CISSM News

​The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded CISSM a new grant to examine how to minimize the risks of proliferation, terrorist access to fissile material, and use of nuclear or radiological weapons that are emerging from the expansion of nuclear energy capacity and exports from East Asia.

​At the invitation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, CISSM Senior Research Associate and Associate Research Professor Charles Harry has joined the Chamber's Cybersecurity Leadership Council.

The University of Maryland's Office of the Provost has awarded CISSM a 3-year $300,000 matching grant to further develop its cyber risk assessment model and to apply the model to existing information technology systems.

Research published by CISSM Research Associate Jaganath Sankaran was named a finalist for the 2018 Brodie Prize.

Sankaran’s research, published in the journal Contemporary Security Policy, evaluated the capabilities of missile defense installations in South Korea and the need for the South Korean government to reassure China of its intentions regarding its missile defense cooperation with the United States. 

​CISSM is pleased to welcome Kathleen Vogel, a recently appointed associate professor at the School of Public Policy, who will be a senior fellow at the center. Vogel, who is currently finishing a Jefferson Science Fellowship at the U.S. Department of State, will be joining the school full-time in the Fall of 2017.

Jill Maloney, a recent School of Public Policy graduate and CISSM graduate assistant, was awarded a graduate fellowship from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Maloney is the third graduate student and CISSM GA to accept a position through the NNSA fellowship program.

CISSM Director Nancy Gallagher and Research Scholar Charles Harry were awarded a UMD "Invention of the Year" award at "Innovate Maryland," a UMD celebration of innovation and partnerships held on April 12, 2017. 

The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded a new $500,000 grant to CISSM in support of its research and educational programming to assess and fundamentally improve U.S.-Russian relations.

CISSM Director Nancy Gallagher and Research Scholar Charles Harry have been nominated for an Invention of the Year award at Innovate Maryland, a UMD celebration of innovation and partnerships being held on April 12, 2017.

The Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), together with the Maryland Global Initiative on Cybersecurity (MaGIC) and the Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise (CPPPE), visited Tokyo in November 2016 and February 2017 to help senior Japanese government officials develop effective strategies against cyber threats at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. .

For the second year in a row, CISSM was named one of the top 50 academic think tanks in the world in the 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index Ranking. The ranking presents the collective judgment of 2,543 think tank researchers, journalists, policy makers, and philanthropists from more than 140 countries, as well as the Index’s panel of experts.

With the Donald J. Trump administration just a couple of weeks away from taking over the nation’s foreign policy, a new survey from the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation (PPC) finds that nearly two thirds of Americans oppose withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and seeking to negotiate a better deal, as has been proposed by the president-elect.