News@E40 | 2018

	News@E40 November 30, 2018 Human Rights & Technology Fellows announced for 2018-19 In its inaugural year, the Human Rights & Technology Program has awarded six research fellowships to MIT undergraduates. Their projects are expansive, and include field work in Africa and South Asia and a variety of topics. Four of them in different ways address the human right to health care or healthy environments and how technology can ensure good outcomes.
	News@E40 October 22, 2018 MIT ICC cultural resources YouTube MISTI is promoting cross-cultural communication with the MIT International Coordinating Committee, communicating MIT’s cultural diversity on campus and across the world through video.
	News@E40 October 15, 2018 Starting new conversations about identity abroad Madeline Smith \| Michelle EnglishMIT News New MISTI programs provide a platform for student dialogue on diversity in international travel, study, and work.
	News@E40 October 12, 2018 MIT-Germany and the University of Stuttgart extend cooperation Lily KeyesMIT News Representatives from the MIT-Germany Program and the University of Stuttgart (USTUTT) recently came together to formally extend a strategic partnership first created in 2015. Collaboration extends opportunities for faculty seed funds, internship opportunities, and a Global Teaching Labs program through 2020.
	News@E40 October 4, 2018 The Move: Civic innovators help restore democracy The Move is a new initiative out of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning that features weekly podcasts, blog posts, and more from the civic innovators at democracy’s front lines. Join the conversation at themove.mit.edu. The initiative is funded in part by the Center’s International Policy Lab and MIT’s Office of Open Learning.
	News@E40 October 1, 2018 MISTI radio The radio show is a platform for students to reflect on their experiences abroad. MISTI Radio is an MIT program about the world, for the world. Assistant Professor Admir Masic and the MISTI students who worked with Syrian refugees in Jordan this summer are featured. (The program starts a few minutes into audio recording.)
	News@E40 September 21, 2018 New fellowship program in human rights and technology The Center announces a new fellowship program in human rights and technology, and invites proposals from MIT undergraduates. The program will support students’ research, participation in a working group, and other activities. Proposals are due October 29 by 5 PM.
	News@E40 September 11, 2018 Luce fellowship deadline Oct 19 Friday, October 19, is the deadline for the Luce Scholars Program. Young scholars from a variety of intellectual fields will be placed in internships throughout Asia. Candidates must have no prior experience in the region. More information
	News@E40 August 28, 2018 MIT team digitizes Machu Picchu Eduardo Rivera \| Lily KeyesMIT News A laboratory team from the MIT Department of Architecture, led by Professor Takehiko Nagakura and PhD student Paloma Gonzales, has been working on the MISTI Global Seed Fund Machu Picchu Design Heritage project since 2016. "We believe that…the digitalization of architectural monuments is key to the preservation of the cultural heritage of humanity.”
	News@E40 August 15, 2018 Shaping technology’s future David L. ChandlerMIT News With data-informed models, Jessika Trancik seeks ways to coax progress toward sustainable energy systems. Trancik is a co-faculty director of the Center’s International Policy Lab.
	News@E40 August 10, 2018 Selin and Oye win 2018 Martore Teaching Award The Joseph A Martore Award for Excellence in Teaching in IDSS was awarded to two faculty members for 2018: Noelle Selin and Ken Oye. Oye is director of the Center’s Program on Emerging Technologies.
	News@E40 August 7, 2018 MIT-Germany partners with Friedrich Alexander University Lily KeyesMIT News “As the MIT-Germany program grows, many new opportunities for collaborations will emerge, and create synergies between FAU and MIT, spanning the spectrum from teaching to cutting edge research,” says Markus Buehler, MIT-Germany faculty director and head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
	News@E40 July 30, 2018 MIT-Japan goes full STEAM ahead The MIT-Japan Program and Tohoku University's Science Angels recently held their second annual collaborative education program for children, appropriately titled “Let’s STEAM!” The one-day event aims to encourage children — especially girls — to pursue their interest in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM).
	News@E40 July 20, 2018 MIT European Club leads in giving back Lily KeyesMIT News The MIT European Club has donated $40,000 to fund 10 new MISTI European Fellows this summer. Not only is it of the most substantial gifts given by a student group to the MIT community, it also marks the 10th anniversary of a successful partnership.
	News@E40 July 9, 2018 Celebrating Robert Murray, a colleague and friend The Center hosted a retirement party for Robert Murray on June 28. Bob, as he was known at CIS, served as the Center’s administrative officer for seventeen years. The event was as celebratory as it was poignant.
	News@E40 June 11, 2018 Popular videos from our Starr Forum video archive Check out some of our most watched event videos — it's a great way to stay informed on important issues. Watch them anytime on our YouTube channel.
	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 7, 2018 MISTI is... Lily KeyesYouTube Faces of MIT: On the last day of class, students finish the statement, "MISTI is..."
	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.
	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.
	News@E40 May 29, 2018 Spring 2018 CIS newsletter précis, the Center’s newsletter, covers the wide range of Center activities and tracks the accomplishments of our faculty, researchers and affiliates. It is published twice yearly, once during each academic semester. The spring 2018 issue is now available.
	News@E40 May 2, 2018 CIS awards 16 summer study grants Sixteen doctoral students in international affairs at MIT were awarded summer study grants. Each will receive up to $3,500. “The awards were made to an outstanding cohort of MIT students from across the Institute. We're so pleased that the appeal of these grants has broadened and students are responding,” said John Tirman, CIS executive director and principal research scientist.
	News@E40 April 26, 2018 SSP panel on North Korea in DC The MIT Security Studies Program held a special seminar in Washington, DC, on April 26. More than sixty people attended the talk, “The Nuclear Crisis with North Korea” at the National Press Club. Chaired by SSP director, Barry Posen, the panel (Jim Walsh, Taylor Fravel, and Vipin Narang) discussed the current issues and answered questions from the crowd.
	News@E40 April 25, 2018 Sarah Zukerman Daly receives Carnegie fellowship Sarah Zukerman Daly, who received her PhD in political science at MIT, is a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow recipient. She is assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Her work is focused on civil wars and peace-building, democratic elections, organized crime, and ethnic politics.
	News@E40 April 24, 2018 The final yard Mark WolvertonSpectrum The International Policy Lab (IPL) was set up within CIS to help make the leap from the lab bench or seminar blackboard to the halls of Congress or a decision-maker’s desk. It started out as something of an experiment but it’s flourishing: the number of proposals submitted has roughly doubled each year.
	News@E40 April 24, 2018 Seminar XXI: Educating our leaders Mark WolvertonSpectrum Since 1984, the Seminar XXI program has provided 2,100 military and civilian fellows with policy training through a series of sessions held in the DC area. The program not only brings in faculty from MIT but is also able to tap into resident expertise of the Beltway.
	News@E40 April 19, 2018 MISTI Excellence Awards MISTI held its annual awards ceremony on April 19 at the Samberg Conference Center. The awardees and the respective categories for this year are: MIT-Japan’s Samantha Amey-Gonzalez (Biology, 2018) who received the Ambassador Award, MIT-France's Kristen Frombach (Biological Engineering, 2019) who received the Achievement Award, and MIT-France's Pelkins Ajanoh (Mechanical Engineering, 2018) and MIT-Israel and MIT-India's Matthew Chun (Mechanical Engineering and Management Science, 2018) who both received the Suzanne Berger Award for Future Global Leaders.
	News@E40 April 11, 2018 Odell, Sun awarded fellowships Rachel Odell and Meicen Sun have each been awarded a Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship. Awards are granted to support PhDdissertation research in international relations.
	News@E40 April 10, 2018 CIS hosts consuls general meeting The Center hosted Boston-area consuls general for a foreign policy briefing by our faculty and scholars. Local journalists were also invited as a means to gather background information on pressing issues. Fourteen consuls and four journalists attended the April 10 event at the Samberg conference center.
	News@E40 April 4, 2018 Research recap with Paul Heer Research Recap highlights recent work that is being done at MIT's Center for International Studies. This episode features 2015-2016 CIS Robert E Wilhelm fellow Paul Heer, discussing his book Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia.
	News@E40 March 29, 2018 MIT PhD candidates tour USS San Diego A group of 19 students and faculty from the MIT Security Studies Program toured the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego. The participants also received information about the ship's amphibious and air missions and capabilities from technical experts.
	News@E40 March 9, 2018 2017 MIT graduate awarded Luce fellowship Congratulations to MIT graduate Dominiquo “Niquo” Santistevan for receiving a Henry Luce fellowship. He was among 162 outstanding candidates nominated by 73 colleges and universities across the US. Only 18 scholars were awarded the fellowship, which is offered by the Henry Luce Foundation.
	News@E40 March 9, 2018 IPL completed 3rd annual call for proposals The IPL received a record-breaking 42 proposals from 31 principal investigators representing all five schools at MIT. The committee chose 10 projects for full support. In an effort to assist as many PIs as possible with policy outreach, the majority of the remaining projects received partial support, with only six projects deemed too early to begin engagement with policy makers.
	News@E40 February 14, 2018 CIS sponsors politics of development series Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT Brazil Program, is a co-editor of a new CIS-sponsored series on the politics of development called Cambridge Elements. The first of several forthcoming books is available for free (for a limited time) through Cambridge University Press.
	News@E40 February 2, 2018 IPL offers public policy communication training The MIT International Policy Lab brought to campus a professional science communication organization, COMPASS, to conduct a day-long training for faculty.
	News@E40 February 1, 2018 MISTI Global Startup Labs celebrates 18 years Caroline KnoxMIT News Initially launched as a pilot program in Kenya, MISTI GSL now offers projects in 10 countries. MIT students travel abroad to help other students launch tech-based companies.