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  • Kite Runner author to speak during Commencement

    11/19/2009

    Khaled Hosseini, author of bestselling books The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, will receive Vanderbilt University’s prestigious Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal in May 2010 when he will address graduating seniors and their families during Senior Day.
     
    Senior Day, which will be held May 13, precedes Vanderbilt’s annual Commencement ceremony for graduating seniors on May 14, and is a highlight of three days of activities honoring graduates, their families and friends.
     

  • Listen: Center for Latin American Studies provides educational resources for Dichos exhibit

    11/19/2009

    The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) provided educational support for an exhibit at Cheekwood that highlights a disappearing folk art traditionally found on Latin American drivers' trucks and buses. "Dichos: Words to Live, Love and Laugh by in Latin America" is on display to the public through Jan. 17.

  • VU receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for innovative global health research

    10/30/2009

    Vanderbilt recently announced that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Associate Professor of Chemistry David Wright and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Rick Haselton, titled "Coffee Ring Stain Diagnostics for Malaria."

  • VUMC joins global consortium to fight tuberculosis

    10/29/2009

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center is participating in an international consortium to improve treatment of, and hopefully eliminate the scourge of, tuberculosis.

    Tuberculosis is one of the world's most persistent and deadly diseases.

    It kills 2 million people a year. Two billion people — one third of the world's population — are infected with the TB bacterium.

  • Global Health Institute gains new status

    10/13/2009

    The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has been formally named a University-wide institute, bringing it into closer communications with every school in the Vanderbilt system.

    VIGH Director Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., said the Institute remains, as before, a part of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, but this step represents formal administrative sponsorship from all 10 deans at Vanderbilt.

  • Peabody Welcomes Edmund S. Muskie Fellows

    10/06/2009

    Vanderbilt University is pleased to welcome two new international students on campus as part of the U.S. Department of State's Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program. Joining the Vanderbilt University family are Aliya Bizhanova from Kazakhstan, and Irina Kruglova from Russia. Established by the U.S. Congress in 1992 to encourage economic and democratic growth in Eurasia, the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program is a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State (ECA), and administered by IREX. The Edmund S.

  • Vanderbilt alumna Ashley Esser given Fulbright Scholarship

    09/30/2009

    Vanderbilt University alumna Ashley Esser has received a Fulbright Scholarship. She will travel to Italy to teach English as a foreign language for the 2009-2010 academic year.

  • Baseball team will travel to Japan and Hong Kong.

    09/29/2009

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. --Vanderbilt's baseball team will get a unique opportunity to tour part of Japan and Hong Kong and play four exhibition games in November.

    Due to a generous gift by VU alum Bill Kaye, the Commodores will travel to the Orient during the Thanksgiving holidays and will face four of the top university baseball teams in Japan.

    Kaye made a significant donation in the spring that will fund the trip as well as support the baseball facility renovation project.

  • Peabody launches two international fellowship programs for educators

    09/21/2009

    Peabody College has launched two new international Fulbright fellowship programs to bring international educators to the U.S. for a year of study.

  • Vanderbilt International Lens Film Series Continues

    09/02/2009

    Vanderbilt University’s film series, International Lens, kicks off its season on Sept. 2 with Amnesty International’s presentation of The Visitor, a drama that explores the implications of U.S. immigration policy.