Kristin Seefeldt spoke to the Wall Street Journal about how the requirement to enter a job search program in order to receive welfare in Michigan is seen as a roadblock for those in need of assistance. [Read the...

The Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) received a W. K. Kellogg Foundation grant to survey local elected officials statewide. The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) received a 12-month W. K. Kellogg...

Megan Piersma, the Ford School's Student Services Program Coordinator, was awarded a 2008 U-M Distinguished Diversity Leadership Award for her work with the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute.Megan coordinates the...

Shobita Parthasarathy participated in an NPR interview on intellectual property and gene patents as part of the Kojo Nnamdi Show on DC's NPR station, WAMU. The NPR panel was set up in response to a suit that was recently filed by the ACLU and other...

Skye Stewart (MPP ’10) wrote her op-ed “State constitutional conventions bolster democracy” for a Ford School class taught by Professor John J.H. Schwarz called “Topics in Public Policy: The Legislative Branch, Structure, and Current...

Matt Johnson wrote his op-ed, “Michigan can safely reduce prison population with planning,” during his time as the Upson-Miller Fellow with the Citizens Research Council of Michigan. Matt is currently pursuing his master’s in public policy at the...

Indonesian women born into rural communities in rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer, and live in households with greater wealth than women born in years with lower rainfall, according to new research by the Ford School's Dean Yang and...

Marina v.N. Whitman spoke to the Associated Press about the unique challenges facing the U.S. government as it attempts to financially support GM and Chrysler while pursuing a broad policy agenda. This story appeared in the Washington Post and other...

The Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) published the first in a planned set of reports called "Michigan Research Briefs: A Series on Key Policy Issues." The inaugural report, "Smoke-Free Legislation" examines a variety...

Jeremy Borovitz (BA '09) was awarded the 2009 Hopwood Undergraduate Nonfiction Award, with a prize of $8,000. Borovitz won the prize for his work "Kosher Poland," which was based on a blog he wrote while studying abroad in Warsaw, Poland in the...