Author: Katya Gamolsky

Mark Your Calendars: East Asia Presentations this Thursday!

Presentations at Irvine Auditorium this Thursday, May 7th, 6:30-8:30pm, Reception 8:30-9:30pm! The students that went on the first ever two-country program through MIIS Immersive Learning Programs, the East Asia: China and Japan trip, will be presenting this Thursday at Irvine, with a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception to follow. The presentations will be very interesting as this […]

Two MIIS Students Weigh in on Their Combined Nine Immersive Learning Experiences

I sat down with Maritza Munzón (MPA/IEM ’15), and Rafael Hernandez (MPA ’15) at a local coffee shop last week to interview them about MIIS’s Immersive Learning Programs. Maritza has traveled on five trips to six countries through MIIS (Peru, Cuba, Kenya, Mindanao, and East Asia), and Rafael has gone to four (Peru, Cuba, Rwanda, […]

New Internship Opportunity in Uganda!

Looking for a summer internship opportunity in Africa? Check out ISLA – and feel free to join tomorrow’s info session from 12pm-1pm in Morse B206! http://www.isla-serve.org/ *MPAs – this could count for DPMI Plus!

Upcoming Info Sessions for IPSS, DPMI, and Tunisia

IPSS 2016 http://www.miis.edu/academics/monterey-abroad/service-semester Info Session: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 12-1pm @MG100 Application Deadline: September 1st, 2015   DPMI, DPMI + http://www.miis.edu/academics/short/development-management Info Session: Thursday, Feb 26, 2015, 12-1pm @CF452 Application Deadline: Summer 2015: Early Review – March 1st, 2015; General Application Deadline – April 1st, 2015 Winter 2016: Early Review – September 1st, 2015; General Application Deadline – […]

J-term for MIIS Students, Off and On Campus

For J-term 2015, we had 70 students go to five countries on four continents. Sonia Esquibel, who was on the Peru Practicum on small-scale farming, sent me the wonderful photo of Team Peru (to the right). She wrote the following about her journey, “I have really enjoyed working with students from MIIS, MIDD, AASD, and Professor […]

Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale

Dear Colleagues,   You and your students and colleagues may be interested in attending or presenting at the upcoming 12th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on March 28-29, 2015. We are also currently accepting social enterprise abstracts for presentation, as well as applications for the $10,000 and $5,000 GHIC Innovation Prize. Global Health & […]

Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education

When: March 2-4, 2015 Where: San Francisco What: The Second Annual Summit on Improvement in Education Who:  attendees come from across all aspects of the education field, from kindergarten to higher ed, practitioners to policymakers, funders to researchers. For more information: http://carnegiefoundationsummit.org/program/about/ Questions? Contact 877-842-3110 or summitreg@carnegiefoundation.org  

Sites DOT MIISThe Middlebury Institute site network.