News@E40 | 2024

	News@E40 April 8, 2024 CIS awards 13 summer research grants Thirteen doctoral students in international affairs at MIT were awarded summer research grants, covering travel costs related to field work up to $4,000. Natasha Ansari and Olivia Houck were awarded the fifth annual Guillemin prize. The Center is pleased to support the work of an outstanding and varied cohort from across the Institute.
	News@E40 March 7, 2024 PhD students Suzanne Freeman, Wright Smith, and Ye Zhang selected to receive World Politics and Statecraft Fellowships MIT Department of Political Science The fellowships are awarded by the Smith Richardson Foundation to support PhD dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies and diplomatic and military history.
	News@E40 March 4, 2024 CIS welcomes Ukrainian scholars to MIT Center for International Studies The Center is thrilled to welcome three of four Global MIT At-Risk Fellows (GMAF) on campus. The newly launched GMAF program is designed to provide sanctuary to scholars around the globe whose lives and academic freedom are under threat. The pilot program is offered through the MIT-Ukraine Program and is focused on Ukrainian researchers and faculty. Our spring 2024 Ukrainian scholars include: Liudmyla Huliaieva, an economist, whose research and activism focuses on the economic adaptation and survival of Ukrainian women migrants in time of war; Dmytro Chumachenko, a multidisciplinary scientist working and the intersection of computer science and public health; and Kateryna Lopatiuk, an urban researcher, who aims to foster an ecosystem conducive to transitioning Ukraine to a circular economy in a range of fields, especially in the context of the post-war reconstruction. Read their full bios and learn more about GMAF here.
	News@E40 February 15, 2024 précis: Fall 2023/Winter 2024 Center for International Studies The Fall 2023/Winter 2024 edition of précis features an interview with MENA/MIT, insights on the war in Gaza, a reflection on the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, and more.
	News@E40 February 8, 2024 CIS Summer Research Grant call for applications The CIS Summer Research Grant competition is open to advanced doctoral students in international affairs at MIT, regardless of their home department. Students may apply for summer funding for dissertation research or writing that has an international component. CIS Summer Research Grants are intended to support student stipends and/or field research expenses.
	News@E40 January 22, 2024 In memory of Lawrence McCray Center for International Studies Throughout his life, Lawrence McCray took paths less traveled
	News@E40 January 16, 2024 Global experiences over IAP Sabina Van MellCenter for International Studies Over IAP 2024, MISTI is sending 610 MIT students to nearly 30 locations.
	News@E40 January 11, 2024 The best of books 2023: Foreign Affairs includes both Noah Nathan and Yasheng Huang Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers selected the very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine in 2023. Yasheng Huang's The rise and fall of the EAST: How exams, autocracy, stability, and technology brought China success, and why they might lead to its decline and Noah Nathan's The scarce state: Inequality and political power in the hinterland were among their picks.