Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

A 1971 graduate of the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Mortara was a dedicated volunteer leader, as evidenced by his many commitments to the School’s Board of Visitors, the Third Century Campaign Steering Committee, and the board of the Wall Street Alliance, of which he was a founding member. Just months before his tragic death, Mortara began his service on the University’s Board of Directors, proving a judicious member of the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Main Campus Affairs. He actively recruited Georgetown students to Goldman Sachs and encouraged the firm to support a variety of projects on campus. His elder son, Michael Jr., is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service class of 2004, and his younger son, Matthew, is a graduate of the class of 2009.Mortara envisioned a center of scholarly inquiry at the School of Foreign Service that would embody the mission of the School and its focus on the intersection of theory and practice in international affairs. With the help of his wife, Virginia, the Walsh School of Foreign Service is continuing his noble vision by developing the center he imagined.

The Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) was founded in 1992 with the objective of educating future specialists in science and technology in global affairs, who work within and across diverse settings on science and technology challenges and opportunities. Histories of science and technology have had to reckon with and evolve past colonial origins, which have systematically overlooked voices, priorities, and finances of the global majority of people living outside wealthy nations. Given the diversity in what challenges and innovation STIA encompasses, it is imperative to consider whose innovation, voices, and recognition counts. Through the above actions, the STIA Program pledges to carry out its commitment toward fostering a student body, faculty, and staff that reflects, uplifts, and celebrates the diversity of humanity in race, caste, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual identity, religion, and class.

IWP’s Center for Human Rights and International Affairs studies fundamental inalienable rights, how they are exported to the rest of the world, their impact on politics abroad, their effect on preventing and countering Islamist radicalization and other totalitarian ideologies, and particularly the role of digital media in this process.

The Hitachi Center is a part of The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Its mission is to sponsor advanced research and instruction, demonstrate intellectual and professional leadership, and encourage and facilitate a global exchange of ideas on the management of innovation and technological change and the advancement of economic and financial integration. Over the years, the Hitachi Center has helped to promote Fletcher’s mission of teaching, research, and service through its support and promotion of internships, research on important issues of global technology management, international finance, and international economic integration, conferences bringing together scholars and policy-makers, and other educational activities.

The Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) is a research institute housed in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. The Institute is named in honor of Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.), whose long and distinguished career in public service included serving as National Security Advisor for Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. The Institute’s core mission is to foster and disseminate policy-oriented research on international affairs by supporting faculty and student research, hosting international speakers and major scholarly conferences, and providing grants to outside researchers to use the holdings of the Bush Library.

The mission of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is to facilitate the production of pathbreaking social science research on international, comparative, transnational, and global issues by faculty and students at Harvard. Their goals are to advance scholarly knowledge; address important international issues, as well as domestic social, economic, and political problems in comparative perspective; foster interdisciplinary dialogues; and disseminate knowledge in academia and beyond. This is accomplished through research programs, initiatives, and clusters; through conferences, seminars, and workshops; and by providing competitive fellowships to global scholars and research funding to Harvard faculty and students