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In the Media

Surveillance in virtual classrooms exacerbates technological racism, increases student anxiety

Sep 25, 2020 WUOT

“These kinds of technologies tend to disproportionately burden students of color who are already often assumed to be somehow deviant... and so these technologies tend to exacerbate that kind of racism by rendering it quantitative and technological...

Professor Shobita Parthasarathy leads a discussion in the Betty Ford Classroom

In the Media

Green: City governments more skeptical of tech tool promises

Sep 21, 2020 Wired

“People in city government are much less wowed by the promises of shiny tech tools than they used to be,” says Ben Green. He attributes that to growing distrust of large tech companies, and smart city projects that have underwhelmed or imploded,...

News

Meet our new faculty: Ben Green

Aug 10, 2020

Ben Green was selected as one of six University of Michigan Society of Fellows for a three-year appointment. He will be an assistant professor at the Ford School working on a book project and teaching students. His research focuses on the social and...

Ethical and logistical problems raise questions about COVID-19 antibody test efficacy

May 29, 2020

As stay-at-home orders expire across the United States, a reliance on antibody testing seems to be a key element of keeping people safe and avoiding a resurgence of COVID-19. Antibody testing is being touted as a way to know whether locked-down...

State & Hill

Spotlights – Spring 2020 State & Hill

May 22, 2020

All hands on deck Ford School faculty and research centers have been actively involved with the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Luke Shaefer is advising the state on how to reduce the impact on low-income families. Michael Barr, Betsey...

News

Detroit Metro Area Communities Study on COVID-19 draws national attention

Apr 28, 2020

A rapid-response Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) survey found that 1 in 5 Detroiters will run out of money due to the COVID-19 crisis within the next three months. The DMACS survey asked wide-ranging questions from economic, social,...

News

Ambassador Susan Rice shares leadership, career lessons with students

Jan 30, 2020

Following her public event at the Ford School this past Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Ambassador Susan Rice sat down with 20 Ford School students to discuss her career and leadership experiences working for the U.S. government. Students from...

Ambassador Susan Rice with a Ford School student

New BA minor opens policy education to more U-M students

Dec 10, 2019

Starting fall 2020, the Ford School will offer University of Michigan undergraduates a 16-credit minor in public policy. The minor will have a competitive application process that will go live in April 2020. The school expects to enroll around...

Science, technology, and society… Oh my!

Oct 2, 2019

Professor Shobita Parthasarthy and a colleague have launched “The Received Wisdom”, a new podcast that will explore the potential of science and technology by challenging commonly held wisdom.On Monday, September 23, “The Received Wisdom” launched...

David Morse offers glimpse into his Values & Ethics course in Washington Post

Aug 16, 2019

In David Morse’s “Values & Ethics: Lying & Public Policy” course he assigns students to develop a lie with a political agenda. In a perspective for The Washington Post titled “I teach my college students to lie. Honestly. Whoppers. It’s good for...

News

Ivacko evaluates independence of Detroit's IG in lieu of Mayor Duggan investigation

Apr 12, 2019

An investigation into Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has some questioning the impartiality of Inspector General (IG) Ellen Ha. The investigation in Mayor Duggan is looking into the appearance of preferential treatment of a nonprofit prenatal program...

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State & Hill

Brendan Nyhan's quest for the truth behind fake news

Mar 28, 2019

After receiving his PhD in political science from Duke University in 2009, Brendan Nyhan came to U-M to study health policy as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar. His mentors were the Ford School’s Paula Lantz and Rick Hall. Nyhan was then...

News

Professor emeritus John Chamberlin suggests unfair advantage in Wayne County tax auctions

Feb 15, 2019

In a piece published in The Detroit News on February 12, 2019 entitled “Wayne County treasurer breaks tax auction rules,” Christine MacDonald elaborates upon an investigation the newspaper started involving the county’s chief tax collector, Eric...

Ford School hosts faculty roundtable with Sen. Peters on issues related to emerging technologies

Nov 2, 2018

Faculty from the Ford School and around the University joined an expert roundtable with Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) on Wednesday. Sen. Peters called on faculty to provide insight into some of the rapidly-moving emerging technologies that intersect...

U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) at a roundtable hosted by the Ford School and shown here with Shobita Parthasarathy and Bob Axelrod.

Shobita Parthasarathy calls for patent regulation in rapidly-advancing gene editing

Oct 26, 2018

Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy at the Ford School, is keeping tabs on the upcoming International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Hong Kong. In her October 23, 2018 piece for Nature titled “Use the patent system to regulate gene...

New Ciorciari article: protecting survivors through the process of transitional justice

May 2, 2018

In a piece recently published in The Conversation, Ford School professor John Ciorciari reflects on his most recent findings associated with his long term study of survivors of Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Ciorciari, an expert in international...

Meghan Klaric’s (MPP ’18) “Villanova fans for Flint, MI” fundraiser featured in MLive

Apr 18, 2018

Passions were running high at the NCAA championship basketball game between the University of Michigan and Villanova University on April 2. But Meghan Klaric (MPP ’18) says some Villanova fans crossed the line when they hung a banner near campus...

Melvin Washington (MPP ‘18) presents at U-M’s inaugural MLK “King Talks”

Feb 16, 2018

A week after U-M’s MLK Symposium recognizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and work, the Rackham graduate school hosted five student speakers in a TED-style presentation called “King Talks.”In its inaugural year, King Talks followed the...

Hall & Reynolds pen chapter on “Financing the 2016 Congressional” in forthcoming book

Feb 1, 2018

Richard Hall and Molly E. Reynolds (PhD '15) will co-author a chapter, "Financing the 2016 Congressional," in the forthcoming Brookings Institution Press book, Financing the 2016 Elections (David Magleby, ed.). The book is expected to be published...

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Joy Rohde publishes article in Isis on “Pax Technologica” during the Cold War

Jan 13, 2018

Joy Rohde's "Pax Technologica: Computers, international affairs, and human reason in the Cold War" was published in Isis in December. Abstract From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, a team of U.S. political scientists and computer...

Schwarz fights to end gerrymandering, Chamberlin on redistricting challenges

Dec 14, 2017

Two Ford School faculty members were quoted in a December 7, 2017 article from the Battle Creek Enquirer, titled “Joe Schwarz champions push to end gerrymandering.” Former congressman and long-time Ford School lecturer Joe Schwarz is advocating...

Michigan Public Policy Survey results featured by AP and Michigan Bureau of Elections

Nov 14, 2017

Results from the spring edition of the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS) were highlighted by the Michigan Secretary of State’s Bureau of Elections in their November 9 newsletter, which is sent to election officials across the state.The latest...

Ravishankar’s research on police body-worn cameras featured in NYT and NPR

Nov 14, 2017

Research by joint-PhD candidate Anita Ravishankar (political science and public policy) on police body-worn cameras (BWCs) was featured in The New York Times’ The Upshot (“A big test of police body cameras defies expectations,” by Amanda Ripley) and...

Anita Ravishankar will use her Rackham Grants in Public Scholarship award to research trust and legitimacy between police and communities in Washington, DC.

Michigan News release: Statewide election survey explores problems, potential reforms

Nov 6, 2017

ANN ARBOR—A statewide survey of local officials shows that a majority are very confident in their jurisdiction's ability to administer accurate elections, however, those in Michigan's largest cities and townships—which hold nearly half the...

Wolfers in NYT Upshot: "Pinpointing racial discrimination by government officials"

Oct 30, 2017

In "Pinpointing racial discrimination by government officials," Justin Wolfers' October 6 article for The New York Times "Upshot," Wolfers highlights soon-to-be published research that finds local government officials in the U.S. are less responsive...

Anita Ravishankar receives "Rackham Grant in Public Scholarship" research award

Oct 30, 2017

Anita Ravishankar, a joint-PhD candidate in political science and public policy, has been awarded a Rackham Grant in Public Scholarship to support research measuring the gap in trust between civilians and the police.Grants in Public Scholarship are...

Global Detroit, U-M release study: Refugees infuse up to $295M/year in SE Michigan

Oct 17, 2017

Every year, refugees to southeast Michigan contribute up to $295 million to the region's economy, according to a new study led by Global Detroit and researchers at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy.The economic contributions...

Ciorciari in The Conversation on “UN campaign to fight corruption in Guatemala"

Sep 25, 2017

“Massive protests recently broke out in Guatemala as the nation teetered on the edge of a major political crisis,” writes John Ciorciari in The Conversation. “Guatemalans took to the streets to decry President Jimmy Morales, who in August attempted...

Nonprofit Quarterly highlights Parthasarathy in “Patents and profits in public settings”

Aug 10, 2017

This month’s Nonprofit Quarterly highlights Shobita Parthasarathy’s work in “Patents and profits in a public setting: Who should benefit financially?” The article quotes from Parthasarathy’s recent Conversation piece, “How to make sure we all...

Kaitlin Raimi reviews the negative policy spillovers of energy saving behavior

Aug 3, 2017

Katilin Raimi penned a News and Views commentary on “Energy-saving behavior: Negative spillover to policy” for the July 2017 edition of Nature Climate Change. Introduction Recycle! Eat less meat! Turn off the lights! Countless media,...