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Greetings from the Dean - Feed June 2018

Jun 1, 2018

Dear friends:Greetings from beautiful springtime Ann Arbor! We’re feeling tremendous pride and excitement in our newest alumni (view videos from a beautiful Commencement Ceremony here), our growing faculty, and in our school’s momentum and bright...

PhD candidate Jessica Gillooly writes op ed for Washington Post

May 30, 2018

This Sunday's print edition of the Washington Post included an opinion piece penned by joint doctoral student Jessica W. Gillooly. The post, titled "Want to stop more Starbucks scenarios? Train these people." suggested that 911 operators have a key...

Shaefer in WaPo: Low federal spending on children in U.S. compared to other developed nations

May 18, 2018

H. Luke Shaefer is quoted in the Washington Post’s May 16 article, “The U.S. spends less on children than almost any other developed nation,” by Jeff Stein.The article presents the results of a new NBER working paper by Diane W. Schanzenbach and...

Faculty appointments, promotions grow and strengthen the Ford School

May 17, 2018

Earlier this afternoon, the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved several key faculty appointments at the Ford School, as we continue to grow and strengthen our outstanding faculty.Shobita Parthasarathy has earned a promotion to professor...

Megan Tompkins-Stange receives 2018 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize

Apr 27, 2018

The U-M Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) awarded Megan Tompkins-Stange a 2018 Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize (TIP) for her project, "Bringing philanthropy to life through critical pedagogy: Philanthropic foundations in the...

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...

Michigan News release: Rate of dementia on the decline—but beware of growing numbers

Apr 17, 2018

The good news? The rate of older Americans with dementia is on the decline. The bad news? The number of Americans 85 and older will roughly double in the next 20 years, so even with a decline in the rate of dementia among older adults, the number...

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In new study, Raimi finds people with strongly held beliefs tend to overestimate knowledge

Apr 17, 2018

Michael Hall and Katilin Raimi have co-authored a forthcoming paper in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: “Is belief superiority justified by superior knowledge?” The researchers find that individuals expressing belief superiority, or...

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Jacob: Grow Detroit’s Young Talent benefits youth “long after they receive their last paycheck”

Apr 13, 2018

The administrators of Grow Detroit’s Young Talent, a youth summer employment program, always knew that the program made a difference in participants’ lives. Now, that intuition is backed up by data. Researchers at the University of Michigan,...

Prof. Brian Jacob says child abuse and neglect should be ‘central concern’ for state in new Brookings report

Apr 10, 2018

Late last month the Brookings Institution released a report by U-M professors Brian Jacob and Joseph Ryan. The assessment was the result of a partnership between the University and the State of Michigan, detailing the prevalence of abuse and...

Shipan receives Herbert Simon Award at Midwest Political Science Association meeting

Apr 10, 2018

Charles Shipan was awarded the Herbert Simon Award by the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) at the MPSA’s 2018 conference in Chicago last weekend. According to the MPSA, the career achievement award recognizes a scholar who has made a...

Rabe in NYT: Trump administration may be “dialing back” rewrite of car emissions standards

Apr 9, 2018

Barry Rabe is quoted in Hiroki Tabuchi’s April 5 column in The New York Times: “Quietly, Trump officials and California seek a deal on car emissions.” According to Tabuchi, the Trump administration, which aims to roll back federal auto emissions...

Seefeldt talks about financial advice for low-income families in MarketWatch

Apr 9, 2018

Typical financial advice doesn’t always apply to families under constant financial pressure, writes Maria LaMagna in her April 3 article for MarketWatch: “Low-income families are getting terrible financial advice online.” Families who experience...

Deardorff in Consumer Reports: Tariffs won’t solve U.S. trade problems with China

Apr 2, 2018

Alan Deardorff talks trade relations in a March 22 Consumer Reports article by Octavio Blanco: “These products could get more expensive in a Trump trade war.” Blanco describes the Trump Administration’s proposal to impose tariffs on products from...

Melvyn Levitsky on what happens next after Russia’s presidential election

Apr 2, 2018

Melvyn Levitsky makes an appearance in Paul D. Shinkman's March 19 article on “The consequences of Putin’s victory” in U.S. News and World Report. Following Vladimir Putin’s win in the Russian presidential election, Shinkman writes, “[I]t’s yet...

PhD candidate Christina Cross awarded for dissertation

Mar 29, 2018

Christina Cross, a joint-PhD candidate at the Ford School and in the Department of Sociology was awarded for her dissertation “Extended Family Households among U.S. Children: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and SES.”The first empirical chapter of the...

Justin Wolfers’ social media engagement featured in University Record piece

Mar 19, 2018

A March 5 article by Safiya Merchant in The University Record, “#SocialScholars: Professors show power of public engagement,” highlights the growing use of social media among University of Michigan professors. Merchant writes that social media...

Hall & Jacobson in Health Affairs: “Health in All Policies” can promote health equity

Mar 6, 2018

An article by Richard Hall and Peter Jacobson (University of Michigan) in the March edition of Health Affairs reports on "Examining whether the health-in-all-policies approach promotes health equity." Hall participated in a briefing about the new...

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On “Here and Now,” Dynarski talks student loan debt and solutions

Mar 1, 2018

Susan Dynarski was interviewed by Jeremy Hobson of NPR’s Here and Now for the February 27 segment: “Has student loan debt reached a crisis point?”For a “substantial minority” of student loan borrowers, Dynarksi tells Hobson, “there is a crisis.” She...

Dynarski argues for universal SAT/ACT testing in her latest Brookings report

Feb 27, 2018

In her latest piece for the Brookings Institution, Susan Dynarski writes on the benefits of providing universal SAT and ACT testing, arguing their usefulness towards detecting academically talented students who typically “fall off the path to...

Kostyuk co-authors Lawfare piece on “Evaluating the U.K.’s ‘Active Cyber Defence’ program”

Feb 21, 2018

Stuart Russell and Nadiya Kostyuk co-authored a February 14 piece for the Lawfare Blog: “Evaluating the U.K.’s ‘Active Cyber Defence’ program.” Kostyuk is a doctoral candidate in the Ford School’s public policy and political science joint PhD...

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...

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Farley on “Detroit: The emergence, decline and possible revitalization of a great city”

Feb 16, 2018

Reynolds Farley has contributed a chapter entitled “Detroit: The emergence, decline and possible revitalization of a great city” for the August 2017 book A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change: Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for...

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Daniel Raimi’s The Fracking Debate provides evidence, context around shale revolution

Feb 14, 2018

From 2013-2016, Daniel Raimi traveled to every major oil and gas producing region of the United States to investigate the local impacts of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The stories he gathered from those trips were the beginnings of Raimi’s...

Pilkauskas, colleagues measure assets among low-income families in the Great Recession

Feb 13, 2018

Valentina Duque (University of Michigan), Natasha Pilkauskas, and Irwin Garfinkel (Columbia University) published a February 1 paper in PLoS ONE: "Assets among low-income families in the Great Recession." Abstract This paper examines the...

Stevenson, Owen in WSJ: “Yellen leaves the Fed--and a glass ceiling shattered”

Feb 8, 2018

A recent Wall Street Journal story by Nick Timiraos, “Janet Yellen leaves the Fed--and a glass ceiling shattered,” focuses on Yellen’s recent departure from the Fed as “an example of the challenges even the most successful women still face,”...

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In Brookings, Jacob argues for greater support systems for community college students

Feb 7, 2018

In his most recent report for the Brookings Institution, Brian Jacob highlights the many advantages of support programs for community college students, with data showing a profound impact on students receiving these interventions. Jacob’s piece,...

Axinn: The association between college experience and the odds of forced intercourse

Feb 5, 2018

William Axinn served as lead author on "General population estimates of the association between college experience and the odds of forced intercourse," published by Social Science Research in October 2017.AbstractSexual assault on college campuses...

Wolfers in New York Times: “Why women’s voices are scarce in economics”

Feb 3, 2018

“For decades, the number of women studying economics seemed to be increasing, easing the persistent scarcity of professional female economists in the United States,” writes Justin Wolfers in his February 2 column, "Why women's voices are scarce in...

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Poverty Solutions announces 2018 grantees, including two Ford School projects

Jan 31, 2018

Poverty Solutions has announced its grant awards for 2018 and two Ford School professors, Shobita Parthasarathy and Kristin S. Seefeldt, have been chosen as Faculty Grant Award recipients. Parthasarathy’s project, “The Politics of Technology...