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	In the News May 18, 2023 Six MIT SHASS educators receive 2023 Levitan Teaching Awards School of Humanities, Arts, and Social SciencesMIT News Nicholas Ackert, a PhD candidate in the MIT Security Studies Program, received a James A and Ruth Levitan Teaching Award for 2023, along with five others. The awards honor outstanding success in teaching undergraduate and graduate students.
	In the News May 15, 2023 Video: Ukraine pledges to take back Russian-occupied territories, but experts argue success is unlikely GBH News Carol Saivetz, Senior Advisor at the MIT Security Studies Program, appeared on GBH News to discuss the coming Ukrainian counteroffensive.
	In the News May 12, 2023 New MIT-Denmark collaboration to expand opportunities for global impact MISTIMIT News A grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation will allow more MIT interns to connect with innovators in Denmark.
	News@E40 May 10, 2023 CIS welcomes Weiner family for exhibit tour Sabina Van MellCenter for International Studies This week, Beth Ben-Avraham and Avital (Tali) Datskovsky, Professor Myron Weiner's daughter and granddaughter, visited the Institute to tour the South Asia and the Institute: Transformative Connections.
	In the News May 9, 2023 Podcast: Bureaucracies, dictatorships, and the power of Africa’s people MIT News President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Mai Hassan about public administration in Africa and how people mobilize against repressive regimes.
	In the News May 8, 2023 Radio: 'Grand Delusion' with Steven Simon on Monday's Access Utah Tom WilliamsUtah Public Radio CIS Wilhelm Fellow Steven Simon joined Tom Williams on Utah Public Radio to discuss his new book Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East.
	In the News May 5, 2023 A transformative era ends at the Center for International Studies MIT News “Dick Samuels built the CIS into a vibrant incubator of ideas, an engine of scholarly output and policy relevance, and a place where fierce debates could occur while friendships were forged. This is the institution that Evan Lieberman, one of the department’s most creative and entrepreneurial members, will soon take in exciting new directions,” says David Singer, head of the Department of Political Science and Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science.
	In the News May 2, 2023 In a time of war, a new effort to help Peter DizikesMIT News MIT-Ukraine program leaders describe the work they are undertaking as they shape a novel project to help a country in crisis.
	Analysis + Opinion May 1, 2023 Sudan’s generals are dragging the country toward disaster Mai Hassan and Ahmed KodoudaForeign Affairs Only civilian leaders can forge a path to piece.
	In the News April 26, 2023 China pushes largest-ever expansion of nuclear arsenal AFPFrance 24 Quoted: "The changes that are taking place or under way are very significant" and "will turn China from a state that has a nuclear retaliatory capability to one that is the world's third major nuclear power", Eric Heginbotham, Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Center for International Studies, told AFP.