State & Hill

Spring 2022

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Dear Fordies, IPPSters, and friends,

What a great five years it has been, in so many ways. I’ve loved being your dean. I’ve learned so much from you—our students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends. At the same time, it’s been a hard five years for so many people, for so many reasons. There’s no place, no purpose, no collection of people that I’d rather have been a part of for the last five years.

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Parthasarathy and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program chart a course for impact

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Raimi, Rohde, and Hausman are among school’s dynamic STPP core faculty

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“A lot of the biggest criticism is that it is all rhetoric. But it does provide an opportunity for smaller countries and indigenous people to have a voice.”

IEDP students get a close-up view of economic development in Puerto Rico

The International Economic Development Program (IEDP) took a COVID-required turn in 2022, exploring the economic, environmental, and cultural circumstances of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory.

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion work continues at the Ford School.

Photo of Ann Lin in her office at the U-M's Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In November 2021, Lin was appointed as director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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Calvert and Ford School students worked on digital access with Detroit's Parkside community

Weills’ new gift will fund another three graduate fellowships

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Hông (MPP/MS '24) and Wallick (MPP/MURP '23) share Copeland’s commitment to health equity

Widely-read Milbank Quarterly op-ed explains CRT’s importance to population health

Headshots of Melvyn Levitsky, Brian Jacob, Natasha Pilkauskas, Katherine Michelmore, Justin Wolfers, and Barry Rae

In the news: Amb. Melvyn Levitsky (ret.), Brian Jacob, Natasha Pilkauskas, Katherine Michelmore, Justin Wolfers, and Barry Rabe

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Overheard at Policy Talks @ the Ford School with Don Graves, Elizabeth Warren, Molly Ball, and Jeb Bush

Photo, from above, of a patron saint festival in Mexico. A dense parade of people and brightly colored parade floats make their way down a local street.

Yang and Montero on religious festivals; Gerber, Agrawal, and Liu on disaster recovery; and Morenoff, Farley, Neidert, and Cooney on a more accurate census count

Class Notes

Faculty News

Spotlights

Homecoming

Welcome HoMe celebration

Sep 23, 2022, 3:30-8:00 pm EDT

Joan and Sanford Weill Hall

The Ford School warmly welcomes back our graduates for Homecoming this fall!...

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Dean: Michael S. Barr; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs: Celeste Watkins-Hayes; Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement: Luke Shaefer; Director of Communications/Executive Editor: Laura K. Lee (MPP ’96); Art lead: Nicholas Pfost (MPP ’15); Content strategist: Rebecca Cohen (MPP ’09); Contributors: Olivia Bradish (BA ’23), Jennifer Conlin, Katee Cole, David Pratt, Daniel Rivkin; Class Notes Editor: Elisabeth Johnston; Photographers: Austin Thomason, Peter Smith, Scott Soderberg, Philip Dattilo, Michigan Photography, Isaac Nico (MPA ‘22); Design: Savitski Design; Printer: University Lithoprinters, Inc.

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IEDP students in Puerto Rico’s Bosque La Olimpia rainforest. Photo by Isaac Nico (MPA ‘22).

State & Hill

Dear Fordies, IPPSters, and friends,

A program like no other

Science and technology research in brief

Observing climate change policymaking up close in Glasgow

IEDP students get a close-up view of economic development in Puerto Rico

No time to rest on our laurels

A conversation with Ann Chih Lin

The Last Word

“More is more”

Hope for the future

First two Copeland Fellows named

Lantz defends critical race theory

Discourse

Soundbites

Faculty Findings

And more...