Events

2007-08 STS Lecture Series: Race, Ethnicity and Medicine

A Post-Genomic Surprise: The molecular reinscription of race in clinical medicine and forensic science: with some unanticipated social consequences for identity and identification

When: Thursday, April 10, 2008, 7-8:30 p.m.
Where: Medical Sciences Building Auditorium, 1217 East Marshall Street

Troy Duster, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, Department of Sociology, New York University

Dr. Troy Duster has spent his career investigating issues of science and race in public policy. As shown in his groundbreaking work, “Backdoor to Eugenics” in 1990, Duster continues to argue that older, racist views about intelligence and crime find their way into the modern biological sciences.

He was director of UC Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Social Change (1979-97), an institution dedicated to studying the multiple ways that race, ethnicity, class and gender are constructed by social processes. He has served as the chair of the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and as the President of the American Sociological Association. He is currently the director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University.

For more information please contact John Powers at (804) 828-1736 or jcpowers@vcu.edu.

School of Mass Communications: Virginia Communications Hall of Fame

The newest class of the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame will be honored on April 17, 2008 at the Jefferson Hotel, in Richmond, in a ceremony hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Mass Communications.

The following honorees will receive awards:

• Rick Boyko, director of the VCU Brandcenter

• Peter Easter, former executive director of the Virginia Association of Broadcasters

• John Edwards, publisher of the Smithfield Times

• Jay Pace, the late publisher of the Hanover Herald-Progress

• Mark Raper, chairman and CEO of CRT/tanaka

Professionals with exceptional careers in journalism, public relations, advertising and other media fields with ties to Virginia are eligible for the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame has grown to 111 with the addition of the 2008 inductees.

“This sterling class of inductees, one of our best ever, has demonstrated success in a range of communications fields in Virginia,” said Judy VanSlyke Turk, chair of the Communications Hall of Fame selection committee and director of the VCU School of Mass Communications. “Each will make an excellent addition to the Hall of Fame.”

Aaron Gilchrist, a 2003 VCU School of Mass Communications graduate and a morning news anchor on NBC Channel 12 in Richmond, will emcee the induction ceremony. The evening begins with a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner and the awards ceremony. Tickets are $150 and can be reserved by calling (804) 827-3761. Proceeds benefit the Hall of Fame Scholarship Fund.  

For more information about the Hall of Fame, visit www.has.vcu.edu/mac/our_story/hall_of_fame/hall_of_fame.html.

L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs 2008 Excellence in
Virginia Government Awards

EVGA recipients with Mayor L. Douglas Wilder, VCU President Eugene P. Trani, Ph.D., and Dean Robert Holsworth, Ph.D.

VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs honored 13 individuals who have made distinctive contributions to the practice of government and to the well-being of Virginia communities. The awards were presented during the Third Annual Excellence in Virginia Government Awards ceremony held in November 2007 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. Robert D. Holsworth, Ph.D., dean of VCU’s College of Humanities and Sciences, served as master of ceremonies. This event was sponsored in part by Philip Morris USA, CGI, Advantus Strategies and McGuire Woods Consulting, LLC.

The following awards were presented for significant contributions to the commonwealth through public service.

• Lifetime Achievement Award – Robert G. Templin Jr., president of Northern Virginia Community College.

• The Hill-Robinson Expansion of Freedom Award – Frank Batten Sr., chairman and CEO of Landmark Communications, retired.

• The Community Enhancement Award – Edith R. Jones, president and CEO, Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Project Inc. (The STOP Organization).

• The Public Private Partnership Award – the Virginia Department of Transportation and Transurban LLC, in recognition of the successful Pocahontas Parkway (I-895) Project, south of Richmond.

• The Unsung Heroes Award (new in 2008) – William Hart Gillette, agriculture business manager, Virginia Department of Corrections.

• The Innovation in Government Award – Secretary of Administration Viola O. Baskerville, former Secretary of Administration Sandra Bowen, former Secretary of Administration G. Bryan Slater, Department of General Services and information technology services provider CGI, for the development of eVA. 

Read more about the 2007 award ceremony.  

Plans for the 2008 event are underway and nominations for the 2008 EVGA awards will be accepted soon.

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