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	News@E40 June 7, 2018 MISTI is... Lily KeyesYouTube Faces of MIT: On the last day of class, students finish the statement, "MISTI is..."
	News@E40 June 7, 2018 CIS welcomes new administrative officer The Center is pleased to welcome John Congdon as its new administrative officer. He comes to MIT from the UMass Medical School, where he worked as the administrative manager in the Office of Faculty Affairs.
	News@E40 June 6, 2018 CIS congratulates the graduates The Center congratulates the Class of 2018 from its Security Studies Program. Lena Andrews, Marika Landau-Wells, and Timothy Wright each received a PhD in political science at MIT. We wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors.
	News@E40 June 5, 2018 Unity makes strength: MIT expands ties with Belgium MIT News A new partnership between MIT and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Flanders, Belgium, seeks to build bridges between researchers at both institutions, and between the Dutch and French-speaking regions of Belgium.
	In the News June 4, 2018 Students spearhead “women working in security” conference Ryan Evans, Usha Sahay, Sara Plana, Rachel Tecott, Alex Bick, Alice Friend, and Kathleen HicksWar on the Rocks PhD candidates Sara Plana and Rachel Tecott spearheaded a major conference that was sponsored and hosted by CSIS and the Kissinger Center at SAIS. The topic, the future of force, aims to be the first in a program series called the Future of Strategy Forum that features women doing important work in national and international security.
	In the News June 1, 2018 As Trump talks trade and nukes, China quietly tightens its grip on the South China Sea Clay DillowCNBC “The US is trying to stop China from doing something it’s already doing,” said Taylor Fravel, associate professor of political science and the Center’s acting director. “That’s harder than stopping it from doing something it hasn’t done yet.”
	In the News May 31, 2018 What a Trump-Kim deal may look like, from good to bad to worse David Tweed, Toluse Olorunnipa, and Justin Sink Bloomberg News “It is costless for Kim to say I am not going to do nuclear or missiles tests for now because frankly they are a stage in their cycle where they don’t need to,” said Vipin Narang.
	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.
	In the News May 30, 2018 US military renames largest area of operations William GalloVOA Taylor Fravel, associate professor of political science and the Center’s acting director, says the name change to “Indo-Pacific Command” from “Pacific Command” is also likely intended to signal support for the US administration’s “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy.”
	In the News May 30, 2018 Vipin Narang in the news Nuclear strategy expert Vipin Narang spoke with several media outlets about President Trump's withdrawl from the Iran Deal and the implications it has on North Korea, speculating about the expectations both leaders have for the upcoming June 12th summit in Singapore between Kim and Trump.