The winter semester kicked off early for Ford School MPP students, who arrived back on campus before classes started for the annual Integrated Policy Exercise (IPE). The topic for this year's IPE was comprehensive immigration legislation, a package...

When Beverly and Lyman Hamilton learned of President Mary Sue Coleman's Challenge for the Student Global Experience, they seized the chance to maximize the educational impact of their gift to the Ford School. As Lyman Hamilton, a long-serving member...

Six new members have been elected to the Ford School's Alumni Board. The Alumni Board strives to help increase the visibility of the Ford School, strengthen the alumni network, and assist the school with student recruitment, career services, and...

Greg Fogel, a joint MPP/MS student, co-authored a recent National Wildlife Federation study called "Corn Ethanol and Wildlife: How increases in corn plantings are affecting habitat and wildlife in the Prairie Pothole Region."According to the report,...

Scott Atran spoke with Newsweek about Iranian support for the country’s nuclear program. Atran frames the issue using a concept from social psychology known as 'sacred value,' or a value that transcends what might be considered rational benefit-cost...

Elizabeth Stamberger (MPP/MBA student) and Charlotte Mack (MPP/MS student), with team members from business and natural resources, won the 2009 University of Michigan Net Impact Sustainability Case Competition.This two-round competition invited...

New research by Barry Rabe on American public opinion of climate change was published in a Brookings Institution report, "The Climate of Belief: American Public Opinion on Climate Change." In this report, Rabe and co-author Christopher P. Borick...

We have scheduled our annual Spring Preview Weekend for admitted students for April 9-10, 2010. MPP applicants - please save the date. Spring Preview is designed to give newly admitted students all the information they need to make a decision...

The Ford School lost a valued colleague and friend with the death of Professor Katherine Terrell Svejnar in December 2009. Read more about Kathy and about her impact on the University of Michigan. A memorial fund has now been established to honor...

In a recent op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Paul N. Courant, James J. Duderstadt, and Edie N. Goldenberg, discuss the importance of public research universities and suggest the federal government needs to help support graduate- and...