Tom Lyon, Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Professor of Environment and Sustainability

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Tom Lyon, professor of business economics and public policy and of environment and sustainability, was in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss climate change. He spoke before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure about ways he believes infrastructure improvement, as well as the free market, can help lessen the impacts of climate change.

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Matthew Shapiro, Lawrence R. Klein Collegiate Professor of Economics; MITRE Director

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Matthew Shapiro, the Lawrence R. Klein Collegiate Professor of Economics at U-M, testified Wednesday before the U.S. House Committee on Small Business about the potential impact the recent partial government shutdown had on small businesses.

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Leah Graham and Alyssa McMurtry/Michigan Daily

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The Michigan Daily sat down with Cynthia Wilbanks, vice president of the Office of Government Relations, to discuss the University of Michigan’s efforts to work with officeholders and agencies at the local, state and federal level. Wilbanks and her office manage interactions with government officials in regard to legislative and regulatory policy that affects the University and its programs.

Cynthia H. Wilbanks: Vice President for the Office of Government Relations

“In this office, it’s relationships that are really the foundation of our work,” Wilbanks said. “We use opportunities that are both formal and informal to establish those relationships and they come in lots of different settings, so it’s not always going up to the state capital, it’s not always visiting with offices in Washington. It’s a variety of ways that we work on those relationships and the same is true for the community relations work.”