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Middlebury Institute Nonproliferation Studies experts Sarah Bidgood and Nomsa Ndongwe recently provided insight into gender representation within the nuclear policy field at a panel hosted by Harvard’s Project on Managing the Atom.
The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) welcomed more than 80 high-level officials and experts from around the world for its annual International Advisory Council (IAC) meeting, featuring four panel sessions.
The Peace Corps Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program named the Middlebury Institute of International Studies one of the top-enrolling institutions nationwide for the 2020–21 academic year, with 48 students enrolled.
Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis provided insight into China’s recent nuclear-capable hypersonic missile test in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation podcast.
In a recently published Multilingual article, student William Dan makes the case for language service expert recognition and visibility. Dan is a student in the MA in Translation and Localization Management program.
Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Avner Cohen refutes fatalist claims that Iran is close to achieving nuclear capability in a recent article for Haaretz.
Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, recently wrote a piece for the Washington Post warning that the next 9/11-scale event in the United States is likely to stem from domestic terrorism.
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The Economist recently explored how open-source intelligence (OSINT) can challenge governments’ monopolies on information, with insight from Middlebury Institute professor Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The article is behind a paywall but you can watch a video interview we conducted with Jeffrey Lewis on OSINT.
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Researchers from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Lemann Center at Stanford University, in a partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the City of Santa Cruz, and Virtual Planet Technologies announced today the publication of a groundbreaking study about the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in sea level rise planning and community engagement. The study is part of the special issue of Water, a peer-reviewed journal on water science and technology, dedicated to “Adaptation to Coastal Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise” which will be released on May 13, 2021.
NBA Top Shot is the hottest NFT marketplace on the planet. It’s also got a big problem: customers are complaining about exceptionally long wait times to get paid from sales of digital tokens that can often cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. “You don’t really know what something is truly worth,” cautioned Professor Moyara Ruehsen who oversees the Financial Crime Management program at the Middlebury Institute.
