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News@E40May 31, 2018A conversation about cybersecurity issuesKhatuna 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. |
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News@E40May 29, 2018Spring 2018 CIS newsletterprécis, 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. |
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News@E40May 2, 2018CIS awards 16 summer study grantsSixteen 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. |
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News@E40April 26, 2018SSP panel on North Korea in DCThe 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. |
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News@E40April 25, 2018Sarah Zukerman Daly receives Carnegie fellowshipSarah 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. |
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News@E40April 24, 2018The final yardMark WolvertonSpectrumThe 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. |
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News@E40April 24, 2018Seminar XXI: Educating our leadersMark WolvertonSpectrumSince 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. |
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News@E40April 19, 2018MISTI Excellence AwardsMISTI 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. |
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News@E40April 11, 2018Odell, Sun awarded fellowshipsRachel 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. |
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News@E40April 10, 2018CIS hosts consuls general meetingThe 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. |
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News@E40April 4, 2018Research recap with Paul HeerResearch 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. |
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News@E40March 29, 2018MIT PhD candidates tour USS San DiegoA 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. |
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News@E40March 9, 20182017 MIT graduate awarded Luce fellowshipCongratulations 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. |
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News@E40March 9, 2018IPL completed 3rd annual call for proposalsThe 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. |
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News@E40February 14, 2018CIS sponsors politics of development seriesBen 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. |
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News@E40February 2, 2018IPL offers public policy communication trainingThe MIT International Policy Lab brought to campus a professional science communication organization, COMPASS, to conduct a day-long training for faculty. |
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News@E40February 1, 2018MISTI Global Startup Labs celebrates 18 yearsCaroline KnoxMIT NewsInitially 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. |
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News@E40October 2, 2017Tackling the world’s challenges in the fieldFrom Chile to China, current MISTI students submitted one-minute videos and photographs focusing on their international projects and their experiences with different cultures.
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News@E40September 20, 2017Luce fellowship deadline Oct. 20Friday, October 20, 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 |
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News@E40June 27, 2017CIS awards 17 summer study grantsSeventeen 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. |
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