As part of a Detroit Public TV special segment on the brutal economic effect of the COVID-19 recession on women, Betsey Stevenson discusses the precipitous drop in female labor force participation over the last year — a shocking 57% drop, to the...
In an article in the Holland Sentinel about whether or not the COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed politics, Jonathan Hanson notes that “things do change much more rapidly in politics sometimes than we expect. Over the course of a year, the...
Hundreds of thousands--perhaps millions--of oil and gas wells in the U.S. have been walked away from by oil and gas companies over the past 150 years. Known as “orphan wells,” they represent a threat to the environment through leaking the greenhouse...
Since 2008, Sue Dynarski has been one of the Ford School's most active faculty working to reform public education, fighting for educational equity and inclusiveness, and training the next generation of education policy experts. She has taught...
Experts on the region and longtime scholars of Myanmar consider what the aftermath of the violence and instability will imply for Southeast Asia and its relations with its neighbors, the United States, and China. April 2021.
A team comprised of four University of Michigan graduate students from the Ford School, Taubman College, and Ross Business along with a student from Harvard University are the runners-up in the 2021 Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design...
What is the carbon footprint for all of the food the University of Michigan consumes? And how can that footprint be reduced?
That was one of the many study areas the President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality addressed in its final report,...
Greetings Ford School alumni,
The Alumni Board held its spring meeting on April 9, via Zoom. This was our third virtual meeting of the pandemic and while we have all missed coming to Ann Arbor for our meetings and the opportunities to interact...
