International and Domestic graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members, comprise the Vanderbilt International Researcher Alliance (VIRAL).
Organization goal
To create an environment to foster international researchers by providing them with a community which promotes intercultural awareness via educational, social, and cross-cultural programs and provide a space to discuss concerns and communicate the needs of the international community.
What we do
VIRAL’s goals are to provide four pillars of support to the international community by:
- Lobbying for the interests of international researchers in a unified fashion across the biomedical sciences and other graduate programs.
- Fostering a community where international researchers can find support and interact with others from dispersed labs and departments.
- Providing transition support for incoming international researchers.
- Creating a more tangible environment where domestic researchers can engage with the international community and understand our unique circumstances as researchers in the U.S.
