The College of Maharishi
Vedic Medicine’s Center for Health and Aging Studies continues its
outstanding track record in research. The Center, along with its
collaborators, expects to receive approximately $3.3 million in awards in
this semester alone from the National Institutes of Health and a
prestigious national foundation.
A new $475,000 grant from a national foundation will support the first
controlled clinical research on Maharishi Vedic Medicine and cancer. The
research will focus on the effects of the Transcendental Meditation
technique on extending length of life and quality of life in women with
advanced breast cancer. "This will be the first randomized,
controlled trial of the effects of Maharishi’s technology of
consciousness in cancer treatment," said Robert Schneider, M.D., Dean
of the College and the principal investigator. The research will be in
collaboration with a leading medical center and oncologists in Chicago.
Additionally, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine at the National Institutes of Health is preparing to award the
University and its collaborators in Los Angeles approximately $1 million
to elucidate the mechanisms of the beneficial effects of Maharishi Vedic
Medicine on heart disease.
The University also expects to be awarded approximately $1.8 million in
a competitive renewal of a research program using the Transcendental
Meditation technique for prevention of coronary heart disease, the number
one cause of death in the nation, in high risk populations.
Royal Treatment for Rotating University in India
In February Rotating University students were greeted with garlands
and enjoyed royal hospitality from leaders and students from schools
throughout India which offer Maharishi’s Consciousness-Based system of
education. "We received heartwarming hospitality everywhere we
traveled," said second-year student Noah Schechtman. Our full-time
students were joined by many participants who enrolled specifically for
the course retracing Maharishi’s historic founding of his worldwide
movement for the Transcendental Meditation program.
Students visited the famed Taj Mahal, bathed in the Ganges River,
visited ancient shrines, and the Brahma-Sthan (central point) of India.
The tour culminated in the Himalayas with stops in both Rishikesh and
Uttar Kashi—where Maharishi had taken silence for several years. Before
returning home, the students connected to Maharishi by phone to share
their experiences of the tour.
75,000 Square Feet of New Construction Underway
Students, faculty and staff are enthusiastic about the progress of
almost 75,000 sq. ft. of campus-wide reconstruction being carried out
according to the principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design.
"Things are really coming together now with construction," says
Brad Mylett, director of admissions. "Soon administration, studying,
teaching, and living will be carried out in an environment designed
according to the principles of Natural Law.
The recently built 8,000 sq. ft. Media Center and 4,000 sq. ft.
greenhouse complete the quadrangle at Maharishi School of the Age of
Enlightenment. The state-of-the-art greenhouse will be used for
sustainable agriculture education at both the University and the School.
Also underway: Opening the new road for an east campus entrance;
completion of eight 1,500 to 3,000 sq. ft. homes built by faculty; eight
1,800 sq. ft prefabricated, cedar homes to be occupied in July; and
construction of an 8,600 sq. ft., 12-unit efficiency apartment building.
