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February 4, 2007 9:56 pmMay 1, 2022 11:48 am

Richard Handler on Understanding Other Cultures with Anthropology

Richard Handler is an Anthropologist and Associate Dean at the University of Virginia. On this January 31st edition of Charlottesville–Right Now! with Coy Barefoot, Handler stresses the importance of using anthropologists in determining foreign policies of countries.

Handler discusses how nationalism plays into the difference between cultures, and the impossibility of finding one true national culture. While other cultures thrive on their multi-linguistic nature, why do Americans feel threatened by a bi-lingual society? Find out, on Charlottesville–Right Now!

January 30, 2007 11:26 pmMay 1, 2022 11:48 am

Best Seat: U.Va-Duke Preview with Ben D’Alesandro

On WINA’s Best Seat, Jed talks with former Clemson assistant basketball coach Ben D’Alessandro in studio. D’Alessandro currently does basketball previews for the sabre.com and looks ahead to this week’s UVA-Duke game with Jed. Led and Ben talk about the battle of strengths between UVA’s three-point shooting and Duke ability to to force teams to take bad shots that may come into play Thursday night.

January 27, 2007 10:23 pmMay 1, 2022 11:48 am

Charlottesville–Right Now: Who Owns the Streets?

Peter Norton is a historian of technology in the Department of Science, Technology and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. Norton describes his job as being able to help “engineers learn from the past of engineering, because we can learn from our mistakes, but you have to know what your mistakes were before you can learn from them.”

Norton speaks with Coy Barefoot on Charlottesville–Right Now! about his article”Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street,” recently published in the Journal of Technology and Culture. Norton discusses the transition from streets being pedestrian-oriented to becoming the domain of the motorcar, and whose interests were really being served. He is also working on a book called “Fighting Traffic.”

January 23, 2007 3:00 amMay 1, 2022 11:49 am

Charlottesville–Right Now: UVa’s Dean of Engineering and Applied Science Jim Aylor

Jim Aylor has always loved electronics. So when he started at the University of Virginia as an undergraduate in 1964, he went straight to its engineering school. 42 years and a PhD later, Aylor is now the Dean of UVa’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, which was recently ranked the third best engineering school in the nation by the Princeton Review. On this edition of Charlottesville–Right Now! with Coy Barefoot, Aylor discusses the important role of women in the engineering field as well as the school’s transformation from focusing on undergraduate education to housing some of the most exciting research of it’s kind in the nation.Aylor explains how research being done at the school is actively being used in real-world applications. He also talks about the importance of Wilsdorf Hall, an addition to the school’s research laboratories, in continuing to be one of the top nanotechnology schools in the country.

January 22, 2007 4:19 pmMay 1, 2022 11:49 am

Charlottesville-Albemarle Democratic Breakfast: Are electronic voting machines vulnerable?

Are electronic voting machines vulnerable to computer hackers? That’s the topic of the January Charlottesville Albemarle Democratic Breakfast. A panel of speakers discuss serious software issues as well as recent controversies. Errors in counting, confusing displays and lack of documentation, and discuss possible paths forward.

The moderator is Jim Heilman, a former registrar in Albemarle County. Panelists include David Evans of the U.Va Computer Science Department, Charlottesville Electoral Board Secretary Rick Sincere and Will Harvey, Secretary of the Albemarle County Electoral Board. The event is introduced by Russ Linden, the co-chair of the Charlottesville City Democratic Committee.

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January 19, 2007 8:41 amMay 1, 2022 11:49 am

Best Seat: U.Va baseball coach Brian O’Connor

Brian O’Connor (Photo: The Sabre

On WINA’s Best Seat, Jed talks with Brian O’Conner, the head coach of baseball at the University of Virginia. Jed and O’Conner talk about the upcoming baseball season and U.Va’s annual “Step up to the Plate” event and take listener calls.

January 19, 2007 12:14 amMay 1, 2022 11:49 am

Charlottesville–Right Now: Winter Edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review Released

Ted Genoways is the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, the literary magazine of the University of Virginia. On this edition of Charlottesville–Right Now! with Coy Barefoot, he discusses the Winter Edition of the VQR – a massive 300-page “Journal of Literature and Discussion.” This issue features photographs from Chris Hondros, who recently won the highest award for war photography, as well as an essay by John Ghazvinian, who was on the show last week. It also features an installment of Art SpiegelmanGuv,!v,,us ongoing “comix memoir,” an untraditional comic by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author/artist of the graphic novel Maus.The Spring issue will feature extensive coverage of the US-Mexican border.

January 9, 2007 9:02 amMay 1, 2022 11:49 am

U.Va Medical and Law schools team-up to help those in poverty

A large number of the people who seek care at the University of Virginia Medical Center live in poverty. A new partnership with the U.Va law school and the Legal Aid Justice Center will help with legal issues that keep those patients on the fringes of society.

Under the U.Va Family Law Advocacy Project, doctors can refer patients to the Legal Aid Justice Center if they feel their medical needs are being affected by a legal problem. Thanks to a grant from the Jessie Ball DuPont Foundation, the project was able to hire a full-time staff attorney to deal with the case load.

Dr. Diane Pappas, left, and Assistant Dean Kimberly Emery co-founded the Family Advocacy Program.

I recently spoke with U.Va pediatrician Diane Pappas, Assistant U.Va Law School Dean Kimberly Emery, and attorney Christianne Quieroz about the program, which has also just received an additional grant from the Burford Liemenstoll Foundation.

This piece originally aired on WVTF Public Radio.

December 31, 2006 9:30 pmMay 1, 2022 11:49 am

Wake-Up Call: What will happen in 2007? Rick Moore and R.K. Ramazani discuss

U.Va professor emeritus R.K. Ramazani joins Rick Moore at the WNRN studios for the last Wake-Up Call of 2006. But, Rick isn’t one to look past. Instead, he and Professor Ramazani discuss some of the potential pitfalls of the upcoming 12 months.

Before the show, Ramazani remarked that he’s been making radio appearances for more than forty years.
In his monologue, Rick laments a House subcommittee’s decision to not tighten restrictions on payday lending in Virginia. Some of these companies charge their customers triple-digit APR in order to get some quick cash. Rick says payday loans postpone and augment financial troubles of the poor and desparate, and he thinks that the General Assembly should do something to help.

December 29, 2006 10:00 amMay 1, 2022 11:49 am

Trumpeter John D’earth scores music for First Night celebration

Trumpeter John D’earthPhoto: U.Va

John D’earth has been a fixture on Charlottesville’s music scene for decades. The trumpeter and his band play a set at Miller’s every Thursday night, and he’s also an instructor at the University of Virginia, playing in the school’s Free Bridge Quintet.

So, when First Night Virginia wanted someone to write to score for a piece commemorating the event’s 25^th anniversary, they turned to D’earth. I stopped by his studio to find out more.

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This podcast has two interesting bits of trivia associated with it. The opening music is from the Thompson-D’earth Band’s new album, When the Serpent Flies. This is a track called Second of Many.

The second bit of trivia comes at the end of the piece. Don’t be startled by the sound of my 14-month-old daughter Josephine, who tagged along with me to John D’earth’s studio. She was really quiet for most of the interview, but let out a splendid squeal at the very end of the musical selection I was recording. John insisted I leave it in, so I obliged!

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November 30, 2006 3:29 pmMay 1, 2022 11:50 am

Best Seat: Former U.Va women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley

On the November 29th edition of WINA’s Best Seat in the House, Jed talks with former Cavalier legend Dawn Staley. Staley, now coach of the Temple Owls, was in town to coach her team against Virginia.

November 23, 2006 7:01 pmMay 1, 2022 11:50 am

Charlottesville–Right Now: A look at the U.Va Patent Foundation

Andrea Alms and Bob MacWright are with the University of Virginia Patent Foundation. They join Coy Barefoot to explain how the group protects the University’s intellectual property. Alms is the the general manager of Spinner Technologies, which is set up to help faculty build companies powered by their inventions.

In the past year, U.Va has been the home to more than 170 inventions. “We’re a volume business,” says MacWright. At least two-thirds of the inventions come from the Medical Center, and Alms and MacWright describe some of the latest research to hit the market.