public engagement

When the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission faced a tidal wave of public input—more than 30,000 comments—the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) and Ford School students stepped in. Their analysis helped the commiss...

Samuel Bagenstos, Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the Ford School and Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the Michigan Law School, will receive the President’s Award for Public Impact

The Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) celebrates 10 years of amplifying Detroiters’ voices—over 5,000 participants have helped shape conversations, drive investments, and inspire change.

President Santa J. Ono is honoring University of Michigan faculty members Betsey Stevenson and Lilia Cortina with the 2022 presidential awards for public engagement. The awards recognize the recipients’ demonstrated commitment to public service, ...

In recognition of Women’s History Month, and one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, University of Michigan faculty have shared diverse insights and expertise on how the pandemic has disproportionately impacted wome...

Methane is the primary component of natural gas, a greenhouse gas with 34 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. It has been estimated that more than one percent of methane in the U.S. supply chain escapes into the atmosphere, much of ...

A new program at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy will encourage partnerships between U-M faculty and students and people and organizations outside the university who are actively working on—and have the capacity fo...

A March 5 article by Safiya Merchant in The University Record, “#SocialScholars: Professors show power of public engagement,” highlights the growing use of social media among University of Michigan professors. Merchant writes that social media us...