Press Room

2006
November 3	"Hurricane and Climate Changes," Jose D. Fuentes (PDF)
October 18	"Moving Towards Plurality: Emerging Domestic Markets in America and What They Mean for Business and Governments," Gregory Fairchild (PDF)
October 6	"Space Flight: A Human Perspective," Kathryn C. Thornton, (PDF)
April 20	"The New World Economy: Development Challenges in the 21st Century" Peter L. Rodriguez
April 13	"Planning for the Future: Making Good Decisions About Long Term Care" Courtney Lyder
March 30	"How Safe are Our Children?: School Violence, Parenting, and the Media" Peter L. Sheras
2005
October 27	"Planning for the Future: Making Good Decisions About Long-Term Care," Courtney Lyder
October 7	"The Changing Face of the Supreme Court," A. E. Dick Howard
April 14	“The Chemical and Biological Agents of Terrorism: Facts and Myths,” Christopher Holstege
April 12	“Unwinding Biological Clocks,” Gene Block
April 7	“One Nation or Two?: The Coming of the Civil War and the Politics of the Modern World,” Peter Onuf
March 18	“Ethics and Technology: Where do They Meet?” Deborah Johnson
March 3	“Kids and Teachers: What Makes for Success in School," Robert Pianta
February 25	"Teaching All Children to Read," Mary Abouzeid
February 20	"Inside Africa: The History Behind the Exhibit," Joseph Miller
2004
November 10	"Passive in the Face of Terror?: America’s First Efforts at Counterterrorism, 1968-1993," Timothy Naftali
September 27	"The New Politics of American Health Care," Lynn Sanders
September 13	"Big Fat Lies About Ideal Weight," Glenn Glaesser
September 9	"How the Earthquake Bird Got its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature," Hank Shugart, Ph.D.
April 2	"Between Jefferson and Geology: Eugene Bradbury's Charlottesville Architecture, 1907-1925," Daniel Bluestone
March 19	"Threats to Us from Global Diseases," Richard Guerrant
March 5	"Leading During Crisis," Erika James
February 27	"The Ethics Crisis in America," Ed Freeman
2003
November 19	"A Contested Historical Landscape," Gary Gallagher
November 3	"Theodore Roosevelt & the Creation of the Modern Presidency," Sidney Milkis
October 23	"Writing Collaborative History: UVa and the Monacan Indian Nation," Members of the Monacan Indian Nation and UVa faculty
May 3	"The Changing Face of the Supreme Court," A.E. Dick Howard
May 1	"Imagining Unity: Muslim Cultural Diversity in North America,” Abdulaziz Sachedina and Farzaneh Milani
May 16	"Changing Families: Marriage, Divorce, and Conflict in Children’s Lives,” Robert E. Emery
April 25	"Challenging the Status Quo in Community Design and Planning,” Kenneth Schwartz
April 18	"Making a Digital History of the Civil War," Ed Ayers
April 12	"Embellishments, Improvements and Greenswards: American Gardens and Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century,” Richard Guy Wilson
March 28	"Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle,” Stephen Cushman
March 14	"The Economist as Sleuth, The Economist as Novelist,” Kenneth Elzinga
February 21	"Brave New Worlds: The Ethics of Genetic Research,” Jonathan D. Moreno
January 31	"Beyond the Democratic Peace: Solving the War Puzzle," John Norton Moore
2002
October 25	"Working Landscapes: The New Urban Park,” Elissa Rosenberg
October 9	"Faith and Violence: Religious and Ethical Perspectives,” Panel Discussion,
Novmber 15	"Different Words, Different Worlds? – Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Communication”, Ellen Contini-Morava
May 31	"US Policy in the Middle East: Beyond the Fight Against Terrorism,” William B. Quandt
April 26	"Immigration, Security, and Liberty: Adjusting the Balance after September 11,” David A. Martin
April 12	"The American Musical And Its Reflection of American Culture and Society,” Robert Chapel
April 5	"Women in the Islamic World: Fact and Fiction,” Farzaneh Milani
March 22	"Buddhism and Science: Gentle Bridges,” Trinh Xuan Thuan
May 10	"Nurturing Competence in our Adolescent Daughters," Winx Lawrence
March 8	"The Ethics of War,” James Childress
March 1	"Human Rights in the Contemporary World of States: Sources and Challenges,” Michael J. Smith