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The ASA Impact Fund finances unique and impactful projects in Africa. Ari Jacobovits, managing director of our MIT-Africa Program, helped students get the fund off the ground last year.

Ekaterina (Katya) Zabrovski, managing director of our MIT-Eurasia program, received the award from the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS).

Fiona Murray, faculty director of the Center's MIT-UK program and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, is one of the instructors of Engineering Innovation: Global Security Systems, a new MIT course that gives students an inside look at military problems and empowers them to build prototypes.

The PhD Student Research Grants provide funding for research projects to PhD candidates whose work focuses on international studies. Awarded annually, the Center is pleased to support the work of an outstanding and varied cohort from across the Institute.

Philip Khoury, chair of the Center’s Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar and founding faculty director of the Center’s MIT-Arab World Program, will step down from his position as vice provost for the arts.