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Research, learning, and impactThe Ford School is home to or co-sponsor of a growing number of active, multi-disciplinary research centers and initiatives leveraging the knowledge and expertise across the University of Michigan. They serve as a...
Kathy Cramer
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Parthasarathy on AI running the government

Mar 13, 2025 Al Jazeera
Shobita Parthasarathy, Ford School professor, says "These workers have real expertise and a nuanced understanding of the issues, which AI does not. AI does not, in fact, ‘understand’ anything." So, she says,  “It’s a very bad idea" to use AI to run...
Professor Shobita Parthasarathy leads a discussion in the Betty Ford Classroom
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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Taking bold action toward environmental justice

Jan 29, 2025
A week after the University of Michigan celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) honored his work at its own event—a panel discussion focused on keeping environmental justice at the...
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Exciting events at the Ford School this January

Jan 10, 2025
The Ford School is pleased to announce an exciting lineup for our January 2025 Policy Talks @ the Ford School series and other special public events hosted with partners from across campus.Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise...
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Rabe talks Trump conflict over electric vehicles

Dec 18, 2024 Politico
Ford School Professor Barry Rabe said when President Trump was inaugurated the conflict over electric vehicles switched from "Biden versus Trump to Trump versus Newsom," Governor of California. However, Rabe said some blue states may be able to use...
Barry Rabe
In the Media

Rabe: Trump could make fossil fuels more attractive

Nov 20, 2024 Vox
Ford School Professor Barry Rabe discussed how President trump can make his campaign promise to "Drill, baby, drill," a reality. Rabe says the administration "can go to considerable lengths to make expanded production attractive and relatively...
Barry Rabe
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EV mandate backlash helped Republicans - Rabe

Nov 19, 2024 Inside Climate News
Ford School professor Barry Rabe said not having an EV mandate “was consistently a top five issue in Michigan politics in candidates for federal office and candidates for state office,” said Rabe. He says there was “a very vigorous backlash by...
Barry Rabe
In the Media

Rabe on clean energy boom

Nov 16, 2024 Poltico
Ford School professor emeritus, Barry Rabe talked on climate laws and their impacts on manufacturing in different states. Rabe said “In many cases, these are states that are doing their own versions of industrial policy,” all of which is helping...
Barry Rabe
In the Media

Rabe explains Lee Zeldin as EPA pick under Trump

Nov 13, 2024 Deutsche Welle
Barry Rabe, Ford School professor emeritus, explains the changes possible if Lee Zeldin, a former Republican congressman becomes EPA director in the Trump administration. Rabe says Zeldin was in the past "very critical and hostile" to the EPA and...
Barry Rabe
In the Media

Rabe on possible changes to methane regulations under Trump

Nov 4, 2024 The Guardian
Barry Rabe, Ford School professor, after a Trump donor was fined for pollution said, “The Biden-Harris administration has made a major push on methane domestically and globally and I think that this could be decisively reversed in a second Trump...
Barry Rabe
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STPP awarded MIDAS grant to advance equitable AI research

Jul 23, 2024
A research project from the Ford School’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program was selected by the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society (MIDAS) as part of its 2024 Propelling Original Data Science grants to accelerate...
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OVPR awards 3 Ford School staff members for research, leadership

Apr 26, 2024
The Office of the Vice President for Research will recognize three of the Ford School's research center staff—Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija (Education Policy Initiative), Molly Kleinman (Science, Technology and Public Policy program), and Kyle S. Kwaiser...
Headshots of Jasmina Camo, Molly Klienman, and Kyle Kwaiser
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Meet new assistant professor Yousif Hassan

Apr 24, 2024
Expert in AI, equity, and science and technology studies joins the facultyMy story has been shaped by many lived experiences at different events and places,” says Yousif Hassan, who, after seeing members of his family safely conveyed from war-torn...
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Bold AI policy proposals awarded at Ford + Munk case competition

Apr 22, 2024
 Fifty-one students engaged on pressing AI-related policy questions during this spring’s Ford+Munk case competition. Held annually, the Ford+Munk conference has students from the Ford School and the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global...
A group of students at the annual Ford+Munk conference
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Highlights from the Dean's Symposium

Apr 21, 2024
Two days of panels, chats, and keynotes focused on examining and seeking solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face in Michigan, in the United States, and across the globe. More than 400 students, faculty, staff, and friends attended in...
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