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Fall 2009

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Profiles on Parade

Photo: Douglas Levere, BA '89 Photo: Nancy J. Parisi

Versatile folks add to campus beat

The UB Reporter (www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter) each week features a profile of a faculty or staff member. Complemented by solid photography, this series showcases the diversity and flair of the UB community. Following are some selected profiles for your enjoyment.

Peter Bush:

Using technology to solve mysteries

Jim Santella:

Legendary radio career framed at WBFO

Victor Albert:

Understanding new species

Helen Domske:

Great Lakes educator shares love water

Kathy Twist:

UB’s first championship coach

UB in the News

USA Today interviews UB accounting professor on Eastman Kodak's bankruptcy filing

An article in USA Today on Eastman Kodak?s bankruptcy filing, which has caused huge cuts to pay, benefits and insurance coverage for retirees and employees, quotes Martha Salzman, assistant professor of accounting and law in the UB School of Management.

NPR interviews UB professor on Pres. Obama?s plan to reduce gun violence

Steven Dubovsky, chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was interviewed live on NPR?s ?Here & Now,? which airs on 170 NPR affiliates nationwide, about President Barack Obama?s $500 million plan to reduce gun violence.

Buffalo News front-page story features UB study on use of stem cells in MS

A front-page story in the Buffalo News reports on a new study soon to be underway at UB and two other upstate medical centers to test a procedure that infuses stem cells into the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis to repair damage to their central nervous systems. The article quotes Bianca Guttman-Weinstock, co-principal investigator on the study. ?Expectations have to be kept under control,? she said. ?You?re not going to implant stem cells in people and suddenly see them running around.?

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