Gary Graca, a senior in the undergraduate public policy program, was awarded the 2008-09 Stanford Lipsey Journalism Award for Public Service Reporting. Graca received this award for an article he wrote as the Associate Editorial Page Editor for The...

In the 2007–08 academic year, the Ford School offered two practicum classes, linking MPP students with local clients to allow students to put their skills to the test with real-world policy work. The Ford School added practicum electives to its MPP...

The MJPA is published each year and serves as a forum for presenting and discussing policy innovations and ideas. Since 2003, graduate students from the Ford School have solicited articles from all over the world. The 2008 edition will touch on such...

"Take full advantage of wind's potential" written by Ford School student Sara Margaret Gilbert addresses the recently passed Michigan energy bill. Gilbert questions the legislature's decision to not include a statewide renewable portfolio standard...

Once the capital of the industrial world, Detroit has for the past four decades become one of the nation's pre-eminent symbols of urban decline. Globalization, deindustrialization and "white flight" ravaged once-proud neighborhoods and turned much...

Over the past few centuries a strange and intricate tradition emerged in Europe: building labyrinths out of shrubbery. These "hedge mazes" became potent symbols of aristocratic privilege and idle leisure. In the long years since the implosion of the...

Ford School student Ben Falik was interviewed by the Detroit Free Press about the service organization he co-founded, Summer in the City, "Energized, Giving Back." [U-M Affiliates can read the full, archived article through the U-M library...

New Orleans knows about starting over. When the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina breached the city's levees and floodwalls, at least 1,800 people throughout the Gulf Coast died in the subsequent floods, with more than 1,500 of them in Louisiana....

In the fourth year of the Ford School's class gift program, the Class of 2007 raised over $15,000 and gathered support from 70% of the graduating class. The total raised exceeded the campaign goal, as well as the amounts raised by previous class...

Out of over 200 applicants from the top public policy and international relations programs in the country, two first year Ford School students were selected to spend their summers this year in Washington, DC as recipients of the prestigious Harold...