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Ford School undergraduates receive prestigious MLK Spirit Awards

Jan 29, 2021
Three Ford School undergraduate students, Julianna Collado (BA ‘22), Cydney Gardner-Brown (BA ‘21), and Mariana Boully Perez (BA ‘21), were among the honorees who received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit Award. The MLK Spirit Award...
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New U-M professorship to support social justice research, action

Dec 6, 2018
By Mandira Banerjee | Originally published by Michigan News, December 6, 2018  ANN ARBOR—A $2.5 million gift by the Kohn Charitable Trust to the University of Michigan will establish a new professorship of social justice and social policy at the...

PhD candidate Christina Cross awarded for dissertation

Mar 29, 2018
Christina Cross, a joint-PhD candidate at the Ford School and in the Department of Sociology was awarded for her dissertation “Extended Family Households among U.S. Children: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and SES.”The first empirical chapter of the...

Gender and Sexuality in the Islamic Culture

Oct 26, 2016, 7:00-8:30 pm EDT
Rackham Amphitheatre
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, former judge, and human rights activist. Ebadi will be introduced by Bridgette Carr, clinical professor of law at the University of Michigan.

Bill de Blasio: Are smart cities smart enough?

Oct 30, 2023 1:18:39

Former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio explores how urban tech is shaping social policy in “smart cities” like New York and beyond, how we can ensure that emerging technology serves the public interest, and what role local, state, national, and

Chang and Tlaib: Governing for environmental justice

Mar 6, 2023 1:30:53

Abdul El-Sayed and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Michigan Senator Stephanie Chang reflect on their work to address environmental injustice in Michigan and beyond, and the challenges and opportunities ahead. March, 2023.