Women for almost 20 years now and its a real pleasure for us to come here one a month. Today im pleased to introduce our cover speaker, karen swallow prior. Karen will be discussing her new book, a little one, but a good one. It is called on reading well finding the good life through great books. In her book she chooses a number of great books of western literature and explores and each one a single virtue like prudence justice, faith, love and the results i can tell you, i can attest personally that you understand the virtues better than you want to practice them in a better way. She is professor of english at Liberty University. She is on multiple Teaching Awards and writes frequently on literature, culture, ethics and ideas in the Center Articles many places. Christianity today, the atlantic, Washington Post and many, many others. In addition to on reading well, shes the author of literature in the soul of me in which she tells the story of how her deep love over time. But now she i
Studentcam. Org. Cspans American History tv continues now. You can find the full schedule for the weekend on your Program Guide or at cspan. Org history. It is now my pleasure to introduce our speaker, dr. Richard bell. Dr. Bell has presented many outstanding programs for Smithsonian Associates on topics relating to early American History and the American Revolutionary period over the course of the past several years. Most recently a program last month on month on baron von steuben and the valley forge winter. Dr. Bell is professor of history at the university of maryland. He holds a ba from the university of cambridge and a phd from harvard. He has won more than a dozen Teaching Awards including a 2017 University System of maryland board of regents faculty award for excellence in teaching which is the highest honor for teaching faculty in the maryland state system. In addition he has held Many Research fellowships at yale, cambridge and the library of congress and is the recipient of
Welcome back. If you can please take your seats. Looking forward to the next panel around some of the clinical advances that have been made over the past 50 years by virtue of the National Cancer act. You know, as a former nci director, you know that one of your greatest assets and some of your best friends are those heroes who agree to become Cancer Center directors, because they have to deal with the complexity of everything from supporting basic research on one end of the spectrum to all the way to the other end of the spectrum with regard to training, clinical research, cancer prevention, et cetera. Being a director is a challenge. Were very fortunate today to have with us to chair this next panel dr. Steve rosen who was the for 24 years the director of the robert h lauri and is the head of the Beckman Research center at city of hope. He has a distinguished career as a medical oncologist and particularly addressing himself now to much of the academic progress thats being made, havi
Revolution. Host it is now my pleasure to introduce our speaker, dr. Richard bell. Dr. Bell has presented many outstanding programs on topics relating to Early American History and the American Revolutionary period over the course of the past several years dr. Bell is professor of history at the university of maryland. He holds a b. A. From the university of cambridge and a ph. D. From harvard. He has won more than a dozen Teaching Awards including the 2017 maryland board of regents faculty award for excellence in teaching which is the highest honor for teaching faculty in the maryland state system. In addition, he has held Major Research fellowships at yale, cambridge and the library of congress and is the recipient of a 2018 National Endowment of the humanities public scholar awards and the 2021 Andrew Carnegie fellowship. He is author of the book stolen. And this book was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington prize and the 2020 Harriet Tubman prize. Dr. Bell is a trustee of the
Outstanding programs for the smithsonian associate relating to Early American History and the American Revolutionary peri od. University of maryland. He holds a b. A. From the university of cambridge and a ph. D. From harvard. He has won more than a dozen Teaching Awards including the 2017 maryland board of regents faculty award for excellence in teaching which is the highest honor for teaching faculty in the maryland state system. In addition, he has held Major Research fellowships at yale, cambridge and the library of congress and is the recipient of a 2018 National Endowment of the humanities public scholar awards and the 2021 Andrew Carnegie fellowship. He is author of the book stolen. And this book was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington prize and the 2020 Harriet Tubman prize. Dr. Bell is a trustee of the Maryland Center for history and culture and a fellow of the Royal Historical society. It is a delight to have him back with us for another program, and so without further