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Greetings!
An important part of DGHI's mission is the bi-directional exchange with our partners and collaborators around the world. Today, we bring you a recent interview with Fulbright Scholar Dr. P.L. Ariyananda from the University of Ruhuna in Sri Lanka. He's at Duke through May and would like to meet students and faculty with an interest in Sri Lanka. Enjoy the video and reach out to him if you're interested in learning more about his work.
Don't miss tomorrow's inspiring event featuring Rye Barcott, founder of Carolina for Kibera and author of "It Happened on the Way to War." After the event, which begins at 5:30 pm Wednesday in McClendon Auditorium at Fuqua, Barcott will be signing books. Books will be available for purchase and three copies will be given away to participants. See you there! Last weekend, we were one of two university exhibitors at the 2011 Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale. It was great to share our work with hundreds of students, faculty and global health professionals from around the world. See our #GHIC tweets and photos.
Finally, Students: Only 10 more days to enter the ABC News Reinventing Maternal Health Challenge. Put the final touches on those videos and you could win $10,000 and the opportunity to save lives. The deadline is April 29. Don't miss this opportunity!
Until next week,
Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI
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Expanding Collaborations Between Duke & Sri Lankan University
Duke's lead collaborator in Sri Lanka, Pilane Liyanage Ariyananda, is hopeful his visit to Duke this semester will ultimately expand the existing collaboration with his home institution, University of Ruhuna in Galle. Ariyananda was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Duke to learn about the university's health-related research and graduate medical and global health education programs, and how they might further complement activities under way in Sri Lanka.
The Duke-Ruhuna "Link" Collaboration was established in 2006, in partnership with the Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health, in an effort to facilitate bi-directional collaboration on health-related research and student/clinician training exchanges. Ariyananda's Fulbright project aims to enhancing learning opportunities for students at University of Ruhuna and students and medical residents at Duke taking electives at the school. He also hopes to make new connections with Duke faculty researchers.
Ariyananda will be at Duke through May 31. Learn more about the partnership and Ariyananda's visit in the following video:
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DGHI Awards Student Fieldwork Grants
The Duke Global Health Institute is pleased to award 14 students with more than $47,000 to support global health  research and fieldwork projects in 11 countries this summer. DGHI's Fieldwork Grants Program enables students to obtain the resources necessary to explore the health disparities facing underserved populations in the US and around the world.
This is the fourth year DGHI has administered the fieldwork grant program, which so far has supported nearly 80 students. Students will work in conjunction with a community partner to carry out their research or service projects. Many of them will also be blogging about their experience on DGHI's student fieldwork blog throughout the summer. Upon their return to Duke in the fall, students will present their research findings and reflections at GH TRIPS 2011.
One of the DGHI grantees, Kathleen Ridgeway, has also been selected as the second recipient of The Aalok S. Modi Global Health Fieldwork Fund for her dedication to solving domestic and international health issues. Ridgeway, a Program II major in Global Health, will explore the etiology of the most common diseases in Togo, as well as compare the services and ideologies of clinical practitioners versus traditional healers.
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Going Abroad? Duke University Libraries Offer Language Learning Tools
Just in time for your summer study or travel plans, Duke University Libraries is pleased to offer several new language learning tools. For starters, we've pulled together this handy guide of resources for over 25 foreign languages.
In addition, Duke faculty, students, and staff can now access Byki Online, a powerful online language instruction
 resource. This new subscription to Byki Online gives users free access to flash cards, blogs, and other tools to help you learn or revisit more than 70 languages. Whether you're teaching elementary schoolers in Beijing, building a house in Vietnam, or studying Slavic culture in St. Petersburg, as long as you have internet access and your Duke NetID, you can take these library resources with you. Best of all, they don't add an ounce to your backpack. The Libraries are grateful to a number of units around campus who helped to provide access to Byki Online for your use. Contributors include the Divinity School Library, DukeEngage, Ford Library, the Global Education Office, and the North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies.
Sign up for your free Byki Online account to prepare for your research, study, and travel plans this summer.
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 Avner Vengosh Accepts Role as DGHI Affiliate
Avner Vengosh, professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment, is DGHI's newest affiliate member. Affiliates are involved in one or more global health projects and serve two-year, renewable terms. Vengosh's areas of expertise include geochemistry and water quality. Vengosh is a co-principal investigator on a DGHI Environmental Health Pilot Grant that is studying the processes of controlling water quality and impacts on human health in the Main Ethiopian Rift, an example of a large population regularly exposed to naturally occurring contaminants such as arsenic and fluoride in drinking water. Through this project, researchers are investigating the mechanisms in which these toxic elements are mobilized into groundwater and the relationships between aquifer geology, water quality, and health of the local population.
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