Women’s Soccer Takes On Brazil

VU Women's Soccer players share VU spirit with Vasco da Gama players in Brazil

After months of planning–and what seemed like weeks of packing, the Vanderbilt women’s soccer team left in early May for an eight-day tour in Brazil.
Follow the Commondores daily logs and video at the VU Women’s Soccer website: http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/w-soccer/vand-w-soccer-body.html

Study Abroad Student A Finalist for International Education Video

Students walk through the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark

A video by David Sanchez, a junior in the College of Arts and Science, is one of five finalists in NAFSA: Association of International Educators 2013 video contest celebrating international education. The winning video will be announced at this year’s annual NAFSA Conference in late May…

Vanderbilt Guatemalan Field Station Provides Interdisciplinary Hub

By Ted Fischer

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Vanderbilt University’s expanded commitment to research and sustainable development in Guatemala is reflected in this spring’s opening of a Guatemala City field station that is home to 13 projects…

Melbourne Partnership Inspires New Three-Minute Thesis Competition

By Victoria Greene

PhD student Nicole Spigner, Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Professor Vicki Greene, and PhD student Evan Haglund

Inspired by its partnership with the University of Melbourne, Vanderbilt University held its inaugural Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on March 22, 2013 at the Student Life Center. More than 60 master’s and Ph.D. students in the Graduate School presented at the competition…

IEPM Students Represent Vanderbilt’s U.S.-China Center

International Education Policy Students Spend 6 Week Practicum in Guangzhou, China

For nearly six weeks, three International Education Policy and Management masters students, Megan Ames, Brad Hilbrich, and Matthew Wright, will be getting first-hand knowledge about Chinese education systems as part of Vanderbilt’s U.S.-China Center for Education and Culture. The Center serves as a portal through which Chinese and U.S. policy and practice in education, humanities, and the arts connect through…

Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and Fundación INFANT Offer Field Experience

By Jana Hall, taken from Institute for Global Health (News, 4/10/2013)

VU residents, medical students, and undergraduates can participant in biomedical research or clinical rotations in Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and Fundación INFANT are partnering to offer an international field experience involving clinical research training and thorough insight on the healthcare system in Buenos Aires, Argentina…

General Surgery Residency Program Offers Rotation Abroad

International Rotation2 - Julia Shelton

Vanderbilt’s General Surgery Residency Program, the first program authorized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, now offers residents the option of a four week elective rotation at Kijabe hospital, located in a rural community in Kenya’s Rift Valley…

2011-2012 Study Abroad Photo Contest Winners

Sagan Sarah - Senegal vs Cameroun

Every year, hundreds of Vanderbilt students go abroad to study. The Global Education Office annual photo contest highlights the things our undergraduates see and do while abroad, while celebrating their photographic talents. Check out the latest contest winners!

Religious Scholar’s Journey Takes Him from Millersburg to Bangladesh

By Jim Patterson

Hens-and-ducks-Sonargaon-slide

Tony Stewart performed an experiment when he arrived on the Vanderbilt campus. “I asked everyone I ran into for directions to Religious Studies,” he said. “Without exception, they told me how to get to the Divinity School.” Although they share a lot of intellectual territory, Religious Studies and the Divinity School are separate entities with…

The Spring of Arab Discontent

By Katie Cardenas (B.A. '12)

Two old men debating politics underneath revolutionary graffiti, Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.

Confident, poised, and gracious, U.S. Ambassador Margaret Scobey appeared ever the eloquent diplomat during her speech to the Vanderbilt community on the Arab Spring and Egypt’s political situation since the series of protests in 2010 that shook the world. Serving as U.S. ambassador to Egypt from 2008 to 2011, Scobey addressed the monumental nature of the changes that swept through the Middle East…

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