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	News@E40 May 31, 2018 A conversation about cybersecurity issues Khatuna Burkadze has been a Fulbright scholar at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) for the past academic year. While at MIT, she implemented a project on cybersecurity issues and shares about her work in the following interview.
	News@E40 May 29, 2018 Spring 2018 CIS newsletter précis, the Center’s newsletter, covers the wide range of Center activities and tracks the accomplishments of our faculty, researchers and affiliates. It is published twice yearly, once during each academic semester. The spring 2018 issue is now available.
	News@E40 May 2, 2018 CIS awards 16 summer study grants Sixteen doctoral students in international affairs at MIT were awarded summer study grants. Each will receive up to $3,500. “The awards were made to an outstanding cohort of MIT students from across the Institute. We're so pleased that the appeal of these grants has broadened and students are responding,” said John Tirman, CIS executive director and principal research scientist.
	News@E40 April 26, 2018 SSP panel on North Korea in DC The MIT Security Studies Program held a special seminar in Washington, DC, on April 26. More than sixty people attended the talk, “The Nuclear Crisis with North Korea” at the National Press Club. Chaired by SSP director, Barry Posen, the panel (Jim Walsh, Taylor Fravel, and Vipin Narang) discussed the current issues and answered questions from the crowd.
	News@E40 April 25, 2018 Sarah Zukerman Daly receives Carnegie fellowship Sarah Zukerman Daly, who received her PhD in political science at MIT, is a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow recipient. She is assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Her work is focused on civil wars and peace-building, democratic elections, organized crime, and ethnic politics.
	News@E40 April 24, 2018 Seminar XXI: Educating our leaders Mark WolvertonSpectrum Since 1984, the Seminar XXI program has provided 2,100 military and civilian fellows with policy training through a series of sessions held in the DC area. The program not only brings in faculty from MIT but is also able to tap into resident expertise of the Beltway.
	News@E40 April 24, 2018 The final yard Mark WolvertonSpectrum The International Policy Lab (IPL) was set up within CIS to help make the leap from the lab bench or seminar blackboard to the halls of Congress or a decision-maker’s desk. It started out as something of an experiment but it’s flourishing: the number of proposals submitted has roughly doubled each year.
	News@E40 April 19, 2018 MISTI Excellence Awards MISTI held its annual awards ceremony on April 19 at the Samberg Conference Center. The awardees and the respective categories for this year are: MIT-Japan’s Samantha Amey-Gonzalez (Biology, 2018) who received the Ambassador Award, MIT-France's Kristen Frombach (Biological Engineering, 2019) who received the Achievement Award, and MIT-France's Pelkins Ajanoh (Mechanical Engineering, 2018) and MIT-Israel and MIT-India's Matthew Chun (Mechanical Engineering and Management Science, 2018) who both received the Suzanne Berger Award for Future Global Leaders.
	News@E40 April 11, 2018 Odell, Sun awarded fellowships Rachel Odell and Meicen Sun have each been awarded a Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship. Awards are granted to support PhDdissertation research in international relations.
	News@E40 April 10, 2018 CIS hosts consuls general meeting The Center hosted Boston-area consuls general for a foreign policy briefing by our faculty and scholars. Local journalists were also invited as a means to gather background information on pressing issues. Fourteen consuls and four journalists attended the April 10 event at the Samberg conference center.
	News@E40 April 4, 2018 Research recap with Paul Heer Research Recap highlights recent work that is being done at MIT's Center for International Studies. This episode features 2015-2016 CIS Robert E Wilhelm fellow Paul Heer, discussing his book Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia.
	News@E40 March 29, 2018 MIT PhD candidates tour USS San Diego A group of 19 students and faculty from the MIT Security Studies Program toured the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego. The participants also received information about the ship's amphibious and air missions and capabilities from technical experts.
	News@E40 March 9, 2018 2017 MIT graduate awarded Luce fellowship Congratulations to MIT graduate Dominiquo “Niquo” Santistevan for receiving a Henry Luce fellowship. He was among 162 outstanding candidates nominated by 73 colleges and universities across the US. Only 18 scholars were awarded the fellowship, which is offered by the Henry Luce Foundation.
	News@E40 March 9, 2018 IPL completed 3rd annual call for proposals The IPL received a record-breaking 42 proposals from 31 principal investigators representing all five schools at MIT. The committee chose 10 projects for full support. In an effort to assist as many PIs as possible with policy outreach, the majority of the remaining projects received partial support, with only six projects deemed too early to begin engagement with policy makers.
	News@E40 February 14, 2018 CIS sponsors politics of development series Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT Brazil Program, is a co-editor of a new CIS-sponsored series on the politics of development called Cambridge Elements. The first of several forthcoming books is available for free (for a limited time) through Cambridge University Press.
	News@E40 February 2, 2018 IPL offers public policy communication training The MIT International Policy Lab brought to campus a professional science communication organization, COMPASS, to conduct a day-long training for faculty.
	News@E40 February 1, 2018 MISTI Global Startup Labs celebrates 18 years Caroline KnoxMIT News Initially launched as a pilot program in Kenya, MISTI GSL now offers projects in 10 countries. MIT students travel abroad to help other students launch tech-based companies.
	News@E40 October 2, 2017 Tackling the world’s challenges in the field From Chile to China, current MISTI students submitted one-minute videos and photographs focusing on their international projects and their experiences with different cultures.
	News@E40 September 20, 2017 Luce fellowship deadline Oct. 20 Friday, October 20, is the deadline for the Luce Scholars Program. Young scholars from a variety of intellectual fields will be placed in internships throughout Asia. Candidates must have no prior experience in the region. More information
	News@E40 June 27, 2017 CIS awards 17 summer study grants Seventeen doctoral students in international affairs at MIT were awarded summer study grants. Each will receive up to $3,500. “The awards were made to an outstanding cohort of MIT students from across the Institute. We're so pleased that the appeal of these grants has broadened and students are responding,” said John Tirman, CIS executive director and principal research scientist.