How can journalists ethically track the fast-moving social movements shaping politics & culture? @buffett.northwestern.edu's AI & Social Movements Global Working Group is developing a Social Movement Analysis & Reasoning Tool (SMART), an AI system to help journalists track movements in real-time.

Meet our 2025–26 Buffett Faculty Fellows as they embark on international research, filmmaking, & more: buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/fac... Lina Britto @brenthuffman.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social katrina quisumbing king KB Dennis Meade Sally Nuamah Kennetta Hammond Perry Sulafa Zidani

Buffett Faculty Fellow @deankarlan.bsky.social, USAID's former Chief Economist, is among the experts arguing that supporting national governments to leverage domestic financing to improve foundational learning should be a priority for assistance funds that remain. See why: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

@buffett.northwestern.edu's Empowering the Next Gen of Women Leaders Global Working Group, led by @jnfrltackett.bsky.social & Haoqi Zhang, convened women across Tokyo's universities to discuss experiences with leadership and reexamine leadership possibilities through diverse values and dialogue.

Last month, the Trump administration named Jeremy Lewin as the new Deputy Director of USAID. Buffett Faculty Fellow Dean Karlan, former Chief Economist of USAID, shares advice for its new leadership with @cgdev.org: www.cgdev.org/blog/great-p...

Our spring Buffett Symposium on peacemaking convened diplomats, negotiators, and academics to discuss the high-profile peace processes of recent decades and draw lessons for today's negotiations. Watch our short recap of the event.

A study led by @fsmglobalhealth.bsky.social's Egon Ozer identified a new fungal infection in Pakistan. The international collaboration was launched by a Buffett Global Working Group grant led by co-authors Profs. Mehreen Arshad & Erica Hartmann: spr.ly/63326fqGp2

“This project is a model of how community, academia, & city government can work together,” said @mayorofchicago.bsky.social at a @buffett.northwestern.edu Defusing Disasters Global Working Group event on extreme heat. Read more in The Chicago Tribune: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/c...

"Peacemaking is not an event so much as a process,” said Abiodun Williams at @buffett.northwestern.edu's ‬spring symposium, which brought together negotiators & academics to discuss peace processes of recent decades. Watch the recording: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ne...

Kaylyn Ahn traveled to Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia to conduct research on command responsibility and war crimes via her Buffett Institute International Senior Thesis Research Grant. Read about her contribution to Northwestern's #ResearchMatters campaign: spr.ly/63324fKJ9C

@buffett.northwestern.edu Faculty Fellow V.S. Subrahmanian has been named founding co-director of the Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI), a new network to advance AI + data science across disciplines. Read more about the NNCI: http://spr.ly/633224Ly0M

Join @mayorofchicago.bsky.social & @buffett.northwestern.edu’s Defusing Disasters Global Working Group for a film screening & a look at the group's new data + policy suggestions for heat resilience. 📅 July 15 at 5:30 PM 📍 Columbus Park Refectory 🔗 Register: http://spr.ly/633224xVZK

Northwestern researchers in ‪the Buffett Institute‬'s Making Water Insecurity Visible Global Working Group developed a 30-minute, at-home lead test now being piloted in Chicago and Evanston homes. Read the full story via @cbschicago.bsky.social‬: www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Ashti Doobay-Persaud, MD, co-director of the Center for Global Health Education, served as the lead editor of a collection of twenty articles examining global health education that were published in Frontiers in Education. www.globalhealth.northwestern.edu/about/news/0...

Register for our July #IGHSeminar: "From Recipients to Co-Creators: Community-Driven Solutions for Public Health. Leveraging Social Innovation & Co-Creation to Address Non-Communicable Diseases in Low-Income Settings" with Prof. René English! 🗓️ Wed, July 9 ⌚️ 1 PM - 2 PM CT 💻 Zoom: bit.ly/igh_jul25

"Winters, looking across history, believes that the U.S. has reached 'peak oligarchic power,'" says ‪Evan Osnos in a recent New Yorker piece featuring Jeffrey Winters, Director of @buffett.northwestern.edu‬'s EDGS Program: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Buffett Institute's Empowering the Next Generation of Women Leaders Global Working Group is hosting a leadership-focused networking event & discussion for women enrolled in Tokyo universities. 📅 July 1 📍Ochanomizu University, Tokyo 🔗 Info: http://spr.ly/633214Rekz

The @csis.org Bi-Partisan Commission on Hostage Taking & Wrongful Detention released its long-awaited report on new tools to combat state hostage taking as well as key areas for international cooperation, US government organization, & outreach to US citizens. www.csis.org/analysis/com...

Northwestern undergrads interested in tackling today’s global challenges: explore a new course this fall, Thinking Globally: Climate in International Studies, offered jointly by Northwestern’s International Studies Program & @buffett.northwestern.edu: buffett.northwestern.edu/thinking-glo...

Last month, we convened leading diplomats, negotiators & academics to discuss high-profile peace processes of recent decades. They examined successes & failures of past processes with a view to resolving today's conflicts. Listen to the recordings: buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ne...

Join us for a Buffett Book Talk with @bethhurd.bsky.social on her book "Heaven Has a Wall," which analyzes how the US creates, enforces & ignores borders at home and abroad. 📅 May 21 at 4 PM 📍 720 University Pl. 🔗 http://spr.ly/63324NYKXo

Hear from @usc.edu's Nicholas Cull on "reputational security," the idea that nations are safer & more secure when well-regarded internationally. 📅 5/22 at 12:30 PM 🔗 Register: http://spr.ly/63328NcCww

Join us and the @buffett.northwestern.edu for a conversation with Cameroonian author and journalist Haman Mana on his new book, "Biya's Regime: Chronicles of the Shipwreck of the Cameroonian Nation." Register: http://spr.ly/63325NZGcB

Leadership from the Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution was invited to present on microbial sequencing bioinformatics at the First International West Africa Symposium and Workshops on Infectious Diseases in Sierra Leone. Read more: www.globalhealth.northwestern.edu/about/news/0...

With a Buffett Global Collaboration Grant, @nuqatar.bsky.social's Professor Sam Meekings convened scholars, filmmakers & practitioners to examine how storytelling can shape trauma processing & recovery. Learn about the work presented & connections drawn: www.qatar.northwestern.edu/news/article...

"The SignalGate episode is a terrible failure of operational security. But it is not a one-off mistake," says @uoft.bsky.social's @rondeibert.bsky.social, NU's Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies, in a @foreignaffairs.com op-ed: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

What happens when governments view universities as adversaries? Tune in to this afternoon's online panel featuring global university leaders & faculty members who have confronted state attacks. 📅 Today at 12 PM CT (UTC-5) 🧑‍💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 Register: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Congratulations to Jennifer Lackey, Wayne & Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and co-lead of the Epistemic Reparations Global Working Group at the Buffett Institute, on her election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Speakers include István Rév from CEU - don't miss out this panel discussion 👇

For many women in West Africa, access is a roadblock to healthcare. With the “Health on the Roll” mobile clinics, a team brings cancer care directly to patients. #globalhealth Read more: www.globalhealth.northwestern.edu/about/news/0...

How have universities successfully defended academic freedom? Join us for an online panel featuring global university leaders & faculty members who have confronted state attacks. 📅 April 25 at 12 PM 🧑‍💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 Register: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

By transforming the Salcedo Doctors Hospital in Salcedo, Philippines into a regional Center of Excellence for Women’s Health, principal investigator Magdy Milad, MD and his team are creating opportunities for women. #globalhealth Read more: www.globalhealth.northwestern.edu/about/news/0...

"I came to understand that my entire academic discourse was about injustice,” shared the University of the West Indies' Sir Hilary Beckles during a @buffett.northwestern.edu discussion on the history & aftermath of chattel slavery in the postcolonial Americas. Read @thedailynu.bsky.social's article.

This Friday! An awesome event highlighting the incredible art created by incarcerated students. AND the #documentaries created in my Documenting #Carceral Injustice class will show 4-6PM. Supported by the Northwestern Prison Education Program @buffett.northwestern.edu @medillschool.bsky.social

Join @buffett.northwestern.edu & Office of International Student & Scholar Services for a panel discussion with international students who will shed light on the unique international student experience. 📅 April 15 at 5 PM 📍 720 University Pl. 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...

Join us at Third Space April 24th 7pm in #Chicago! Filmmakers in person. "Short documentaries created in Professor Brent E. Huffman’s Documenting Carceral Injustice Program @medillschool.bsky.social. The program is supported by the @buffett.northwestern.edu www.facebook.com/events/18488...

Join Northwestern's Global Health Studies program for its spring lunch lecture: What’s in a Line? The Cartographic Stakes of Racialized Wellbeing in a Global World 🗓 Friday, April 25 at 12:00 PM 📍 Hagstrum Room, University Hall, Evanston 🔗 Learn more and register: www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-in-a...

Though peace negotiations are often greeted with relief, they also represent a fork in the road. A badly crafted agreement may be worse than none at all. Join us this Thurs. & Fri. to explore lessons from landmark peace agreements with the diplomats and negotiators who created and implemented them.

"A dollar spent on properly designed and effective foreign aid (and diplomacy more broadly) saves many more dollars on bullets and boots, leaving more money in American pockets and secondarily furthering our prosperity goals," shares Dean Karlan, who recently resigned as Chief Economist at USAID.

Northwestern students: learn about the career paths of three peace negotiators speaking at the @buffett.northwestern.edu peacemaking symposium during a student tea. 📅 April 3 from 3:15–4:15 PM 📍Harris Hall, Room 108 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/buffett-af...

Diplomats, negotiators & academics who've contributed to landmark peace processes are convening at Buffett to discuss strategies for forming lasting peace agreements. Join us: 📅 April 3–4 📍 Hybrid 🔗 Learn more: http://spr.ly/633290SwEh

"The only conclusion you can draw is that 80 years of policy in standing up against aggressors has been blown up without any discussion or reflection,” says Northwestern University Ambassador in Residence @ikelly731.bsky.social to @apnews.com.

Join the Buffett Institute & Weinberg's REEES Program for a talk on the influence of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the global world order with Buffett Visiting Scholar Max Andrushchenko. ⏰ March 10 at 12:30 📍 720 University Pl. 🍽️ Lunch provided 🔗 http://spr.ly/63325LN3SL

Northwestern graduate students: the Buffett Institute offers funding opportunities for doctoral students whose research focuses on the world outside the contiguous U.S. as well as on Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities. Learn more & apply by March 15: http://spr.ly/63320LvuIs

What does Trump's America first doctrine mean for Ukraine? A multidisciplinary, cross-sector panel of experts will share insights this Wednesday at noon during an online panel discussion including Tymofiy Mylovanov, Ukraine's former Minister of Economy. Register: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our winter quarter AI & Geopolitics symposium convened leading strategists, researchers & policymakers to discuss the opportunities & challenges that AI poses in geopolitics. Read McCormick School of Engineering's report on the event: www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...

Learn about the @who.int Safe Childbirth Checklist at our March #IGHSeminar with Katherine Semrau, PhD, MPH from the @hsph.harvard.edu! 🗓️Wed, Mar 5th ⌚️1 PM - 2 PM CT 💻Zoom registration: bit.ly/igh_mar25

"Trump’s approach to Ukraine is ripped from the same playbook [as Afghanistan]" argue Edward Schatz and Shoaib Rahim, who was acting mayor of Kabul 2016–2019. "It may bring a temporary halt to fighting, but it will not deliver a just or lasting peace." Read: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

"We're watching psychological warfare against a workforce that has been committed to furthering the lives of other people," said Dean Karlan, professor of economics at Northwestern University, in a @npr.org interview on leaving USAID. Read the article: kansaspublicradio.org/npr-news/202...

The Buffett Institute's Global Working Groups offer Northwestern University faculty the opportunity to develop ambitious, collaborative projects to address the world’s most challenging problems. Learn more about our Global Working Groups: http://spr.ly/63322LEUkM