Kimberly Aiken at the Alaska Forum on the Environment
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Dr. Juliano Calil, Center for the Blue Economy Senior Fellow, Adjunct Faculty at the Middlebury Institute, and co-founder of Virtual Planet has created a 3D virtual reality “Sea Level Rise Explorer.”
More than 30 companies and organizations attended the Middlebury Institute Translation, Interpretation, and Localization Management (TILM) Career Fair held at the Monterey Marriott on February 15, 2019.
Middlebury Institute of International Studies’ Associate Professor Philipp C. Bleek and alumnus MA NPTS ‘15 Zachary Kallenborn publish “Drones of Mass Destruction: Drone Swarms and the Future of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons” with War on the Rocks. The piece distills a longer article, “Swarming destruction: drone swarms and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons”, that they recently published in the Nonproliferation Review.
Professor William Arrocha examined the different manifestations of nationalism and how it can turn into nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment.
“Middlebury’s FMS program is one of the most exciting, targeted, and remarkable academic efforts I’ve ever experienced.” Frontier Market Scouts (FMS) instructor Eric Maltzer on his experience with the Frontier Market Scouts and the future of Impact Investing.
Associate Professor Philipp Bleek presented at the Naval Postgraduate School on the “Past, Present, and Future of State and Terrorist Chemical Weapons Threats” on February 8, 2019. The talk drew on Professor Bleek’s experience serving as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs in 2012 to 2013.
The Winter Term Czech Republic Nuclear Research Reactor Practicum offers Middlebury Institute students the opportunity to learn technical applications of nuclear safety, security, and reactor operations.
Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) Associate Professor, Dr. Moyara Ruehsen, briefed attendees at United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime meeting on the importance of using open source intelligence to track illicit financial activity. The meeting was focused specifically on counterterrorism financing, proliferation financing, and maritime facilitation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation. Dr. Ruehsen oversees MIIS’s world-renowned financial crimes program.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Andrea Gacki, director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will be the keynote speaker at the first Monterey Threat Financing Forum at the Middlebury Institute on March 20-22, 2019.