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Leaders and best: Seven U-M faculty including Sheldon Danziger named Guggenheim Fellows. Seven University of Michigan faculty members will receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, a coveted national award recognizing distinguished achievement in many fields. U-M’s total is the highest by any university in the United States or Canada this year. [Read article] 4/3/2008. |
Parents want teachers who make children happy. When requesting a teacher for their elementary school children, parents are more likely to choose teachers who receive high student satisfaction ratings than teachers with strong achievement ratings, said Brian Jacob, co-author of a new study and director of the CLOSUP. [Read more]. 12/7/07. The study was featured in the Salt Lake Tribune and Science Daily. |
National Poverty Center awarded three-year federal renewal 10/15/07. The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan has been awarded a federal co-operative research agreement based on a national competition that extends its research, training and dissemination activities through 2010. The NPC began its work in 2002 under a previous federal award. The NPC is co-directed by Rebecca Blank, Henry Carter Adams Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, and Sheldon Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy. [Read press release] |
A new report from CLOSUP's Tom Ivacko warns that the state's negative self-image may be doing more harm than its very real economic challenges. [Detroit Free Press article] [U of M press release] 6/22/07. |
The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of two University of Michigan professors: Dr. David Ginsburg and James S. House. [Read article] 5/2/07. |
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Shobita Parthasarathy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Ford School, has been awarded two prestigious research fellowships for the upcoming academic year. [read more] 4/16/07 |
The United States and Great Britain have taken profoundly different approaches in developing genetic testing for breast cancer which has serious implications for users of health care, says a University of Michigan professor. [Read article] 4/12/07. |
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Ford School Students Roland McKay and John Chin Selected as 2007 Rosenthal Fellows
Out of over 200 applicants from the top public policy and international relations programs in the country, two first year Ford School students were selected to spend their summers this year in Washington, DC as recipients of the prestigious Harold W. Rosenthal Fellowship in International Relations. [read more] 4/2/07 |
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Diverse pre-cancerous cells can cooperate to produce cancer. Robert Axelrod's analysis is in the current issue of Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science. [read more] 8/28/06 |
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Hurricane Katrina showed importance of disaster assistance reform. Hurricane
Katrina's devastating impact on the poor would have been smaller if the U.S.
had a comprehensive disaster-assistance policy, according to Ford School
researchers. [read more] 8/28/06
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Study: More support needed to aid disconnected low-income women ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Low-income mothers who have difficulty making a successful transition from welfare to work need special help from government agencies if they are to be reconnected to regular sources of financial support, a new study says. The study, co-authored by researchers from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, found that about 9 percent of women who received welfare shortly after implementation of the 1996 federal welfare reform became chronically disconnected. They were without work and not getting welfare payments and did not live with another earner for more than two years of the 6½-year study period. [read more] 6/26/06 |
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Joan and Sanford Weill endow Ford School deanship ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Joan and Sanford Weill have endowed the deanship at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy with a gift of $3 million. The gift will establish a discretionary fund that Ford School deans will draw on to fund the school's highest priorities. In recognition of the donation, the current dean, Rebecca M. Blank, and her successors will carry the title, "the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy." [read more] 6/16/06 |
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More states adopting aggressive renewable energy policy ANN ARBOR, Mich., -A growing portion of U.S. states' electricity is being provided by renewable energy, according to a new report written by a University of Michigan professor. States are using increasingly aggressive and ambitious Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) to spur economic development and to create a reliable and diversified supply of electricity, as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conventional pollutants, according to report released today by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have implemented an RPS. "More than half of the American public now lives in a state in which an RPS is in operation," said Barry Rabe, the report's author. He is a U-M professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the School of Natural Resources and Environment. [read more] 6/14/06 |
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Rankings impede profitable joint ventures, U-M study ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Whether Oxford versus Cambridge or the Hatfields versus the McCoys, rivalries are all about competition. Recent findings from a University of Michigan study, however, reveal that ranking information can have a powerful impact on the intensity of such rivalries. Rivals become less willing to maximize joint gains when highly ranked than when intermediately ranked. "Our results suggest that people with high rankings are less willing to cooperate with each other, even when such collaborations have the potential to maximize profit," said lead author Stephen Garcia, an assistant professor at the U-M Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. [read more] 6/7/06 |
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New U-M program looks at policy influences on science, technology
ANN ARBOR, Mich.-A new program at the University of Michigan will enable graduates to better affect science and technology policymaking-hot topics for public debate and political action. U-M's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy will offer a graduate certificate in science, technology, and public policy, including courses about how science and technology are influenced by politics and policymaking, through the new Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program. [read more] 6/5/06 |
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Barry Rabe receives EPA Climate Protection Award ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Barry Rabe, a University of Michigan professor who was the first to document and analyze how and why U.S. states are taking the lead on climate protection, has won the prestigious U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Protection Award. [read more] 5/06 |
