Over the course of a six-year career designing online banking software for the British financial firm HSBC, Rashmi Raman would often find herself trolling the Columbia Journalism School website and dreaming of the possibilities.

The role of technology in the Arab Spring and the Boston bombings, repression in North Korea, and privacy in the Internet age were just some of the topics Eric Schmidt, executive chairman and former CEO of Google, and Jared Cohen, director of Google's in-house think tank, Google Ideas, discussed when they spoke at Columbia Journalism School on April 30.

ANN ARBOR-University of Michigan professor Robert Axelrod is the winner of the prestigious 2013 Johan Skytte Prize in political science, awarded for "profoundly having changed our presumptions about the preconditions for human cooperation."

ANN ARBOR-Gov. Rick Snyder could decide as early as today (March 1) whether to appoint an emergency financial manager for Detroit, which has struggled with millions in debt.

Stanford Report, February 12, 2013 - Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar will take the helm of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies in July.

ANN ARBOR-The Knight-Wallace Fellows program at the University of Michigan has named 12 American and eight international journalists for the academic year 2013-2014.

A distinguished panel of experts gathered at the University of Chicago recently to reflect on the 30th anniversary of the election of Harold Washington, the city's first African American mayor.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll as the new Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism , effective July 1, 2013.

WHO: Presenters: Gregory Mann, Columbia University - Susanna Wing, Haverford College - Bruce Whitehouse, Lehigh University - Mohamed Keita, Committee to Protect Journalists - Jeremy Dell, Penn doctoral candidate in history - WHAT: Public discussion on "Mali: Islamic Militarism and Foreign Intervention" - WHEN: Wednesday, Feb.

ANN ARBOR-President Obama is likely to discuss immigration, climate change, the economy and other issues during Tuesday's annual State of the Union address.