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  • Making a Difference

    08/26/2009

    A 1971 Vanderbilt University alumnus, Muhammad Yunus is one of 16 individuals selected by President Barack Obama to receive the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Yunus, who received his Ph. D. in economics from Vanderbilt, was awarded America’s highest civilian honor in August for his pioneering work in micro-loans and anti-poverty efforts. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for these eff orts in 2006.

  • VIO Grant Recipients Receive External Funding

    08/25/2009

    Faculty from the Institute for Global Health, Chemistry and Philosophy recently received funding to further collaborations initiated with seed funding from the Vanderbilt International Office Research Grants Program.
     

  • Vanderbilt to help implement health program in Mozambique

    08/25/2009

    Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Global Health (VIGH) will work in consortium with international humanitarian agency World Vision to improve the health and livelihoods in Mozambique’s Zambézia Province. World Vision has been awarded $49.4 million from the U.S. government and will work with local and international partners, including VIGH, for the next five years.

  • Fulbright Scholar at Vanderbilt

    08/21/2009

    Christine Rivas, Ph.D., has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to spend the fall semester conducting research at Vanderbilt.  Dr. Rivas specializes in 18th century Santo Domingo. While at Vanderbilt, Dr. Rivas will work with colleagues in History and the Center for Latin American Studies. Dr. Rivas received her Ph.D. from Carleton University in Ottowa, Canada, where she was also a lecturer prior to coming to Nashville.  If you would like to contact Dr. Rivas during her stay, she can be reached via e-mail at christine.rivas@vanderbilt.edu.  For more information on Dr.

  • New documentary showcases Blair students' study in France

    08/13/2009

    A new documentary about the 2009 Vanderbilt Music Académie can now be seen on YouTube. The video features interviews and footage from master class sessions, rehearsals and performances.

  • Students meet with Nobel laureates

    08/06/2009

    Every summer since 1951 a large number of Nobel laureates gather in the picturesque island city of Lindau, located on the eastern tip of Lake Constance just north of the Swiss Alps, and meet with talented young scientists from around the world. Last month, two Vanderbilt graduate students, Chris Brosey and Bryan Ringstrand, attended this unique meeting and had an experience that they will remember for the rest of their lives.

  • Alumnus Muhammad Yunus to receive Medal of Freedom

    08/03/2009

    Pres. Obama has named Vanderbilt alumnus and Nobel Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus among the 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. America’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom is awarded to individuals who make an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.

  • No college fair too far – VU recruiting efforts in Iraq paying off

    07/31/2009

    The Iraqi government is launching a new scholarship program to send 10,000 Iraqi students to the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia over the next five years. Vanderbilt was one of the schools highlighted in the article, largely because of it was one of the few American universities who answered a call from the Iraqi government to help them rebuild their higher education system earlier this year.

  • From Health to Hope

    07/30/2009

    “Clássico!” exclaims driver Carlos Rui Lourenço about Williams, who is immensely popular throughout sub-Saharan Africa. 

    The intertwining of two cultures – one emerging from centuries of Portuguese rule and a devastating civil war; the other Western, modern, dominant – seems surreal at times. But it’s more cohesion than collision, and it provides a glimpse of what the world will look like … soon.

  • Vanderbilt rings in on Latin American democratic dilemma

    07/15/2009

    The military coup d'état in Honduras in late June that ousted President Manuel Zelaya sent shivers down Latin America's collective spine. Remembering a dark past, when armed forces routinely ousted unpopular presidents, all the region's leaders, from Cuba's left-wing Raúl Castro to Colombia's right-wing Álvaro Uribe, swiftly condemned the move. Everyone sided with the deposed Zelaya. Everyone, that is, except a large swath of Honduras's population that, despite the military's undemocratic move, were generally happy to see him go.