GSIPM Dean's Seminar: Design Thinking to Design Doing

Join guest speakers James Wright, Author of Scrum Market and Celena Aponte, MIIS Alum and Scrum practitioner at Cisco for a session on using design thinking to effect innovation. They will explain how Learn About Cascading Agile guides leadership to define human-centric destination, empower collaborators, and get the job done. Tuesday, November 25, 12:10 PM to 1:50 PM, MG 102 Learn More →

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

This week Serge Dedina, Executive Director of Wildcoast, will give the talk "New Tools for Coastal and Marine Conservation in California and the Baja California Peninsula." The series is open to all students and any member of the public interested in marine policy. Tuesday, November 25, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM, McGowan 102 Learn More →

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 & Wednesday, November 24 & 26, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Samson Center

MIIS-Connected is Here!

MIIS-Connected is a newly-formed Student Council committee that aims to increase connectivity between Faculty, Staff and Students.  We are currently looking for Staff and Faculty to join the committee.  If you are interested, please email studentservices@miis.com or stop by Student Services!

Cuba Practicum: Application Deadline

This practicum (January 6 - 17) provides students an opportunity to experience a country that has essentially been off-limits to most Americans for more than half a century. Students will learn about the culture and characteristics of the Cuban people and the extraordinary historical episodes that set it apart from the rest of the hemisphere. Application deadline extended to Sunday, November 30 Learn More →

DPMI Monterey: Application Deadline

Design, Partnering, Management & Innovation (DPMI) is a leadership certificate in international development, project management, and social change. Our program focuses on innovative approaches to create projects, facilitate stakeholder engagement, and strategic partnering in response to contemporary development challenges. Application deadline extended to Monday, December 1 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

Apply: Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge

To spur new thinking about how to resolve the continuing global threats posed by nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and its journal, the Nonproliferation Review, sponsor an annual writing competition to identify and publish the most outstanding new analyses in the nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation field. An $8,000 grand prize and a $2,000 honorable mention prize will be awarded to the author(s) of the two best articles. Deadline: December 8, 2014 Learn More →

MIIS President Sunder Ramaswamy to Step Down in February 2015

The Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school of Middlebury College, announced today that Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy, the Institute’s 13th president, has informed the community that he will step down effective February 1, 2015. Continue Reading →

Laurie L. Patton to Become 17th President of Middlebury

The Middlebury Board of Trustees today named Laurie L. Patton, dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the Robert F. Durden Professor of Religion, as Middlebury’s next president. Patton will take office on July 1, 2015, succeeding Ronald D. Liebowitz, who has served as president since July 2004. Continue Reading →

Professor Arrocha Interviewed on Immigration Policy

Dr. Arrocha was invited to KSMSTV-UNIVISION 67 to talk about the President's Executive Order on Immigration. Watch Interview →

A Day in the Life of Maria Mejia!

I don’t exactly have a typical day, but I do start my days by stretching and listening to NPR One because otherwise there is no way I would get up early (6:45 is probably not early to some of you…). Plus I start my day off by listening to the current events and interesting little stories, like how scientists recently found the largest dinosaur in Argentina and named it “Dreadnoughtus”. Continue Reading →

The MIIS Experience in 60 Seconds: Bruno Rossi

Bruno Rossi, a student from the south of Brazil, already speaks multiple languages. He is in the Translation and Localization Management program, with Portuguese as his language of study. At MIIS, he has been able to meet people from many additional countries and cultures, as well as study new languages. Watch Video →

Iran’s Nuclear Program: A Generational Divide

by MIIS Alumna Ghazal Rahmanpanah

In the summer of 2013, three decades after the end of the Iranian hostage crisis, the windows of the former United States embassy in the heart of downtown Tehran were washed once again and colorful murals were painted on the abandoned external walls. With the election of Dr. Hassan Rouhani to the Islamic Republic’s presidency, the people of Iran began envisioning a hopeful relationship between Iran and the U.S.A, believing promises of negotiations and economic relief to be imminent. 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!

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.