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TLC Professional Development Workshops – Full & Filling Fast

December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

For the January TLC Professional Development workshops, there is now a wait-list for the video editing workshop and just a few spaces left in the collaboration tools workshop.  If you’re still interested in participating in these workshops, please sign up and come ready to work in January!

Dec

21

Hahn Interviewed by Voice of America

December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Professor Gordon M. Hahn was interviewed for, and cited extensively by Voice of America’s Russian-language service in an article by Michael Gutkin titled “Experts Note Activization of the North Caucasus Militants.”

Dec

21

Insurance Cards are in the Mail

December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

CBA Blue cards (for the new MIIS Medical and Dental benefits that take effect January 1) were mailed 12/14 to benefits eligible employees. On 12/9, Flex Spending cards, which look like credit cards, were mailed to program participants. Both cards were mailed to the home address that MIIS HR had on file [...]

Dec

18

Kardam Selected to Attend Salzburg Seminar

December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I am very pleased to announce that Professor Nuket Kardam has been selected to represent MIIS at the May 2010 Salzburg Global Seminar on “Whither Europe? Whither Turkey?” While the Selection Committee received several strong applications and was hard-pressed to make its choice, after careful review and multiple conversations, we decided that Professor [...]

Dec

18

Monday, December 21st – Faculty/Staff Winter Solstice Potluck

December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Dec

18

MIIS@Media: A Big News Week for MIIS Faculty and Staff

December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It’s been a big week for Institute faculty and staff making the news! On Wednesday, Professor Fredric Kropp was quoted by Fox News in an article looking at the unique marketing approach of upstart cellular service provider CREDO, which is trying to woo customers based on political compatibility. Then yesterday, CNS Senior Research [...]

Dec

17

MIIS T&I Students Host Fall Forum

December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The annual Fall Forum hosted by the Monterey Institute of International Studies Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation and Language Education, held in early November, chose a provocative theme: Communication through Technology. The Forum is a school-wide event that is masterminded, hosted and interpreted entirely by second-year Translation and Interpretation students to showcase their consecutive interpreting [...]

Dec

16

Thanks to Winter Commencement Volunteers

December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR WONDERFUL VOLUNTEERS WHO HELPED OUT AT WINTER COMMENCEMENT!  We could not do this without each and everyone of these wonderful individuals who so generously donated their time to make the event a success.
Flagbearers:  Rona Kabiri, Michelle Dosseet, Shawna Routh, Jesse Lee, Nanthalath [...]

Dec

15

Former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative Alan Wolff to Lead Institute’s International Trade Policy Initiative

December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Ambassador Alan Wolff has accepted an appointment as Distinguished Research Professor in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management, and director of the Institute’s new International Trade and Development Policy Initiative (ITDPI). We expect ITDPI to be the first phase of our effort to consolidate and enhance the Institute’s research and academic programs [...]

Dec

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TLC Professional Development Workshops in January

December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

After surveying your needs, the Teaching and Learning Collaborative has planned two workshops during January: Video Editing (4 sessions) and Collaboration Tools (2 sessions).  We hope that as many of you as possible will take advantage of these opportunities to learn new tools and practices that you can use in your work and teaching.  For [...]

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