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Ali comments on lack of security barriers during the New Orleans attack

Jan 2, 2025 BBC

The Ford School's Javed Ali recently spoke with BBC offering new perspectives on the recent New Orleans attack. Ali shared "It's too difficult to say for certain whether the New Orleans bollards [security barriers] being in place would have...

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Amidst recent acts of terrorism, Ali states ISIS ideology persists

Jan 5, 2025 MSNBC

Covering the recent acts of terrorism in New Orleans, MSNBC has turned to the Ford School's Javed Ali for insights on the situation. Ali urges that even though ISIS has changed over the past decade, "the ideology still remains, persists, and...

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Biden is following the trends of past presidents with late executive orders, Hanson argues

Jan 11, 2025 ABC News

Speaking with ABC News, the Ford School's Jonathan Hanson claims past presidents have historically implemented executive orders right before passing the torch, as President Joe Biden has done. "This is pretty typical. Trump is just complaining about...

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Exciting events at the Ford School this January

Jan 10, 2025

The Ford School is pleased to announce an exciting lineup for our January 2025 Policy Talks @ the Ford School series and other special public events hosted with partners from across campus.Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise...

Celebrate the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the 35th Annual Health Science MLK Lecture

Jan 20, 2025, 2:00-5:00 pm EST

Kahn Auditorium Biomedical Science Research Building

The 35th Annual Health Science MLK Lecture, hosted by the University of Michigan School of Medicine / Michigan Medicine, will focus on the exploration of interdisciplinary approaches to achieve health equity. After the lecture, Ford School Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes will participate in a panel discussion on health equity.

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Cohodes, Jacob, and Weiland make Education Week’s 2025 public influence rankings

Jan 9, 2025

Education Week has announced the annual 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, which highlights scholars who made significant contributions to educational practice and policy in the past year.Three Ford School faculty members have been...

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Ambassador Camara highlights EU’s security commitment but criticizes political partnership with Sahel countries at the Trilateral Commission in Madrid

Jan 9, 2025

In November, Ambassador Kamissa Camara, professor of practice at the Ford School of Public Policy, presented to members of the European Trilateral Commission about “North Africa and the Sahel—Factors for Europe’s...

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Q&A with health policy expert Pam Herd

Jan 9, 2025

Sociologist Pamela Herd joined the Ford School faculty in September 2024 as the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. Her research focuses on inequality and how it interacts with policy issues including health, aging, and administrative...

Racial Justice in Practice

Practicing Our Freedom: Self care and collective care in movement work

Feb 26, 2025, 12:00-1:30 pm EST

In this virtual workshop, Dr. Amanda Alexander will discuss how people who are are committed to collective liberation stave off burn out, jadedness, and despair so that we can remain in this work for the long haul.

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