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Pulitzer Prize-winning conflict photographer Moises Saman gives a talk at MIT

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Bridging solar innovation and semiconductor excellence: Jordan and MIT in partnership

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CIS welcomes new faculty directors to lead global programs

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Hassan on recent violence in Darfur

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President Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing

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Studying war in the new nuclear age

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MIT students thrive in internships in the Arab World

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Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile hit with furloughs

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At Lithuanian conference, MIT faculty explore technological pathways to resilient, adaptive future

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MIT Global Seed Funds catalyze research in over 20 countries

MIT Global Seed Funds catalyze research in over 20 countries

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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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Deterring Two Nuclear Peers and the New Consensus

Rebeccah Heinrichs, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Building NE49 - NE49-3100

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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Building E15 - 070

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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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