As the director of intergovernmental affairs, Cecilia Muñoz will run the White House office responsible for local and state government relations.Muñoz, a 1984 graduate of U-M, served as the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in...

Since the Michigan Difference Campaign began in 2000, alumni, friends, foundations, and corporations have given over $51 million to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, helping the school to surpass our campaign goal of raising $42...

Students, faculty, and staff gathered at Weill Hall on November 4 to watch and discuss the results of the 2008 presidential election. [Read more and view...

Three Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy professors recently received faculty appointments, Ford School Dean Susan M. Collins has announced.Melvyn LevitskyAmbassador (Ret.) Melvyn Levitsky, a Ford School professor since 2006, has been appointed...

Experts in the environment, energy and economics joined with advocates for the two major presidential campaigns at the University of Michigan on Oct. 14 to discuss the positions of Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama and how each candidate's...

For many college students, Spring Break might consist of lounging on a beach or catching up with old friends from home. But each year, a group of Ford School students works hard for the opportunity to spend Spring Break traveling to a developing...

In recognition of his deep expertise and his strong, interdisciplinary connections across campus, the University has named longtime Ford School faculty member John Chamberlin as the founding director of the U-M Center for Ethics.This new center will...

University of Michigan alumna Gail R. Wilensky (AB '64, AM '65, PhD '68) is a nationally recognized economist, skilled in the analysis and development of policies addressing health care reform and changes in the health care environment. She is...

John Patrick 'Pat' Crecine, the first director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (IPPS), a pre-cursor to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and one of the first programs of its type in the nation, died on April 28.[Read...

An interdisciplinary proposal, "Social Science and Energy," submitted by the Ford School and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts was approved to hire three faculty positions in 2008. Provost Teresa Sullivan explains that this initiative...