Based here at Quinnipiac, the Albert Schweitzer Institute is a nonprofit organization that conducts US and international programs that link education, ethics and voluntarism.

A dynamic presence at Quinnipiac University, the institute has drawn notable humanitarians both to campus and to its board. Here are just a few of its many successes.

Our programs:

• Focus on health, humanitarian and peace efforts
• Support healthcare development in under-served areas
• Motivate young people to serve the community and the environment as a way of life
• Increase public awareness of Dr. Schweitzer's philosophy and its potential for a more peaceful and sustainable world

Events and Exhibits:

• Special exhibit of photos from Kenya, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Learn more
• Conference on nuclear non-proliferation Feb. 19, 2010. Learn more

Former President Jimmy Carter delivered a lecture at Quinnipiac on Sept. 26, 2007, and received the first Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award. From left: President John L. Lahey, Carter and David Taylor Ives, executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute. Read more about the Carter visit...	The institute sponsored a peace conference at the U.N. in June 2007. From left: Luis Alberto Cordero, executive director of the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the United Nations, and Ives. Read more about the UN peace conference...

At the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, from left: Geir Lundestad, secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and director of the institute; Ole Danbolt Mjos, president of the committee; Christiane Engel, granddaughter of Dr. Albert Schweitzer; and David Taylor Ives. Ives delivered an address there to mark the 50th anniversary of Schweitzer’s call for an end to nuclear testing.	Ives with, from left, James T. Ranney, president of Global Constitution Forum, Inc., and former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev at a meeting in New York.