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A collaboration across continents to solve a plastics problem

A Global Classroom course offered by MIT-Brazil allowed students to travel to Manaus over the three weeks of Independent Activities Period (IAP) and work with locals to address the plastics sustainability crisis.

A collaboration across continents to solve a plastics problem

Dr. Rand and Ambassador Shringla to join MIT as distinguished fellows at the Center for International Studies

Career diplomats and global policymakers, Dr. Dafna H. Rand held senior roles in the US State Department and Ambassador Harsh V. Shringla is the former foreign secretary of India.

Dr. Rand and Ambassador Shringla join MIT as distinguished fellows at the Center for International Studies

Houck and Ansari, PhD students, further their dissertation research abroad

Each received a prize offered by the Center for International Studies that supports ongoing studies by women PhD candidates in the field of international affairs.

Houck and Ansari, PhD students, further their dissertation research abroad

“Urban Futures of the Amazon” debates urbanization issues in the biome and the region

The meeting brought together researchers from the MIT Media Lab, UFPA's Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, the Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará and the City Lab. Rosabelli Coelho, managing director of MIT-Brazil and Amazonia, was one of the organizers of the event.

February 27, 2025

“Urban Futures of the Amazon” debates urbanization issues in the biome and the region

Lessons from Donald Trump’s South African doppelgänger, Paul Kruger

Evan Lieberman, director of the Center for International Studies and the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa, writes about the similarities between President Donald Trump to Paul Kruger, the second president of the South African Republic, highlighting the lessons that should be learned from the historical comparison.

February 23, 2025

Evan Lieberman

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