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Apr 16

Divisions at Home, Divisions Abroad? How Domestic Political Conditions Shape Foreign Perceptions of U.S. Nuclear Credibility

Starr Forum: The US and the World Under Trump: The First 100 Days

5:30pm - 7:00pm

Location

Building 45 (MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing)

Apr 28

Truth in Crisis: Navigating the Intersections of Scientific Discourse and Misinformation

Dollar Dominance, Deterrence, and Denial

12:00pm - 1:30pm

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Building E40

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CIS provides working group grants for advancing interdisciplinary collaborations in the field of international studies. These small grants are provided as "seed" funds for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows seeking to address scholarly problems.

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The MIT Global Seed Funds grant program provides opportunities for MIT faculty to collaborate with pioneering researchers from around the world.

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Vipin Narang

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Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science

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Roger Petersen

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, Emeritus

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CIS makes it possible for MIT students to experience the world while advancing knowledge, tackling tough challenges, and preparing for lives of impact, service, and leadership in an interconnected global society.

Shruti's story

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Art and Design '25

Shruthi Ravichandran, worked on utilizing inductors to detect nanoparticles at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain).

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Biological Engineering, '24

Meagan interned in Barcelona, Spain at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), where she studied non-genetic variation in aging via genetic manipulation of C. elegans worms.

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Computation and Cognition '24

Amanda Tong, a computation and cognition major, interned at Boeing Korea Engineering Technology Center (BKETC) as a front-end engineer intern working on an application that sought to improve supplier oversight, production readiness, and supplier data transparency.

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Mechanical Engineering '24

Nickie Mpofu '24 interned with Semiconductor Technologies Limited (STL), a Kenyan startup focused on semiconductor manufacturing in the summer of 2024.

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Biological Engineering '23

Kira, a biological engineering major and minoring in Spanish and computer science, went to Chile during the summer of 2022. Kira worked with a set of datasets of TARA Ocean data which gave more insight to ocean microbiomes.

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Educating global leaders and generating research and insights for a safer, more prosperous world

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Universities must become active launchpads for innovation

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Are the United States and Europe still allies? The European public doesn’t think so

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Divisions at Home, Divisions Abroad? How Domestic Political Conditions Shape Foreign Perceptions of U.S. Nuclear Credibility

Starr Forum: The US and the World Under Trump: The First 100 Days

Truth in Crisis: Navigating the Intersections of Scientific Discourse and Misinformation

Dollar Dominance, Deterrence, and Denial

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Daniel Jackson

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Roger Petersen

Fiona Cunningham

R Scott Kemp

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