With Good Reason

Back pain is the leading cause of disability among Americans who are less than forty-five years of age. A new therapy offers what could be the answer to the prayers of many suffering from the pain of degenerating discs. Micheal Depalma (Virginia Commonwealth University Spine Center) is participating in cutting edge research involving the use [...]

After teaching courses on marriage and family relations to community college students for 40 years, it’s clear to Russ Crescimanno (Piedmont Virginia Community College) that most couples don’t have a clue on how to compromise.  There is, he says, a science to love and intimacy, and many rocky marriages could thrive if couples would just [...]

With Good Reason invites you to a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but nearly everything on the table is grown, made, or brewed, within 100 miles of Charlottesville, Virginia.  The dinner host, Tim Beatley (University of Virginia),  introduced the 100-mile Thanksgiving idea to his students after reading The 100-mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating.  About 95 [...]

Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald (left) had a celebrity marriage during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.  However, from 1930 until her death in 1948, Zelda was in and out of mental hospitals.  Karen Tatum (Norfolk State University) is exploring the possibility of a link between the medication Zelda took for eczema and her debilitating [...]

The Elizabeth River is one of the most polluted waterways in the country and the world’s first floating wetlands classroom–‘The Learning Barge’–is coming to her aid. Phoebe Crisman (University of Virginia) developed the floating field station, which is powered by solar and wind energy and utilizes recycled materials. The barge allows students to study and [...]

May is Mental Health Awareness month. This year there is relief among Virginia’s psychiatric professionals that the last two state facilities for the treatment of seriously disturbed children and adolescents were spared the budget axe.  Producer Sarah McConnell reports. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Today’s advertising industry no longer resembles the one depicted in the popular TV show “Mad Men” which features Madison Avenue advertising executives in the early 1960s.  The head of the top-ranked “Brand Center” in Richmond says the emphasis now is on branding.  Producer Sarah McConnell reports. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Bruce Springsteen plays “John Henry”

Is it true that blondes have more fun?  A Virginia scientist can’t answer that question but he can discuss her diet, where she lives, and maybe even her drug habits.  Producer Nancy King has more. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Professor James Galloway won the 2008 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, called the Nobel Prize of Environmental Science.  Click here to watch Dr. Galloway deliver the 2008 Tyler Laureate Lecture