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	In the News October 23, 2020 Universities should lead the way on climate action, MIT panelists say Becky HamMIT News Climate solutions must include more than just advanced science and technology capabilities, said Melissa Nobles, the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and professor of political science. At MIT, she notes, classes on the ethics of climate change, the J-PAL King Climate Action Initiative, and Charlotte Brathwaite’s “Bee Boy” theater project are some examples of how the social sciences and arts can be brought to bear on climate issues.
	Analysis + Opinion October 22, 2020 Why we can’t be friends with our allies Patrick Porter, Joshua ShifrinsonPolitico By falsely equating alliances with friendships, Biden and his team run serious risks. The rhetoric of friendship obscures the reality of US foreign policy to the American people.
	Analysis + Opinion October 21, 2020 Is it time for a grand strategy of restraint? A debate Johns Hopkins \| Kissinger Center for Global Affair Barry Posen and Michael Mazarr layout their cases in opposing sides to this debate on whether the United States should embrace a grand stragy of restraint or not.
	Analysis + Opinion October 20, 2020 Understanding US-China strategic competition Determining the right prescription for how the United States should respond to strategic competition with China depends on having the right diagnosis of the problem, writes former Robert E Wilhelm Fellow Paul Heer.
	In the News October 20, 2020 Satellite images indicate Russia is preparing to resume testing its nuclear-powered cruise missile Zachary CohenCNN Vipin Narang quoted: “A nuclear powered cruise missile gives a low-flying, radar-evading, nuclear-capable missile intergalactic range that can pose a challenge to national missile defenses,” he told CNN, adding that indications Russia may be preparing another test show “how much our missile defenses drive their developments and how scared they are of them, not today, but tomorrow.” They are also highly controversial “because it's crazy to put an unshielded nuclear reactor on a missile to power it,” Narang added, noting that the consequences of testing this type of weapon can be catastrophic if something goes wrong.
	News@E40 October 19, 2020 MISTI global seed funds program supports global engagement MISTI Global Seed Funds program enables participating teams to collaborate with international peers, either at MIT or abroad, with the aim of developing and launching joint research projects. The GSF application cycle is now open with a deadline of December 14, 2020.
	In the News October 14, 2020 Fotini Christia named director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center Terri Park, Schwarzman College of ComputingMIT News Fotini Christia has been named the director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC) at MIT. The interdisciplinary center, part of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society in the MIT Stephen A Schwarzman College of Computing, focuses on the study of high-impact, complex societal challenges that shape our world.
	In the News October 14, 2020 A new world of warcraft Leda ZimmermanPolitical Science Political scientist Erik Lin-Greenberg explores how a burgeoning high-tech arsenal is shaping military conflict
	In the News October 13, 2020 Anat Biletzki on the Human Rights and Technology Fellowship Program MIT News Anat Biletzki is a founding co-director of the Center's Human Rights and Technology Fellowship Program. The program offers research fellowships to MIT students and invites proposals for its 2020-21 cohort of fellows through October 26. She speaks here on the fellowship program.
	In the News October 13, 2020 North Korea has unveiled new weapons, showing Trump failed to tame its nuclear program Alex WardVox Vipin Narang quoted: “The temperature is down because Trump is happy to live in denial,” MIT nuclear strategy expert Vipin Narang told me. “The problem with that is when the temperature inevitably turns back up.”