The Monterey Institute is home to thousands of individual stories of international engagement and impact — learn more about them here.
The Monterey Institute of International Studies is a vibrant campus community with an abundance of global connections and interesting stories to tell. Our students teach and learn in multiple languages and put their graduate professional education to work all over the world in contexts ranging from economic development to language education to international business to nuclear nonproliferation to conference interpretation to global environmental initiatives. You can find student stories sprinkled across this site and in our MIIS Spotlight. Some of those stories are also told in our Communiqué newsletter, and in our news releases. You can find an expert on your own, or contact us for more information.
Twelve students from Shandong University participated in a simulation of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization as part of a special summer training course in trade and development at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Lucy Jodlowska and Kiersten Anderson are working to assess the needs of impoverished women bead makers in Uganda and evaluating the program that allows them to sell their product in the US.
Monterey Institute Students Elizabeth Romanoff and Jorge Silva capitalized on their language and organizational skills as translators and assistant coordinators for the official Mexican Soccer Delegation at the World Cup.
As the fiscal year draws to a close June 30, preliminary figures show alumni giving at the Monterey Institute has doubled, while the number of donors overall has increased 32 percent.
On the June 29 edition of PBS Newshour, Monterey Institute Professor Vassilieva discussed possible effects of the recent Russian spy charges on US-Russian relations.
Monterey Institute Professor Moyara Ruehsen, an economist and anti-money laundering specialist, was asked by National Public Radio to respond to news reports about billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars falling into the hands of corrupt Afghan officials.