The Monkey Cage, a blog about politics and political science research, published a guest column by Philip Potter, which looks at trends in the relationship between presidential elections and American foreign policy. Drawing on recent studies about...

A new $9 million University of Michigan Great Lakes research and education center will guide efforts to protect and restore the world's largest group of freshwater lakes by reducing toxic contamination, combating invasive species, protecting...

Justin Wolfers spoke with the New York Times about the effectiveness of polling voters about their expectations in order to forecast the outcome of elections."More information produces better results," Wolfers told the New York Times. Asking voters...

Join us for a Policy Talks @ the Ford School lecture by Dick Costolo (BS '85), CEO of Twitter, on Friday, November 16....

Q: Rising inequality. Voting rights. The Arab Spring. Education reform. Congressional gridlock. The Eurozone crisis. Obamacare. Prison reform. Climate change. National security. A: Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy. Join us on Monday, November 5...

Dean Susan M. Collins spoke at the Conference on Labor and Development, hosted by Columbia University's Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG).Collins appeared alongside former World Bank chief economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and...

Ford School alumni Chris Dorle (MPP '07) and Betsy Palazzola (MPP '12) are recipients of the inaugural Strong Cities Strong Communities (SC2) Fellowship, which places highly-skilled professionals in U.S. cities to assist with planning and...

The Detroit Free Press reported on a new study from the Michigan Consortium for Educational Research , of which the Ford School Education Policy Initiative is a member, assessing the impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum. The study analyzed the...

American Public Media's Marketplace spoke with Justin Wolfers in a segment about whether some insurance companies might be "too big to fail."The Marketplace story, which reported that federal regulators are investigating the "systematic importance"...

The class of 2011, the first group of students exposed to the Michigan Merit Curriculum for their entire high school careers, saw mixed results.The introduction of the merit curriculum reduced graduation rates slightly for students who entered high...