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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

2021-22 Faculty Funding Recipients

Northwestern Buffett is proud to support university faculty pursuing collaborative, interdisciplinary research.  Below is a list of faculty who have received funding from Northwestern Buffett in the 2021-22 academic year:

Global Connections Seed Grant Recipients

Matt Goldrick

Matt Goldrick

Linguistics, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

“Pronunciation-driven biases against late learners”
Global Connections Seed Grant, in partnership with Dr. Devyani Sharma, Professor of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, England
Awarded: July 15, 2022
Leah Neubauer

Leah Neubauer

Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine

“Enhancing academic public health in Nigeria”
Global Connections Seed Grant, in partnership with Dr. Biyaya Nwanko, Director of the Master’s in Public Health Program, University of Abuja, Nigeria
Awarded: July 15, 2022
Jim Pfander

Jim Pfander

Law, Pritzker School of Law

“Climate Change Law & Litigation" - conference presentation and research travel
Global Connections Seed Grant, in partnership with Professor Armando Rocha, Faculty of Law, Catolica University, Lisbon, Portugal
Awarded: July 15, 2022
Paola Sapienza

Paola Sapienza

Finance, Kellogg School of Management

“Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Choices, and Corporate Governance: Human Cost of Incinerators”
Global Connections Seed Grant, in collaboration with Professor Steffan Andersen, Finance, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Awarded: July 15, 2022
Daniel Abrams

Daniel Abrams

Applied Mathematics, McCormick School of Engineering

Firefly Synchronization Project
Global Connections Seed Grant, in partnership with Anchana Thancharoen at Kasetsart University (Thailand)
Awarded May 4, 2022
Danielle Beverly

Danielle Beverly

Radio/TV/Film, School of Communication

Qatar Stars documentary screening and conversations
Global Connections Seed Grant, in partnership with Nazanin Shahrokni at London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
Awarded May 4, 2022
Jordan Gans-Morse

Jordan Gans-Morse

Political Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

“Collecting Real Time Data During Wartime”
Global Connections Seed Grant, in partnership with Tymofii Brik at Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine)
Awarded May 4, 2022
Reynaldo Morales

Reynaldo Morales

Journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated Marketing Communications

“Attending COP26, Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform”
Global Connections Seed Grant, in partnership with the UN
Awarded October 5, 2021
Ana Arjona

Ana Arjona

Political Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

“The Legacies of Civil War: A Longitudinal Study of Communities During and After War in Colombia”
Global Connections Seed Grant, in partnership with School of Economics, Los Andes University (Bogota, Colombia)
Awarded September 22, 2021
Erin Delaney

Erin Delaney

Law, Pritzker School of Law

“Female Judicial Leadership”
Global Connections Seed Grant, in partnership with Rosalind Dixon at UNSW Sydney
Awarded September 21, 2021

Global Campus Collaborative Grant Recipients

Zayd Dorhn

Zayd Dorhn

Radio/Television/Film, School of Communication

Global Campus Collaborative Grant, Virtual International Visitor: Ashgar Farhadi
Awarded October 5, 2021