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.
Giving thanks: Kenley Butler, director of development at the Monterey Institute, feels fortunate to have daily interactions with incredibly smart, moral people who aspire to make a difference in their respective fields.
Giving thanks: Monterey Institute student Whitney Hales is thankful for her family and looking forward to seeing them on Thanksgiving, while her friend Inge Kristensen from Denmark is thankful for her new American friends and their welcoming spirit.
Giving thanks: alumna Maame Afon is grateful to lead a life that is true to everything she is as a woman, a wife, mother, development professional, inspirational speaker and singer.
Speakers from diverse professional and personal backgrounds talked – and were consecutively interpreted in multiple languages -- about how sports affect the global economy, our health and sometimes our very own identities at the Monterey Institute Fall Forum.
Veterans bring a wide range of experiences to their studies at the Monterey Institute, where they are encouraged to build on their skills and expertise to prepare for a new stage in their careers.
The Monterey Institute community is mourning the passing of Professor Carl J. Fehlandt, who taught Spanish translation and interpretation here for nearly four decades, shaping a generation of professional translators.
The Center for Conflict Studies celebrates its inaugural week at the Monterey Institute this week with a series of events leading up to a Nov. 8-10 conference on religion and gender.
Working as an ecologist in the national parks in Tanzania led Noel Mbise to the realization that creating good policy is not enough to save the environment when people have immediate needs for resources – which led him to the Monterey Institute.
Monterey Institute graduate Julian Zhu (MACI ’12) wrote to us recently to share his story of landing an amazing internship and now a job with an assist from a MIIS professor’s Twitter feed.
