Students Win Chinese Interpretation Competition
| by Emily Cipriani
Three Institute students recently won awards in the Yunshan Cup, a Chinese interpretation competition.
| by Emily Cipriani
Three Institute students recently won awards in the Yunshan Cup, a Chinese interpretation competition.
Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Middlebury Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, wrote an Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times and The Mercury News, in addition to providing an interview for MSNBC, about the option of adding Russia to the U.S. government’s state sponsors of terrorism list.
Video| by Stephen Diehl and Andrew Cassel
A team of 13 Middlebury Institute students took the top prize in the Department of Homeland Security’s Invent2Prevent competition, which challenged them to innovate against violence and terrorism.
| by Jason Warburg
A two-year, salaried fellowship at a government agency awaits eight Middlebury Institute students who won Presidential Management Fellowships this year.
| by Stephen Diehl and Andrew Cassel
A fourth-semester International Policy and Development student, Patton is gaining professional experience through her practicum with the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs.
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Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis and a team of students noticed the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Google Maps hours before it was officially announced, the Washington Post reports.
In a San Francisco Chronicle opinion article, Jason Scorse, director of the Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy and David Helvarg, executive director of Blue Frontier, argue that sanctioning Russia’s oil and natural gas exports is crucial to the U.S. response to the crisis in Ukraine.