Dr. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, has written:“social scientific evidence about the connection between violence in youth and broken homes could not be clearer. A 2013 study revealed that male children are the most traumatized by divorce and tend to fare particularly poorly, with effects apparent in almost all academic and economic outcomes”
Personalized medicine has long offered more hype than hope. But as genetic knowledge has multiplied in recent years, researchers—and more importantly, computing tools—have begun catching up with all that far-flung data, harnessing it into new databases and systems that offer the best prospects yet for delivering on the promise of precision treatments.In several papers published this year for which he was corresponding author, Leo Anthony Celi, M.D., M.P.H., clinical research director for MIT’s Laboratory of Computational Physiology, joined David J. Stone, M.D., a visiting pro...
However, a new study published in the journal Psychological Science suggests that people who experience extraordinary events are likely to feel less happy than people who experience normal, everyday occurrences. The reasoning is that people who experience extraordinary things have less in common with their peers than people who experience the norm.The study, titled "The Unforeseen Costs of Extraordinary Experience," was conducted by Gus Cooney and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University, in conjunction with Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia.
Tampons could one day help doctors spot early-stage ovarian cancer in women at high risk for this deadly disease, a small new study suggests.In the study, researchers found tumor DNA in cells trapped in ordinary tampons that were placed in the vaginas of ovarian cancer patients."In about 60 percent of patients who had their [fallopian] tubes still intact, we were able to pick up tumor cells, or essentially tumor DNA, in the vaginal tract," said Dr. Charles Landen, an associate professor of gynecologic oncology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and one of the study res...
For jobseekers at large, more skills than ever before are required to get a job in marketing. With top marketing salaries at medium-sized companies reaching the $250,000 to $300,000 mark, there is plenty of competition to get a gig, according to a recent joint study by the University of Virginia School of Business and the CMO Council.
Here are some interesting highlights just announced for the 27th Virginia Film Festival that happens Nov. 6–9 in Charlottesville: ...
University of Virginia women's soccer has been wildly successful the past two years, despite the intermittent absence of Morgan Brian, the team's best player, indeed the college game's best. The fifth-ranked Cavaliers' lone setback this season is to 2013 national finalist and reigning ACC champion Florida State.... Witness its customary top-20 finish in the Directors' Cup all-sports standings, and a fourth place in 2013-14, Virginia boasts quality and quantity among its Olympic programs. Indeed, this fall, Cavaliers field hockey, women's soccer and women's cro...
Does the University of Virginia produce better stock pickers on average than any of the Ivy League colleges?That’s the suggestion of a new study of one admittedly limited universe: the investment professionals, primarily analysts and managers at hedge funds, who share stock picks in the SumZero online forum.... The average annualized figure for UVA grads: 53.8%.
The old image of student teachers sitting in the back of primary education classrooms taking notes for use in their future teaching days is a thing of the past. Aspiring educators emerging from the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education are equipped with multiple field experiences to ensure that their first full-time teaching jobs are far from unfamiliar.But the student teaching experience isn’t even the first exposure Curry students have teaching students from kindergarten through high school.
Regent is among three Virginia schools ranked to have the best professors, being joined by the University of Virginia and Washington & Lee University.
The University of Virginia will participate in the broadcast of a town hall meeting on U.S.-China relations next week featuring former President Jimmy Carter.The Daily Progress (http://bit.ly/1scRoFj) reports the university's East Asia Center is one of 70 locations nationwide that will broadcast the Oct. 16 meeting, which will feature a live webcast and a question-and-answer session with Carter.The meeting will cover issues such as security, trade, economics and the environment. It is being conducted by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Carter Center.The webcast at U.V...
When the Supreme Court decided to turn down multiple petitions regarding the constitutionality of same-sex marriage Monday, many public colleges and universities in states with bans on same-sex marriage or benefits to same-sex couples announced changes in their policies. Virginia getting marriage equality, for instance, resulted in the University of Virginia adding same-sex benefits for all of its employees.Now, UVa employees whose same-sex marriages were performed outside of the state are immediately eligible to have their partners covered.
The deliberate, painstaking search for missing University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham stretched into day 26 Wednesday while a national missing persons group prepared to kick off a series of rallies nationwide aimed at ensuring that Graham and others aren't forgotten.
Left inside the car were cigarette butts, a police detective’s business card, emptied energy drink containers and a yellow envelope bearing a handwritten message referring to “tools to release God’s power.”None of those items, police said Wednesday, provides further clues into the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Elizabeth Graham or the case against Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., the man accused of abducting her.... Meanwhile, in the Charlottesville area, 50 officers fanned out Wednesday, covering more ground in the 8-mile radius that has been the ...
In light of second year student Hannah Graham's disappearance, the University of Virginia launched a safety committee with the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.The three entities: UVA, Charlottesville and Albemarle County will conduct a comprehensive review and analysis of the area around UVA grounds. They say it's an effort to better the safety of students and city residents alike.
Searchers on horseback combed a huge farm north of Charlottesville on Wednesday looking for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. The terrain was too large and too difficult for searchers on foot- so investigators made the decision to bring in horses.