Club Fair

Come check out all of the fabulous new and existing clubs on campus! 

Thursday, September 4th from 12-2pm at the Samson Center.

Group Fitness Classes!

Check out the 3 group fitness classes being offered at Z Club Fitness this semester, FREE for MIIS students/staff/faculty: Zumba, POUND, and Corebar! Visit go.miis.edu/zumba for schedule and descriptions!

Keep Calm and Manage Stress Workshop

Learn useful strategies to transform stress into a motivating, rather than debilitating, force in our lives. Led by Eva Giedt, local licensed mental health practitioner. September 18th from 12-1pm in the DLC Design Space. Visit go.miis.edu/keepcalm to sign up!

Keep Calm and Meditate!

Keep Calm and Meditate this fall! Sessions will take place every Wednesday from 12:30 – 1pm in room CF 452. These drop-in sessions do not include any meditation instruction or teaching; they simply provide a regular time and peaceful place to meditate, or just sit in silence, under the quiet guidance of a host. Learn More →

Own Your Pin: Share Your Summer Adventures!

At the end of the spring semester, the map in the library was full of pins representing where the MIIS community would be spending the summer. Now it's your chance to share about your adventures, and learn about others'! Tuesday, Sept. 2, 12:00-2:00pm, Samson Patio

International Affairs & Cyber

Dr. Itamara Lochard, Director of the Monterey Institute Cyber Security Initiative (MCySec), will present on the many ways that cyberspace impacts international affairs on Tuesday, Sept. 2 from 12:00-2:00pm in McGowan MG102. Come learn about the hottest growing field in international affairs that impacts everything from peace to war to humanitarian ops to language to business... No technical experience is necessary.

Peace Corps Club Bonfire Potluck

Join us this Friday as we celebrate the start of the semester and welcome new friends to the MIIS Peace Corps community!  Whether you have been a Peace Corps Volunteer in the past, are going to be one soon, or have interest in volunteering in the future, we'd love to see you at our monthly potlucks and activities that promote the values of the Peace Corps. Friday, Sept. 5, 6:30pm, Del Monte Beach

Teach Massively. Learn Locally. Sign Up to Participate in DLC Hybrid MOOC Experience

In our on-going attempts to explore emerging practices and learning opportunities for professional development, the DLC is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a local learning cohort of participants in the Coursera course: Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling. The 5-week MOOC (massive open online course), scheduled to run September 8 – October 12... Read more & Sign Up Here →

Team Peru: Is it right for you?

The Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development (AASD) is a MIIS alumni founded non-profit organization that collaborates with indigenous communities in Peru on development projects, with an emphasis on sustainable agriculture. Team Peru is a program for MIIS students to become incolved with the AASD and add an immersive learning component to their education. Learn More →

Publishing Opportunity for Policy Students

“The Nicomachean”, the online blog of the Students for Ethical Governance and Policymaking (SEGP), is seeking articles for publication. The SEGP is a student club at MIIS that seeks to involve ethical considerations in modern policymaking. We invite Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, and PhD students and recent graduates who have studied issues of political science, philosophy, history, international relations, development, economics, business, international security, gender relations, and ecology or related disciplines to submit articles to this new online journal. Learn More → 

Call for Proposals: Conflicts Over Water and Building Bridges with Water

The Center for Conflict Studies will be hosting the conference Conflicts Over Water and Building Bridges with Water November 6-8, and are currently accepting proposals. This conference aims to highlight the complexities of water conflicts and share approaches made by conflict resolvers, communities, institutions and governments in resolving these conflicts. Learn More →

Alumnus Peter Evans: Applying Lessons from MIIS in High-Stakes Policy Debates

When the Assad regime in Syria used chemical weapons against its citizens in the city of Ghouta in August of 2013, Peter Evans (MAIPS ’97) represented the Near East Affairs Bureau of the U.S. State Department’s nonproliferation policy office in the policy discussion of the response. “I applied all that I had learned at MIIS and during my internship at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, and it positioned me to be on top of the topic from the start.” Continue Reading → 

Recommendation from MIIS Alumnus Leads to Transformative Internship

For Michael Lui (MAIPS ’15), his summer internship working for the nonprofit organization Global Compassion in Cameroon was a transformative experience that he hopes to continue to build upon as he completes his degree in International Policy Studies, with a certificate in Conflict Resolution. For two and a half months Michael worked in the rural municipality of Santchou working on a grant proposal to implement a water project. His work involved researching existing wells and water taps, meeting with stakeholders, consulting with water experts and lots of writing. Continue Reading →

The Summer MIIS Experience in 60 Seconds: Justin Trifiro

There are many reasons to study a foreign language. Find out Justin Trifiro's reason in this week's episode of "The Summer MIIS Experience in 60 Seconds." Read more and watch the video here →

Returned Peace Corps volunteer Shares His Story

Returned Peace Corps volunteer Adam Garnica recently shared highlights of his two years as an English teacher in Mongolia through the Institute’s Peace Corps Master’s International (PCMI) program. Continue Reading →

MIIS Faculty Lisa Donohoe published 

MIIS Faculty Lisa Donohoe Luscombe has recently been published. The article is called Language and identity in a post-Soviet world: language of education and linguistic identity among Azerbaijani students. Continue Reading →

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