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Empowering faculty partnerships across the globe
MIT faculty share their creative and technical talent on campus as well as across the globe, compounding the Institute’s impact through strong international partnerships. Thanks to the MIT Global Seed...
Will the Covid-19 pandemic change national security?
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to inflict huge damage around the world, international affairs experts are increasingly wondering: Will the virus make countries reconsider their national security strategies? After all,...
Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin Prize
If we can better understand the causes and consequences of war, then we can contribute to its prevention. That is the guiding philosophy of faculty and students at the Security Studies Program...
3 Questions: Anat Biletzki on the Human Rights and Technology Fellowship Program
MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) research affiliate Anat Biletzki is the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University. From 2001 to 2006, she served as chair of B’Tselem ― the...
Technology and policy pathways to Paris emissions goals
Now convening in Katowice, Poland, amid dire warnings from the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius and the National Climate Assessment about the pace of climate...
Democracy in distress?
When the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, it seemed democracy had triumphed among political systems. But more recently, many democracies have run into a common set of troubles,...
A new world of warcraft
In the past decade, high tech tools have proliferated in the world’s fighting forces. At least 80 nations can now deploy remote-controlled drones. Will the widespread use of digitally enhanced...
MIT expands global supply chain research with opening of new facilities in Ningbo, China
The Ningbo Supply Chain Innovation Institute China (NSCIIC) has strengthened its role as China’s premier center for supply chain research and education with the appointment of Jiequn “Jay” Guo as...
MIT Energy Initiative report charts pathways for sustainable personal transportation
In our daily lives, we all make choices about how we travel and what type of vehicle we own or use. We consider these choices within the constraints of our...
Three MIT seniors to join 2021 class of Schwarzman Scholars
Three MIT seniors, Mariam Dogar, Adedoyin Olateru-Olagbegi, and Jessica Quaye, and alumna Jessica Wang ’16, MEng ’17 are recipients of this year’s Schwarzman Scholarship distinguished fellowship. Another alumna was also...