Dear IPS students, faculty, staff, and members of the Carnegie Mellon community,
Welcome to the new Institute for Politics and Strategy weekly newsletter. Here, you'll find the latest on department events, student and faculty highlights, professional and academic opportunities, and alumni updates. We'll highlight both what's ahead for the department and the great work our students and faculty have done. We'll gather student opportunities -- application deadlines, internships, etc. -- to keep you up to date. And we'll check in with IPS alumni to see where their careers or continued education have taken them.
If you would like to submit something for consideration for the newsletter, please get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,
Bill Brink
IPS Communications Specialist
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Hoover Capital Conversation featuring IPS Director and Taube Professor Kiron Skinner |
Join Professor Skinner and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul for a panel hosted by the Hoover Institution titled "The Future of Foreign Policy and Alliances."
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Professional and Academic Opportunities |
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Apply now to the Carnegie Mellon University Washington Semester Program |
Applications are now being accepted for the Carnegie Mellon University Washington Semester Program (CMU/WSP) for Spring 2021!
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with a preferred due date of October 1, 2020. You can apply here.
Please contact Emily Half for an individual appointment to discuss the program.
We have two upcoming information sessions:
Undergraduates from any course of study are invited to apply. In this semester-long program, students live, intern, and study in Washington, DC, coming into direct contact with political, business, and community leaders and learning about the most pressing policy issues of the day.
Students earn forty-eight units for the CMU/WSP, while interning twenty-five hours per week in any sector or field of interest within Washington, DC, and taking CMU classes. The Institute for Politics and Strategy sponsors events and forums for students to enhance their understanding of Washington as a hub of national and international policy-making.
For more information about CMU/WSP, check out the website here. You can also hear what some alumni liked best about the program here, or see how it helped others achieve their career goals here.
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- Join Carnegie Mellon's third annual INTERSECT@CMU conference
The 2020 INTERSECT@CMU Virtual Conference Series gathers expert speakers from within CMU and beyond to explore the long-term global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on four foundational elements of society: health, sustainability, the economy and education.
Events:
A Conversation on the Data Revolution and the Future of Health Care
with Glen de Vries (S 1994), co-CEO of Medidata, and Rebecca Doerge, Glen de Vries Dean, Mellon College of Science
September 10 at 5 p.m. ET
Health Keynote and Panel Discussion
September 11 at 1 p.m. ET
Sustainability Keynote and Panel Discussion
September 18 at 12:30 p.m. ET
Economy Keynote and Panel Discussion
September 25 at 1 p.m. ET
Education Keynote and Panel Discussion
October 2 at 1 p.m. ET
Student-Led Programming and Future-Thon
September 10-13
- Heinz College Virtual Federal Government Week
- Join the American Enterprise Institute's 2020 Weekend Honors Program
The American Enterprise Institute Academic Programs department is now accepting nominations for our 2020 Weekend Honors Program.
This year’s Weekend Honors Program — to be held virtually on October 23 and 24 — is titled Four Debates Shaping Education Reform and will gather sixteen to twenty undergraduates from a variety of schools, academic backgrounds, and viewpoints for a series of seminars led by AEI’s Frederick M. Hess.
Together, Dr. Hess and the students will explore four major questions shaping education reform today: How do we pay teachers? How should we think about the promise of school choice? How do we make sure that our colleges and universities are places of free inquiry? How do we ensure that higher education is about expanding opportunity?
- Center for Strategic and International Studies panel on Iranian national security strategy
The Center for Strategic and International Studies is holding a roundtable discussion Wednesday, September 9, titled "No Conquest, No Defeat: Iran's National Security Strategy." Ariane Tabatabai, a Middle East Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy and an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University, will join Seth Jones, the Director of the Transnational Threats Project at CSIS.
- Apply for a Dialogues on the Experience of War grant through the National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for its Dialogues on the Experience of War grants. The Dialogues on the Experience of War program supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help US military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. Dialogues is primarily designed to reach military veterans; however, men and women in active service, military families, and interested members of the public may also participate.
Draft* (optional) Submission Deadline: Sept. 21, 2020
*Full drafts not required. You may send partial drafts, summaries, and preliminary sketches.
Application Deadline: Oct. 14, 2020
Funding Available: up to $100,000
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IPS Assistant Teaching Professor Colin Clarke spoke to Vice News about the French satirical newspaper publishing controversial cartoons of religious imagery.
IPS Postdoctoral Fellow Alma Keshavarz co-authored a report for the US Army War College regarding the threat posed by Islamic State fighters leaving Syria and Iraq.
“I would hope that voters in Pennsylvania paid attention,” IPS Research Fellow Abby Schachter told the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. “What happens here will be very, very meaningful to the outcome of the election.”
IPS Director and Taube Professor Kiron Skinner wrote about the value of a strong State Department in The National Interest: "In a future administration, personal, retail statecraft must be matched with government officials figuring out the nuts and bolts of the current policy and undertaking sustained diplomatic engagement with allies and partners of their own."
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We'd love to hear from you! Please share your latest accomplishments, career moves, higher-education opportunities, or anything you think IPS students would find interesting or helpful. Contact us here.
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