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The 2025-2026 MIT Global Seed Funds Application is open

The 2025-2026 MIT Global Seed Funds cycle has opened with applications closing on December 16th, 2025.

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The Impact of Global Change on Food Trade Vulnerability and Food Security

Kenneth Strzepek, PhD, Climate, Water, and Food Specialist

Research Scientist, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Gregory Sixt, Director, Food and Climate Systems Transformation (FACT) Alliance

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Building E53 - 482

Europe’s Master of Equilibrium and the Struggle to Shape European Security

Jeffrey Rathke, President, American-German Institute at the Johns Hopkins University

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Building NE49 - NE49-3100

Starr Forum: Rethinking Globalization: America First, The World Last?

Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management

Richard Locke, John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management

Suzanne Berger, Institute Professor

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Past, Present, and Future of Iran-Israel relations (Zoom)

Peter Krause, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston College

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The Call for Applications for the 2026–27 Postdoctoral Associate Program at CIS is currently open. The Center is dedicated to advancing innovative, policy-relevant scholarship that addresses critical global challenges, and seek to appoint two postdoctoral associates during the next academic year.

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CIS provides working group grants for advancing interdisciplinary collaborations in the field of international studies. These small grants are provided as "seed" funds for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows seeking to address scholarly problems.

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