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At the end of June, after a two-decade tenure at the MIT Center for International Studies, Richard Samuels plans to step down. He will remain an active faculty member in the Department of Political Science and its Security Studies Program. Evan Lieberman, the current director of MISTI, will take on the leadership of CIS.
In 2017, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) initiated the J-WAFS Fellowship Program for outstanding MIT PhD students working to solve humankind’s water-related challenges. Since then, J-WAFS has awarded 18 fellowships to stude
MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) awards graduate fellowships to MIT PhD students Gokul Sampath and Jie Yun, who are working to improve water access in developing countries and create agricultural sustainability and resilience.