Jefferson Society debate on the parallels between the Wars in Iraq and Viet Nam
3/29/07 - Former Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska debates Professor Robert Turner of U.Va Law School on the similarities between the Iraq and Viet Nam wars. The event was sponsored by the Jefferson Society.
3/24/07 - Paula Sherman is an assistant professor in indigenous studies at
Trent University where she joined the faculty in 2004. She teaches courses on Indigenous Women, Indigenous Oral History and International Indigenous Peoples. Paula's ongoing research interests include the Atlantic World, the fur trade and Indigenous theater and performance. Her talk examines how higher education institutions can recognize indigenous peoples as experts with experience, history and knowledge that
is valued by higher education institutions.
3/24/07 - Edna Manitowabi of the Department of Indigenous Studies at Canada's Trent University is Odawa/Ojibway from Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island and head woman for the Eastern Doorway of the Three Fires Midewin Lodge. She is also a teacher, ceremonialist, drum keeper and grandmother. Here she talks about the value of indigenous knowledge to the academy.
3/22/07 - John Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Center delivers the 37th Annual Llewellyn G. Hoxton Lecture to the Physics Department. Mather shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with colleague George Smoot for their work with cosmic background radiation, which helped prove the Big Bang theory of the universe.
3/14/07 - U.Va Architecture Professor Phoebe Crisman discusses the polluted state of the Elizabeth River and describes a solution she's implementing. The Learning Barge is a self-sustaining field station operated under a partnership between U.Va and several Norfolk area organizations. Crisman traces the project's history and timeline during this Engaging the Mind Lecture.
3/12/07 - A MacArthur "genius grant" winner and medical anthropologist, Paul Farmer is a champion of health and human rights and an expert on the role of social inequities as they relate to infectious diseases.
12/12/06 - The Virginia Department of Health is beginning a public awareness campaign to to educate people and organizations on what to do if a pandemic flu should come to the United States. Lilian Peake of the Thomas Jefferson Health District and Dr. James Turner of the U.Va Student Health Department give a quick update of area and University preparedness.
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3/24/07 - Paula Sherman is an assistant professor in indigenous studies at
Trent University where she joined the faculty in 2004. She teaches courses on Indigenous Women, Indigenous Oral History and International Indigenous Peoples. Paula's ongoing research interests include the Atlantic World, the fur trade and Indigenous theater and performance. Her talk examines how higher education institutions can recognize indigenous peoples as experts with experience, history and knowledge that
is valued by higher education institutions.
3/24/07 - Edna Manitowabi of the Department of Indigenous Studies at Canada's Trent University is Odawa/Ojibway from Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island and head woman for the Eastern Doorway of the Three Fires Midewin Lodge. She is also a teacher, ceremonialist, drum keeper and grandmother. Here she talks about the value of indigenous knowledge to the academy.
3/22/07 - John Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Center delivers the 37th Annual Llewellyn G. Hoxton Lecture to the Physics Department. Mather shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with colleague George Smoot for their work with cosmic background radiation, which helped prove the Big Bang theory of the universe.
3/14/07 - U.Va Architecture Professor Phoebe Crisman discusses the polluted state of the Elizabeth River and describes a solution she's implementing. The Learning Barge is a self-sustaining field station operated under a partnership between U.Va and several Norfolk area organizations. Crisman traces the project's history and timeline during this Engaging the Mind Lecture.
3/12/07 - A MacArthur "genius grant" winner and medical anthropologist, Paul Farmer is a champion of health and human rights and an expert on the role of social inequities as they relate to infectious diseases.
12/12/06 - The Virginia Department of Health is beginning a public awareness campaign to to educate people and organizations on what to do if a pandemic flu should come to the United States. Lilian Peake of the Thomas Jefferson Health District and Dr. James Turner of the U.Va Student Health Department give a quick update of area and University preparedness.
