Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies who got married in the Summer of '75. They lived for a while in very nice style, but of course got a divorce in the end. Thirty years later, Billy Joel's characters may have an explanation. In a paper entitled "What Ever Happened to the 'Cool' Kids?", researchers at the University of Virginia have found clues as to why kids like Brenda and Eddie don't find success.
Researchers believe they may have found the key to identifying women most at risk for postpartum depression. A study published in the research journal Frontiers in Genetics — co-authored by University of Virginia epigenetics researcher Jessica Connelly — identifies a genetic marker in women who show the effects of postpartum depression.
It is bad news for the rebels without a cause and mean girls. Being a ‘cool kid’ can come back to bite you in later life, researchers have warned. ‘It appears that while so-called cool teens’ behavior might have been linked to early popularity, over time, these teens needed more and more extreme behaviors to try to appear cool, at least to a subgroup of other teens,’ says Joseph P. Allen, Hugh P. Kelly Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, who led the study. ‘So they became involved in more serious criminal behavior and alcohol and drug...
Company CEO and founder Keith Arledge said Fans4Ever is a relatively new venture that grew out of his 16 years of experience working in the cemetery sector. “We are the first company we know of that is focused on assisting universities with this kind of project,” Arledge said. “Given how many universities are moving in this direction … we thought it would help if they are working cemetery professionals.” Some of the universities “moving in this direction,” Arledge said, include the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, Notre Dame in Indiana and Ch...
Albemarle County’s top prosecutor and the University of Virginia’s president are getting behind the group Help Save the Next Girl and its efforts to prevent sexual violence. After an especially trying year in Charlottesville with the disappearance and murder of UVA student Hannah Graham, HSNTG is sharing its message of preventing violence. The nonprofit set up a stand at the Albemarle County Fair Saturday, and members wore pins in honor of Graham.
The assistant professor of Psychology at University of Virginia also notes that women who have symptoms of depression throughout their pregnancy are known to then suffer from postpartum depression at a much higher rate. Blood markers help identify women with postpartum depression which means that sufferers will benefit from a steady diagnosis rather than speculation over interpretable symptoms.
With Donald Trump sucking up the oxygen on the campaign trail, these are stressful days for the group of Republican candidates who, try as they might, may not qualify for their party's first presidential debate in Cleveland next week. "You only need a bump of a couple of points and you get in. That's the absurdity of this thing," said Larry Sabato, political analyst at the University of Virginia.
As investigations into the jail cell death of 28-year-old Sandra Bland continue in Waller County, Texas, relatives, friends and African American civil rights activists continue to express doubts about the official determination that she took her own life. But, nationwide statistics show that such tragedies are not uncommon. Dr. Nathan Fountain, a University of Virginia professor who chairs an advisory board for the Epilepsy Foundation, says people with epilepsy have a much higher rate of depression than most other people in the general population.
The Charlottesville and Albemarle County school divisions are progressing in an ongoing effort to cut rates of out-of-school suspensions while ensuring the safety of their schools. To address the issue, both divisions have worked closely with Dewey Cornell, a professor at the Curry School of Education who also directs the University of Virginia’s Virginia Youth Violence Project. “There is a national movement against the overuse of school suspension,” Cornell said.
Taking an inventory of the damage caused by last November’s Rolling Stone story “A Rape on Campus” requires some doing. The uncorroborated and since-retracted tale of a University of Virginia undergraduate named Jackie suffering through a gang rape at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in 2012 hurt the school’s students, who were depicted as callous and status-conscious; the school’s administrators, who were depicted as bumbling and unserious; the Phi Kappa Psi house, which was depicted as a den of horrors; the Charlottesville police, who spent untold resources retr...
Making up a story, if it’s about a designated villain, is hip in certain quarters but it’s never cool, as Rolling Stone magazine is learning in the sordid wake of its account of a gang rape at a fraternity house at the University of Virginia. It was a gang rape that by all recent accounts never happened. The magazine retracted the story, but the damage was done. Now law suits are accumulating, the editor who presided over the story at the magazine walked the plank this week, and there’s talk that the White House may have been involved in advancing the story. Th...
The University of Virginia’s ambassador program is gearing up for the return of students next month. We put the $1.6 million per year plan under the microscope to find out if it’s really keeping people at UVA safer.
Two months after a University of Virginia dean filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine, three UVa graduates who are members the fraternity profiled in a discredited and retracted story about a gang rape in their chapter house have filed a lawsuit against the publication, its publisher and the writer of the article.
The finding is surprising, because implicit attitudes are notoriously hard — some would say nearly impossible — to budge, said study researcher Erin Westgate, a doctoral student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
“We can greatly improve the outcome of this disorder with the identification of markers, biological or otherwise, that can identify women who may be at risk for its development”, said Jessica Connelly, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, in a press release.
A new discovery at the University of Virginia School of Medicine may help catch cancer earlier. Doctors discovered circular strands of DNA floating in normal healthy cells. They say this could mean our body naturally produces genetic mutations during cell replication that could lead to cancer. If that's true, new tests could be developed screening for the DNA circles.
A report from the United Nations this week says 19,000 Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent have fled the Dominican Republic for Haiti in recent weeks because of deportation threats and persecution. Government and foreign affairs professor Robert Fatton joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to talk about what some call “the forgotten occupation.”
The University of Virginia is making an effort to increase the number of minority students interested in graduate education. Several undergraduates from colleges and universities on the East Coast and in Puerto Rico are involved in the Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative (LAMI) at UVA. The eight-week long program aims to help minority undergraduates learn more about graduate studies.
The University of Virginia was ranked 36th in Forbes Magazine’s list of America’s Top Colleges, released on Wednesday.
The owners of the Sneak Reviews are shelving the business after 21 years of serving the greater Charlottesville area. Sneak Reviews is selling off about 13,000 of its titles to the University of Virginia. UVA is interested in the educational value many of these films, particularly documentaries and foreign movies.