Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences
February 25, 2016
By Pierre-Yves Beaudouin (Own work) [GFDL (gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsA painted medallion depicting turbaned slaves in chains at the feet of Louis XIV adorns a ceiling at the Palace of Versailles, likely noticed—or its…
February 08, 2016
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 APP. “Trauma is a major impediment to building important relationships that provide kids a natural…
January 29, 2016
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…
October 15, 2015
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)…
July 30, 2015
A newborn’s first stool can signal the child may struggle with persistent cognitive problems, according to APP 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…
July 22, 2015
Since 1994, researchers at APP 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…
July 07, 2015
Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at APP, 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…
July 01, 2015
Megan Holmes As part of a larger initiative to promote active learning at APP, 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…
May 21, 2015
Megan Holmes Researchers at APP 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…
May 05, 2015
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 APP’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, plans to…