Five Chinese MIIS students were specially invited to the official celebration of China’s spring festival in San Francisco, where the consul general thanked the students for promoting positive U.S.-China relations and the Monterey Institute for offering the students a quality education.
The American University in Cairo and the Monterey Institute partnered to offer a 10-day project-management training program in Cairo this January, modeled on the popular three-week Development Project Management Institute (DPMI).
Amanda Townsend, Arielle Weisman, Amber Slaton, and Lauren Scott worked as an interpreting team at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile during winter term.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the U.S. generated wide media coverage this week, including high-profile articles quoting two Monterey Institute experts.
CNS Senior Fellow Avner Cohen was cited by the New York Times and other international media this week in stories speculating on Israel’s efforts to slow Iran’s progress toward developing a nuclear weapon.
Professors Tom and Pat Manley of Middlebury College, specialists in the study of oceans and water, are using the Monterey coast as a virtual classroom for students in their J-term course on coastal dynamics and management.
Former “Lost Boy” Mawuor Dior (MAIPS ’10) returned to his home country of Sudan after more than two decades away, in time to submit his ballot on the question of whether to establish an independent South Sudan.
