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Center for Integrative Mediterranean Studies

The Center for Integrative Mediterranean Studies is a tripartite international partnership established between VCU (Richmond, Va.), the University of Messina (Sicily, Italy) and the University of Córdoba (Córdoba, Spain). CIMS is a research and student/faculty exchange-based partnership with a focus on health, peace and security issues within and around the Mediterranean. CIMS consists of six specific research areas: migration, development and social policies, institutional design and democracy, integrative systems of health, cultural and religious identities, and environment. CIMS’s central office is based at the University of Messina, but each of the three partner universities has an individual CIMS infrastructure including an executive director, executive assistant and research area directors. See the CIMS organizational structure for more information.

CIMS 2010 Conference

The Multiethnic Society: Challenges, Perspectives and Solutions for the Future
June 10-12, 2010
Messina, Italy

Abstracts are now being accepted for the June 2010 CIMS Conference [PDF]

For more information, please visit the conference website at www.messina2010.com.

VCU CIMS Director

Heber H. (Dickie) Newsome Jr., M.D.

Professor of surgery
Dean emeritus, VCU School of Medicine

E-mail: hhnewsom@vcu.edu

VCU CIMS Executive Assistant

Elizabeth Hiett

Global Education Office, Partnership Universities

817 West Franklin Street, P.O. Box 843043

Richmond, Virginia 23284-3043

Phone: (804) 828-6846

Fax: (804) 828-2552

E-mail: eihiett@vcu.edu or cims@vcu.edu

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Annual report 2008-09 [PDF]