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Growth, Change and Community: Economic Development in Central Virginia 3/21/08 - Central Virginia residents face tough choices about the proper balance between economic growth and quality of life. William Shobe and Terance Rephann, economists at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, discuss these issues as they relate to the Charlottesville area. The pair examines the demographics of our area, changes in the local economy the environment and demands on infrastructure and public services, and the quality of life. |
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The Medical Center Hour: A Conversation About History and the Healing Arts: One Scholar's Journey3/12/08 - This Medical Center Hour is a conversation with distinguished historian and literary scholar Brian Stock, expert on (among other subjects) the history of reading and its connections with meditation and self-knowledge who actually began his studies as a student of medicine. How has his work evolved across his career, and what connections does he see now between his scholarship and a continuing interest in science, therapeutics, and the dynamics of healing? |
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The Medical Center Hour: Beyond, Not By, the Numbers: Qualitative Research in Medical Education2/20/08 - Janet Hafler of Tufts University discusses the School of Medicine's new emphasis on medical education research and examines the particular role and value of qualitative research in helping us to understand and appraise how doctors are made. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Who's Working for Whom? Commercialization of Biomedical Research and Education2/13/08 - Patricia Tereskerz, Madaline Harrison and Erik Hewlett discuss conflicts of interest involving physicians, especially those practicing in academic health centers, that are at once less obvious and more substantive today than just pharmaceutical company sponsorship of lunches or CME opportunities. Physician judgment is susceptible to external influence, and institutions are not only drafting policies but also developing ways to help physicians recognize and manage conflicts. |
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Freeman A. Hrabowski Addresses the Board's Special Committee on Planning 2/7/08 - Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, addressed the Board of Visitor's Special Committee on Planning on February 7. He focused on the issue of of African-Americans and other minority students majoring in mathematics, science and engineering who pursue graduate studies in science, technology and medicine. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Beyond Safety and Efficacy: Should the FDA Consider Ethics in Drug Approvals?2/6/08 - Fran Hawthorne, journalist and author, and Richard A. Merrill, former UVA Law School
dean and council for the FDA, discuss the increasing pressure on the FDA to take into account the
ethics of the drugs before it. |
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MIT 2/1/08 - On February 1st, 2008, the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society began its spring season of lectures with a presentation from Dr. Wesley Harris, the Chair of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. Harris was the first African-American to finish the Engineering Honors program at the University of Virginia. His talk at the Jefferson Society covered Harris |
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The Medical Center Hour: Food for Thought: Global and Local Strategies for Healthy Eating1/23/08 - This Medical Center Hour explores a new attentiveness to the foods we consume, with
emphasis both on foods themselves and on the social, environmental and cultural implications of our
eating preferences and patterns. |
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