The Vanderbilt International Office - VIO - was established in 2006 to facilitate individual and institutional connections between Vanderbilt faculty, researchers, staff, students, alumni and the larger world.
Announcements
- María Elisa Velázquez, professor of history at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, delivered the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities' 2012 Black Atlantic Lecture, February 2, 2012. To listen to a podcast of her lecture, titled "Africans and Afrodescendant Women in Mexico City during Colonial Times: Social Relationships and Cultural Reproduction," click here.
- 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.
- Vanderbilt and the University of Melbourne fund $344,000 in joint research projects
- 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.
- Global Activities Database — Enter your information today and find out what other faculty and staff are doing internationally
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