The article provides an overview and discusses the impact and factors of success of the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship program. A flagship program of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Center has named 41 Bartels Fellows - Nobel Laureates, presidents, leading UN-officials, religious leaders, and other distinguished global thinkers - and organized major public Bartels lectures, hundreds of seminars and meetings on campus since 1984.