Research suggests there is a genetic component to postpartum depression, and the hormonal changes of pregnancy may help trigger a depressive episode in vulnerable women, said Dr. Jennifer Payne, who directs the Reproductive Psychiatry Research Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. But additional factors can sway postpartum depression risk. And in the new study of more than 1 million new moms worldwide, Payne's team identified a few.
Though the six-year completion rate has hit 62.5%, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, percentages for those starting at two-year institutions and those from underserved communities are far lower. However, where strong advising measures have been put in place in high schools and colleges, there have been positive gains, highlighted in a fall study by Bottom Line and professors Andrew Barr (Texas A&M) and Ben Castleman (University of Virginia).
A study conducted by The Organic Center in partnership with a team at the University of Virginia found that organic farming recycled or reused three times more reactive nitrogen than conventional farming. The study also found that almost all the nitrogen used to produce the food in a conventional diet – 93 percent – was newly created reactive nitrogen. In comparison, for an average diet of organic foods, only 33 percent of the nitrogen used to produce the food was new reactive nitrogen.
Robert Preißner [Preissner] and scientists at the University of Virginia also examined data from a total of 300,000 patients who had been prescribed statins. This analysis found a correlation: “Patients taking statins had only half the incidence of cancer compared to the general population,” Preißner explains.
On Feb. 20, Youngkin signed an executive order extending one of Northam’s last orders, concerning flexibility for hospitals, health systems, nursing homes and other health care providers struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. The order, which originally was set to expire on Feb. 21, will now be in effect until March 22. On Feb. 28, the University of Virginia Health System announced it will ease its visitation policies by March 3.
The University of Virginia Health system will adjust its visitation policy on Thursday to allow younger visitors, more visitors and longer visits, citing the abating surge of COVID-19 and dropping case counts. The health system, which includes the UVa Medical Center and other inpatient and outpatient facilities, will allow visitors 12 years old and older who do not have COVID or other illnesses and allow two visitors at a patient’s bedside from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. One visitor will be allowed to stay overnight, a major change from the current visitation policy.
2022The president was Lyndon B. Johnson, and Soviet Union tanks had just rolled into Czechoslovakia on Aug. 20, 1968. Johnson’s call was to Richard M. Nixon, the Republican nominee for president. Nixon had already been alerted by his foreign policy adviser Richard V. Allen, who immediately called Nixon at his Fifth Avenue apartment, where Nixon had gone to bed early after a campaign trip. “Around 9 o’clock I woke him up” with news about the Soviet invasion, Allen said in a 2002 oral history interview at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Case rates are continuing a steep decline across Virginia, according to Friday’s interim report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. High case rates persist in the Far Southwest, in the Lynchburg area and in the western parts of Southside. Residents in these areas should consider masking when in indoor public places, UVa researchers suggested.
Devon Henry and his team took down the Confederate monuments in Richmond when several contractors were afraid to touch them. … “We’ve done 23 of these throughout the Southeast. Some places we don’t really talk about. But Charlottesville was another place, which was a huge relief for a lot of the people that were there because of everything that they went through. The University of Virginia, they had their own; North Carolina, and they have some at the Virginia Military Institute,” says Henry.
From an early age, a career in diversity seemed destined for ServiceNow’s first Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer, Karen Pavlin. Growing up in New Jersey, she lived in a community where Black families were rare, and her father was one of the first African Americans drafted into the NBA. On a full track scholarship at the University of Virginia, Pavlin trained hard to be a nationally-ranked NCAA 400-meter hurdler, which helped set her on the path she is walking today.
It will be another year at least before Virginia sports fans can place bets on their own college teams, as legislation lifting the prohibition on in-state college sports betting was effectively killed Thursday night. The House General Laws Committee voted to table Senate Bill 576, 18-4. The legislation had passed the state Senate earlier this month, 23-17.
The NCAA Women’s Championships are just a few weeks away and the University of Virginia will enter competition as the heavy favorite to repeat as national champ. The Cavaliers’ lineup is stacked with talent, weaknesses difficult to find. While there is star power, there is also incredible depth. That combination – of course – is deadly. Leading into the NCAA Championships, it is worth noting the eye-opening versatility of Alex Walsh, the reigning Olympic silver medalist in the 200 individual medley.
Virginia coach Tony Elliott never uttered lingo like ‘run-pass option,’ ‘line of scrimmage’ or ‘A-gap blitz,’ and yet he never lost the attention of the all the men who run high school programs across the Commonwealth and were in attendance at The Championship Football Coaches Clinic on Saturday afternoon.
Howard W. Overshown recalls his professor at the University of Virginia pointing to various students in the class and prophesying where their acting futures lay. When the teacher arrived at Overshown, he said, “Howard, you’re going to work a lot because you have the face of humanity, especially in TV and film.” Overshown disagreed, and a steady career in the classics followed – with a sprinkling of the TV and film as his professor predicted – all leading to what Overshown states, without hesitation, is a career highlight and biggest challenge. He is joining legendary English actors Simon Russe...
Cameron Wadley, a technology senior vice president, recently filed patent applications related to the valuation of non-fungible tokens, a type of digital ledger used to establish ownership of virtual assets. “What drew me to technology in the first place was the appeal of solving problems creatively,” said Wadley, who holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kung always loved movies. That love continued long after he graduated from Kempsville High School in 1995 and the University of Virginia in 1999. Then he started directing. A fellow U.Va graduate, MTV producer Matt Paco, encouraged him to work in film, something he’d never thought possible since he’s from Virginia. Paco set him up with internships.
Virginia Business’ annual list of the commonwealth’s 50 most influential people provides our take on the state’s top movers and shakers. And to better reflect our annual Virginia 500 issue, this year’s list has been enlarged to include representatives from business, nonprofits, media, state government and higher education. The list includes President Jim Ryan and notable alumni: Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke; Robert M. “Bob” Blue, chair, president and CEO, Dominion Energy Inc., a member of the UVA’s board of visitors; Jamelle Bouie, opinion columnist, who joine...
Kirk Gordon’s bedroom is ideal for growing plants: light pours in through a pair of windows that look out over his street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, keeping his money tree, jade plant and pencil cactus happy. … When Mr. Gordon moved to New York in 2019 after finishing a masters program in landscape architecture at the University of Virginia, he hoped to find an apartment where he could put his green thumb to use.
Jason Becton, co-owner of MarieBette, has also shifted some focus to recognizing Black Americans native to Charlottesville. “I have a friend who works at the McIntire School, and he had his class do a marketing project on what we’re doing for Black History Month. The class gave a presentation and said we should have some more local people,” he said. This year, MarieBette honored Gregory Swanson, the first African American to attend the University of Virginia.
Charles A. Laughlin was denied tenure at Yale University in 2005. A few years later, the University of Virginia offered him a tenured full professorship and endowed chair in East Asian studies. He’s been there ever since. Laughlin knows he’s luckier than most people who’ve lost their tenure bids. Still, lingering questions about what happened and why have remained with him.