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Sharon Disney, Beth Soboleski part of award-winning staff team

May 8, 2018
On May 7, President Mark Schlissel awarded the 2018 President’s Staff Innovation Award to the MSTAFF200 Planning Lead Team, which included the Ford School’s Sharon Disney and Beth Soboleski. Individual and team winners are selected each year,...
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Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project Expands

May 8, 2018
Under the high ceilings of a University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design classroom, surrounded by a semi-circle of design, accounting, and law students from U-M, entrepreneur and lifelong Detroiter Achsha Jones is reviewing dozens of sticky...
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The Last Word: Elisabeth Gerber

Apr 25, 2018
A key Ford School priority is to engage more and better with external organizations and communities, leveraging Ford’s capacity and expertise, interdisciplinary approaches, and ability to assemble a network of policy-engaged university faculty....
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Mary Corcoran: A force of nature

Apr 24, 2018
Being a tough editor... helping find financial resources needed to stay in school... lending support and encouragement: as a mentor Professor Mary Corcoran did all of that and more for the lives and careers of hundreds of alumni. Now, as she...
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Betty Ford's legacy celebrated on 100th anniversary of her birth

Apr 23, 2018
On Friday, 4/13/2018, the Ford School hosted a fun and festive dessert reception paying tribute to the legacy of Mrs. Betty Ford nearing the 100th anniversary of her birth. With remarks from Dean Michael Barr; eldest son of President and Mrs. Ford,...
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Knight Foundation grant to help project amplify Detroit voices

Apr 20, 2018
To help Detroit leaders better craft programs and policies that respond to community needs, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $761,000 to help University of Michigan researchers collect and report Detroit residents' opinions on...
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Rabe: Is carbon pricing politically feasible?

Apr 20, 2018
When China formally announced plans to establish a national carbon market this past December, it was double the European Union's carbon market and 10 times the size of California's cap-and-trade system. With the launch, China became the latest...
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Betty Ford at 100

Apr 13, 2018
In 1994, former White House photographer David Hume Kennerly asked former First Lady Betty Ford if he could publish a photo he had taken on her last day in the White House. In the photo, Ford was posed atop the Cabinet Room table. As Kennerly...