University of Michigan ranks No. 6 in the nation as a Peace Corps Fellows/USA school in the 2011 rankings of top Peace Corps' Master's International and Fellows/USA Graduate Schools. U-M has 25 Returned Peace Corps Volunteers currently enrolled in...
Susan M. Dynarski was quoted in a New York Times article called "Burden of College Loans on Graduates Grows." The article discusses the implications of the rise in student loan debt, a number that is increasing faster than credit card debt for the...
Barry Rabe received a small grant from the Canadian Embassy to continue his research on climate change opinion and policies in the United States and Canada.
Rabe's project, "Pricing Carbon: Provincial Formation of Climate Policy," will closely...
The Ford School community—at its 14th annual Charity Auction—raised $11,000 for Freedom House Detroit, a refugee organization helping those seeking legal asylum in the United States and Canada.
The Ford School Charity Auction is a student-led...
Shobita Parthasarathy's opinion piece, "Gene Patents and Democracy," was posted to Nature.com's online community for breaking news on science research and policy, "The Great Beyond".Parthasarathy penned the piece in advance of the April 4 U.S. Court...
Paul N. Courant was quoted in an American Libraries article about a recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision regarding the Google Books settlement.The case's ruling judge, Denny Chin, rejected Google's proposal for how to handle the digitization of...
Ford School BAs were recently honored as James B. Angell Scholars and invited to join the University of Michigan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society in recognition of their academic achievements.James B. Angell ScholarsOn March 20, 2011...
Matthew Davis spoke to the Detroit Free Press about the increased demand for medically-related electronic communication options in an article called "Patients, physicians turn to e-mail, Skype, texts to stay in touch."A C.S. Mott Children's Hospital...
A new University of Michigan survey found that most communities statewide are already working together to increase efficiency and decrease costs.This cooperation is a process through which two or more units of government work together to provide...
In February, twenty-three graduate students from across the University of Michigan spent a week in Grenada as part of the Ford School's International Economic Development Program (IEDP). This annual program began in 1999 through the unique,...
Barry Rabe was quoted in a New York Times ClimateWire article called "British Columbia Survives 3 Years and $848 Million Worth of Carbon Taxes." Though the full economic value of British Columbia's carbon tax isn't yet known, analysts say it is...
Research by Paul N. Courant was cited in an Inside Higher Ed article, "Pays to Share," about the rising cost of maintaining libraries and the academic-led book digitization project HathiTrust.HathiTrust is a cooperative, based at the University of...
The Cambodian Television Network (CTN) interviewed John Ciorciari about the current border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia. The dispute centers on the Preah Vihear Hindu temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the surrounding land. The...
The Ford School ranks #7 overall among schools of public affairs, according to U.S. News and World Report data released online on March 15, 2011 and in print on April 5.
These rankings were originally released in the magazine's 2008 edition of...
The Ford School is now accepting applications for the David Bohnett Foundation Leadership and Public Service Fellowship, a prestigious, competitive fellowship that will provide two years of tuition support and a paid summer internship in the City of...
Taurean Brown, a dual degree public policy and law student, has been honored with one of eight 2011 Michigan Leadership Awards (MLA).MLAs celebrate the commitments of students—beyond the classroom—that increase the vitality of the University of...
Brian Jacob was quoted in a USA Today article called "When test scores seem too good to believe."The article discusses the findings of a USA Today investigation of the standardized test scores of students from six U.S. states—including Michigan—and...
At a United Nations press conference yesterday, Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky presented the International Narcotics Control Board's 2010 annual report. The International Narcotics Control Board, of which Levitsky is an elected member, is the...
Matthew Davis was quoted in a UPI Health News article about a proposed change to the medical school curriculum.Davis co-authored an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that cited an Association of American Medical...
Barry Rabe was interviewed on Michigan Public Radio's "The Environment Report" about a recent Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) report that he co-authored. The report summarizes and compares the findings of two public opinion...
Americans are less willing to open their wallets to pay for increased production of renewable energy resources than Canadians, a new University of Michigan report indicates.Americans who indicated they would not pay anything each year was at 41...
Barry Rabe was named one of six 2011 recipients of the prestigious Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship. The award, confirmed by the University of Michigan Board of Regents yesterday, honors just five or six faculty members each year for "outstanding...
Matthew Davis was quoted in a CBS Detroit article about a new study on children and the dangers of caffeinated energy drinks. The report, published in Pediatrics, says energy drink-related illnesses in children include strokes, seizures, and heart...
Research by MPP students in Elisabeth R. Gerber's Applied Policy Seminar was cited in multiple press reports about a new Macomb County task force. The task force will work to promote and expand Macomb County's already significant share of economic...
Scott Atran was interviewed on an episode of "On Being," an American Public Media show hosted by Krista Tippett. As described by "On Being," the episode asks Atran to help "make deeper sense of the human dynamics unfolding in the Middle East and...
Susan M. Dynarski was quoted in a Detroit Free Press article called, "State raises bar on tests to prepare kids for college, careers." The article discusses a recent decision by the Michigan State Board of Education to raise the passing scores on...
Research by Susan M. Dynarski was cited in a Newsweek Education article about academic redshirting called "The Problem With Holding Kids Back from Kindergarten."According to the article, researchers differ on whether the practice of delaying...
Many of Michigan's local government leaders think fringe benefits given to their jurisdictions' employees are too generous, but they are not overpaid, a new University of Michigan study finds.In addition, many of these leaders also believe employees...
Philip B. K. Potter was interviewed about popular uprisings in the Middle East on the Feb. 7 edition of "The Lynn Rivers Show," an hour-long weekly news program hosted by former U.S. Rep Lynn Rivers airing on local NPR station, WEMU.During the show,...
President Mary Sue Coleman has approved the final report on implementation of the University of Michigan's new smoke-free policy, which goes into effect July 1, 2011.The university's Smoke-free Initiative steering committee presented a report with...
