Vanderbilt International Office

Announcements

• The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health's Student Advisory Council presents the 2nd Annual Vanderbilt Global Health Case Competition, February 16-18, 2012. Undergraduate and graduate students will work in multidisciplinary, multi-school teams to provide an innovative solution to a real-life global health-related case. Registration ends Friday, February 10. The winning team will represent Vanderbilt at the 2012 Emory Global Health Case Competition in Atlanta.
• Vanderbilt University and Fisk University are co-hosting the Black Migration Symposium, February 10-11, 2012. The symposium will examine issues pertaining to the challenges, possibilities, and tensions that have emerged from the migration and settlement of Black/black people―self-identified and identified as such―in varying sites and contexts in Africa and the African diaspora, in particular the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe.
• The Global Education Office will host its inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference on Global Research and Study Abroad for Mid-Tennessee students who have recently studied abroad on February 3, 8am-4pm, at the Vanderbilt University Student Life Center. RSVP by January 24 to secure a spot!
• Renowned experts on preservation of African and Afro-descended slave records will gather at Vanderbilt Feb. 2-4 to launch the university’s new Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies digital archive and website. The three-day conference, “New Sources for the Study of Slave Societies,” will open Feb. 2 with María Elisa Velásquez, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, delivering the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities’ 2012 Black Atlantic Lecture.
• The Vanderbilt International Office will be moving into our new location on December 19th. We will be located in the Student Life Center, Suite 110. Please stop by and visit us soon!
• Partner University Fund and Chateaubriand Fellowship Programs are now opened for applications!
• HED Announces Funding Opportunities, Mindanao Job Opportunities for business Scale-Up for Philippines
• HED Announces Funding Opportunities, Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas/Caribbean Region Climate Adaptation Partnership Initiative
• Watch the first Vanderbilt-Melbourne Global Debate: "Are record labels obsolete?", sponsored by the Vanderbilt International Office, Vanderbilt Law School, and Melbourne Law School.
• Peabody to host lecture on educational change in Finland. Friday, December 9th, 2-3:30pm in the Wyatt Center Rotunda
• Vanderbilt and the University of Melbourne fund $344,000 in joint research projects
• November 14, Buy from International Vendors at World Market Fair
• November 15  Chancellor's Lecture to feature Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
• Kara Kooney, host of the Discovery Channel series Out of Egypt will discuss Egyptian burial practices at noon, Thursday, Nov. 3, at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Room G-20
• Representatives from Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and Metro Nashville Public Schools discussion, November 4, 8:30am-10:00am
• Anne Wexler Scholarship Program in Public Policy (Australia) Provides funding for one U.S. citizen to complete an Australian Master's program in Public Policy areas. Deadline 30 September 2011.
• International Lens Film Series, Fall 2011 a film series with a global perspective. The series is a partnership among the Office of the Dean of Students and academic departments, centers, and programs.
• Vanderbilt International Magazine Spring/Summer 2011 Issue Released
• Prof. Eva Harth interviewed by the University of Melbourne on “Up Close” Targeted delivery: The promise of nanotherapies in treating cancer
• State Department releases Smart Traveler AppThe App allows users to see travel warnings, alerts and more.
• Worldwide Travel Alert - Vanderbilt encourages students to read the current Worldwide Travel Alert and exercise increased caution in light of the recent counter-terrorism activity in Pakistan.
• EU-US ATLANTIS Call for Proposals cancelled - See link for more information
• Melbourne-Vanderbilt University Partnership Grants Announced! — Up to $100,000 per award. Proposals Due June 30th.
• Holberg International Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarly work in arts & humanities, social science, law, and theology— Apply by September 15th
• 2012-13 Australian-American Health Policy Fellowship — Apply by August 15th
• Global Activities Database — Recently launched! Find out what faculty and staff are doing internationally