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Panel discussion. You are gathered here today to hear the story of the closing days of the civil war. The university of virginia has a small chapter in its story. For three days in march, 1865, the city of charlottesville at the university were occupied by union forces. Uva law Professor John miner wrote in his diary that he feared general sheridans men would destroy the university. His fears were not unfounded. Only a month later, union troops did indeed burn the university of alabama whose campus was designed on the model of Thomas Jeffersons academic village. Fortunately, this university ha...

Through his private letters. The book received eventually every prize in the world, i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 symposium about robert e. Lee. As is often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil war historian. She earned an m. A. In history from the university of pennsylvania ...

Pennsylvania studying with the now president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard, people were saying, isnt this unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of harvard. And i commented to her, i thought it was more remarkable that she was the first friend of the museum of the confederacy to be the first president of harvard. [laughter] elizabeth embarked on a career as a historian for the National Parks service, working at the Clara Barton House and arlington house. In 1988, she published clara barton, professional a...

Services generated as a result. We support 400,000 jobs directly across the country in all 50 states on basis of the grants given out. Those are high quality jobs. You asked about global competitiveness. We were the up question leader of the world in the research until recently. Thats not longer to be taken for granted. When you see our losing ground, and we see countries like china, india india, singapore, and south korea upping their investments sometimes in double digits, we are losing that. Quick question on that. When they make increases in investments, do they have an eye on us as a targ...

Back on track on its funding . Well, first, let me say we were thrilled, also to see whats in the 211st century cure, its the 2 billion a year of mandatory, gave a great jolt of excitement and some relief to a community thats. Really quite stressed over the last 12 years as we lost ground but to get back on a stable trajectory that would result in a healthy Biomedical Research ecosystem, which our country depended on with Great Success over 50 years, i estimate in my professional judgment, we need to be in the space of inflation plus 4 or 5 a year. Thats pretty much that dotted line plus infla...