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History of the Health Sciences - The Last Days of the Iron Lung 11/1/05 - U.Va Professor Emeritus Dudley F. Rochester draws from his personal experience working with the iron lung, once an important tool to treat patients with severe respiratory failure. Rochester talks about the technological advances that made the device obsolete. |
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Stephen Cushman Discusses Walt Whitman at the Harrison Institute 9/26/05 - Poetry scholars are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, perhaps the nation's most important work of poetry. U.Va.'s Small Special Collections Library has one of the largest collections of manuscripts of Whitman's seminal work. In this gallery talk, English professor Stephen Cushman describes what museum-goers will see. |
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The College of Arts & Sciences Reunions Forum:
Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism 6/4/05 - Timothy Naftali, associate professor of history, teaches one of the College |
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The College of Arts & Sciences Reunions Forum:
How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going6/4/05 - Edward Murphy, assistant professor of astronomy and Director of education and public outreach, traces the history of your atoms from the Big Bang to the present day. Where did the atoms in your body come from? How did they get here on Earth? What will happen to your atoms in the long-distant future? You'll discover the many interesting places that you've been, from the core of a star to the deep cold of space. Murphy also briefly discusses the history of the McCormick Observatory. |
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The College of Arts & Sciences Reunions Forum:
Bloody Promenade, Reflections on a Civil War Battle 6/3/05 - Stephen Cushman, Robert C. Taylor Professor of English, leads a discussion of his book, Bloody Promenade. Cushman examines a single famous battle, The Wilderness, to try to understand the Civil War and its larger meanings today. Following Reunions Weekend you are invited to continue to explore the book through an online book club. |
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Engaging the Mind4/14/05 - Agents of terrorism are receiving frequent media attention. However, the true risks pertaining to these agents are somewhat elusive. Christopher Holstege's talk, "The Chemical and Biological Agents of Terrorism: Facts and Myths" focuses on the history and toxicity of the most widely known and potent terrorism agents from the healthcare system viewpoint. |
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