UVA Speaks

Steve Macko, Professor, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Environmental Sciences - Black Gold: Its Past, Our Future This talk will discuss where oil came from, a short history of use, how much there is, and where we will find the next reservoirs. Macko will provide predictions of continued use and expansions of use, the risks involved, and how to clean up an oil spill. He will al...

Speakers: Andrea Press, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Media Studies and Sociology Christopher Ali, Assistant Professor, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Media Studies Wyatt Andrews, Professor of Practice, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Media Studies Emily Blout News is changing: the people who consume it...

Speakers: Paul Freedman, Associate Professor, Department of Politics Tanya Denckla Cobb, Institute for Environmental Negotiation, School of Architecture Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Professor, School of Medicine, Public Health Sciences Food politics and policies in the United States have heated up in recent years as legislators, regulators, educators, farmers and many others battle over subsidies, labels...

Speakers: Karen McGlathery, Professor, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Associate Vice President for Research, Sustainability & the Environment Phoebe Crisman, Associate Professor, School of Architecture Jonathan Goodall, Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering Sea-level rise and storms ar...

Speakers: Catherine Bradshaw, Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Curry School of Education Dewey Cornell, Bunker Professor, Curry School of Education Bullying has been classified as a public health issue and has led to a growing awareness of behavioral and mental health problems, as well as social and academic concerns in school systems. Likewise concerns about school...

Speakers: Coy Barefoot, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Media Studies Stewart Ackerly, Associate at Williams & Connolly LLP, Alum (COL '06) Charlie Harris, Associate at Hunton & Williams LLP, Alum (LAW '11 and COL '08) Michael Lenox, Professor, Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer, Darden School of Business An engaging, thought-provo...

Speakers: Angela Orebaugh, Assistant Professor, Director of Cybersecurity and IT Programs Jason Belford, Chief Information Security Officer, UVA Ryan Wright, Associate Professor, McIntire School of Commerce This panel addresses the impact of cybersecurity on everyone’s daily life. Cybersecurity attacks such as phishing, ransomware, and other malware have broad social and economic impacts. In addit...

Michael Gilbert, Sullivan & Cromwell Professor, School of Law John Harrison, James Madison Distinguished Professor, School of Law Nicole Hemmer, Assistant Professor, Miller Center For centuries Americans have fought and died for the right to vote. Today the violence has ebbed, but legal conflicts continue—over voter identification laws, proof of citizenship requirements, long lines at polling...

Speakers: Barbara Perry, White Burkett Miller Professor of Ethics and Institutions; Director, Presidential Studies, Miller Center William Antholis, Executive Director, CEO, Miller Center Jeffrey Legro, Vice Provost for Global Affairs, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost This panel will consider US foreign policy and the world it must confront after the first “100 days” of the presid...

Speaker: Elizabeth Varon, Langbourne M. Williams Professor, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, American History; Associate Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History Elizabeth Varon will dispel the myth that the Appomattox surrender was a “gentleman’s agreement” between Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant that reunited the South and North. She argues that the...

Speakers: Peggy Shupnik, Gerald D. Aurbach Professor of Endocrinology, Senior Associate Dean of Research Dr. Jeffrey Elias, Professor, School of Medicine, Neurological Surgery and Neurology Jonathan Kipnis, Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair, School of Medicine, Neuroscience; Director, Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG) UVA School of Medicine researchers are unlocking the...

Speakers: Brian Hogg, Senior Preservation Planner, Office of the Architect for the University Jody Lahendro, Historic Preservation Architect, Facilities Planning and Construction The talk will review the recently completed Rotunda renovation and will look at current and upcoming projects in the Academical Village that will help set the stage for the University’s next hundred years. http://alumni.v...

The Community MLK Celebration presents Maurice Wallace, Associate Professor, English Department and Associate Director, African-American & African Studies, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia will explore the sonic force and densities of Martin Luther King, Jr’s speech-making. He will discuss the power of amplified speech and ambient sound in the making of King’s memory. In a s...

Thomas Jefferson is well-known as one of the founders of American religious freedom and the separation of church and state; yet, while he strongly opposed government involvement in religion, he always expected Americans to be privately religious. In designing the University of Virginia, he worked diligently, against considerable political opposition, to ensure that the University did not actively...

Justice Scalia’s passing, and the filling of his seat, placed the Supreme Court squarely in the contentious 2016 presidential election. Battles among the president, Court, and Senate are not new. But are the stakes now higher? Barbara Perry, White Burkett Miller Professor of Ethics and Institutions; Director, Presidential Studies; Co-Chair, Presidential Oral History Program, Miller Center will exp...

The United States has the largest corrections system in the world. Corrections systems must balance concerns of public safety with ways to enable post-release productivity. In this talk, Gregory Fairchild, Associate Professor, Darden School of Business, will enumerate the challenges and share how UVA students and alumni are fostering innovative solutions in our communities. http://alumni.virginia....

Innovation at UVA: Where New Inventions Promise to be Useful, Improve Human Health & Life Experiences From novel medical imaging to the Internet of Things, from the artificial pancreas to improved water purification—faculty, staff and students at the University of Virginia are innovating every day. Michael Straightiff, Executive Director, UVA Licensing & Ventures Group, will be joined by s...

Alice Raucher, Architect for the University, will discuss current projects in the Office of the Architect, which includes the ongoing stewardship of the Academical Village and historic buildings, as well as strategic planning studies to support the future growth of the University. http://alumni.virginia.edu/learn/program/groundswork-building-on-the-past-planning-for-the-future/

June 4, 2016 - Reunions Seminars Laurie Casteen, Associate Dean, Office of the Dean of Students Marshall (Marsh) Pattie, Associate Dean, Office of the Dean of Students Associate Deans Laurie Casteen and Marshall (Marsh) Pattie from the Office of the Dean of Students will discuss student life at the University. Of particular focus will be student safety improvements, sexual assault prevention and e...

June 10, 2016 - Reunions Seminars Nicole Eramo, Executive Director of Assessment and Planning, Office of the Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer Andy Petters, Assistant Dean of Students, Housing & Residence Life Join Nicole Eramo, Executive Director of Assessment and Planning, Office of the Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer and Andy Petters, Assistant Dean of Studen...

June 10, 2016 - Reunions Seminars Barbara Perry, Ethics and Institutions Professor; Director, Institute of Presidential Studies, U.Va.'s Miller Center Bill Antholis, Director and CEO, Miller Center As American presidents face gridlock at home and chaos abroad, many universities neglect the presidency. Against this trend, UVA’s Miller Center is leading a revival of studying and teaching the nation'...

June 11, 2016 - Reunions Seminars Kirt von Daake, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, A&S, History Have you ever wondered what early life at the University of Virginia was like? Why did the early university faculty pass the “Riot Act”? What role did slavery play at Jefferson’s University? Join Kirt von Daacke, Associate Professor History, as he discusses the digital research project: Jeffe...

June 10, 2016 - Reunions Seminar Greg Fairchild, E. Thayer Bigelow Research Associate Professor, Darden Graduate School of Business Louis Nelson, Associate Dean for Research and International Programs; Director of Program in Historic Preservation; Professor, Department of Architectural History Charlotte Rogers, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Over a h...

June 10, 2016 - Reunions Weekend Jody Lahendro, Historic Preservation Architect with UVA’s Facilities Planning & Construction With only a few months to go before completion of the Rotunda construction project don’t miss the update on this two year renovation project. Jody Lahendro, Historic Preservation Architect with UVA’s Facilities Planning & Construction, will present the renovation wo...

June 10, 2016 - Reunions Seminars Dorrie Fontaine, Dean, School of Nursing David Germano, Professor, Religious Studies (Arts & Sciences) and Director of the Contemplative Sciences Center Tish Jennings, Associate Professor, Curry School of Education Lili Powell Americans spend billions each year on gym memberships in an effort to train their bodies. What if we could train our brains in the same...