It’s reassuring to know that the MIIS family extends beyond our campus boundaries through continued friendships, city alumni group events (find a group on Facebook!), reunions, coworkers from MIIS, and more.

Congratulations 2013 Graduates!

May there be many conversations with MIIS colleagues and friends in the future.

Apply for a new US-based field program and training in Salt Lake City, Utah this summer.

The FMS program will launch a domestic training program on May 28, 2013 at the Sorenson Center for Global Impact Investing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. This training is excellent for those who want to work in the social impact investing space in the United States.

Apply for the training and a 3-6 month US-based field placement today. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

ECSEL brings together China’s top social entrepreneurs for self-learning, collaboration, and improved impact. ECSEL fellows traveled to Harvard, Stanford, and the Monterey Institute as part of their US tour.

In 2010, the Schoenfeld Foundation formally launched the ECSEL fellowship and that year, a cohort of 30 top Chinese undergraduate and MBA students traveled to the United States for a week of intensive business training. At that year’s CGIU conference, former US President Bill Clinton publicly honored the ECSEL program for its work supporting Chinese social enterprise.

The award winning business plan is for ShowerPonic Produce, offering organically-grown produce and fish through environmentally friendly aquaponic procedures. Jessy’s award did not surprise the many friends and supporters who have followed her idea since inception as she developed it and presented at MiddCORE@Monterey and the student-led Inn(ovation) Inc(ubator) she co-founded with Celena Aponte (MBA ’13) and Nate Shephens (MPA ’13). “We wanted to send a business idea through a competition as part of the Incubator initiative,” says Jessy, who managed to surprise herself. “I never thought I would win going into this semester, and now I am motivated and funded to move forward with my idea!”

The competition started in February with workshops throughout Monterey County, with final judging coming on Friday, May 3 after finalists presented their business plans at the Monterey Institute. Congressman Sam Farr announced the winners of the competition in the Irvine Auditorium.

Jessy is graduating this month and will use the $1,000 prize money and the multiple local business connections she has made through this process to add a spring to her career launch.

Gabriella Abrego (Chinese)

Heather Frank (Chinese)

Shane Mason (Urdu)

Jennifer Tribble (Arabic)

These students are among the approximately 610 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students (elected from 5000 applicants) who received a scholarship  to spend seven to ten weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in one of 13 countries to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu.

What: DPMI Plus students will present on their projects and internship experiences. Presentations followed by Q&A

How: Join via webinar (http://go.miis.edu/dpmi+colloquium) or in-person in the McCone Boardroom.

When: 12-1:30 PST on Thursday, May 9

Who:

12-12:20pm: Lupwa Lwabumi Trust Lusaka, Zambia

David Waldron, MPA

12:20-12:40pm: Project Concern International San Diego, California

Stephanie Kreuter, MPA

12:40-1:00pm: Accion East and Online New York City, NY

Elizabeth Haffa, MPA

1:00-1:20pm: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Fisheries Department Rome, Italy

James Jiashi Tsou-Wong, IEP

1:20-1:40: Asylum Access San Francisco, CA

Meg Fukuzawa, MPA

The project will examine the role of norms in global interactions and suggest a framework for employing them to help both understand and shape international policies related to nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear energy. The two-year project is expected to culminate in the publication of a book of scholarly articles on the topic co-edited by Professor Cohen and Professor Rublee, as well as a series of briefings for policy-makers in Washington, D.C; Vienna, Austria, and Canberra, Australia.

Also a senior fellow and education program director with CNS, Professor Cohen is best known for his work on nonproliferation issues in the Middle East, and more specifically Israel’s nuclear policy, about which he has written two highly regarded books (Israel and the Bomb in 1998 and The Worst Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb in 2010). Professor Cohen twice won the research and writing award of the MacArthur Foundation and was also twice a senior fellow at the USIP.

“My project co-director Maria Rublee and I are tremendously grateful to the U.S. Institute of Peace for supporting this important project,” commented Professor Cohen. “Our hope is that our work will ultimately offer new avenues for dialogue and research-based strategies for enhancing the international nonproliferation regime.”

When: Friday, May 10 , 12:00 PM
Where: McGowan 102

Ten graduates from the Masters of Public Administration program will present their amazing work on Friday, May 10th at 8:00 AM and 12:00 PM in the McCone Board Room and McGowan 102. This is a fabulous chance to see the diversity of work MIIS students are doing to make this world a better place. All are welcome to attend and my contact Dr. Ed Laurance for more information.

GSIPM invites you to a spirited talk with David Roberts, one of the nations leading environmental authors and staff writer for Grist. The presentation will cover the politics that underly, inhibit action, and offer solutions to some of the most intractable issues affecting climate change. David is one of the sharpest minds in the environmental movement and his political analysis is second to none. This event is open to the public and we invite everyone to attend.