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  • Alien landing strips or human expression?

    06/30/2009

    The Nazca Lines are an enigma. The strange geometric shapes and animals carved into the land were first spotted in the Peruvian desert south of Lima in the 1930s when commercial airlines began flying over them.

    No one has proof of who built them or why. Since their discovery, the Nazca Lines have inspired fantastic explanations ranging from monuments honoring ancient gods to a landing strip for alien spacecraft to a celestial calendar created by the ancient Nazca civilization.

  • Pro-Israel students named 'Activist of the Year' by AIPAC

    06/30/2009

    Commodores for Israel, an Israel advocacy organization under the auspices of Vanderbilt University Hillel, was named an Activist of the Year by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee during AIPAC’s annual policy conference in May in Washington, D.C.

  • Vanderbilt leads Getting to Know Europe trip

    06/30/2009

    Education policy makers from the southeast United States were in Belgium May 31-June 6 to study the European Union, sponsored by Vanderbilt University through a grant from the EU.

  • Polack recognized by city officials in Buenos Aires

    05/23/2009

    5/22/2009- Fernando Polack, M.D., associate professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, has been honored by the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for his efforts to protect newborn babies from potentially dangerous viral infections.

  • Beyond Borders

    05/05/2009

    Henry Manice and Wil Keenan took their dreams for social change well beyond the Vanderbilt campus

    by Missy Pankake
    photo courtesy of Henry Manice and Wil Keenan

  • Vanderbilt University receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for innovative global health research by Guirong Wang

    05/05/2009

    Vanderbilt University announced today 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 Senior Research Associate Guirong Wang, titled “Targeting TRP Channel Heat Receptors to Disrupt Anopheles gambiae Host Seeking.”

  • 28 students to serve international & environmental externships during summer and fall 2009

    04/29/2009

    Release Date: Apr 29, 2009

    Twenty-eight Vanderbilt law students will serve in externships and placements relating to international law during the summer and fall of 2009 as part of the International Legal Studies Program. Several other students are awaiting formal letters of acceptance.

  • Breeding visits Argentina as Fulbright senior specialist

    03/06/2009

    The Heard Library’s Marshall Breeding recently traveled to Argentina as a Fulbright senior specialist to advise a consortium of academic libraries about automation improvements.
       
    Breeding, who is director for innovative technologies and research, worked with the Acuerdo de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Córdoba to assess their current state of automation and to help develop strategies for improving services through technology.

  • Vanderbilt Delegation Visits Earthquake-Stricken City in Sichuan, China

    02/20/2009

    At the request of Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos and Provost Richard McCarty, and urged on by the VU Chinese Scholars and Student Association, the Vanderbilt International Office worked closely with schools and departments over the past several months to explore viable options to participate in the reconstruction of areas impacted by the May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China. The quake, the deadliest since the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, killed at least 69,000 people and injured approximately 370,000, according to Chinese sources. 
     

  • Vanderbilt’s role in global HIV fight growing

    02/20/2009

    2/20/2009- A unique meeting held here late last week was the first step in bringing Vanderbilt into a consortium of the highest-level international aid organizations working to control the spread of HIV.

    Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) hosted the consultative meeting with UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund) and its partners to examine programs meant to halt transmission of HIV from mothers to their infants in the world's poorest regions.