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Experiential Learning with OSI

Mar 19, 2025
In Fall 2024, the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program (STPP) partnered with the City of Ann Arbor's Office of Sustainability and Innovations (OSI) Director Dr. Missy Stults, Ann Arbor City Attorney Valerie Brader, and Senior Analyst for...
Downtown Ann Arbor
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Q&A with SEAS and STPP's Olivia David

Mar 18, 2025
Olivia David is a Doctoral Candidate at University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), from which she also obtained her MS degree. She also holds a Graduate Certificate from STPP.The following interview has been edited...
Olivia David in boat by Great Lake
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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...
Parthasarathy speaks at AAAS Annual meeting about Asilomar’s legacy
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STPP Expands Education Offerings

Feb 26, 2025
STPP continues to offer a number of academic and co-curricular opportunities for undergraduate students, both within and outside of the Ford School, highlighted on our updated webpage. These include student organizations like Leaders for Ethical AI...
Engaged Learning Student Projects Catalog: Preparing Ford School students for leadership
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Reflection on ASU's 2025 Winter School on emerging technologies

Feb 6, 2025
By Jared Katzman, PhD student, School of InformationThanks to the STPP Career Development Grant, I had the opportunity to attend the 2025 Winter School hosted by Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation and Society. We spent a...
Jared Katzman and winter school group
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STPP Alum Odelberg interviewed by ESAL on AI guidance for local governments

Feb 5, 2025 Engineering & Scientists Acting Locally (ESAL)
Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally (ESAL) recently interviewed STPP alum and current AAAS congressional fellow Trevor Odelberg about his work on the AI Handbook for Local Government in its "Stories from the field" series, which  shares the...
Photo of people sitting outside Michigan Municipal League
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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...
Green describes practical problems with algorithm oversight
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Viewing Asilomar from the Global South

Jan 31, 2025
Fifty years ago, the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA convened 140 life scientists from the U.S. and the UK to anticipate potential risks in the emerging biotechnology field to help inform rules and regulations. The conference was celebrated...
The politics of inclusive innovation in international development: Menstrual hygiene management and sanitary pads in India
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Paving the Way: Taking Bold Action Toward Environmental Justice

Jan 30, 2025
In alignment with the University of Michigan’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium's 2025 theme of "Restless Dissatisfaction: An Urgent Call for the Pursuit of Justice and Equality,  the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Gerald R....
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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...
Taking bold action toward environmental justice
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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...
Exciting events at the Ford School this January
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STPP Alum discusses 2024's coolest science on NPR's Science Friday

Jan 9, 2025 Science Friday
Science Friday's Ira Flatow sat down with Drs. Céline Gounder, Jackie Faherty, and Kevin Reed, three researchers from different areas of science to reflect on the most exciting discoveries in their fields, important stories you might have missed,...
Kevin Reed
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Q&A with featured Faculty Affiliate Salomé Viljoen

Dec 2, 2024
Assistant Professor of Law and STPP faculty affiliate, Salomé Viljoen writes about the law and political economy of data and AI and the role of law in structuring digital life. She is especially interested in platform power, how information law...
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STPP to establish Michigan science and technology fellowship

Nov 14, 2024
The Ford School of Public Policy’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) is poised to create a new pathway for early career scientists and engineers to learn about, develop, and aid state-level policy making. A $100,00 planning and...
STPP to establish Michigan science and technology fellowship
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STPP student Lotte De Jong reflects on her Mirzayan Fellowship

Nov 13, 2024
Launched in 1997, the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is a full-time, hands-on training and educational program that provides early career individuals with the opportunity to spend 12 weeks at the National...
Marlotte de jong