Game day marks the last day in Suicide Prevention Week and and , campus organizations with the mission of suicide prevention, have collaborated on a video that gives people resources they can turn to in a crisis. The video, which features students from Clemson and UofL, will be shown on the Jumbo Tron during half time of the game.

The video encourages viewers to put in their phones the phone number (1-800-273-TALK) or text the  (text HOME to 741741).

“With the right tools and training found at both schools, all students will be equipped to seek help for themselves and be able to assist others in crisis,” said UofL Student Government Association president Vishnu Tirumala.

Tracie Meyer, Cards Speak Coordinator, said the message is important as national research shows that one in 10 college students contemplate suicide at some point.

“That’s a whole range of actions and emotions,” Meyer said. “The hope is that the other nine out of 10 students can support that one student in getting the help they need.”

Michelle Jones, a mechanical engineering student at UofL’s Speed School of Engineering, knows how important the message is. She lost her brother to suicide last year. Since then, she and her family have committed themselves to honoring his memory through awareness with and .Ěý

“I think it’s incredibly important to get students on college campuses comfortable talking about their emotional well-being,” she said.Ěý

Jones, who works with Cards Speak, said she’s grateful for the opportunity to reach so many thousands of people on Saturday.

“The only way we can get through this, to really make a breakthrough and make a lasting difference, is to work together as a community,” she said.Ěý

Clemson and UofL are both recipients of the , which helps fund their work.

to watch a story by WHAS11 about the collaboration.

Cards Speak also worked this week with the School of Public Health and Information Sciences to screen the movie on campus. The movie, which is based on the true story of Holden Layfield, a 17-year-old boy who fights to keep his mental illness a secret, was followed by a panel discussion with director Tamlin Hall, actor Matthew Fahey and educator Morgan Melton.Ěý  

In 2014, Du-Caines won a highly competitive, 3-year $394,000 grant from NASA to study the variability of tides in the atmosphere between earth and space.

“We want to be able to better forecast weather in space,” Du-Caines says. “The variability of tides is a piece of the puzzle we have to solve to be able to accurately predict day to day weather in space.”

Du-Caines says forecasting weather in space is about as accurate as forecasting weather on earth 50 years ago.

As part of the study, Clemson’s Oberheide is analyzing satellite data to see if it validates the model UofL’s Du-Caines is using to understand the variability of tides (a kind of large-scale wave similar to the Jet Stream) in space. The research is important, according to Du-Caines, to more clearly predict when storms or bad weather above the earth’s atmosphere might impact GPS, power grids, suborbital flights or satellites.

Du-Caines says she and Oberheide are more concerned about their research than what will be happening on the football field.

“We just laugh about it,” Du-Caines says, “though I wish we (UofL) would have won last year!”