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Photo by Maria Sharron Treating trauma in juvenile offenders can build social relationships that help them stay out of trouble, according to a new study by researchers at �Ӱ���Ƶ. “Trauma is a major impediment to building important relationships that provide kids a natural ...

Thomas Jefferson is the only American architect with the distinction of having two of his projects—the University of Virginia and his home, Monticello—land on the United Nations' list of World Heritage sites. What’s more, he created these projects while also drafting the Declaration of Independence...

The Winged Victory of Samothrace—one of the most acclaimed and widely recognized sculptures in the world—stands majestically, perched atop the prow of a ship at the end of a sprawling marble staircase at the Louvre in Paris. The early 2nd century statue of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory) originall...

A newborn’s first stool can signal the child may struggle with persistent cognitive problems, according to �Ӱ���Ƶ Project Newborn researchers. In particular, high levels of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE) found in the meconium (a newborn’s first stool) from a mother’s alcoho...

Since 1994, researchers at �Ӱ���Ƶ have studied mothers—some who used cocaine while pregnant and others who did not—to understand how the drug affected their children’s cognitive and social development. Their latest findings suggest a link between prenatal cocaine exposure a...

Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at �Ӱ���Ƶ, recently solved not one, but two mysteries in the arts world. First, he figured out a puzzle about Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labour's Lost. Weeks later, he discovered what appears to be a depiction of Leonar...

Megan Holmes As part of a larger initiative to promote active learning at �Ӱ���Ƶ, researchers from the social work school participated in a yearlong project to integrate active instruction and academic technologies into their courses. The use of interactive technology and ...

Megan Holmes Researchers at �Ӱ���Ƶ have begun studying 1,700 children from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) database to understand how mothers and siblings can protect abused children who have witnessed family violence. “I want to focus on the...

Gillian Marshall Can neighborhood factors influence whether older residents have access to cancer screening information and testing? Gillian Marshall, assistant professor of social work at �Ӱ���Ƶ’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, plans to ...

�Ӱ���Ƶ researchers have tracked their development since birth Since 1994, researchers at �Ӱ���Ƶ’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences have studied children prenatally exposed to cocaine and their mothers to track their de...