Publication

The current debate about federally-funded scientific research reflects an ongoing trend: What people think of the scientists who advise the federal government partially depends on their own political persuasion and where the scientists work. That is...

Facial recognition (FR) technology should be banned for use in schools, according to a new study by the Science, Technology and Public Policy program (STPP) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.  The study...

Poverty Solutions released its 2018 Impact Report earlier this week. The report chronicles the Presidential Initiative’s successes over the past year, including a deepening partnership with the City of Detroit. Housed at the Ford School, Poverty...

New research conducted by Associate Professor of Public Policy Betsey Stevenson and Hanna Zlotnick (MPP ‘19) is highlighted in The Economist’s “How gender is (mis)represented in economics textbooks” and Inside Higher Ed’s “Gender Bias, by the...

An article by Barry G. Rabe and Rachel L. Hampton, “Trusting in the future: The re-emergence of state trust funds in the shale era.” appears in the October 2016 volume of Energy Research & Social Science. Abstract Energy-producing states...

A research article by W. Douglas Evans, Paula M. Lantz, Katherine Mead, Carmen Alvarez, and Jeremy Snider, "Adherence to clinical preventive services guidelines: Population-based online randomized trial," was published in the December 2015 edition...