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	In the News November 18, 2024 Elections in the US and Europe and the Transatlantic security relationship Boston University What do the 2024 electoral shake-ups mean for the transatlantic security relationship? SSP Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow Lauren Sukin and SSP Russian Foreign & National Security Policy Fellow Polina Beliakova were among the panel exploring the question.
	In the News November 16, 2024 MISTI GTL students named 2025 Rhodes Scholars MIT News Yiming Chen, Wilhem Hector, and Anushka Nair are among the four selected as the 2025 Rhodes Scholars at MIT. All three are involved with MISTI Global Teaching Labs with placements in Italy, Spain, and Scotland.
	In the News November 14, 2024 Samurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT MIT News A new exhibit, "From Samurai into Engineers," explores MIT's first Japanese students and their history. The exhibit was developed in collaboration with Christine Pilcavage, managing director of the MIT-Japan program.
	In the News November 12, 2024 BRICS in transition: From the Kazan Summit to Brazil’s 2025 presidency Mihaela PapaEnsured Europe Mihaela Papa, director of research and a principal research scientist at CIS, discusses how BRICS could evolve as Brazil takes on the BRICS presidency in 2025.
	In the News November 7, 2024 MIT Global Seed Fund enables German-American project for new modeling methods University of Stuttgart In a collaborative project, researchers from the Institute of Automotive Engineering in Stuttgart and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aim to enhance vehicle models. This German-American partnership has been made possible through the MIT Global Seed Fund.
	In the News November 7, 2024 Kelly Greenhill on the weaponization of migration Adrian BurtinVox Europe Kelly Greenhill, faculty director of the Center’s Seminar XXI program, speaks on the weaponization of migration, a tactic used by autocratic governments to influence neighbouring countries.
	In the News November 6, 2024 Has Trump's win cost Ukraine the war? What geopolitics experts think Newsweek With Trump's election, the notion of reversing Russian gains seems utterly implausible. Ukraine may be able to continue to defend most of its remaining territory, with the help of its other allies, but it will get only modest help from the US, says Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and a member of the Center’s Security Studies Program. Read more.
	News@E40 November 5, 2024 MENA/MIT and MIT-Arab World call for applications for science journalism workshop
	In the News November 4, 2024 Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond Scott Murray Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care. Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science and faculty affiliate at CIS, directs the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and co-leads the Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR).
	In the News November 1, 2024 Israel's latest escalation in Middle East stokes fears of larger regional conflict WBUR Jim Walsh, senior research associate at the Security Studies Program (SSP), discusses Israel's recent airstrikes towards Iran and its implications for the region.