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CAMPI Releases Report on Migration and Migrant Smuggling in South Texas
The Strauss Center’s Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative (CAMPI) Director Stephanie Leutert, with Maureen Rendón, a 2022-23 Strauss Brumley Next Generation Fellow, have published a report on migration and migrant smuggling in South Texas. This report focuses on the time period from 2014 to 2022 and attempts to answer two broad questions. The first question is related…
Strauss Center Announces 2023 – 2024 Brumley Next Generation Scholars
The Strauss Center is very pleased to announce the acceptance of ten undergraduate students to its 2023 – 2024 class of Brumley Next Generation Scholars. We are incredibly excited to welcome this dynamic cohort of students into the Brumley Program from across the Forty Acres, and know they will bring unique perspectives to the multi-disciplinary…
Strauss Center Announces 2023 – 2024 Brumley Next Generation Fellows
The Strauss Center is thrilled to announce the acceptance of nine graduate students to the 2023 – 2024 cohort of Brumley Next Generation Fellows. We are incredibly excited to welcome this dynamic cohort of students into the Brumley Program from across the Forty Acres, and know they will bring unique perspectives to the multi-disciplinary programs…
Freedom’s Price: Vladimir Kara-Murza Punished for Criticizing Russia’s War in Ukraine
Message from the Director We draw your attention to a Moscow court’s recent sentencing of Russian politician, journalist and historian Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in a penal colony for an earlier treason conviction for his public criticism of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. Many of you will recall Kara-Murza’s visit to UT-Austin in…
UT’s Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) Receives Army Cyber Institute Grant from the US Military Academy at West Point
The Strauss Center is pleased to report that the “Cyber Pacific” team of the University of Texas at Austin’s Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) has received a grant of $250,000 from the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Led by Strauss Distinguished Scholar Dr. Michael Mosser, Executive Director of GDIL…
Call for Papers: 2023 “Bobby R. Inman Award” for Student Scholarship on Intelligence
The Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the 8th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The winner of the “Inman Award” will receive a cash prize of $5,000, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2,500. This competition is open to unpublished work…
Pope and Neller Discuss the Marine Corps and Security in the Indo-Pacific
Intelligence Studies Project Senior Fellow Paul Pope and Strauss Distinguished Senior Fellow and Marine Corps Gen. (Ret.) Robert Neller recently, on the Horns of Dilemma Podcast, a joint venture co-sponsored by the Strauss and Clements Centers, expressed their thoughts around Marine Corps structures and recent doctrine changes which intends “to create a force ready to…
Rasmussen Discusses Foreign Terrorism in the U.S.
Strauss Center Senior National Security Fellow and former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Nicholas Rasmussen, made several comments for an article titled “Major Foreign Terror Attack on US ‘Almost Inconceivable’ Right Now” for the New Delhi Times. “We have achieved what I would call a suppressive effect on the ability of groups like…
CAMPI Director Discusses Asylum Processing Report
Stephanie Leutert, Director of the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative, spoke to The Monitor about asylum processing and the newest report that was released in February. “So in five years there’s four different types of processing procedure which is really incredible. That’s unprecedented because before five years that was just the way it was….
The University of Texas at Austin, Naval War College, Colorado School of Mines Selected by DoD as One of Six Teams for Social Science Research
U.S. Naval War College, The University of Texas at Austin, and Colorado School of Mines have been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to research critical minerals, battery technology, and reducing dependence on hostile suppliers in the clean energy supply chain. Principal investigators from each institution include Professor Joshua Busby, LBJ School of Public…
