Follies Tickets! 

Tickets for MIIS Follies 2014 are on sale in Student Services! There will be 2 show times this Thursday, November 20th: 6pm and 8:30pm, in Irvine Auditorium. Tickets are $5, exact cash or check only. Maximum 3 tickets per student, staff or faculty member. 

Graditude Grams

Share your gratitude and appreciation for someone special this month by sending them a secret Graditude Gram! Stop by Samson Center Monday and Wednesday to support The WIP Student Club and surprise someone special this week. Monday, November 17 & Wednesday, November 19, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Samson Center

Forced Migration and Humanitarian Aid Lecture with Dr. Dawn Chatty

The division of Social, Behavioral and Global Studies (SBGS) of California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), The Women’s International Perspective (The WIP), and the division of Humanities and Communication (HCOM) of CSUMB are proud to welcome Dr. Dawn Chatty on Monday, November 17th, 2014 from 5-7 PM for a public lecture at CSUMB’s University Center Living Room. Continue Reading → 

The Center for the Blue Economy Presents: The Ocean and Coastal Resource Management Lecture Series

This week Philip King, Associate Professor in Economics at San Francisco State University and Fernando DePaolis, Associate Professor at MIIS, will give the talk "Adapt Monterey." The series is open to all students and any member of the public interested in marine policy. Tuesday, November 18, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM, McGowan 102 Learn More →

"I am Troy Davis" Book Club Event

The Center for Conflict Studies and the William Tell Coleman Library at MIIS invite you to participate in the book club event. Topics include race, the criminal justice system, and the death penalty. The event is open to the public and registration is recommended. Tuesday, November 18, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, DLC Design Space Learn More →

Terrorism Studies Club: "Islamic State - Creating Opportunities from Chaos"

Please join the Terrorism Studies Club for a talk from Brigadier General (Ret.) Russell D. Howard. The speaker will brief the audience on the current counterterrorism considerations regarding the Islamic State. The talk will be a dry run of his upcoming TEDx presentation. Everyone is welcome! Thursday, November 20, 12:00 PM to 1:40 PM, Morse B104 Learn More →

Project Galileo: Defending Free Speech on the Internet

Please join the MIIS Cyber Security Initiative and Cyber Security Student Working Group (CSWG) for a talk from Kenneth Carter, Counsel at CloudFlare on "Project Galileo". CloudFlare created Project Galileo to protect politically and artistically important organizations and journalists against attacks that would otherwise censor their work. Thursday, November 20, 12:15 PM to 1:50 PM, MG 102 Learn More →

Hult Prize Competition

The Hult Prize encourages the world's brightest minds to compete in teams of 3 - 5 members to solve the planet's biggest challenges with innovative ideas for sustainable start-up enterprises. On November 21st, MIIS will select a winning team to advance to the regional finals. Each regional winner will spend a summer inside the Hult Accelerator and the champion will receive $1,000,000 in start-up funding. November 21, 4:30pm, Irvine Auditorium Learn More →

Asia Forum: Open Call for Submissions

The Asian Student Union announces the first annual Asia Forum, which will take place on December 5. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit a speech proposal centered around the theme of Experiential Learning. Send submissions to asu@miis.edu in a Word or PDF document by Friday, November 21.

Excel Learning Series

The Excel Learning Series continues! META LAB and the DLC are collaborating to provide a series of Excel workshops throughout the Fall 2014 semester to support the MIIS community.  Learning sessions will progress from introductory topics to more advanced tools and functions. Your facilitator will be META Lab graduate assistant and Data Analysis Teaching Assistant: Amer Shurrab. Friday, November 21, MG 100, 12:15-1:15pm First Time Participants Register Here →

Victory Over Violence Exhibit

SGI-Buddhists for Peace will hold an exhibit about "Victory over Violence." The event is free and open to anyone who believes that the world should be less violent. Let's identify the root cause of violence in our lives, homes, schools, and local communities, have a dialogue and take action to change it! Friday, November 21, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM and Saturday, November 22, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Samson Reading Room Learn More →

Open House at the Center for Social Impact Learning

CSIL officially moved into McGowan Suite 220 at the end of August, 2014. It’s time to share the ideas, the people, and the “flavor” of who we are and what we do. In the spirit of sharing and collaboration, we invite our local community of staff, students, and faculty at the Monterey Institute to hear from millennial thought leader David Hopkins on November 19 and visit the CSIL Community Open House on November 20. Learn More →

NPTS & IEP J-Term Workshops with Rich Wolfson

Middlebury Prof Rich Wolfson will offer two 1-credit workshops, appropriate, respectively, for NPTS and IEP students. The NPTS workshop examines the weapons proliferation potential of nuclear power technologies. The IEP workshop, based on the newly released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, examines the risks climate change poses to human society and our resource base. Both workshops include exploration with web-based and software modeling tools.

Course Catalog:

• NPTG8539 Power, Plutonium, & Proliferation

• IEPG8684 Climate Change: Assessing the Risks

DPMI Workshop - Rwanda: 20 Years Since the Genocide

Design, Partnering, Management and Innovation (DPMI) has added a new workshop! Students will learn about Rwanda’s many successes as well as its goals and modern challenges. MIIS students taking the January DPMI Rwanda course(s) must take this workshop. November 21-23, CF 442. Learn More →

MIIS CySec Co-Sponsors 31st International Workshop on Global Security

27 – 28 October 2014: MIIS CySec was an associate sponsor of the 31st International Workshop on Global Security at l’Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, France for high-level civilian and military leaders of NATO, the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, foreign dignitaries and key tech companies. This year’s Chatham House rules-event focused on Russia, Ukraine and post-Snowden cyber threats that … Continue Reading →

MIIS Alumnus Tim Dwyer and Daughter Emily: When a Double Becomes a Triple

Many MIIS alumni know a “double”—someone who’s attended both MIIS and another Middlebury-affiliated school—but so-called “triples” are definitely less common. Even more unusual is a triple that involves a father-daughter pair! Continue Reading → 

Veterans at MIIS: Building Future Careers in a “Very Veteran-Friendly Community”

November 11th is the day when we come together as a community to acknowledge all those who have served in the military and reflect on the freedoms that we should never take for granted. The Monterey Institute is proud of its recognition, year after year, as a Military Friendly School in appreciation of the warm welcome it extends to veterans. Students will celebrate the day with several activities honoring those who have served their country, including a free barbeque in the student garden on campus. Jens Wiik (MAIPS ’15) and Olga Volcsko (MANPTS ’15) jokingly say that they are the Institute’s best recruiters, for when they tell their friends about the programs and warm reception they received at MIIS, “of course they will want to come too!” Continue Reading → 

Updates from MIIS CySEC

Director of MIIS CySec Dr. Itamara Lochard presented on “Terrorists’ Use of Cyber and Technology” and “Countering Terrorists’ Use of Cyber and Technology” at the NATO Center of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism (CoE-DAT) executive education workshop in Ankara, Turkey. Participants included political/military officers from NATO, Partnership for Peace, Mediterranean Dialogue, Istanbul Cooperative Initiative countries as well as non-NATO member-states. Continue Reading →

Peace Corps Calendars are IN!

The MIIS Peace Corps Club is selling beautiful calendars so that they can send care packages to PCMI (Peace Corps Master's International) students currently serving abroad. This year's calendars are $15 each for staff and faculty, and $10 for students! Great gift for the holiday season. Please contact Kelly at kquackenbush@miis.edu if interested!

A Day in the Life of Alison Woods!

When I was teaching English in Japan, the idea of “ESID” (Every situation is different) was drummed in to us. No two people have lived the same experiences. When I was asked to write about a typical day at MIIS, I was flooded with many of great memories, and didn’t know exactly which one to focus on. I’ve decided to take on the idea of EDMD: Every day in Monterey is different! Continue Reading →

First Executive Education Workshop on “Cyberspace & International Affairs”

In August 2014 MIIS CySec Director Dr. Itamara Lochard conducted the first Executive Education workshop on “Cyberspace and International Affairs” for our partners at Sandia National Labs (SNL) Cooperative Monitoring Center’s International Partnership Building program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the goal of SNL’s pilot cyber executive education was to teach next-generation leaders how international relations intersects with the information … Continue Reading →

Dr. Itamara Lochard Published

13 – 18 October 2014:  For the past three years, MIIS CySec Director, Dr. Itamara Lochard chaired “Understanding the Local Population” panel of the Human Aspects of the Operational Environment project for the NATO HUMINT Center of Excellence. The aim was to create an interdiscipinary report for NATO HQ from an international group of subject manner experts to help facilitate doctrine development …Learn More →

Photo of the Week: Call for Submissions

Did you host or attend a great event at MIIS this week? Submit a picture for the photo of the week! The photo of the week is posted every Friday on all official MIIS social media channels, and showcases all aspects of the MIIS experience. Send your submissions and a brief description of the event to dlc@miis.edu.