The University of Minnesota’s 11th Annual Research Ethics Day Conference will consider how to move forward in a changing ...

Join Dean Nisha Botchwey to celebrate our progress and chart our course for 2026. Program will also feature alumni insights, ...

A timely conversation with Nazanin Ash, the founding CEO of Welcome.US and a former senior U.S. State Department official, on immigration, refugee policy, and the challenges and possibilities of ...

Representative Leigh Finke (District 66A) is a leading voice for human rights in the Minnesota Legislature and author of the Trans Refuge Law, which prevents Minnesota judges and law enforcement from ...

Heather Randell, PhD, is an assistant professor in the global policy area at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and a faculty affiliate of the Minnesota Population Center. Dr. Randell is a ...

Public policy shapes lives, and at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, we are committed to tackling the world’s most pressing challenges with evidence, analysis, and leadership. Much like a sky ...

Thomas L. Friedman is the New York Times foreign affairs Opinion columnist. He joined the paper in 1981, after which he served as the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, in ...

A new report conducted by the Humphrey School highlights wide disparities in poverty rates in Minnesota based on racial/ethnic background, age, and geography. Photo: USDA The Humphrey School of Public ...

A new study from the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy shows the pandemic has exacerbated poor working conditions for low-wage health care workers. As a result, many have decided to leave the ...

Hubert Humphrey, then mayor of Minneapolis, urging the 1948 Democratic National Convention to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights ...

Humphrey School researchers Greta Friedemann-Sánchez and Margaret Grieve in Colombia, when they began their research into the country's system of addressing intimate partner violence. Colombia enacted ...

Science is the only safe source of knowledge that works in making public policy. This statement neatly sums up the perspective of Peter Calow, a professor of science, technology, and environmental ...