We believe that relationships – among individuals and institutions, globally and locally – can fuel knowledge and develop solutions to global challenges.
Northwestern Buffett provides the institutional support needed to bring together and catalyze new ideas.
Buffett's multi-stage research trajectory starts with dialogue. Faculty from across the University explore real-world problems from interdisciplinary perspectives. To continue work on the topic, discussion groups can participate in our Idea Incubation Workshop, a three-day event to plan for ongoing collaboration as funded Buffett Working Groups. Watch the video to see our process in action.
Together with faculty, university leadership, and partner institutions, Northwestern Buffett is creating a global alliance. More than a simple partnership, the “alliance” of universities focuses on stimulating and sharing in research, teaching, and global engagement to collaboratively respond to social challenges. It will create a network that will benefit faculty, students, scholars, and participating institutions, as well as local communities.
Assistant Professor of Political Science and member of Northwestern Buffett’s Disproportionate Impacts of Environmental Challenges Working Group.
Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research and member of Northwestern Buffett’s Disproportionate Impacts of Environmental Challenges Working Group.
Northwestern Buffett is an integrated organization with offices that facilitate global learning and research and serve international students, scholars, and faculty. It also plays a key role in developing and implementing Northwestern's global strategic plan, which will be available in Spring 2020.
Read more about the ways Northwestern Buffett is globalizing the university.
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What role should universities play in addressing global challenges such as climate change, inequality and, now, the novel coronavirus pandemic? That is the question university leaders worldwide, myself included, have begun to explore in earnest as the complexity of the global challenges we currently face demands collaboration and action from every sector of society.
December 1, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Many observers are excited that Joe Biden’s presidency promises to bring international cooperation back into American fo...
December 3, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
On Thursday, December 3rd at 4 PM CT, Elizabeth Rodini will present There and Back Again: Tracking Gentile Bellini’s Por...
December 8, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Elizabeth Rodini will present Itinerant Objects: Early Modern Mobility and the Spaces In Between on Tuesday, December 8t...
