80,000 – 85,000. The number of students, alumni, family, faculty, staff, and friends who crowded into Michigan Stadium on Saturday, May 1, to hear President Barack Obama deliver the Commencement Address to the University's Class of 2010. Obama...

The Ford School is very pleased to welcome Associate Professor David J. Harding to the faculty. Harding has been an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan since 2006. He retains his Sociology appointment along with his...

New voices filled Weill Hall on March 13 as high school students from southeastern Michigan gathered for Public Policy Connects (PPC), a conference aimed at introducing sophomores and juniors to the world of public policy and helping prepare them...

Sukhi Dosanjh, a 2001 Ford School MPP graduate, is profiled in an Oakland Tribune article titled "East Bay native helping farmers in Afghanistan." Dosanjh has been in Afghanistan since August 2009 managing a $225 million U.S. foreign aid program....

In an op-ed appearing in AsiaViews, John Ciorciari discusses the controversial decision by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to not charge members of the Khmer Rouge regime with crimes against humanity against the Khmer...

At a ceremony in Washington D.C., Sheldon Danziger and Becky Blank, former Ford School dean, were inducted as 2010 Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS). Fellows are selected not only for their contributions to the...

The New York Times interviewed Barry Rabe about the dimming prospects in several Midwest states for climate initiatives such as renewable energy programs and emissions regulation.Governors have significant power to set state energy policy in several...

Scott Atran spoke to the Associated Press about the fallout from an Israeli attack on a flotilla of Turkish aid ships headed for the Gaza Strip. The flotilla, also carrying pro-Palestinian activists, ignored warnings that the Gaza shore was under an...

Joy Rohde was quoted in a Boston Globe article about the U.S. military's use of reality-based computer modeling for intelligence analysis. Also called 'human terrain mapping,' this type of research creates models based on the behavior, beliefs, and...

Chris Myers and Sharon Disney have been named recipients of the 2010 Ford School Staff Recognition Award.The award is peer-nominated and peer-evaluated. It recognizes high standards of professional service and/or the outstanding contribution(s) of a...