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Best advice for a MIIS student today? Don’t be passive. Work with professors to design your own immersive learning projects, apply for funding, and get published. If you’re up for it, it’s a great way to do some hands-on learning that is a little more real world than perhaps a structured program.
| by Elea Becker Lowe MAIEP '18
Grad school is the place to try new and daunting things, where mistakes can become our greatest teachers. And you can only create more space for growth and success by nurturing curiosity. Also, ask your role models out to coffee and ask them how they found their path.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Paulette Lynch, Temie Giwa-Tubosun, and Lefteris Kafatos are the 2020 recipients of the Middlebury Institute Alumni Achievement Awards.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Middlebury Institute International Environmental Policy alumnus Kouassigan Tovivo has specialized in international climate negotiations and capacity building but hopes to eventually bring his expertise back to his native Togo.
Alumna Masako Fukutani MATI ‘19 won runner up in the Student Division of the Japan Association of Conference Interpreters 2019 Simultaneous Interpretation Grand Prix.
| by Jhon Arbalaez-Novak MAIEP ’11
Jhon Arbalaez-Novak MAIEP ’11 explains why he has decided not to have children.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Current student Hajar Masoud MAIPD ’19 talks about her life in Gaza—and how the experience has shaped her view of the world.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Healthcare entrepreneur Temie Giwa-Tubosun MPA ‘10 is bringing critical lifesaving infrastructure to her native Nigeria.
| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
As systems running on artificial intelligence (AI) govern greater parts of our daily decisions and interactions, we might be in for some “wobbly stretches of human-machine interaction.”
| by Jason Warburg
A recent study by the Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy estimated the potential physical and economic impact of sea level rise on several Monterey landmarks.
