35 years on: The life-changing legacy and impact of the PPIA program
Seventeen PPIA alumni are currently working on master’s degrees at the Ford School—12 of whom attended the summer institute here, as well....
Keeping the doors open for a "durable, coordinated, and humane" refugee response
In 2016, the UN Refugee Agency reported 65.3 million forcibly displaced people around the world, including 21.3 million refugees....
Boosting the power of activism: New research shows we are stronger together
Robin Phinney (PhD '10) and LaGina Gause (PhD '16), recent Ford School doctoral alumnae, have focused their research on ways to improve the effectiveness of activism and protest....
Interning near and far: Ford School student internships in 2016
Read more about these and other policy-relevant internships at fordschool.umich.edu/careers-internships/field-reports...
More a spectrum than a switch: John Ciorciari talks shared sovereignty
If you don't talk about something, says Ciorciari, it's hard to improve it. And improving these arrangements—for host countries, and their citizens—is a worthwhile goal....
Spoilers to stability: Bob Axelrod discusses threats to the Iranian nuclear deal
This April, Bob Axelrod was invited to attend a closed-door workshop at Oxford University's Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict. The focus: The 2015 nuclear deal with Iran....
Microfinance breakthrough: Dean Yang uses fingerprints to boost microlending in Malawi
Yang's study is not only addressing a massive challenge in microfinance and international development, it's also providing rigorous empirical evidence of the importance of personal identification......
Hacking for global health: Tackling wicked problems, like avian influenza, with creativity
"It was a big, late-night conversation. We walked into the room with one view of the world, and we came out completely different, and totally for the better."...
Alumni, then and now (the times have changed)
In the 1950s, a half-dozen African nations had won their independence. In 1960, more than a dozen others followed. It wasn’t long before these new nation-states would send their top diplomats to Washi...
Internship field report, Garcia @ International Labor Organization
Early in the internship I helped organize a workshop for over 60 Labor Department officials to analyze and discuss the national challenges facing foreign-born workers in the labor market. Their anecdo...
Internship field report, Townsend in Hanoi
I left my house in the dark this morning. The electricity went out at 7:30, which I later learned was because I made the very American mistake of having the air conditioner and hot water heater on at...
The dawn of public policy
The protests started in earnest in the spring of 1965. Operation “Rolling Thunder,” spearheaded by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, commenced on March 2, with massive and near-continuous air strikes...