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Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Fellows: Perry Lum As a Brumley Fellow, Perry plans to look at how the larger U.S./China rivalry impacts commercial space development and alliances in the Middle East. Congrats, Perry! bit.ly/BrumleyLum

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Fellows: Nicole Roy As a Brumley Fellow, Nicole plans to study deep sea mining and its impacts on mineral extraction, defense technology development, and the ocean as a theater of war. Welcome, Nicole! bit.ly/BrumleyRoy

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Fellows: Lee Walker As a Brumley Fellow, Lee plans to analyze the intersection between defense acquisitions and private markets and its technology gap. Congrats, Lee! bit.ly/BrumleyLeeWalk…

This is fabulous! Being a Brumley Fellow helped prepare me for my career as an academic, where I had the chance to teach Aaron when he was an undergraduate. And now, he's a Brumley fellow too? Kudos to the @StraussCenter and Aaron himself. I expect great things.

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Fellows: Georgia Heery As a Brumley Fellow, Georgia plans to research gray zone warfare and how intelligence can be used as a form of conflict resolution and prevention. Welcome, Georgia! bit.ly/BrumleyHeery

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Fellows: Aria Stiefelmaier As a Brumley Fellow, Aria plans to study how private military companies like Wagner Group are used as tools of state influence in the Middle East and North Africa. Congrats, Aria! bit.ly/BrumleyStiefel…

My @StraussCenter @TheLBJSchool students wrote four reports about migration along the US-Mexico border. Here is the first one on California. It tracks clandestine migration routes, migrant risk and mortality, and smuggler demographics in the region. strausscenter.org/publications/c…

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Fellows: Aaron Hernandez As a Brumley Fellow, Aaron plans to research how security alliances are shaped through rhetoric and communication and how grand strategy impacts eastern European countries. Welcome, Aaron! bit.ly/BrumleyHernand…

Please join us in welcoming the newest cohort of #StraussBrumley Fellows: six exceptional graduate students researching issues ranging from private military companies to deep sea mining to defense acquisitions and more. Meet this year's Fellows: bit.ly/25-26BrumleyFe…

Look forward to reading this - and to hosting @heguisen in Austin for a book talk with @AsiaPolicyUT this coming academic year!

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Scholars: Michael Fernandez As a Brumley Scholar, Michael plans to analyze the U.S. commitment to addressing root factors of irregular migration during the current administration. Welcome, Michael! bit.ly/BrumleyFernand…

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Scholars: Manon Buckner As a Brumley Scholar, Manon plans to research strategic industrial policies and targeted tariff adjustments to avert geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China. Congrats, Manon! bit.ly/BrumleyBuckner

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Scholars: Henderson Chandler As a Brumley Scholar, Henderson plans to study collaboration of U.S. Special Operations Forces with Arctic indigenous populations for regional security. Welcome, Henderson! bit.ly/BrumleyChandler

**AI Summer School is in session** Check out the first episode in our Scaling Laws *Academy* series with Eugene Volokh. A man in no need of introduction, you will not want to miss this inaugural academy episode on libel in the Age of AI.

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Scholars: Gavin Harris As a Brumley Scholar, Gavin plans to analyze existing digital governance frameworks in south and southeast Asia. Congrats, Gavin! bit.ly/BrumleyHarris

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Scholars: Gabrielle Izu As a Brumley Scholar, Gabrielle plans to dive into U.S.-Ethiopia relations as it pertains to human rights in the Tigray, Amhara, and Oromo regions. Welcome, Gabrielle! bit.ly/BrumleyIzu

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Scholars: Evelyn Conway As a Brumley Scholar, Evie plans to analyze U.S. policy for combatting and preventing cybercrime. Congrats, Evie! bit.ly/BrumleyConway

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Scholars: Drew Wessels As a Brumley Scholar, Drew is interested in the role of China's Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East and North Africa region. Welcome, Drew! bit.ly/BrumleyWessels

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Scholars: Brianna Schaff As a Brumley Scholar, Brianna hopes to learn more about energy diversification policies in Central European countries post-invasion of Ukraine. Congrats, Brianna! bit.ly/BrumleySchaff

Meet our 2025-26 #StraussBrumley Scholars: Abby Greenlee As a Brumley Scholar, Abby plans to study U.S. policies on China's 5G expansion and broader efforts to regulate Chinese technology. Welcome, Abby! bit.ly/BrumleyGreenlee