Dear Alumni and Friends, Happy New Year! I am pleased to write to you with updates from the Ford School Alumni Board and provide some of the details of what you already know: Ford School graduates continue to be recognized as leaders in both the...

Professor Liz Gerber and students from the fall 2010 Applied Policy Seminar (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) hit national airwaves as their work was featured on Out of the Blue, a University of Michigan-produced television...

An article by John Ciorciari was published in the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, a prestigious student-run public policy journal at Tufts University. Ciorciari's article, "India's Approach to Great-Power Status," discusses the rise of India's...

Dean Yang presented his research on microfinance at a plenary session at the 12th Annual Global Development Conference held in Bogotá, Colombia. The conference, titled "Financing Development in a Post-Crisis World: The Need for a Fresh Look," is run...

The Ford School's Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program welcomes current and prospective students, faculty, staff, and others to visit their completely redesigned website at: www.stpp.fordschool.umich.edu.The STPP Program is devoted...

Noted journalist, foreign policy analyst, and author Robin Wrightwill speak at the 2011 Ford School commencement ceremonies.Wright grew up in Ann Arbor and earned two degrees from the University of Michigan, but her career has taken her all over the...

Three Ford School professors—David K. Cohen, Susan Dynarski, and Brian Jacob—were listed in an Education Week blog ranking edu-scholars "public presence" in 2010.The rankings were calculated based on researchers' contributions to education-related...

The national conversation about gay men and women serving in the military changed drastically this morning, when President Obama signed into law a bill repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The question no longer centers on the merits of allowing...

Paul N. Courant has joined the steering committee for the proposed Digital Public Library of America. This 12-member committee, composed of library and foundation leaders, will create a blueprint for "an open, distributed network of comprehensive...

Susan Dynarski co-authored a report for The Brookings Institution about government regulation of charter schools. In "Charter Schools: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education," the authors explain the government’s current role in...