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Erika Quiñonez MAIEM ‘17 works as Study Abroad Coordinator at the University of Miami, a private research university with more than 17,000 students, serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 180 majors and programs.
| by Miranda Meyer
Kimani DeShields-Williams is a fourth-semester International Policy and Development student, completing her International Professional Service Semester with the in Bangkok, Thailand.
Noah Mayhew, MANPTS ‘18, has been awarded the Alfa Fellowship. This program is a distinguished international initiative that each year offers up to 18 accomplished young Americans, Britons, and Germans the opportunity to complete a high-level professional development program in Russia.
| by Miranda Meyer
From the : For this month’s DPMI spotlight, we spoke with January 2018 DPMI Rwanda participant Tyler Henry. Tyler is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in both the Ukraine and in Cameroon. Currently, he is completing his final semester in the MPA program specializing in monitoring and evaluation. He spoke to us about why he chose DPMI Rwanda vs DPMI in the US, challenges he faced during his time in Rwanda, takeaways from the experience, and provided advice for anyone interested in participating in DPMI in the future.
This year’s Olympics Games featured at least 10 interpreters who are faculty, former faculty, or alumni of the Middlebury Institute.
Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies (NPTS) Program Chair Jeffrey Knopf publishes article in Contemporary Security Policy. The article is part of a special issue on Nuclear Norms in Global Governance. This special issue was co-edited by NPTS professor Avner Cohen and Maria Rost Rublee from Monash University in Australia.
Lienne Renner Publishers has published Biosecurity in Putin’s Russia by Middlebury Institute Professor Raymond A. Zilinskas and alumnus Philippe Mauger MANPTS ‘15.
Middlebury Institute students Ben DeYoung and Anthony Sisneroz were selected among 425 finalists from an applicant pool of over 6,000 for the Presidential Management Fellowship.
