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

March 13, 2025

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

March 04, 2025

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February 27, 2025

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We invite faculty, researchers, and students from MIT and beyond to learn more about CIS’s impact and work — from research funding to student internships — happening in regions and nations worldwide.

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Apr 9

Global Space Infrastructure and U.S. Grand Strategy

Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges

8:30am - 5:00pm

Location

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

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)

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Working Groups

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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Global Seed Funds

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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Fellows

Oleksandr Hrytsyna

Global MIT At-Risk Fellow

Staff

David Dolev

Lead, MENA

Senior Associate Director, MISTI

Managing Director, MIT-Israel Program, MIT-MEET Program, MIT-Arab World Program

Faculty and Researchers

Paulo Lozano

Faculty Director, MIT-Mexico Program

Miguel Alemán Velasco Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Director, Space Propulsion Lab

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Souvik Paik

Financial Assistant

Affiliates and Visitors

William J Fallon

Research Affiliate

Faculty and Researchers

Kathleen Thelen

Faculty Director, MIT-Scandinavia Program, MIT-Germany Program, MIT-Switzerland Program

Ford International Professor of Political Science

Student Spotlights

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.

Italy interns researching physics

Universita di Pisa

Learn about Lily's, Medha's and David's research on gravitational waves, stars and planets at the Universita' di Pisa in the summer of 2024!

Kristen's story

Brain and Cognitive Sciences & Biological Engineering '27

A glimpse into Kristen DiConza '27 experience with SpinLabs at the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering in Politecnico di Milano, supported her academic and career goals in medicine.

Meagan's story

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.

Fiona's story

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science '23

Fiona worked on developing capabilities for autonomous docking.

Annabeth's story

Civil & Environmental Engineering '15

Annabeth worked with her MIT-China Educational Technology Initiative (CETI) team introducing course content from MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xining, and Yulin, Shaanxi.

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

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Competing visions of international order

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US policy on BRICS: A temporary fix or a strategic reset?

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

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

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

Events

Global Space Infrastructure and U.S. Grand Strategy

Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges

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

Opportunities

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Oleksandr Hrytsyna

David Dolev

Paulo Lozano

Souvik Paik

William J Fallon

Kathleen Thelen

Student Spotlights

Italy interns researching physics

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Fiona's story

Annabeth's story