Northwestern Buffett Newsletter Winter 2020

Anthony Fung, PhD, wears a lot of hats: DJ, fashion designer, games professional...and Buffett Visiting Professor from the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. We sat down with Prof. Fung to get his insights on culture and living an interdisciplinary life.

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Also in this issue

New plans for a Founding Meeting from the Gender Justice and Digital Life Global Working Group
Buffett Deputy Director Prof. Klaus Weber on effective, values-driven multinational collaboration
GESI students in Vietnam on helping a nonprofit arts center thrive
GESI alum Melissa Bustamente on listening to communities, building programs from the ground up, and her Latinx Student Union initiative

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Culture as Logistics: Infrastructure, Power, and China
Wednesday, Feb. 26
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If you read nothing else in this message, I hope you read this: Thank you.

In thinking about my time at Northwestern as Associate Provost for Global Affairs I am filled with gratitude for all of you who have gone out of your way to join the movement to accelerate Northwestern’s transformation into a truly global university.

Over 200 faculty, staff, students and alumni representing all of Northwestern’s schools joined the Northwestern Global Strategic Planning process. People woke up early to join us for breakfast meetings to talk about key priority areas within the strategic plan, like Impactful Global Research and Strategic Global Partnerships. Faculty stayed late at their offices in Qatar to join conversations on the role of NU-Q in Northwestern’s global strategy. A dedicated group even went to Chicago’s City Hall during the very early morning hours to discuss the many new ways that Northwestern and our global alumni can work together.

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