Daily Digest

As a Japanese citizen who grew up in New Jersey, I know many Asian expatriates who never quite felt comfortable living here.

Northern New Jersey is an area with a large Korean immigrant population. Many of my childhood friends attended Korean churches and associated with Korean cliques in middle school. I was once a part of this clique, along with a Nepalese friend. A Korean family friend also told me Korean adults in my area never really needed to master English because of how cohesive their community was.

When I was a junior in high school, my sister moved away from our home in Michigan to pursue a career in the fashion industry in New York City. I was thrilled that my sister was finally pursuing her dream of living in New York but saddened by the fact that I would no longer see her every day. After our initial trip to move her in, our contact decreased significantly. Navigating a long-distance relationship between a brother and sister was uncharted territory for both of us.

John O’Korn does need to step up, but it doesn’t fall solely on his shoulders and the Wolverines don’t need him to play hero. More simply, they need him to take what comes to him.

Through discovery, treatment and implementation — along with the use of analytics and big data — University of Michigan researchers will soon advance specialized medicine and personalized health care.