Elisabeth R. Gerber, the Jack Walker Jr. Professor of Public Policy, is one of two representatives for Washtenaw County on the newly instated Regional Transit Authority (RTA) for southeast Michigan. County Commissioner Conan Smith made her...

When violent non-state organizations form alliances with each other, do they become more lethal? Ford School Assistant Professor Philip B. K. Potter and Associate Professor Michael Horowitz of the University of Pennsylvania seek to answer this...

On January 23, the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and the Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies will present the documentary Black and Blue: The Story of Gerald Ford, Willis...

The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies will host a screening of the documentary titled Black and Blue: The Story of Gerald Ford, Willis Ward,...

Justin Wolfers was quoted in a segment on American Public Media's Marketplace about Federal Reserve Board deliberations in the run-up to the Great Recession. The Fed recently released transcripts for its 2007 meetings that show substantial...

Cassarah Brown (MPP '14), Adrianna McIntyre (MPP/MPH '15), and Betsy Riley (MPP/MS '14) are part of forty master's and professional degree students selected to receive the Dow Sustainability Fellowship at the University of Michigan. This is the...

A new article in Michigan Today recounts the career paths of Norman Ornstein (PhD '74) and Thomas Mann (MA '68/PhD '77), who recently returned to the Ford School to discuss their book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional...

Justin Wolfers was quoted in a Today.com article looking at growing public concern surrounding national debt and political dysfunction in America. The article points to a January Gallop poll in which 20 percent of respondents said they view the...

Kristin Seefeldt spoke with The New York Times and National Public Radio's On Point about her research following the debt burdens of single mothers in Detroit. The New York Times interviewed Seefeldt for the article "Life in the Red," which looks...

Rick Hess of Education Week included David K. Cohen, Susan M. Dynarski, and Brian A. Jacob in a list of university-based academics who made the greatest contribution to national discussions around education in 2012. Of those listed in the ranking,...