Joe Schwarz was quoted in a Detroit Free Press article about Michigan's seventh district. The district includes the areas surrounding Battle Creek, Ann Arbor and north to Lansing. Schwarz described the district to the Free Press, "You've got...

Carl P. Simon was named to a National Institutes of Health panel charged with studying the origins of health disparities using a complex systems approach. The 20-member panel, called the Network on Inequality, Complexity, and Health, has...

Barry Rabe was quoted in a Politico article about a recent decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase the allowable percentage, from 10 to 15 percent, of ethanol—a corn-based fuel—in new cars. Some question the timing of this...

Ford School MPP student Alexis Guild was quoted in a Detroit News story about the Peace Corps 50th anniversary. Fifty years ago today, at 2 a.m., then senator John F. Kennedy spoke to students on the steps of the Michigan Union and announced his...

Jeremy Borovitz (BA ’09) wrote an op-ed for the Michigan Daily about his 'peaceful realization' to join the Peace Corps after his graduation from the University of Michigan. Borovitz, who is currently serving as a Youth Development Volunteer in the...

Ford School alums, Michael Delaney (MPP '07) and Mark Wallace (MPP '04), were selected as two of Crain's Detroit Business 40 under 40, an award that honors Michigan's best and brightest. With over 300 nominations this year, the top 40 are selected...

The latest edition of the Ford School feed, an email news source for alumni and friends of the school, arrived in inboxes today.Readers will learn about the Ford School Alumni Board’s call for self-nominations, a new Detroit-focused fellowship...

The Ford School Alumni Board has opened the self-nomination process for its six open seats in the term beginning January 1, 2011. The Alumni Board represents the Ford School’s alumni community and strives to help increase the visibility of the...

The Ford School PhD program scores highly among the nation's doctoral programs in Public Policy and Public Administration, according to the recently released National Research Council (NRC) rankings of PhD programs. Observers have raised...

By a large majority, the Ford School alumni body has voted to approve two changes to the documents that govern the school's Alumni Board. The approved changes (1) adjust board composition to integrate the new pool of Ford School BA students and...