awards

Ford School undergraduate Neil Nakkash (BA '24) was honored with one of the 19th annual Central Campus Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Awards on January 27. Nakkash aspires to pursue a career in medicine and health policy. Kuvin Satyadev (BA...

Beatty Blunt, The Columbus Dispatch: "In the past couple of years, we have seen absolutely the importance of courts and judges. As a Black female judge, I am in a special position to share the things I learned from the bench with the community to...

A group of Science, Technology, and Public Policy program students recently won second place in the National Science Policy Network's 2022 Science Policy Writing Competition. This year's competition challenged authors to create a policy brief based...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased to announce that economist Paul Courant, who has served in multiple roles at the University of Michigan, including provost and dean...

Ford School PhD graduate Michael Lerner (Political Science, 2021) has been chosen to receive the Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership.“ This...

The Ford School is proud to announce that the Rackham Graduate School awarded Mandy Mitchell (MPP ‘22) with the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Award.  Mitchell served as the GSI for PubPol 580: Values & Ethics in Public Policy from...

The University of Michigan is honoring faculty members Ford School associate dean H. Luke Shaefer and Marisa C. Eisenberg with presidential awards for public engagement, recognizing their contributions to significantly impact society and address the...

Stanford University named 16 Ford School faculty on their “Top 2% Scientists” list, representing the most-cited scientists with career and single-year impact in various disciplines. The faculty researchers join over 180,000 scientists...

Three Ford School undergraduates have been recognized with Central Campus Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Awards, noting their exemplification of Dr. King’s leadership and vision. The students, Janani Gandhi (BA ‘22), Ayodele Ojo (BA ‘23),...

Recognizing her outstanding contributions to social insurance and related policy areas, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) has approved the election of Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, to the Academy. She is...

The Center for the Education of Women (CEW+) will honor seven Ford School master’s students at the 2021 Center for the Education of Women Virtual Awards Celebration. The event celebrates students who have persevered, despite experiencing an...

Jane Furey, a joint PhD student in public policy and sociology at the Ford School of Public Policy, was recently awarded the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award for an outstanding article from the American Educational Research Association...

Ford School professor Morela Hernandez has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 (T50) Distinguished Achievement Awards, one of eight people highlighted from around the world for their work around leadership. Hernandez is the faculty director of the...

The American Political Science Association (APSA) Political Organizations and Parties Section has selected Ford School professor Richard Hall for its Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award, which recognizes a scholar whose lifetime...

Ford School PhD candidate Shoshana Shapiro has received one of the highly-competitive grants for research in the social sciences from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.  “The 678 applications we received in 2020 represented a wide range...

On May 23, 2019, Victory Institute announced this year’s Victory Empowerment Fellows, naming two Ford School alumni, Brenda Duverce (MPP ‘16) and Preston Parish (MPP ‘18). Victory Empowerment is a national organization that strives to promote openly...

The American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) awarded Amanda Kowalski as this year’s ASHEcon Medal recipient. The ASHEcon Medal is “awarded to an economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health...

H. Luke Shaefer, associate professor of public policy at the Ford School and director of Poverty Solutions, was honored this week with the University of Michigan’s Faculty Recognition Award. He is among 22 faculty members honored during this annual...

Please join us in congratulating Betsey Stevenson, recently elected to serve as a member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association. Stevenson will serve with other newly elected officers, including president-elect Ben Bernanke...