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Martin Luther King Commemoration at University of Virginia Focuses on War 1/21/08 - This year's commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the University of Virginia featured a panel discussion, "Chiefly About War Matters," that was held Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. in the Harrison-Small Auditorium. The panel discussion focused on the following areas: war and civil rights, war and ethnic conflict, the economics of war, and the psychic effects of war. |
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U.Va. Pioneer Encourages Black Students to Push Ahead 1/20/08 - James Trice, one of four African-American students enrolled in the School of Engineering and Applied Science back in 1957, spoke to some of those who came after on Jan. 20 in Newcomb Hall at U.Va. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Do Nurses Work for Love, or for Money?11/7/07 - In contrast to medicine, in nursing philanthropic and altruistic ideals conflict with
professional self-determination, most evidently economically. Philanthropists and altruistic agents
seldom seek economic gain or even parity, but professionals, having devoted years to developing
expertise, expect to be paid well and recognized in other ways. What is the basis for nursing |
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The Medical Center Hour: Root Shock: The Impact of Urban Renewal on Health10/3/07 - 20th-century urban renewal projects, including Charlottesville\'s Vinegar Hill,
bulldozed entire districts and traumatically displaced hundreds of African American communities,
whose residents experienced \"root shock\" with destruction of their physical and emotional
ecosystems. How might we understand better and approach differently the health status of urban
African Americans and the health of our cities and neighborhoods? |
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Virginia 9/14/07 - The late Oliver W. Hill Sr., esteemed civil rights attorney, was honored for his integral role in the civil rights movement at a Law School event Sept. 13 in Caplin Pavilion. The event was sponsored by the Black Law Students Association, the Center for the Study of Race and Law, the Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity, the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, the Office of the Vice President, and Chief Student Affairs Officer. |
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Technology in World History (10 of 12) 8/10/07 - In this edition of Technology in World History, Bernard Carlson, Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Virginia, examines the implications of the 1959 kitchen debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. |
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Technology in World History (9 of 12)7/20/07 - Why were there were more books in the Arab world during the Middle Ages than in all of Europe? Bernard Carlson, Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Virginia, discusses the several reasons that books were so prevalent in the Arab world. |
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Commemorating the Civil Rights Movement in the South: Memorials to the Second Civil War 6/2/07 - Over the last 20 years, Southerners have erected dozens of monuments and memorials to the people and events of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Dell Upton, U.Va David A Harrison III Professor of Historical Archeology and Architecture, looks at a handful of the most contentious of the monuments. |
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