Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

STPP Lecture Series

Partisan polarization on environmental protection and climate change

Dec 14, 2016, 4:00-5:30 pm EST

1110 Weill Hall

During the past two decades environmental issues and especially climate change have become very divisive issues in U.S. politics, both among political elites and lay persons. This presentation will track these developments with longitudinal data, paying special attention to trends in partisan polarization over climate change using Gallup Poll data from 1997 to 2016.

Partisan polarization on environmental protection and climate change

Toward anti-ontology: The unmaking of chronic pain in Thailand

Dec 5, 2016, 4:00-5:30 pm EST

1014 Tisch Hall

Toward Anti-Ontology: The Unmaking of Chronic Pain in Thailand Scott Stonington, U-M Anthropology, Global Environment and Health, Internal Medicine, VA Hospital

Moral Hazards in Climate Change: The Effects of Learning about Technological Solutions on Support for Mitigation

Nov 17, 2016, 5:45-6:45 pm EST

1220 Weill Hall

In the face of mounting evidence of the dire consequences of climate change, researchers and policymakers are giving serious thought to responses that once seemed the stuff of science fiction: geoengineering, carbon dioxide removal, and adaptation.

Before the Flood

Nov 9, 2016, 6:00-8:00 pm EST

4240 Weill Hall

Join us for a screening of Before the Flood, a documentary on climate change.

Social Media in political branding: Narendra Modi and the new Twitter technocrat

Oct 31, 2016, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

1014 Tisch Hall

Social Media in Political Branding: Narendra Modi and the New Twitter Technocrat Joyojeet Pal, U-M School of Information

History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences Symposium

Sep 29, 2016, 2:00-5:30 pm EDT

1014 Tisch Hall

The symposium will examine the history and philosophy of the social sciences, bringing together lines of inquiry that often exist separately. Symposium participants will include philosophers, historians, and sociologists.

CLOSUP Lecture Series, STPP Lecture Series

Driving the future: Combating climate change with cleaner, smarter cars

Apr 22, 2015, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT

Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom

In recognition of Earth Day, please join us for a very special lecture about what it takes to pass historic air quality legislation. Margo Oge served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 32 years, the last 18 of which she directed the Office of Transportation Air Quality. Ms. Oge led the Obama Administration’s landmark 2012 Clean Air Act deal with automakers, the nation’s first action targeting greenhouse gases. This regulation will double the fuel efficiency of automakers’ fleets to 54.5 mpg and cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2025.

Driving the future: Combating climate change with cleaner, smarter cars

CLOSUP Lecture Series, STPP Lecture Series

The Transportation Transformation and its Policy Implications

Apr 16, 2015, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium (1120)

Carl Simon, director of the University of Michigan Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, moderates this panel on transportation policy featuring Peter Sweatman, UM's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI); Matthew Naud, City of Ann Arbor; and Shannon Bouton, McKinsey Center for Business & Development.

ELPP Lecture Series: Michael Wara

Nov 20, 2014, 11:45 am EST

South Hall, Room 1020

Please join us for the latest installment of the ELPP Lecture Series. Professor Michael Wara, Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, will be the featured speaker. A non-pizza lunch will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

Policy Talks @ the Ford School

"Is the utility of the future sustainable?" a lecture by Severin Borenstein

Sep 22, 2014, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium

Severin Borenstein will discuss the economic changes that are likely to occur in the utility business model as renewables expand: how wholesale electricity markets will be affected, the impact on retail electricity distribution, and the incentives created for generators, distributors and consumers of electricity. He will also examine the role of demand response, storage, and transmission in adapting to the new realities of the electricity business.

"Is the utility of the future sustainable?" a lecture by Severin Borenstein

Building Genetic Medicine: Breast cancer, technology, and the comparative politics of health care

Apr 16, 2007, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Weill Hall

Shobita Parthasarathy is Assistant Professor and Codirector of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Professor Parthasarathy will be speaking from her forthcoming book, to be published by MIT press in April, 2007.

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Visiting scholars

The Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy, a unique research, education, and policy engagement center concerned with cutting-edge questions at the intersection of science,...