How Rick Lowe’s ISR residency makes use of PSID data
October 30, 2026
ANN ARBOR — Rick Lowe’s exhibition of “Black Wall Street Journey” is the culmination of his three-year residency at the Institute for Social Research (ISR). It’s also the intersection of the worlds of art and social science, and that intersection itself has been in the...
Caregiving gap grows as women devote more years to aging adults
October 21, 2026
ANN ARBOR—Women in the United States can expect to provide seven years of care over their lifetimes to aging family members or friends—up from six in 2011, University of Michigan research shows.As of 2023, that amounts to three years more than men, whose lifetime caregiving held steady...
AASRO Announces Stephanie Chardoul as Recipient of the 2026 John M. Kennedy Achievement Award
October 19, 2026
The Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations (AASRO) is pleased to announce that Stephanie Chardoul, Director of Survey Research Operations at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 John M. Kennedy Achievement Award. The John...
How to Measure Aging in a Global Context
October 16, 2026
The work the Longitudinal Study of Health and Ageing in Kenya (LOSHAK) does shows that “standard” approaches often aren’t measuring people’s health but rather their Western education. In a piece for Think Global Health, LOSHAK’s co-directors, Josh Ehrlich and Anthony...
Your chances of Alzheimer’s disease vary based on where you live. Why is that?
October 13, 2026
Federally funded University of Michigan research will search for answers—and prevention possibilities—in data from 20 countriesWhat’s the study: A research team led by the University of Michigan School of Public Health will combine and standardize memory and thinking test data...
Faculty Spotlight: Reed DeAngelis
October 7, 2026
A Musician’s Guide to Population HealthTouring the United States as a musician in his teens and twenties exposed Reed DeAngelis to the lasting effects of mid-century urban planning. He witnessed segregated, impoverished neighborhoods divided by interstate highways, alongside favored...
Abortion bans make healthcare more expensive
October 5, 2026
ANN ARBOR—Research finds abortion bans are associated with higher out-of-pocket health insurance premium costs for women, particularly among Black and Hispanic women. A new University of Michigan preliminary study shows that state abortion bans implemented following the Supreme...
ISR heads discussion on risks of AI to social surveys
September 29, 2026
ANN ARBOR — Representatives from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR), the NORC Center on AI & Data Quality, and leaders of both federally funded studies and their funding agencies convened recently for a daylong forum on threats to survey research from...
Trade tensions, high prices and interest rates drive slip in consumers’ outlook
September 25, 2026
ANN ARBOR—Consumer sentiment ticked down less than four index points in September, reaching the lowest reading in four months and down 15% from January 2026, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.Views of current and year-ahead expected personal finances both weakened...
Black progress in real time—public art from Rick Lowe informed by U-M social research
September 24, 2026
20 new works in Lowe’s largest U.S. solo exhibit to-date, ‘Black Wall Street Journey: Re and De Imagining Black Progress,’ which opens Sept. 26ANN ARBOR—”The narrative around Black people, for me, is very problematic; it’s all about the deficit, the wealth gap...
