Russian President Vladimir Putin is betting on an ancient weapon more powerful than any of the missiles now being supplied by the United States and its European allies to Ukraine: time. Nearly five months since Putin ordered the Feb. 24 invasion that has devastated parts of Ukraine, Russia is hoping that Western resolve will be sapped by alarm over surging global energy and food prices that the war has helped to stoke.
Erin Walk studies the intersection between data science, policy, and technology as a PhD student in the Social and Engineering Systems program (SES), part of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. Her research has demonstrated the value and bias inherent in social media data, with a focus on how to mine social media data to better understand the conflict in Syria.
MIT's Center for International Studies recently honored Robert E. Wilhelm, whose fellowship program brings real-world experience and new scholarship to CIS.
Thirty congressional staffers were hosted by the MIT Security Studies Program for a series of seminars focused on contemporary national security issues.