000 flowers at peak bloom, is n The Peony Garden is near the “It’s a painter’s pallet. What sticks of the key stories of the garden, but nearing its peak. 1610 Washington Heights (west) out to me are your pinks and your we don’t want to put up signs every- “Peonies are one of the most fra- entrance to Nichols Arboretum. whites,” says Karen Paul of Commerce where,” he says. grant flowers,” Tina Kessel says. Township. She and Kim Lucas-Pisko, Grese says another key goal is to share n U-M in 1927 opened its Peony Nichols Arboretum is open sun- a U-M surgical nurse, visit the garden the Asian connection with peonies, rise to sunset seven days a week. Garden just inside the west entrance to after comforting a family member at known to originate from China, Nichols Arboretum. Today, the garden n See more on the garden and adjacent University Hospital. through concerts presented at the is the largest collection of antique and find information on tickets for Paul also likes the white peonies garden by the U-M Confucius Institute. heirloom peonies in North America. Shakespeare in the Arb at lsa. with the yellow centers. “One had a The Peony Garden also is the setting “It’s just majestic. There’s defi- umich.edu/mbg. little note of lemon, I thought,” Lucas- for the opening act of “A Midsummer nitely a bunch of cool colors,” says Pisko says. She wonders if visiting the Night’s Dream,” presented at 6:30 p.m. Cindy Herrera of Ypsilanti. She views potently fragrant garden can lower Thursdays through Sundays through the garden with Mariah McCarty the era. They are arranged in 27 beds. blood pressure. June 28. This is the 15th season of of Belleville, on their day off from Each contains 30 peonies. Bob Grese, director of Matthaei Shakespeare in the Arb, directed by Starbucks on Plymouth Road. “I think it’s pretty awesome that all Botanical Gardens and Nichols Kate Mendeloff of the U-M Residential The garden presents more than 270 of this is free,” Tina Kessel says. Arboretum, has been leading a College and performed by U-M stu- historic cultivated varieties (cultivars) Dr. W. E. Upjohn, founder of the Rejuvenation Plan to rearrange the dents and community players. from the 19th and early 20th century Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company in flower beds to showcase Asian culti- “The Peony Garden is treated as if representing the best American, Kalamazoo and Michigan alumnus vars, different flower forms and variet- it’s a royal court for ‘A Midsummer Canadian and European peonies of donated peonies to U-M in 1922. The ies of peonies, and important breeders. Night’s Dream,’” Grese says.

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dual master’s student in the School of LaVaque-Manty has been a cham- Information and Taubman College pion of engaged and alternative learn- of Architecture and Urban Planning, ing approaches for years, recognized acknowledged that the campus might for his work using principles from not be ready for all of their transfor- video games to allow students to Paint mational ideas. choose their own paths to success. “A lot of our projects are going to He agreed to teach the course with step on toes,” she said. Millunchick beyond his workload to Her project, an app called Aether keep the dialogue going on campus. (pronounced Eh-ther), would connect While he admits it sometimes is like people with common interests. swimming upstream to think about She calls it a Tinder-like program offering these experiences within a that could get people together for a university structure that has existed research project or a social activity. for decades, he is energized by the “I really see the future of education students’ enthusiasm for change. being so much more flexible, so much “It’s been fun to think about it,” he more collaborative and so much more said. “The students sincerely want to It! social,” Jaffe said. produce ideas the university can use.” With a somewhat similar goal, “It’s important to think about risks,” Adam Levick and Michelle Fiesta want LaVaque-Manty told the students Let the professionals at the U-M to expand the scope of orientation during class. “It’s easy to get depressed. to reach students before they get to Let’s be realistic but at the same time Paint Shop handle your next paint- campus and link them according to optimistic.” ing project. Our technicians are interests. Fiesta, a School of Information Levick, a master’s student in the student, was concerned about leaving certified in industrial and historical School of Information, sees future her orientation project unfinished. finishes, bronzing, patination, and students engaged in activities inside “The biggest risk is that students or outside of the classroom that tackle next semester don’t pick up your much more. Whatever you need such issues as sustainability, health project,” she said. done, our full-time journeyman disparities or educational inequity. Millunchick said the next class will painters have it covered—from the “Around the world we have these focus on physical spaces, but she and really large, complex problems,” he LaVaque-Manty hope some of this walls to the furniture to the Cube! said. “One of the ways we see orien- semester’s projects will be carried forth (Yes, we painted the Cube.) tation in the future is creating com- by future students. munities around some of these large Orse wants hers to come to fruition problems.” so that she can be one of the alumni to plantops.umich.edu/construction Part of the student experience in the mentor a student through the program CONSTRUCTION class involved working with campus she initiated. SERVICES Construction Services. Working for you. leaders in their respective areas. “It makes me feel excited, definitely, “It’s always a great idea to get that to know that you made the difference,” person involved from the very begin- she said. “It’s not just about the grade ning, from the design period,” Levick but knowing that you’re helping other said. students.” record.umich.edu JUNE 8, 2015 THE UNIVERSITY RECORD 13

DAN RABOSKY DAN RABOSKY DAN RABOSKY A California quail, one of the more than 2,500 bird species A Steller’s Jay, found in the mountains of the American West. A Wilson’s warbler, a species of New World bird that breeds in analyzed in a new University of Michigan study. the temperate zone but winters in Central America. RESEARCH How to explain tropical biodiversity? Cross ‘faster evolution’ off the list

By Jim Erickson Tropical forests have been on Earth Michigan News “The high abundance and diversity of fruits, insects, nectar longer than temperate and northern It’s been known for more than 150 forests. Perhaps the tropics are more years that the tropics are home to far and other resources possibly allows the tropics to cram biologically rich simply because the greater numbers of animal and plant plants and animals that live there have more bird species together than the temperate zone.” species than the planet’s temperate had more time to diversify. regions. But despite decades of study, — DANIEL RABOSKY Tropical rainforests also contain an the causes of this striking biodiversity enormous variety of habitats that differ pattern remain poorly understood and according to rainfall, altitude, topogra- hotly debated. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology size as Michigan, has at least 1,500 phy, soil type and other factors. These One proposed explanation for the and a curator at the U-M Museum of breeding bird species; Michigan has diverse habitats led to the evolution of so-called latitudinal diversity gradient Zoology. about 250. plants and animals specially equipped is that new species form at faster rates “We haven’t yet tested some other The U-M team analyzed the rela- to live in each of them and to perform in the tropics. University of Michigan potential causes of the gradient, but tionship between speciation rates and specific roles in the community called evolutionary biologist Daniel Rabosky we provide very strong evidence that it latitude using evolutionary trees from ecological niches. Perhaps tropical and two U-M colleagues tested that doesn’t involve ‘faster evolution in the various bird groups and a software forests are more diverse than temper- hypothesis by reconstructing the tropics,’ or anything related to that,” program called BAMM, which was ate forests because they contain more history of speciation in New World said Rabosky, who studies the evolu- developed by Rabosky’s lab to study ecological niches. land birds. tionary processes of species formation complex ecological dynamics. “It’s clear that there are more ways They estimated rates of species and extinction to understand why While rates of species formation of making a living in the tropics,” formation across 2,571 bird species biological diversity varies so dramati- varied about 30-fold across New Rabosky said. “The high abundance and found no difference between cally over space and time. World birds, there was no difference and diversity of fruits, insects, species from tropical and non- The differences in species numbers when comparing tropical to temperate nectar and other resources possibly tropical regions. Their findings were among tropical and temperate New groups. allows the tropics to cram more bird scheduled for online publication World land birds is extreme and has “There is no trend in the distribu- species together than the temperate May 27 in Proceedings of the Royal generated decades of study by ecolo- tion of speciation rates with respect z on e .” Society B. gists and evolutionary biologists. to latitude, but all latitudes include a Co-authors of the Proceedings of “This result rejects a broad class of It’s noteworthy, for example, that the mixture of lineages with relatively fast the Royal Society B paper are Pascal evolutionary hypotheses that try to entire eastern United States has just and slow rates of speciation,” Rabosky O. Title and Huateng Huang of the explain the latitudinal diversity gra- one species of resident hummingbird said. U-M Department of Ecology and dient through faster rates of specia- — the ruby-throated hummingbird — While “faster evolution” doesn’t Evolutionary Biology. The research tion in the tropics,” said Rabosky, an while Ecuador has nearly 150 of them. cause the gradient, several other was supported by the National Science assistant professor in the Department Ecuador, which is roughly the same explanations are still in the running. Foundation. IT’S YOUR FUTURE ... OWN IT. Investing success takes direction. As your financial advisor we are prepared to offer you service and experience. • We can manage TIAA-CREF and Fidelity accounts without transferring assets; we can also organize your non-university retirement accounts, keeping them together under one roof. • Parros Financial Group, LLC has assisted families throughout the area for more than 24 years, focusing on university employee retirement planning. Call us today for your personalized CONTACT US TODAY! financial advisory appointment or visit our website to make an 888-590-3668 appointment for a complimentary visit. www.parrosfinancialgroup.com

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of Anthropology, and Paul Love, Department of Near Eastern Studies. The newly recognized fellows are writing dissertations on topics involving religious and ethical values. Each will receive a 12-month award of $25,000 to support

the final year of dissertation work. The AMY GARBER Das Kamimura program is selective, with fewer than The clinical research team of Dr. Rodica Pop-Busui has been recognized for excellence in 5 percent of applicants from across the study recruitment for the Preventing Early Renal Function Loss in Type 1 Diabetes Trial by country awarded fellowships in 2015. the PERL Executive Committee and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Diseases. Team members are Dr. Lynn Ang, endocrinology fellow, Division of Metabolism, Lu Li, assistant Endocrinology & Diabetes; Cynthia Plunkett, lead coordinator, clinical nurse III; Pop-Busui, professor of physics, is principal investigator, associate professor of internal medicine in the MEND Division and co-director of the Michigan Peripheral Neuropathy Center; Dr. Nazanene Esfandiari, assistant one of 36 college and professor of Internal Medicine, MEND Division; Brittany Plunkett, research technician associ- university faculty who Neal Pitts ate; and Virginia Leone, lead recruiter and clinical subjects coordinator. have been selected to Four doctorate degree students were receive the 2015 Office Melanie Sanford has been named a evaluation in medicine. Gruppen’s research of Naval Research Young recently inducted into the Edward Lu finalist for the 2015 Blavatnik National scholarship was described as being of A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Investigator Prize. Lu Awards for Young Scientists. She is one consistent high quality, longevity, breadth at the Rackham Graduate School to won for his Correlated Topological Materials of the top 11 candidates in the chemistry and diversity, and that it has illuminated recognize their outstanding scholarly proposal. He aims to acquire fundamental category. The annual awards administered the development and evaluation of achievement and promote diversity and understanding of the physical phenomena by the New York Academy of Sciences expertise in medicine for decades. excellence in doctoral education and the arising from interactions of many electrons recognize and support America’s top professoriate. They are Alaina M. Neal, in topological materials. He will receive young scientific innovators in life sciences, The clinical research team of Dr. Rodica educational foundations and policy; a grant with an annual monetary award physical sciences and engineering, and Pop-Busui has been recognized for Brandon Pitts, industrial and operations of $170,000 over a three-year period for chemistry. The three national laureates will excellence in study recruitment for the engineering; Aurora Kamimura, higher his research efforts. They hold promise in be announced in June. Each will receive Preventing Early Renal Function Loss in education; and Ishita Das, cellular and advancing naval technology. an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000, Type 1 Diabetes Trial by the PERL Executive molecular biology. Receiving an honorary the largest prize of its kind for early- Committee and the National Institute of John Tropman, professor of social work membership in the society was Rackham career scientists. She is Moses Gomberg Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Diseases. at the School of Social Work, and Amanda Graduate School Dean and Vice Provost Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Arthur The PERL Trial is funded by the NIDDK Tillotson, doctoral student, social work for Academic Affairs Janet A. Weiss. F. Thurnau Professor and professor of at the National Institutes of Health. The and political science, are the recipients Her example of leadership in promoting chemistry, LSA. U-M clinical research team and its affiliate of the Human Service Organizations: diversity initiatives in graduate education sub site at Henry Ford Health System was Management, Leadership & Governance has been transformational at Rackham. Patricia Coleman- acknowledged for recruiting the largest Mary Parker Follette Award. It is for Early Burns has been number of subjects in the study among all Dr. Cristiane Squarize at Responders, Late Responders, and Non- honored with the U-M the research sites, as well as for exceeding the University of Michigan Responders: The Principal-Agent Problem Center for Educational the study quota by more than double School of Dentistry is in Board Oversight of Nonprofit CEOs. The Outreach Partner during the first four months of this year. one of 12 individuals award recognizes outstanding theory- Appreciation Award. Pop-Busui, associate professor of internal nationwide, and among informed research in community benefit Coleman-Burns was medicine in the Division of Metabolism, Coleman-Burns the first two dentists, to organizations. It will be presented at the chosen for her ongoing Endocrinology & Diabetes and co-director receive an award from the Network for Social Work Management outreach work and her partnership across of the Michigan Peripheral Neuropathy Squarize Robert Wood Johnson Conference at Howard University. the university and in the community. Center, is principal investigator for the Foundation’s Harold Amos Medical Faculty She was praised for participating in CEO study at U-M. Peter Sparling, Rudolf Development Program. Squarize is an assistant programs such as Wolverine Express Arnheim Distinguished professor in the Department of Periodontics and the University Outreach Council, and Khaled Mattawa’s examination of the University Professor and Oral Medicine. The award is designed to her position as an advocate of outreach work of Mahmoud Darwish, arguably of Dance, was invited increase the number of faculty from diverse programs such as the GENESIS Project. Palestine’s most famous poet, has been to attend the Cannes backgrounds who have the potential to reach She is assistant professor and special selected as a finalist for the major poetry Film Festival in May in positions of influence in academic medicine or advisor to the dean on multicultural affairs, criticism prize the Pegasus Award for Cannes, France. His dentistry, and who will serve as role models and Sparling School of Nursing, and adjunct assistant Criticism. “Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s screendance “The mentors to students with similar backgrounds. professor of Afroamerican and African Art and His Nation” by Mattawa, Syracuse Snowy Owl” was accepted into Short She will receive a $420,000 grant to support studies, LSA. University Press, examines Darwish’s Film Corner, a global competition for research activities, career advancement and struggle to be both a spokesman for his independent filmmakers. Created in leadership development. Larry Gruppen, professor of learning people and a private lyrical poet. His 2012, “The Snowy Owl” is a danced setting health sciences, Medical School, has insights into Arabic poetry and Palestinian Two doctoral candidates at the University of a surreal poem by former U-M MFA been honored by the National Board of history provide context for understanding of Michigan are among those selected creative writing student Benjamin Landry, Medical Examiners with the 2015 John P. Darwish’s work and its importance. as 2015 Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellows. from a set of poems inspired by images of Hubbard Award. It recognizes individuals Mattawa is an associate professor, English They are Stuart Strange, Department famous dancers on film. for excellence in advancing the field of language and literature, LSA.

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Simon, and WSU President of our graduates,” said Wayne State ing regional economies. M. Roy Wilson are interviewed May 28 at the Mackinac Policy Conference. University President M. Roy Wilson. “Attracting, Fostering, and Inspiring Talent is critical to a healthy Talent for the Global Economy,” a account for 93 percent of all academic putting Michigan on the map for economy and Michigan is benefitting study released Thursday at the Detroit R&D in Michigan, boast worldwide research and innovation,” said MSU from the talent of highly skilled URC Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy networks of more than 1.2 million President Lou Anna K. Simon. “URC graduates. 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RESEARCH Rumor-detection software IDs disputed claims on Twitter By Nicole Casal Moore Conference in Florence, Italy. Later Both percentages are significantly The point of the effort isn’t for a Michigan News this summer, they hope to put it in higher than the less-than-10-per- computer to determine whether a A week after the Boston marathon practice at a website they’re developing cent accuracy of rumor-detecting claim is true or false, but rather to bombing, hackers sent a bogus tweet called Rumor Lens. through hashtag tracking and trend- highlight disputed information before from the official Twitter handle of the “One post of a rumor in social media ing topics, the researchers point out. it ends up on popular debunking sites Associated Press. It read: “Breaking: can sometimes spread beyond anyone’s Furthermore, their software finds fishy like Snopes.com. Two Explosions in the White House control,” said Mei, an expert on text statements a lot faster. “By the time a rumor gets to Snopes, and Barack Obama is injured.” mining and natural language process- “Our method can detect rumors 3.6 it’s often too late,” Mei said. Before the AP and White House ing. “Our goal is to detect emerging hours earlier than methods that use Rumor Lens — the researchers’ own could correct the record, the stock rumors as quickly as possible.” trending topic detection, and 2.8 hours website — is expected to be available market responded, dropping more The team demonstrated what its earlier than methods using hashtags in the next couple of months. The than 140 points in a matter of minutes. software is capable of by analyzing two as signals,” said Zhe Zhao, a doctoral team envisions it serving as a Snopes- Losses mounted into the billions. sets of tweets: 30 million sent relating student in electrical engineering and like online community of social media The market recovered just as to the Boston Marathon bombing in computer science. observers, academics and reporters quickly, but analysts said the time- April 2013 and a random sample of 1.2 The researchers’ key insight is that who have an interest in following and frame could well have been long billion tweets sent during November before social media users decide debunking rumors. enough for in-the-know perpetrators of the same year. whether to believe a piece of informa- The algorithms would highlight to profit through trading. They gathered the second set from tion is true, many will ask for more potential rumors and the people in the Rumors and their negative effects Twitter’s Gardenhose — 10 percent information or express skepticism. community would do the fact-check- can spread rapidly in these hypercon- of its real-time stream. The datasets So they designed their software to ing. The researchers define a rumor as nected times, says Qiaozhu Mei, asso- represent both an unpredictable, high- listen in on Twitter traffic for signs that a controversial statement that can be ciate professor of information and of profile event that would likely spawn users are “questioning the truth value fact-checked. electrical engineering and computer rumors and a relatively uneventful of information.” Words and phrases the The team presented a paper about science. span of time. program has an ear for include “uncon- the research at the World Wide Web That’s why he and a team of The software successfully detected firmed,” “Is this true?” and “Really?” Conference. Paul Resnick, professor researchers have developed software 110 rumors from the stream of tweets Once it zeroes in on a potential of information, is also a co-author. to help society identify and correct about the Boston Marathon bombing, rumor, it looks for more tweets about The work is supported in part by the erroneous claims on Twitter. They with an average accuracy of more than the topic to gauge how widespread the National Science Foundation and the introduced the software recently at 50 percent. Its average accuracy was 33 conversation is. The researchers then Defense Advanced Research Projects the International World Wide Web percent for Twitter Gardenhose data. rely on humans to fact-check. Agency.

RESEARCH Finding natural cancer drug’s true origins brings sustainable production closer

By Ian Demsky products that have been isolated from process. Life Sciences Institute invertebrates in the ocean and on the “A major challenge of sequencing For decades, scientists have known land. But very little is known about genomes from samples containing that ET-743, a compound extracted them because we’re not able to get a mixture of different organisms is from a marine invertebrate called a most of them to grow in a labora- figuring out which DNA sequences mangrove tunicate, can kill cancer tory setting,” said study senior author go with which organisms. We used cells. The drug has been approved for David Sherman, the Hans W. Vahlteich bioinformatic approaches that allowed use in patients in Europe and is in Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in us to tease that apart,” said Sunit clinical trials in the United States. the College of Pharmacy and a faculty Jain, a bioinformatics specialist in Scientists suspected the mangrove member of the U-M Life Sciences the U-M Department of Earth and tunicate, which is a type of a sea squirt, Institute, where his lab is located. Environmental Sciences, and the doesn’t actually make ET-743. But “Currently, many of these com- study’s other first author. the precise origins of the drug, which pounds can only be harvested in small Bioinformatics involves the collec- is also known as trabectedin, were a amounts from host animals, which tion, classification, storage and analysis mystery. is unsustainable from an economic of biochemical and biological informa- By analyzing the genome of the and environmental perspective,” said tion using computers. tunicate along with the microbes Michael Schofield, one of two first U-M has filed for patent protection that live inside it using advanced MICHAEL M. SCHOFIELD authors on the study and a member on this discovery. sequencing techniques, researchers A mangrove tunicate clings to a tree root. of the Sherman lab before she gradu- The research was supported by the at the University of Michigan were ated from U-M this spring. “Our hope International Cooperative Biodiversity able to isolate the genetic blueprint reported online May 27 in the journal is that understanding the genomes of Groups initiative at the Fogarty of the ET-743’s producer — which Environmental Microbiology. They’re these micro-organisms and the chemi- International Center, National Science turns out to be a type of bacteria optimistic that the insights will help cal reactions that occur inside of them Foundation and the U.S. Department called Candidatus Endoecteinascidia make it possible to culture the bacteria will provide new avenues to economi- of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute. frumentensis. in the laboratory without its host. cal and sustainable production of the Additional authors include Daphne The findings greatly expand under- “These symbiotic microbes have medicinal molecules they make.” Porat, U-M Life Sciences Institute, and standing of the microbe and of how long been thought to be the true ET-743 is currently made using Gregory Dick, U-M Department of ET-743 is produced, the researchers sources of many of the natural a complicated, partially synthetic Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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Institute for the Humanities names 2015-16 faculty, graduate student fellows

By Doretha Coval Christiane Gruber, associate professor, history Warriors, Soldiers, and Veterans from Pontiac’s Institute for the Humanities of art; Charles P. Brauer Fellow War through the Civil War” The Institute for the Humanities has awarded “Gezi Graffiti: Resistance and Visual Culture in Elizabeth Hutton, English and education; fellowships to nine U-M faculty and nine U-M Contemporary Turkey” James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow graduate students to support research projects Gabrielle Hecht, professor, history; Mary I. “New Reasons for Reading: Progressive they will pursue during 2015-16. and David D. Hunting Family Fellow Experiments in Cultural and Literary Literacy” Fellowship recipients form an intellectual com- “Toxic Tales from the African Anthropocene” Yanay Israeli, history; Early Modern munity, spending the year in residence at the Arvind Mandair, associate professor, Asian Conversions Graduate Fellow institute pursuing their research and participat- languages and cultures; Helmut F. Stern Fellow “Negotiating the Republic: Violence, Propaganda, ing in a cross-disciplinary, non-public weekly “Untimely Encounters” and Government in Castillian Cities, 1391-1520” seminar. Farina Mir, associate professor, history; Lavrentia Karamaniola, anthropology; Marc A center for innovative, collaborative study Norman and Jane Katz Fellow and Constance Jacobson Graduate Fellow in the humanities and arts, the Institute for “Producing Modern Muslims: Everyday Ethics in “Bucharest Barks: Stray Dogs, Urban Lifestyle the Humanities provides fellowships for Colonial India” Aspirations, and the ‘Non-Civilized’ City” Michigan faculty, graduate students, and vis- Mireille Roddier, associate professor, architec- Katherine Lennard, American culture; Mary iting scholars. It also offers a wide array of ture; Steelcase Professor I. and David D. Hunting Family Fellow public and scholarly events, including public “Tactical Urbanism: The Politics of “Made in America: Costume, Violence, and the lectures, conferences, art exhibitions and Interventionist Practices” Ku Klux Klan, 1905-1940” performances. Megan Sweeney, associate professor, English Shana Melnysyn, anthropology and history; language and literature, Afroamerican and Mary I. and David D. Hunting Family Fellow Faculty fellows: African studies; John Rich Fellow “Rum & Revenge: Portuguese-Angolan Trade Alison Cornish, professor, Romance lan- “Mendings” and the Bailundo Revolt of 1902” guages and literatures; Mary I. and David D. Sarah Suhadolnik, School of Music, Theatre Hunting Family Fellow Graduate student fellows: & Dance; Richard and Lillian A. Ives Graduate “Medieval Remediation” Andrea Brock, classical art and archaeology; Fellow Andreas Gailus, associate professor, Germanic Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow “Navigating Jazz: Music, Place, and New Orleans languages and literatures; Helmut F. Stern Fellow “Environment and Urban Development in the in the Twentieth Century” “Forms of Life” Archaic Forum Boarium in Rome, Italy” Emily Waples, English language and literature; Phoebe Gloeckner, associate professor, art and Michelle Cassidy, history; A. Bartlett Giamatti Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow design; Richard and Lillian A. Ives Fellow Scholar “Vitiated Nature: Heredity, Environment, and the “The Return of Maldoror” “Both the Honor and the Profit: Anishinaabe American Etiological Imagination, 1785-1875.”

RESEARCH Recycling nuclear waste: U-M helps test advanced reactor design

By Katherine McAlpine talking about lifetimes for storing the water turned to steam. In conven- the design would perform as expected. College of Engineering fuel that we can’t even fathom,” said tional reactors, the water’s slowing With funding from the Department An advanced nuclear reactor under Thomas Downar, U-M professor of action acts as a failsafe because steam of Energy, members of Downar’s development by Hitachi could help nuclear engineering and radiologi- is less effective at decelerating neu- group spent the last three years devel- solve the nuclear waste problem, and cal sciences. “You get this down to a trons. Since fewer neutrons are at the oping codes that could simulate the University of Michigan research- hundred years, then you’re talking right speed to cause fissions, the reac- more complex layout and physics ers were involved in verifying its about the ability to engineer a con- tion rate slows down too. of Hitachi’s reactor core design. For safe performance through computer tainer that you have confidence will For a boiling water reactor that’s example, uranium fission reactions are simulations. last that long.” burning transuranics, this scenario reasonably steady and easy to predict, The U-M team worked with col- In the conventional boiling water is trickier. The faster neutrons could but transuranic reactions are irregular leagues at the Massachusetts Institute reactors that currently produce about mean a faster fission rate, creating and difficult to calculate accurately. of Technology and the University 30 percent of all the nuclear-generated more heat, steam and fast neutrons. The U-M team developed a method of California, Berkeley. After more electricity in the United States, the “If something goes wrong and the to generate data that simulates the way safety analysis, Hitachi plans to move neutrons that split uranium atoms power increases, you want to have the transuranics burn. They then applied forward with a prototype of the have been slowed by the boiling water. fission rate decrease,” Downar said. this data to established codes currently “resource-renewable boiling water In contrast, the Hitachi design uses To create this safety feature in their used for boiling water reactor analysis. reactor” in the next few years. fast neutrons since they are more likely reactor, Hitachi engineers plan large By looking at what happened when One of the major technological to split, or fission, transuranic atoms. dead zones in the fuel rods, made of the steam bubbles appeared, the team hurdles for nuclear energy is developing Prototype fast reactors have been materials with a much lower probabil- found that the fast neutrons tended systems to dispose of the waste produced running since the 1970s, but they use ity of fissioning with fast neutrons. to leave the reactive part of the fuel by typical reactors. It must be sealed a sodium coolant. Sodium burns when Hitachi calculated that as the pres- assembly, slowing the reaction rate as away for hundreds of millennia while it comes into contact with air and ence of steam reduced the density of planned. the radioactivity naturally decreases. reacts violently with water. This is one the water, fast neutrons were likely to Now, the university teams are about Hitachi’s new design would burn off of the reasons why U.S. utilities that travel further. By keeping the active to begin a careful comparison of their the longest-lived radioactive materials, operate reactors have been hesitant to regions of the fuel assembly small, methods with the predictions from the called transuranics, shortening that consider sodium-cooled designs. more neutrons would be lost to these Hitachi computer codes to discover isolation period to a few centuries. A water-cooled fast reactor, though, “blanket” regions in an overheating any differences in the simulation of This would recycle the nuclear waste to could offer safer and more familiar scenario, slowing the fission rate. the advanced reactor’s performance. produce yet more energy and reduce operation. The challenge was design- Before beginning the expensive Hitachi will fund the teams at U-M, the amount that must be stowed away. ing a water-cooled core that would process of prototyping, Hitachi wanted MIT and Berkeley for the next phases “Because of transuranics, we’re stop itself if it started overheating and to confirm with outside experts that of the project. 18 JUNE 8, 2015 THE UNIVERSITY RECORD record.umich.edu

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MONDAY, JUNE 8 husband’s indifference to the adulterous wants of a younger university student proves a treacherous and slippery M Farmers Market, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Michigan Union, near DON’T MISS slope for Rika, played by award-winning and celebrated U-go’s. Students, faculty, staff and visitors are invited to Japanese actress, Rie Miyazawa. Based on the best-selling learn about and purchase local and sustainable products Japanese novel from author Mitsuyo Kakuta, the film takes fresh from the farm. audiences back 20 years to the “Lost Decade” following deregulation and the burst of the Japan asset price bubble. Wellespring: A Centenary Celebration of the The central character disregards her marriage, her clients, Inexhaustible Inspiration of Orson Welles, 1-5 p.m., and her career for lust, excess and escape. The film won Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery. Maverick filmmaker and several awards following its world premiere at 2014 Tokyo actor Welles, director of what many consider the greatest International Film Festival. film of all time, “Citizen Kane,” is the subject of this sympo- sium. Family members and colleagues, scholars, archivists SUNDAY, JUNE 14 and students come together to discuss his lasting impact and showcase the five Welles archive collections housed at “When Marnie Was There” by Studio Ghibli free screen- the U-M Library in Special Collections. ing, noon-2 p.m., Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St. The University of Michigan’s Center for Japanese Studies is TUESDAY, JUNE 9 partnering with community organizations to bring a week of Japan-related programming to the Ann Arbor area. This Fulbright Information Session, noon-1 p.m., School of screening is in collaboration with the annual Cinetopia Social Work Building, Room 1644, A U-M Fulbright program International Film Festival. advisor will describe the application and selection process and provide suggestions for making applications more Martha Cook Alumnae Association board meeting, 1-3 competitive. p.m., Cottage Inn Pizza, 512 E. William St.

Beekeeping with Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers, 6-8 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Gallery Tours, 2-3 p.m. p.m., Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Open to all beekeepers, To learn more about the museum, meet at the Upjohn Wing bee enthusiasts and those wanting to learn more about entrance on Maynard Street for a docent-led tour of the pollinators. Meetings start with an informal Q-and-A at galleries. Tours are free and open to the public. 6:30 p.m., followed by a formal presentation at 7 p.m. The program includes a discussion about honey bee MONDAY, JUNE 15 management, care and production, and work to protect and enhance the local bee population. Free. Godaiko Drummers Japanese Drumming Performance, Ann Arbor Japan Week, 6-8 p.m., Matthaei Botanical THURSDAY, JUNE 11 COURTESY OF INGRID MICHAELSON Gardens Commons. The performance will be approximately 30 minutes long, and include an interactive component Rhythm & Blues with In Flight, noon-1 p.m., University Pop singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson performs at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival main- following the performance. Swing by the nearby Children’s Hospital Courtyard. In Flight, also known as Super Gee Crew, stage at 8 p.m. June 25 at the Power Center for the Performing Arts. Garden to enjoy the installation of Japanese forest spirits has been providing musical entertainment for Michiganders for Ann Arbor Japan Week. for more than 25 years. Greg “Super Gee” McKinney, Ann Arbor Summer Festival returns keyboard, is retired from the University of Michigan Health TUESDAY, JUNE 16 System, where he worked in the main operating rooms. He’s By Kevin Brown now a basketball referee, baseball umpire and ballroom The University Record Human Resource Development Career Conference 2015: dance teacher. Dan Goree plays guitar, Ted Brannon bass, Three Gutsy Secrets of Success, 8 a.m.-noon, Sheraton and Joe Gaglio drums. This concert is part of the UMHS Ann Arbor. This is an opportunity for staff to be inspired Summer Courtyard Concert Series presented by Gifts of Art. The Ann Arbor Summer Festival is back, and the entertainment calendar runs deep. and motivated to take charge of career plans. There will be The rain location is the University Hospital Main Lobby. a keynote session and two career development sessions. That’s how festival director Amy Nesbitt sums up the roster, highlighted by the Keynote presenter Kate White is an authority on leadership, FRIDAY, JUNE 12 “Down by the Riverside” show June 27 at the Power Center for the Performing work and success, and a New York Times bestselling author Arts. It joins the vocal group Blind Boys of Alabama and the Dirty Dozen Brass of “I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: How to Ask for the Money, Mayor’s 15th Annual Green Fair, 6-9 p.m., Main Street, Snag the Promotion and Create the Career You Deserve.” For downtown Ann Arbor. Planet Blue and several U-M depart- Band from New Orleans. 14 years she was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan. ments will have exhibits as part of this event. This fair includes sustainable entertainment and exhibits from over Co-founded by the University of Michigan, the festival features mainstage shows, Japanese Conversation Table, Ann Arbor Japan Week, 100 local non-profits and sustainable businesses. free public performances and films, kids activities and more June 12-July 5. 1-3 p.m., 202 S. Thayer, third floor atrium. Join Japanese Language Program students and staff. Sushi and Japanese SATURDAY, JUNE 13 tea will be available for participants to enjoy as they Golden Dragon Acrobats from China returns with fast-paced performances practice their Japanese language skills. Saturday Sampler Tours, 2-3 p.m., Kelsey Museum of June 20-21 at the Power Center. “Everybody in the audience is just gripping the Archaeology, Join these thematic tours created by Kelsey sides of their seats (and asking) ‘Did they really just do that?’” Nesbitt says. “The Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Humanity,” Museum Docent Corps. They are free and open to the 6-9 p.m., Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Bradley Cardinale, public. The June 13 tour theme is Ancient Writing. Upcoming Free evening Top of the Park performances this year are temporarily relocated to School of Natural Resources associate professor, discusses tour themes are: June 20. Ancient Spirits: Beer and Wine his research and meta-analyses that have helped build in the Ancient World; June 27, Art and the Artifact; July 11, North University Avenue and a portion of South Ingalls Mall on the U-M campus. a scientific consensus on how biodiversity loss affects Geography: The mother of ancient civilizations; July 25, Performers include Grammy winner Terrance Simien and the Zydeco experience ecosystems and their ability to provide society with the Curator Favorites; Aug. 1, Ancient Writing: Magic Spells, June 30 at the North University Stage, and the United States Army Field Band goods and services needed to prosper. Free. Presented by Military Discharges and More; Aug. 8, Ascent to Civilization and Soldier’s Chorus July 5, on the Hill Auditorium Plaza. Pop singer-songwriter the Sierra Club Huron Valley Group. in the Mediterranean; Aug. 15, Faces from Antiquity; Aug. 22, Ingrid Michaelson performs June 25 at the Power Center. Storytelling-Discovering Narratives in Artifacts; and Aug. “The Internet’s Own Boy,” Sundance Film Forward, 29, An Introduction to the Kelsey Museum. 7-9 p.m., Michigan Theater. This screening is followed New attractions this year include the Retreat Series alternative happy hour at 5 by a Q-and-A with director Brian Knappenberger. The “Pale Moon” film screening presented by the Center for p.m. on the Power Center lawn. Attendees can experience yoga, capoeira and dance film chronicles the story of programming prodigy and Japanese Studies and the Cinetopia International Film fitness. For showtimes and more information on festival attractions, go to a2sf.org. information-access activist Aaron Swartz, who developed Festival, 6-9 p.m., Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St., the basic Internet protocol RSS, co-founded Reddit, and was 126 minutes. Directed by Daihachi Yoshida. Turning from a an open-access activist.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 Ann Arbor Japan Week June 14–20. Registration is be required for this free event. Email umma-program-registra- Marriage to a U.S. Citizen: Permanent Residency [email protected]. Meet in front of the UMMA Store. (Green Card) Process, 10-11 a.m., Michigan League, Room 4, first floor. This workshop is designed for international Kamishibai Storytelling at the Kerrytown Book students, scholars, faculty and staff who are interested in Festival: Ann Arbor Japan Week, 2-3 p.m., Kerrytown learning how to obtain permanent residency based on mar- Farmers’ Market. riage to a U.S. citizen. U.S. citizen fiances and significant others are also welcome and encouraged to attend this Exhibits event. Topics covered will include legal requirements, forms, fees, processing times, preparing for the USCIS Bonsai Collection Open Hours: Ann Arbor Japan Week, interview, explanations of conditional permanent residency 1-8 p.m. June 14-20, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, hosted by and how and when to petition USCIS to have conditions the Ann Arbor Bonsai Society. Join these bonsai experts to removed. see the collection, and ask questions about bonsai history and care. Calligraphy and Origami with the Southeast Michigan Japanese Language Meetup Group, Ann Arbor Japan “Dental Hygiene, A Century of Progress” highlights the Week, 3-5 p.m., Mason Hall, Room 1427. The group will teach growth and development of the dental hygiene profession about basic Japanese characters, greetings and phrases, and education, in the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry in the and have brushes and ink available for participants to School of Dentistry. practice drawing Japanese characters. “Drawdown Vietnam, April-May 1975,” commemo- “Freedom of Information,” Sundance Film Forward, 4-5 rates America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam p.m., Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery. Film director Brian and Indochina. The exhibit is free at the Gerald R. Ford Knappenberger talks with U-M Library Lead Copyright Presidential Library, 1000 Beal Ave. on North Campus. Officer Melissa Levine and U-M Associate General Counsel Jack Bernard. “Evolution of the Trumpet Exhibition” heralds the 100th WENDY ARTIN anniversary of Hill Auditorium with a Stearns Collection Origami folding in the KidZone Tent at Ann Arbor The exhibit “Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures,” is exhibit of trumpets across the ages in the lower lobby of Hill Summer Festival: Ann Arbor Japan Week, 5-8 p.m., Ann presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through July 26. The exhibit highlights two recent Auditorium. Arbor Summer Festival. Volunteers from the Center for projects by watercolorist Artin. Her work was recently shown at the American Academy in Rome. Japanese Studies will help participants learn to fold colorful “Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection,” through paper into various shapes, including cranes, boxes, but- July 19 at the U-M Museum of Art. terflies and more. Family Art Studio: Ann Arbor Japan Week, 11 a.m.-1 is part of the UMHS Summer Courtyard Concert Series by p.m., U-M Museum of Art. Families can explore Gifts of Art. Rain location: University Hospital Main Lobby. Gifts of Art sponsors art exhibits and music performances “We Are the Giant,” Sundance Film Forward, 7-9 p.m., Japanese art followed by a hands-on workshop. at U-M Health System facilities. State Theater, followed by a Q-and-A with director Greg Designed for families with children ages 6-12 to Japan-themed Board Games: Ann Arbor Japan Week, 6-8 Barker. The film explores the lives of six people who experience art together. Advance registration p.m., The Espresso Bar, 204 S. Fourth Ave. “Hana Hamplova: Meditations on Paper,” through Aug. grapple with the agonizing dilemmas at struggles required. Email umma-program-registration@umich. 29, U-M Museum of Art. Inspired by a story by Czech writer for justice and freedom: whether to take up arms edu. “A Feast of Dances,” 7 p.m., U-M Museum of Art. See Bohumil Hrabal. and fight, or to advocate change through peace and photo, page 20. non-violence. UMMA Family Japanese Art Studio: Ann Arbor Japan “HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection,” Week, U-M Museum of Art Multipurpose Room. Email SATURDAY, JUNE 20 through June 14 at the U-M Museum of Art. THURSDAY, JUNE 18 [email protected] to register. There will be workshops at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Storytime at the Museum, 11 a.m.-noon, U-M Museum of “In Focus: Lynn Davis, Iceberg Photos,” through July Ann Arbor Dance Works 30th Anniversary Season: A Art. Children ages four to seven are invited to hear a story 19, U-M Museum of Art. During a 20-year period from 1986- Feast of Dances, 7-9 a.m., U-M Museum of Art. See photo, Fiddling, Song & Dance with Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic, in the galleries followed by a tea ceremony demonstration. 2007, Davis photographed Jakobshavn Glacier facing Disko page 20. noon-1 p.m., University Hospital Courtyard. This concert This is in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies’ Bay in Greenland.

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“Japanese Forest Spirits in the Gaffield Children’s Garden,” Ann Arbor Japan Week, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., June 14-20, Matthaei Botanical Gardens.

“The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes,” through Sept. 10, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, 202 S. Thayer.

“Medicinal Plants and Gardens: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum” is presented through June 14 at the U-M Museum of Art.

“Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters,” U-M Museum of Art.

Museum of Natural History exhibits include the most extensive display of prehistoric life in Michigan, in the Ruthven Building at 1109 Geddes Ave.

“Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives,” Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, marks the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America’s greatest direc- tors of film, theater, radio and television.

“Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?” is a photog- KIRK DONALDSON raphy exhibit by Misha Friedman presented through June To celebrate its 30th anniversary season, Ann Arbor Dance Works presents “A Feast of Dances” featuring new works and revivals by University 20 at Work: Ann Arbor. of Michigan Dance faculty choreographers. They are, from left, Robin Wilson, Bill DeYoung, Sandra Torijano, Peter Sparling, Jessica Fogel, Amy Chavasse and Missy Beck. The free performances are at 7:30 p.m. June 18-19 at the U-M Museum of Art. Tickets are required. They can be reserved “Re-imaging Gender” features the work of 15 promising through the Michigan Union Ticket Office, in the Michigan Union, (734) 763-8587. Tickets are also online at www.mutotix.com. Remaining tickets will artists. be distributed at the door on the day of the performance, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

“Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures” is presented in the Kelsey Mills Gallery and in various exhibition areas throughout the “Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Planetarium shows Museum of Archaeology, Meader Special Exhibition Gallery. Moore Building. Microscope” is at the Hatcher Graduate Library. See photo, page 19. Tickets for all shows at the Museum of Natural History “Tappan’s Vision” at the Bentley Historical Library U-M Detroit Observatory, 1398 E. Ann St., is the oldest are $5 for adults, seniors and children. For information on “Sophie Calle: North Pole,” through Aug. 9, U-M Museum provides a comprehensive look at the impact of Henry U.S. observatory to retain its original telescopes and shows and times go to lsa.umich.edu/exhibitmuseum. of Art. Following her mother’s death, French conceptual artist Tappan on the intellectual life and accomplishments of the mounts. It houses exhibits and collections that recall Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in university over the past 150 years. the observatory’s role in introducing scientific research Workshops/support the North Pole, a place her mother had always dreamed of to campus and the significant discoveries made by its seeing. This multifaceted installation, consisting of video, “Tell the Story of Your Life In Detroit,” an online astronomers. MHealthy’s Alcohol Management Program is designed photographs, and a light box, documents moments of photography exhibit at tinyurl.com/mmsvulz, is to help people with mild to moderate alcohol problems Calle’s journey to fulfill her mother’s unrealized dream. curated by Rebekah Modrak and Charlie Michaels. It Museum of Natural History enjoy life more and drink less or not at all. Call 734-998- is sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & 2017 or go to mhealthy.umich.edu/alcohol. The Stearns Collection at the School of Music, Design and others. tours and children’s programs Theatre & Dance is one of six major collections of musical Free Dinosaur Tours are available at 2 p.m. Saturdays The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program offers Brown instruments in North America. The 2,500-piece collection “Textile Trade Ascendancies” is presented in the Clark and Sundays at the Museum of Natural History. For more Bag educational presentations. Go to fasap.umich.edu for features permanent and occasional displays in the Vesta Library, second floor, Hatcher Graduate Library. information, call 734-764-0480. more information, or call 734-936-8660.