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Invited speaker, John Hessler of the Library of Congress, discusses the use of artificial intelligence for the reconstruction of ceramics and inscriptions in archaeology for the Scholars' Lab speaker series, University of Virginia, Spring 2021. Recorded via Zoom web video communications interface in the presence of a live audience of 60+ attendees.
Keela Boose is an English Professor at Norfolk State University and a self-described “child of historically Black colleges and universities.” Born in Monroe, Louisiana, in 1958, Booses’s parents taught Education and Psychology at Grambling State University, Alabama State College, and later, Norfolk State. In this 2023 interview, Boose discusses the mentors who inspired her love of reading. She recalls the social and political contexts of Civil Rights-era Montgomery, Alabama, and her memories growing up in what was then a racially-mixed neighborhood of Campostella Heights in the Southside of Norfolk. Boose pursued college and graduate work at Alcorn State University in Mississippi and at Northern Illinois University. The interview was conducted in her home along the Elizabeth River, which her parents bought in 1966 and she later inherited. In the interview, she describes how sea level rise and the practices of developers buying rights to the water has impacted the shoreline of her neighborhood.
Kim Sudderth is a community leader and advocate for racial justice with the Norfolk branch of the NAACP, and the first Black woman to serve as Vice Chair of the Norfolk Planning Commission, beginning in 2022. She was the Repair Lab’s inaugural Practitioner-in-Residence in 2021. Born in 1971, Sudderth grew up in Norfolk and spent some of her adult years in Virginia Beach before returning home to Norfolk.
Track 1: In this oral history, Sudderth discusses her childhood years growing up on the naval base near Ocean View in Norfolk, and her memories of her mother’s softball league. In her later adult years, Sudderth began advocating for environmental justice cases with Mothers Out Front. Sudderth shares her perspectives on power and change-making, and discusses the connected and widespread issues of housing and the environment, as well as the lessons she has learned through organizing.
Track 2: In this interview Sudderth discusses her experience with a representative of the city in conversation about the proposed downtown Norfolk seawall and the absence of structural mitigations for flooding for the predominantly Black Southside neighborhood, where she resides. Sudderth also addresses Norfolks’ Vision2100 document, a neighborhood planning guide created in response to forecasted sea-level rise and the resulting changes in the city’s geography.
In summer 2013, UVA landscape architecture graduate students Harriett Jameson and Asa Eslocker travelled to Sardinia, Okinawa, and Loma Linda, California, three landscapes with the highest life expectancy in the world, to explore these places' physical, spatial, and material qualities-topography, plant communitites,urban form-and also the personal attachments that seniors in these sites have to their cultural landscapes. The people in these locales have long been studied for their genetics, diets, and recreation habits. But until Ms. Jameson and Mr. Eslocker arrived, no one had inquired into or demonstrated in these settings the critical role of place in healthy longevity. Through study of these distinctive landscapes and the personal stories of elderly residents, the pair arrived at insights that may help communities rethink and redesign public landscapes to cultivate a culture of health and well being that spans infancy through old age.
In this Medical center hour, Ms. Jameson and Mr. Eslocker focus on how place contributes to healthy aging and preview parts of their full-length documentary film, Landscapes of longevity, which will premiere in Charlottesville in November.
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Co-presented with the Center for Design + Health, School of Architecture, UVA
Lathaniel Kirts was born in 1988 and grew up in the Norview community of Norfolk, Virginia. In this oral history interview, he describes his experiences as an honor roll student in Norfolk public schools while he and his family were navigating homelessness. Kirts was granted a scholarship to Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he studied political science and worked in public service. While serving as a Deputy Clerk in courtrooms in Richmond and in Norfolk, he witnessed the school-to-prison pipeline. This interview includes Kirts’s reflections on his work for Communities and Schools, an organization dedicated to providing social services and mentorship for students in K-12 settings, around housing and food insecurity, and his decision to attend seminary school at Virginia Union, where he graduated in 2015. Kirts is an active community advocate for protecting residents living next to CSX rail yards against coal dust pollution. He served as the Repair Lab Practitioner-in-Residence (2023-2024). This oral history was conducted at Pay First Church, the church that Kirts and his wife lead in Newport News.
Lawrence Turner was born and raised in the southeast community of Newport News. In this interview, Turner describes how his life has been shaped by mentorship he has received within his community, and also the impact environmental racism in Newport News has had on his life. Turner recalls that for at least once a year between 2002 and 2018, sea level rising would impact residents' daily lives, including water lines coming up the third stair of his home during high tides when he lived in the Salters Creek area of Newport News. Turner’s interview contains descriptions of his mentors, teachers, and athletic coaches throughout his secondary education and college experience. Turner graduated from the Call Me MISTER (Men Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) program at Longwood University, in Farmville, Virginia. His work as a high school counselor at schools in Newport News and Mansassas empowered students both in athletics and in post-high school work and education. Within his numerous community advocacy roles, Turner has helped develop a Toxic Tour, highlighting sites in the southeast community of Newport News contributing to air pollution. This oral history also includes Turner’s reflections on Newport News interstate traffic, gun violence, and how it impacted his family and mental health.
Fifty years ago President Lyndon B. Johnson envisioned a Great Society, an America free from poverty and racial injustice and full of equality of opportunity and social mobility for all. Many legislative planks of his Great society platform--civil and voting rights, educational opportunity, fair housing practices, urban planning, mass transit, and health care --represent what we today consider "social determinants of health." This Medical center hour with bioethicist Erika Blacksher reviews how Americans are faring today in relation to key aspirations of LBJ's Great Society, especially those that bear on health. Americans generally live shorter, less healthy lives than their counterparts in peer nations, and within the U.S. health varies dramatically among social and economic groups and from region to region. What ethical concerns are raised by significant health disparities? Are such disparities unjust, as many in public health assume? If so, what are our responsibilites, and what ethical limits might constrain our pursuit of a more equitable distribution of health?
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series and the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life
Even as the University of Virginia and other medical schools across the U.S. prepare to graduate a new wave of physicians, what will be these doctors' roles and responsibilities in a health care system increasingly stressed by social and political pressures, cultural challenges, and financial shortfalls? And what will be—what should be—expected of physicians and the medical profession in years to come, in their practice, in communities, in policy circles, in the public square? In this Medical Center Hour, Dr. Christine Cassel, a longtime leader in medicine and medical education, offers her perspectives on what should be expected of physicians and other health professionals in coming years--in their practice, in their communities, in government and policy circles, and in the public square.
Twenty-first century physicians and other clinicians who are caring for patients in an era of unlimited knowledge, rapid knowledge turnover, and ever-more-sophisticated artificial intelligence (Watson!) increasingly need new skills and strategies. Such practitioners need too a renewed capacity for compassion. In this Medical Center Hour, eminent physician leader Dr. Steven Wartman, 2019 recipient of UVA's Brodie Medical Education Award, maps this critical juncture and challenges educators and other health professional leaders to reimagine and reengineer how we prepare doctors and other health care practitioners.
The Brodie Medical Education Award Lecture
These are two recordings from 2022-09-07 made at the Bremo Enslaved Cemetery, Upper Bremo Farm, Fluvanna County, Virginia. The video includes two letters, one from Liberia to the former Bremo plantation written by Peyton Skipwith (1834) and the other coming from Lower Bremo former plantation to Liberia by Jack Creasy (1840). Both men were enslaved at the former Bremo plantations in the early 19th century. The Creasy letter is read by Horace Scruggs of the Fluvanna Historical Society and descendant of the Bremo enslaved. The Skipwith letter is read by Thomas Nynweph Gmawlue Jr, visiting student from Liberia participating in UVA Landscape Architecture class ALAR 8993 : Cultural Landscape Networks Across the Black Atlantic, lead by Professor Allison James. The readings were done as part of a collaborative field trip between ALAR 8993, ARH 5600 : 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics, lead Professor Will Rourk of the UVA Library and the Fluvanna Historical Society. Sources for the letter were provided by Tricia Johnson, executive director of the Fluvanna Historical Society. The source of the Creasy letter is from the Fluvanna Historical Society Bremo papers and the Skipwith letter is from UVA Library Special Collections.
Creation of accessible materials is essential to compliance with UVA's standards and guidelines; moreover, it is critical to creating an inclusive and engaged learning environment for all students. Join us for this workshop, led by UVA Library's Accessibility Designer, Jack Kelly. He'll discuss guidelines and best practices for multimedia accessibility that will guide your OER project development. This session is recommended for those embarking on the creation of open instructional resources.
H5P is a digital toolset for authoring content online. Content creators can design interactive videos, presentations, quizzes, and much more. H5P is used for interactive content creation in OER, and this workshop will introduce instructors to H5P and provide examples of how it is being used to engage students. This session serves as an excellent starting point for those new to the technology and those who need a refresher on some of the key functionalities.
Creating a roadmap for your OER project work is a foundational step towards a well-structured project. In this session, we will discuss best practices for planning your OER project, how to set realistic and achievable goals, and ways to manage your workflow and communicate with collaborators in a streamlined and effective manner. This session is recommended for all those embarking on the creation of OER materials.
Libra is UVA's institutional repository for scholarship. Depositing your work in Libra makes it available to the world while providing safe and secure storage. In this session, Winston Barham, Open Access Librarian, will provide the foundations for getting started in Libra with an eye towards OER deposits of text and media. In addition, he will introduce you to ORCID, a unique researcher identifier that you may use to connect your scholarship throughout your professional life. You will leave the session with concrete knowledge of how both Libra and ORCID can impact the sharing of your OER scholarship.
Video integration is an effective way to take OER creation to the next level. Creating videos in a manner that allows for reuse and remixing requires a mindful approach to planning, recording, and distribution. In this session, Learning Design & Technology’s Jessica Weaver-Kenney will discuss actionable steps to create reusable and adaptable video. This session is recommended for individuals interested in creating open video content.
Adverse events and poor patient outcomes occur for all doctors, regardless of subspecialty, regardless of educational and training pedigree, and despite best intentions. Such occurrences often exact a significant and sometimes lasting emotional toll on doctors, even apart from any culpability or potential medicolegal ramifications. In this Medical center hour Dr. Farnaz Gazoni demonstrates that adverse events in clinical care and their impact on physicians have substantial, widespread repercussions affecting quality of care and patient safety. But her research and experience show too that, by simply cultivating awareness of this issue, health care institutions and individual practitioners are taking important first steps toward culture change.
The Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture, School of Medicine
In observance of National Quality Week (19-25 October), and co-presented with the Patient Safety Committee, UVA Health System
This Richardson Memorial Lecture's origins are the hospital death of infant Lola Jayden Fitch and her family's journey to evoke change. The hour is anchored in the stories of Lola's parents--her mother, who questioned her intuition, and her father, who chose to continue working in the hospital where Lola's death occurred--and in a review of medical staff communication errors that tragically affected Lola's care.
How can we prevent communication breakdowns, improve teamwork, and foster greater transparency and true partnership with families to make health care better and safer, especially for the most vulnerable patients? How can Lola's Song and similar stories--those of patients, families, health professionals, and others--help us to accomplish this important work?
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The Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture of the School of Medicine
Co-presented with the Office of Quality and Performance Improvement, UVA Health System
It's Love Data Week! At UVA Library’s Research Data Services we help researchers understand how to keep their data organized and well-managed. For Love Data Week 2025, we talked to Kristen Schwendinger, Director of Research Integrity and Ethics at UVA’s Office of the Vice President for Research, to help us understand the intersection of data management and research integrity.
In this podcast, she provides research ethics advice that benefits all data stakeholders. There is a related blog post at UVA Library that includes links and associated resources.
In the making of a doctor, the residency is the principal formative experience. Its three to nine years of supervised practical learning are the crucible in which medical graduates acquire specialty knowledge and skills, forge a professional identity, and develop the values, attitudes, and behaviors for a lifetime of practice. While there have long been tensions within and around residency, physician-historian Kenneth Ludmerer's new book, Let Me Heal, a history of residency in the U.S. since its 19th century origins, comes at a time when training programs are pressured as never before by government regulation, workforce changes, shifts in disease patterns and sites of care, and highly commercialized health care. In this Medical Center Hour, Dr. Ludmerer mines the history of residency for lessons to address current concerns about medical education and to assure we can make the best doctors for the 21st century.
The Joan Echtenkamp Klein Memorial Lecture in the History of the Health Sciences
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
In the summer of 1816, an eighteen-year-old English girl on a lark in Switzerland with a married man and her stepsister began writing a story that would outlive her by centuries. Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, published in 1818, still fascinates and confounds us today, told and retold in so many genres that even those who have never read the original know the story. This Medical Center Hour marks Frankenstein's 200th anniversary by exploring two of the many reasons for its apparent immortality. First, this novel probes the central quest of medicine and biology: What is life? Second, it asks—but leaves for us to answer—the essential ethical question: Should we as human beings manipulate the spark of life?
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
In June 2018, Gov. Ralph Northam signed a budget bill that gives 400,000 low-income Virginians access to government health insurance through Medicaid. This action marked an upbeat, bipartisan close to a bitter, four-year battle in the General Assembly. An Affordable Care Act option, Medicaid expansion makes additional low-income persons in participating states eligible for care that is funded chiefly with federal dollars. Virginia’s decision to join 32 other participating states hinged on a legislative compromise with Republicans that imposes work requirements on Medicaid recipients. While a few other states have taken similar positions, debate about work requirements continues in government, policy circles, and the courts. This Medical Center Hour looks at Medicaid expansion in Virginia—to be implemented in January 2019—from policy, political, and health care perspectives, with a focus on what it means locally, in Charlottesville and Central Virginia.
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
American medical education can be proud of its accomplishments. Its graduates populate a sophisticated medical system that often sets global standards in teaching and self-regulation. doctors the world over compete to train and practice in the U.S. There are nearly three applicants for every one place in U.S. medical schools. Things are good. But are they? The U.S. medical system is now by far the world's most expensive, a drag on the economy and a major contributor to accumulating national debt. Physician-writer Atul Gawande notes that the doctor's most expensive instrument is the pen, ordering costly, and sometimes unnecessary, diagnostics and therapeutics. We import a quarter of our doctors, yet major portions of the country are short of physicians. All is not well in medical education. In this Brodie Medical Education Lecture, distinguished physician and health policy expert Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan addresses the technical, cultural, and moral challenges facing American medical education today, and how they go straight to the soul of medicine.
Co-presented with the Brodie Medical Education Committee, the Department of Medicine, and the Academy of Distinguished Educators, as part of UVA's Medical Education Week
Thirty years ago, the medical school at East Carolina University created a readers' theater program in which short stories about medicine were adapted as theatrical scripts. Medical students performed a story by reading it aloud, then actors and audience--often a community group--together discussed the drama and the ethical and social issues it raised. These plays and post-performance discussions enlivened and changed how future physicians and audiences--prospective patients all--approached and learned from one another.
The best way to learn about medical readers' theater? Just do it. In this Medical Center Hour, UVA medical student actors present a dramatic reading of physician-poet William Carlos Williams's 1938 short story, "A Face of Stone." Following the performance, the audience joins in, as everyone responds to and discusses the play and the ethical, social, and cultural concerns it explores.
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Co-presented with the Sloane Society for Medical Humanities, UVA
As a UVA undergraduate (Class of 2010), Pennsylvania native Matthew Miller had a catastrophic, near fatal cycling accident on the Blue Ridge Parkway while training for an Ironman triathlon. He lost control of his bike as a caravan of classic cars passed by in the opposite lane; Miller plowed into an oncoming Porsche, breaking every bone in his face. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Michael Vitez's articles about Miller for The Philadephia Inquirer (reprinted in the Charlottesville Daily Progress) led to his book, The road back: a story of grit and grace (2012). This compelling narrative of Miller's remarkable survival and recovery. He is now a third year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania not only celebrates the strength and resiliency of the human spirit but also vividly attests to the power of medicine at its best. This Medical center hour, with Michael Vitez and UVA surgeon J. Forrest Calland, one of Miller's doctors, suggests that the best way to explore and explain what's happening in medicine may be to tell stories of ordinary people, patients and professionals meeting extraordinary challenges.
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
This is a rendered flythrough animation of the 3D data collected and processed for the former Midloch Plantation enslaved dwelling. Produced from 3d data collected with FARO Focus 3D laser scanners on 2023-03-28 and rendered using Autodesk ReCap Pro v. 2023.
Monét Johnson is a Norfolk resident and advocate working with New Virginia Majority, a nonprofit focused on economic and racial justice. She works as the Lead Organizer for Housing and Environment. Johnson was born in 1996 in Brockton, Massachusetts, and spent her summers as a child in Virginia before moving to Norfolk.
Track 1: In this oral history, Johnson discusses her experience growing up in a majority-Cape Verdean community in Massachusetts, her memories visiting her family in Virginia, and her organizing work during her college years at Framingham State University. Johnson describes her work at New Virginia Majority starting in 2020 fighting housing discrimination and combating environmental injustices, including rising sea levels and coal dust pollution in Norfolk.
Track 2: Johnson discusses the legal battle with the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority in 2021, where she was a plaintiff on behalf of residents of St Paul’s public housing. In 2020, New Virginia Majority sued the city for housing discrimination violating the federal Fair Housing Act on behalf of Black residents. The lawsuit alleged that the NRHA perpetuated systemic racism and segregation through redevelopment of St Paul’s and the resulting displacement of hundreds of Black residents. Johnson’s party, made up of the New Virginia Majority and several other civil right organizations, won the lawsuit on behalf of tenants. The interview also discusses Johnson’s experiences advocating with public housing residents for better flooding and facility management and safer accommodations for children and elders. Kim Sudderth is also present in this interview.
Part one. Footage of Pennsylvania Avenue moving toward the Capitol. At 9:42, footage of Monticello interiors. Part two. Footage of Monticello interiors. Part three. Footage of Monticello interiors and exterior.
In 1984, Ronald Reagan’s reelection campaign introduced the theme “Morning in America," promoting an image of the U.S. as a hopeful nation moving toward a better future. As one campaign advertisement asserted, “It’s morning again in America, and under the leadership of President Reagan, our country is prouder and stronger and better.” Fast forward to 2016. “Hopeful” or making the country “prouder" aren't descriptors most Americans would apply to either this presidential campaign or the contenders. One day post-election, what do experts think will be the “better future” under our new President and Congress? And how might the new President’s health care agenda be felt in the Commonwealth of Virginia?
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Musicologist April Greenan outlines use of music in western medicine as an agent of both healing and prevention, reviewing data documenting music's beneficial effects on patients, and suggests ways that health professionals might purposefully employ music in patient care. How might doctors guide patients to use music on their own in managing pain, anxiety, depression, the side-effects of chemotherapy? Given the ubiquity and affordability of recorded music today, might it represent a cost-effective way to help improve health care and health?
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Dr. Aaron Vinik recounts his journey through the golden years of biomedical and clinical research as he has studied and tested regeneration of pancreatic islet cells and nerve fibers. There are lessons here for coming generations of physician-scientists--about discovery, about collaboration, about being mentored, about, as Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests, venturing where there is no path and leaving a trail.
The Alpha Omega Alpha Lecture of the School of Medicine
Footage of cocktail conversations during reception for Old Dominion Bar Association convention. Participants unknown. Footage of drive through Chicago to the Supreme Life Building, footage inside the building.
Flythrough animation of 3D dataset collected at the Old Stone Jail, Palmyra, Virginia during the Spring 2023 semester for ARH5600; data was collected by students of ARH5600 on 2023-02-08 (exterior), 2023-0210 (interior), and 2023-04-28 (attic); data was collected using FARO Focus 3D lasers scanners; data processed with FARO Scene v. 2023 and animation produced with Autodesk ReCap v. 2023;
The year 2018 marks the centennial of the "Spanish" influenza pandemic, the world's deadliest event, killing at least 50 million persons worldwide. This pandemic's sudden emergence and high fatality are stark reminders of the threat influenza has posed to human health and society for more than a millennium. Unusual features of the 1918-1919 outbreak, such as the age-specific mortality pattern and unexpectedly high frequency of severe and fatal pneumonias, are still not fully understood. But the recent sequencing and reconstruction of the 1918 virus—work accomplished by NIH scientist Jeffery Taubenberger and colleagues—have yielded answers to crucial questions about the virus's origin and pathogenicity. In this Hayden-Farr Lecture at Medical Center Hour, Dr. Taubenberger summarizes key findings, considers yet-to-be answered questions about the 1918 influenza, and looks ahead to 21st century public health preparedness and the need to optimize preventive vaccines and vaccination strategies.
The Hayden-Farr Lecture in Epidemiology and Virology/Medical Grand Rounds/History of the Health Sciences Lecture
Co-presented with the Department of Medicine, Historical Collections in the Health Sciences Library, and Influenza! 1918-2018
Oral history interview with UVA Law Professor A. E. Dick Howard, class of 1961, the longest serving professor at the University of Virginia at his retirement in 2024. Howard discusses his time as a student at the Law School and his experiences teaching law over his sixty-year career.
An oral history interview with Dr. Anastasia Williams, conducted at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on April 8, 2022. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation.
Anastasia Longchamps Bayardelle Williams was born in New York and attended Cornell University, graduating with an undergraduate degree in Chemistry in 1991. She moved to Charlottesville with her husband in 1993 so that they could attend medical and law school, respectively, at the University of Virginia. Dr. Williams graduated from the UVA School of Medicine in 1998. After medical school Dr. Williams completed an internship in pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia (1998-1999) and a residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD (1999-2001). She worked as a pediatrician in northern Virginia for 20 years, founding Olde Towne Pediatrics in Manassas and Gainesville, VA, and serving as the Medical Director of Pediatrics for Novant Health UVA Health System. Dr. Williams currently lives and practices in California.
Dr. Williams has served on the UVA Medical Alumni Association Board of Directors and the UVA School of Medicine Board of Trustees, as well as on the UVA Parents Committee, which she co-chaired with her husband, Sanford Williams. The Williams have three children, who are all alumni of UVA.
Balogun, Arafat Yinka, Cantarella, Claudia, Cole, Montina, Fort, Ann, Lewis Lee, Tonya, Lewis, Shireen, Cleary Lofton, Deborah, Preston, Tracy
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Oral history interview with Virginia Law Women members and leadership from 1986 to 1992, including Arafat Yinka Balogun ’89, Claudia Cantarella ’91, Montina Cole ’91, Ann Fort ’91, Tonya Lewis Lee ’91, Shireen Lewis ’89, Deborah Cleary Lofton ’92, and Tracy Preston ’91. The group discusses student activism, the curriculum, and building community at the Law School.
An oral history interview with Dr. Barbara Hasko Curry, conducted at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on April 29, 2022. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation.
Barbara Ann Hasko Curry of Silver Spring, Maryland, graduated from high school in 1967 and entered the University of Virginia School of Nursing, finishing with a B.S. in Nursing in 1971. Her interests in the health sciences inspired her to return to UVA to complete the prerequisite courses needed to apply for medical school. In 1973 she was admitted to the UVA School of Medicine, and she graduated from the medical school in 1977.
After graduation, Curry completed an internship at Dartmouth Affiliated Hospitals in Hanover, NH, and a residency at Providence Medical Center in Portland, OR. Dr. Curry became board certified in Emergency Medicine in 1981 and joined the Billings Clinic in Billings, MT, in 1990. After the merger of the Billings Clinic and Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. Curry served as Chair of the Emergency Department at Deaconess Billings Clinic. (“Deaconess” was then dropped from the name in 2005.) In 2007, a state-of-the-art Emergency and Trauma Center opened at the Billings Clinic. Dr. Curry lives and continues to practice in Billings, MT.
Oral history interview of Bobby Vassar and James Ghee, both class of 1972, took place on May 14, 2022, at the Law School during Reunion Weekend. Vassar and Ghee discussed their experiences as African American students at the Law School in the early 1970s, including reminiscences of professors and courses, as well as their experiences in the wider University and Charlottesville communities.
Oral interview of Carolyn Ikari, class of 1993, via Zoom, on March 15, 2022. Discussion of Ikari’s tenure as president of Virginia Law Women (VLW) and VLW programs and activities of that period. Discussion of feminism at the Law School in the ‘90s and the relative lack of ethnic and cultural diversity at the time. Reminiscences of the Law School and Law School life in the ‘90s.
Oral interview of Catharina Min, class of 1990, co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA), who discusses her time at UVA Law and the founding of APALSA.
Oral history interview of Celeste Redmond-Smith, class of 1985, via Zoom, on February 2, 2022. Redmond-Smith discussed sexism at the Law School and in law firms’ employment practices in the 1980s. Redmond-Smith also discussed Virginia Law Women (VLW) programs supporting women law students during the employment interview process, and gave her views on diversity in the Law School and VLW.
Oral history interview with Charles “Chuck” Vasaly, class of 1970, in Arlington, Virginia. Vasaly discusses the events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 against the Vietnam War, and his participation as a legal marshal.
Oral history interview with Chloe Fife, class of 2022, via Zoom, on March 4, 2024. Fife discussed her time as a member and president of UVA Law’s chapter of Lambda Law Alliance, highlighting the group’s events and activities, including a successful campaign for the installation of gender-neutral restrooms in the Law School.
Oral history interview with Christopher Slobogin, class of 1977, regarding his work as ILPPP’s second mental health law fellow. Slobogin discusses the founding years of the institute, his work with the Western State Hospital and Forensic Psychiatry Clinic in the late 1970s, and the impact of ILPPP on his scholarship and career.
An oral history interview with Dr. Claudette Dalton, conducted at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on June 27, 2022. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation.
Claudette Ellis Harloe Dalton lived in Charlotte, N.C., before attending Sweet Briar College. After graduation, she enrolled in post-baccalaureate courses at the University of Virginia in order to prepare for medical school. She matriculated at the UVA School of Medicine in 1970, the first year that UVA's undergraduate programs officially became co-educational. Dr. Dalton received her M.D. from the UVA School of Medicine in 1974, and she went on to an internship and anesthesiology residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
While working in North Carolina, Dr. Dalton remained involved with the UVA Medical Alumni Association, and in 1989, she was invited to join the faculty of the UVA School of Medicine as the Assistant Dean for Alumni Affairs. With this appointment, Dr. Dalton became the first woman to hold the title of Assistant Dean in the history of the UVA School of Medicine. She held several positions during her tenure at the School of Medicine, including: Assistant Dean for Medical Education, Assistant Dean for Community Based Medicine, Director of the Office for Community Based Medical Education, and Assistant Professor for Medical Education. During her time on the faculty, Dr. Dalton served on the School of Medicine's Committee on Women and helped to coordinate an annual Women in Medicine Leadership Conference on behalf of the School of Medicine. In 1993, Dr. Dalton presented the opening remarks at the UVA School of Medicine Graduation Exercises.
Dr. Dalton also served as the Chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Ethics and Professionalism Committee, and she chaired the Southeastern Delegation to the American Medical Association from 2019-2021. In 1996, she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Society. In 2002, she was awarded the Sharon L. Hostler Women in Medicine Leadership Award. An active alumna of the UVA School of Medicine, Dr. Dalton has served on the Medical Alumni Association Board of Directors, as well as on the Medical Alumni Newsletter editorial board, and acted as Class Representative for the Class of 1974.
Oral history interview with Cordel Faulk, class of 2001, via Zoom, on March 13, 2024. Faulk discussed his education, his time at UVA as a law student, and his activities to recruit more LGBT+ students to UVA Law while working in admissions.
Oral history interview with UVA Law professor and alum D. Ruth Buck (1985) who recalls her time as a law student and discusses her experiences teaching Legal Research and Writing.
Oral history interview with Dan Sullivan, class of 1970. Sullivan discusses the events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 against the Vietnam War, and his participation in the events as a legal marshal.
Oral history interview via Zoom on January 27, 2022, of past President Danit Tal, class of 2015. Tal discussed experiences of her mother, a lawyer, raising Tal while practicing law, and the challenges associated with working, as a woman, for large law firms (Big Law). Tal reviewed programs implemented while VLW president to support women Law students, including a faculty dinner program and Women in Big Law. Also discussed were challenges of managing VLW generally, and VLW leadership transitions.
Oral history interview with David Levy, class of 1970, in Fairfax, VA. Levy discusses his experiences in law school at UVA and his involvement as a legal marshal in the student strike in May 1970 against the Vietnam War.
An oral history interview with Dr. Dorothy G. Tompkins, conducted at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on November 19, 2021. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation.
Dorothy Ellen Guild Tompkins was born in 1941 and grew up in Louisa County, VA. She majored in biology at the College of William and Mary (graduating in 1962) before matriculating at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She graduated from medical school in 1966, one of three women in her class. In 1972, Tompkins returned to UVA as a Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology. She went on to be appointed Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in 1973 and Associate Professor of Pediatrics in 1979. Later she worked in the area of addiction treatment, and from 2003-2006 Tompkins served as a pediatrician in the UVA Department of Psychiatric Medicine. A passionate and dedicated teacher, Tompkins received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and was elected to the School of Medicine's Academy of Distinguished Educators during her time at UVA.
In recent years, Tompkins has been active in local non-profit work, including master gardener, naturalist, and tree steward programs, and extensive work with women recovering from substance abuse and trauma. She helped found an organization called Georgia's Friends, which operates Georgia's Healing House, a supportive residential home for women in recovery. Tompkins is married to Dr. William Fraser Tompkins III (also a member of the UVA SOM Class of 1966). They live in Central Virginia.
Oral history interview with Edward Hogshire, class of 1970. Hogshire discusses the events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 against the Vietnam War, and his participation in the events as a legal marshal.
An oral history interview with Dr. Edward T. Wood, conducted by Dr. David S. Wilkes via Zoom on September 23, 2021. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation.
Edward Thomas Wood was born in Lexington, VA, in 1932. He attended Armstrong High School in Richmond, VA, and was a pre-medical student at Dartmouth University, where he earned an A.B. in 1953. Wood and his classmate Edward Bertram Nash became the first two Black students to attend and graduate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Matriculating in 1953, they graduated in the Class of 1957. After medical school, Wood completed several internships and residencies in New York. After choosing ophthalmology as a specialty, he opened his own practice in New York and spent the remainder of his career there. Wood had a long and productive career, working for 60 years until the age of 85, and then residing in Florida up until his death. He passed away on April 17, 2024.
David S. Wilkes graduated from Villanova University (B.S.) and earned an M.D. from Temple University. He served as Dean of the UVA School of Medicine from 2015-2021. Dr. Wilkes remains a member of the research faculty at the UVA School of Medicine.
Oral history interview with Edwin Finch, class of 1970, and Frank McDermott, class of 1970. Finch and McDermott discuss the events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 against the Vietnam War and their participation in the events as legal marshals.
Oral history interview of Ellen Brantley, class of 1973, and Elizabeth Trimble, class of 1973, via Zoom, on January 25, 2022. Brantley and Trimble discussed why they decided to study law, how they chose UVA Law School, and how Virginia Law Women (VLW) was established. Review of early VLW recruitment efforts and programs. Brantley and Trimble reminisce about Law School life in the early 1970s.
Oral history interview with Gerald J. MacFarlane, class of 1970, at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. MacFarlane discusses events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 against the Vietnam War, and his participation as a legal marshal.
