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Owen-Smith on building support for interdisciplinary innovation

Jul 23, 2025 Times Higher Education
Jason Owen-Smith, executive director of the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science at the University of Michigan, argues that universities need to take the long view.“It’s easy to think of support as something you do once. Let’s just drop...
Jason Owen-Smith
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New Wolfers segment on MSNBC: The Professor Is In!

May 23, 2025
Ford School economics professor Justin Wolfers is one of the most prolific “public” scholars at the school. His analyses about current economic events regularly appear on the pages of The New York Times (among others), on the screens at Bloomberg...
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In the Media

Moynihan says "anti-DOGE" efforts boosted efficiency in Pennsylvania

Mar 27, 2025 Route 50
States have varying approaches to boosting government efficiency. Route 50 turned to the Ford School's Don Moynihan to analyze Pennsylvania's method of increasing efficiency after they recognized their state's processing systems fell behind other...
Don Moynihan
In the Media

Green describes practical problems with algorithm oversight

Feb 4, 2025 Financial Times
Ben Green, professor at the Ford School, explains why human oversight of algorithms, such as the one that runs Google's Gmail spam protection, does not always work. He cites how "the human overseers are on a tight schedule — they have many cases to...
Ben Green
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Cohodes' research "helped define" education in 2024

Dec 22, 2024
Research conducted by the Ford School's Sarah Cohodes has been cited for "defining education in 2024." The 74 network, a non-profit education news service, highlighted Cohodes' research among 11 other studies as some of the "biggest discoveries from...
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In the Media

Jacob discusses new research and the shift in the "Grammar of Schooling"

Sep 4, 2024 American Enterprise Institute
Brian Jacob, Ford School professor discussed his recent papers "Did COVID-19 Shift the “Grammar of Schooling”?" and "The Lasting Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic" coauthored with Cristina Stanojevich about how schools have been transformed since the...
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State & Hill

Holly Donnelly: Public servants advancing the public good

Apr 24, 2024
Holly Donnelly on harnessing the power of big data: I often joke about my work being taxing but that it keeps my interest (haha!). Specifically, I think about how we can harness the power of big data to collect taxes more efficiently....
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Transformative upgrades to Michigan's longitudinal data system

Apr 11, 2024
A new $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will improve Michigan’s statewide longitudinal data system, the go-to source for critical education data going to researchers and other stakeholders in Michigan and nationwide. The grant...
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PPIA students reflect on their summer of study and social life 

Aug 2, 2023
What are the dynamics of inequity in labor markets? How do we determine appropriate categories for people in a multicultural society?  How is the U.S. approach to ethnicity and nationality different from what they are doing in Europe?  These were...
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Report outlines direct economic impact of sponsored research

Jul 19, 2023
Grants awarded to University of Michigan faculty members were used, in part, to purchase $400 million worth of research-related goods and services last year from companies nationwide, accelerating innovative projects and supporting employment across...
Jason Owen-Smith
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Next steps for U-M’s Inclusive History Project

Jul 12, 2023
Six foundational values and commitments — independence, collaboration, broad engagement, community relationships, inclusion of all three University of Michigan campuses and Michigan Medicine and material change — will guide the future work of the...
Earl Lewis
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Ford School welcomes PPIA 2023 cohort

Jun 19, 2023
The 2023 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI) has welcomed 23 students from 11 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This year’s cohort will spend seven weeks taking classes, participating in...
PPIA Welcome 2023
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Yang conceives new framework for examining migration policies

May 23, 2023
How can individual researchers, NGOs and governments accurately assess how to improve migration policies, given the fraught international and sometimes nationalist political environment? While migration from a poorer to a richer country can have the...
Dean Yang
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Hausman's clean energy investment proposal

Apr 27, 2023
The Ford School's Catie Hausman has established principles for a transition of policy focus to clean energy research and development (R&D). In an essay for The Brookings Institution Hausman outlines her thoughts on clean energy R&D policy,...
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Ethical implications of defense funding in social science

Mar 22, 2023
Since World War I, defense funding has been a driver of social science’s growth. The dense ties between social science and defense agencies benefitted social research but also attracted decades of heavy criticism. This long and entangled history has...
Joy Rohde