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Ambassador Ronald Weiser on $1.1M gift for international study, travel

Dec 26, 2016

Ambassador Ronald N. Weiser (BBA '66), founder of the Ann Arbor real estate firm McKinley, talks about the $1.1 million gift that he and his wife, Eileen L. Weiser (MMus '75), have allocated to the Ford School. The gift will fund international study...

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More a spectrum than a switch: John Ciorciari talks shared sovereignty

Dec 25, 2016

John Ciorciari's office is neat as a pin, but a towering stack of books looms by his keyboard. Ciorciari has just earned tenure. He's just been appointed director of the Ford School's International Policy Center. He's just returned from a...

Justin Wolfers and coauthors publish in SSRN: "In-group bias in financial markets"

Dec 24, 2016

A paper by Sima Jannati (University of Miami), Alok Kumar (University of Miami), Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi (University of Mannheim), and Justin Wolfers was published in SSRN on December 24, 2016. The paper is entitled: "In-group bias in financial...

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10 benefits to 10 years in Joan and Sanford Weill Hall

Dec 24, 2016

First there was Angell Hall, then the Law Building, Haven Hall, Rackham, and Lorch. And for the faculty and staff who couldn't be shoehorned into those facilities, there was the Gunn Building, then the "annexes" at Huron and Oakland. Jennifer...

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Engaged learning in Ford School classrooms--beyond the big-ticket experiences

Dec 23, 2016

The Ford School has a long history of emphasizing engaged learning. Many of the big-ticket experiences, like the Integrated Policy Exercise (IPE), Applied Policy Seminar (APS) now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting (SPPC), International...

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Spoilers to stability: Bob Axelrod discusses threats to the Iranian nuclear deal

Dec 22, 2016

This April, Bob Axelrod was invited to attend a closed-door workshop at Oxford University's Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict. The focus: The 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. One year ago, the U.S. and other powerful nations forged an...

Parthasarathy in The Conversation: Obama’s socially engaged science and tech policy

Dec 21, 2016

Shobita Parthasarathy’s December 18 piece for The Conversation is on “Obama administration’s big science and tech innovation: Socially engaged policy.” Parthasarathy says President Obama’s science and technology legacy should include “much more...

Inside Philanthropy highlights David Bohnett Leadership and Public Service Fellowship Program

Dec 21, 2016

In the early 2000s, L.A. philanthropist David Bohnett noticed that Los Angeles City Hall was in need of mayoral staffers to work on salient policy issues such as housing and public transportation. At the same time, UCLA was training public policy...

Alumni field report, Komal Aggarwal (MPP ’13) @ Energy Future Holdings

Dec 21, 2016

Komal Aggarwal (MPP ’13) offers this alumni field report from her position as lead analyst at Energy Future Holdings in Dallas, Texas.As lead risk management analyst for Energy Future Holdings—a Dallas-based privately held energy company—I analyze...

Barr pens op-ed for Fortune: “Trump’s dismantling of Dodd-Frank would be 2008 all over again”

Dec 21, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump and treasury secretary nominee Steven Munchin have both threatened to “dismantle” or “kill” aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. In a December 8 op-ed for Fortune, Michael...

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Fulfilling the public good: Shobita Parthasarathy on innovation in science and tech

Dec 20, 2016

It seems like a straightforward question. If we produce more innovation, and quickly, then society will benefit. Our economy will grow because there will be markets for new technologies, and citizens will also benefit from access to the technologies...

Three Ford School Committee members provide generous support for future Fordies

Dec 19, 2016

As a student at the Institute for Public Administration (the Ford School) in the early 1960s, Ford School Committee Member David P. Fauri (AB ’62, MPA ’64) doubled up on internships in Ann Arbor, MI and Baltimore, MD. As a student at Princeton’s...

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Engines for growth: U-M faculty, students support Detroit entrepreneurs of color

Dec 19, 2016

While small businesses have always been a critical engine of growth for urban economies, new business startups have slowed nationwide in the wake of the Great Recession. In the city of Detroit, expanding small businesses means confronting the...

Five Ford School students honored with 2017 Dow Sustainability Fellowships

Dec 19, 2016

Five Ford School students have been awarded 2017 Dow Sustainability Fellowships, out of 40 selected students from 12 U-M schools and colleges.The Dow Sustainability Fellowship supports graduate students who are "committed to finding...

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Please join us in welcoming newly elected Ford School Alumni Board members

Dec 19, 2016

This fall, Ford School alumni elected six representatives to serve on the Alumni Board. The elected board members, who will serve from January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2019, are: Amber Arellano (MPP '04), Founder & Executive Director, The...

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Entrepreneurial alumni: Ford School alums share winning strategies in social innovation

Dec 18, 2016

Erin Zaikis "Make sure that you're curating people in your life that will have your back and want you to succeed. Being an entrepreneur is the loneliest task, but also the most rewarding." Erin Zaikis (BA...

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Hacking for global health: Tackling wicked problems, like avian influenza, with creativity

Dec 17, 2016

Chiang Mai wasn't Annie Maxwell's (MPP '02) first introduction to the EpiHack. As president of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, which pioneered the "epidemiology hackathon" in 2013, Maxwell had heard a good deal about them. They were multi-day events...

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Microfinance breakthrough: Dean Yang uses fingerprints to boost microlending in Malawi

Dec 16, 2016

Eight years ago, development economist Dean Yang spent a week in Malawi visiting microfinance institutions, the banks and credit unions that provide financial services to some of the world's most vulnerable citizens. Yang, who works to combat...

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Fall 2016 State & Hill magazine focuses on “Innovation for the Public Good”

Dec 15, 2016

The fall 2016 issue of State & Hill magazine was mailed to alumni and friends of the Ford School on December 15, 2016. This edition of the magazine, titled “Innovation for the public good,” highlights faculty, students, and alumni who are...

Paul Courant to serve as interim U-M provost and EVP for academic affairs

Dec 14, 2016

Yesterday afternoon, Ford School Professor Paul Courant was named interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan. This isn’t Courant’s first stint as provost. In 2002 he held the post, and served...

In Brookings, Rabe asks “What will Scott Pruitt do if he cannot sue EPA?”

Dec 14, 2016

While we know a great deal about President-elect Trump’s EPA nominee, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, Barry Rabe writes for the Brookings Institution that it is highly unclear "just what he will do in his role.” The article, titled “What...

Whitman on infrastructure spending and Pax Americana in Freep, Conversation op-eds

Dec 14, 2016

In a December 13th Detroit Free Press op-ed, “Where will public goods stand in Trump’s administration?”, Marina v.N. Whitman considers the importance of public goods to President-elect Trump’s administration.Whitman explains, “Everybody’s ‘market...

Seefeldt pens op-ed for Newsweek: “Meet the real ‘left behind’ voters: Black women”

Dec 13, 2016

Kristin Seefeldt's (MPP '96, PhD '10) December 9 op-ed, published by Newsweek, describes "the real ‘left behind’ voters: black women.” After the 2016 election, Seefeldt says, common wisdom among pundits was that Donald Trump won because of the...

Alan Deardorff in Reuters: U.S.-China trade tensions could hurt U.S businesses

Dec 13, 2016

A December 13 article from Reuters, “Trump’s tough trade talk makes U.S. firms fear China retribution,” features quotes from a number of foreign policy experts, including Professor Alan Deardorff of the Ford School. According to the authors Nick...

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Wolfers on market responses to the ebb and flow of Presidential candidate fortunes

Dec 8, 2016

As Trump gained strength on election night, the prices of Clinton securities on political betting markets fell sharply. By midnight, stock market futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Index had fallen by 4 percent. Both movements reflected what...

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Kristin Seefeldt interviewed by Lakeshore Public Media's “Regionally Speaking”

Dec 7, 2016

Kristin Seefeldt (MPP '96, PhD '10) recently spoke with Lakeshore Public Media’s "Regionally Speaking" for a podcast about research from her forthcoming book, “Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the twenty-first century.” Seefeldt’s research...

Dynarski on "Fulfilling the promise of community college: The ASAP demonstrations"

Dec 7, 2016

Community colleges throughout the United States have low graduation rates, yet preliminary evidence from a new randomized trial suggests an effective policy prescription, write Susan Dynarski and Meghan Oster. Their article, “Fulfilling the promise...

In Bloomberg, Stevenson writes “manly men” need to get back to work, in “girly jobs”

Dec 7, 2016

More men should take service jobs in occupations traditionally dominated by women, writes Betsey Stevenson in her most recent Bloomberg View column: “Manly Men Need to Do More Girly Jobs” Stevenson, a leading labor economist and former chief...

On Mindpop, Rohde pushes for us to "not lose sight of humans" in the big data revolution

Dec 6, 2016

David Sehat, host of the Mindpop podcast, talks with Joy Rohde about big data for the December 4 episode: “Is big data a force for good?” Rohde recounts the history of projects that use large datasets to try to solve policy problems – from the...

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What Would Dismantling Dodd-Frank Mean for Banks and Consumers?

Dec 2, 2016 UPenn - Wharton

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