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State & Hill 2019 Spotlight Summary

Apr 4, 2019
Policy Pitch Highlights Students’ Niche Nine returning MPP students reflected on their summer internships by sharing their experience and policy impact in the inaugural Policy Pitch Competition. Guest judges for the competition included former...
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Soundbites, Highlights from Policy Talks @ the Ford School

Apr 3, 2019
This is a critical opportunity for Michigan to catch up. Michigan has lagged behind the rest of the states in terms of access to the ballot. Christopher Thomas, former Director of Elections for the state. "Electoral Reform via Ballot...
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A new professorship: giving voice to the voiceless

Apr 1, 2019
  “They lost their voices, they lost control of their lives, they lost their home,” Hal Kohn says of his grandparents. “They fled from Germany to Amsterdam, but Hitler invaded the Netherlands and they were deported to Sobibór and murdered...
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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...
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Victors for Michigan Campaign Success

Mar 27, 2019
As the University of Michigan’s Victors for Michigan campaign comes to a close, we’re reflecting with gratitude, excitement, and optimism. Thanks to the generosity and vision of our alumni and friends, we’re poised to grow our impact in the...
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An idea whose time has come: practical engagement

Mar 25, 2019
Philip Power, class of 1960, served on the University of Michigan Board of Regents from 1987 to 1999. Power, his parents, and his wife Kathy have supported the U-M Museum of Art, U-M Student Publications, the University Musical Society and the...
Group photo featuring Cindy Bank, Elisabeth Gerber, Phil Power, Kathy Power, and Susan Johnson
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Studying and practicing diplomacy, from Ann Arbor to Asia

Mar 21, 2019
As a young lawyer in his first job out of law school, John Ciorciari made a choice that would alter the trajectory of his professional career. He had been the editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal and specialized in...
John Ciorciari
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Elizabeth Gerber on Detroiters' perceptions and priorities

Mar 8, 2019
To help produce more welcome, meaningful, effective investments in and around Detroit, U-M’s Detroit Metropolitan Area Communities Study (DMACS) aims to gather and disseminate “timely, relevant intel on Detroit public opinion.” Professor Elisabeth...
Photo of a DMACS surveyor and a Detroit resident speaking on the front porch of his home
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Thinking globally: BA seminar trip to Costa Rica

Jun 1, 2018
“Everything we did was informative and educational. I felt privileged to meet with the people [we did.] I also appreciated the time allotted for debrief and discussion (much of this was on the bus), [and] firsthand experiences of policy project...
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Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project Expands

May 8, 2018
Under the high ceilings of a University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design classroom, surrounded by a semi-circle of design, accounting, and law students from U-M, entrepreneur and lifelong Detroiter Achsha Jones is reviewing dozens of sticky...
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The Last Word: Elisabeth Gerber

Apr 25, 2018
A key Ford School priority is to engage more and better with external organizations and communities, leveraging Ford’s capacity and expertise, interdisciplinary approaches, and ability to assemble a network of policy-engaged university faculty....
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Mary Corcoran: A force of nature

Apr 24, 2018
Being a tough editor... helping find financial resources needed to stay in school... lending support and encouragement: as a mentor Professor Mary Corcoran did all of that and more for the lives and careers of hundreds of alumni. Now, as she...
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Betty Ford's legacy celebrated on 100th anniversary of her birth

Apr 23, 2018
On Friday, 4/13/2018, the Ford School hosted a fun and festive dessert reception paying tribute to the legacy of Mrs. Betty Ford nearing the 100th anniversary of her birth. With remarks from Dean Michael Barr; eldest son of President and Mrs. Ford,...
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Betty Ford at 100

Apr 13, 2018
In 1994, former White House photographer David Hume Kennerly asked former First Lady Betty Ford if he could publish a photo he had taken on her last day in the White House. In the photo, Ford was posed atop the Cabinet Room table. As Kennerly...