Albright Institute

Highlights from our first event of the Fall semester, the Kenner Lecture. A special thank you to our panelists: Dan Hung Barouch, Jaya Gupta, Kenneth Lay, Gauri Kartini Shastry, and our moderator, Megan Núñez. Missed the lecture? Watch it here! www1.wellesley.edu/albright/event…

Join us on September 24th for the 2024 Fall Kenner Lecture, "Frontiers of Change: Innovations and Disruptions in Global Vaccine Technologies"! Don’t miss this exciting event. For details and to watch the live stream, click the link below. www1.wellesley.edu/albright/event…

Wintersession 2024 is officially underway and our new cohort of Albright Fellows are hard at work, engaging in lectures, problem-solving exercises, and research projects! Meet the talented Fellows by clicking the link below! wellesley.edu/albright/fello…

🔔 Get ready for the most exciting #AI event of the year! The @ITU #AIforGood Global Summit is back in Geneva and ready to accelerate progress towards the @UN #SDGs. Don't miss out on this unique experience, register now! 🌐 loom.ly/2z5U9rQ 🗓️ 6 and 7 July 2023

Never underestimate a droid: robots gather ⁦@AIforGood⁩ summit in Geneva. theguardian.com/technology/202…

UN summit discusses how to use "AI for good"

On March 29th, Albright Fellow alums gathered in Washington D.C. for an in-person meet-up. Thank you to Albright Ambassador, Patricia Sulser ‘79, for hosting!

Last week, four Fellows participated at the Schuman Challenge in DC hosted by @EUintheUS! In our first year of participation, the Fellows represented Wellesley College with distinction and set a standard of excellence for future years. Great work Fellows! #SchumanChallenge

Our spring newsletter is out! In it, we pay tribute to the one-year anniversary of Secretary Albright, provide a recap of Wintersession 2023, and give ways for our Fellows and faculty to be involved. mailchi.mp/1c3c43ce57f0/r…

I am delighted to share the news that I have accepted the position as the next Paula Phillips Bernstein ‘58 Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs. @AlbrightInst Starting 7/2024 (while keeping by faculty position in the @WellesleyEcon ) .

Run, Ellie, run! Ellie Murphy-Weise '23 (Albright '22) gives us a run-through of that Wellesley Scream Tunnel spirit. wcvb.com/article/boston…

The Albright Institute Instagram is officially up (albright.inst)! Follow to stay up to date with the Institute: instagram.com/albright.inst/

@MarsinRA @Wellesley @sarasminkara Hello, @MarsinRA! Proud of former Fellows like you––and what an incredible friend you have @sarasminkara!

Our final group of Fellows, Grace Fang, Radhika Seshadri, Fatima Djalalova, Suzanna Schofield, and Sarah Gaynor presented on financing “just energy transition partnerships" in Vietnam and Indonesia. #Wintersession2023 #AlbrightInstitute

Group 7: Yanqing Lei, Jess Yao, Shantha Venugopal, Mirka Estrada, and Kayla Brand who presented on modernizing the anti-money laundering regime in the United States. #Wintersession2023 #AlbrightInstitute

A look back at our final few presentations from last week—Group 5, Lidewij Florusbosch, Courtney Yang, Deborah Banketa, Sahra Madey, and Nerissa Yiu, after their presentation on educating children of Ukrainian refugees in Moldova. #Wintersession2023 #AlbrightInstitute

During the first @AlbrightInst Wintersession without Madeleine Albright, her best friend from Wellesley, Winifred Shore Freund ’59, reminded the fellows that Albright always said “Hell yes!” to every opportunity that came her way. wellesley.edu/news/2023/stor…

Excited to be back at @AlbrightInst and @Wellesley for a dialogue with @segoddard and Amb. Yovanovitch!