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Community Relations office opens in Downtown Gateway

5/16/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – With UB’s presence growing in downtown Buffalo, there’s a need for enhanced two-way communication with the surrounding neighborhoods. As a result, UB opened a new Community Relations Office in the Downtown Gateway building at 77 Goodell St., formerly the site of the M. Wile building.

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UB’s summer programs offer opportunities for academic credit, life enrichment

5/16/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo is offering a wide variety of courses and educational programs this summer for students of all ages.

Lowering DWI limit could save lives, says research professor

5/15/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The federal proposal to lower the DWI blood-alcohol limit would make the standard similar to European nations and Australia, and could save lives, says a University at Buffalo School of Social Work research professor who has studied the effects of impaired driving for more than 25 years.

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Volcanologist can discuss ‘Popo’, the ash-spewing volcano that has towns near Mexico City on alert

5/14/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo volcanologist Michael Sheridan can discuss Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, which has been coughing up ash, gas and molten rock over the past few days.

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UB earthquake engineer says Canada earthquake was “relatively minor”

5/17/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo earthquake engineer Michael C. Constantinou said while today’s earthquake near Ottawa, Canada, appears to have caused little damage it should nonetheless remind people that the East Coast is not immune to temblors.

Engineering dean Liesl Folks wins national mentoring award

5/17/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Liesl Folks, dean of the University at Buffalo’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is the recipient of a national award recognizing her mentorship of science and engineering students.

Media Advisory: Watch high school students turn water into fire on Saturday

5/17/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo on Saturday will host BEAM TREK, a competition that tests the knowledge of local high school students and offers them a chance to win scholarships.

UB’s summer programs offer opportunities for academic credit, life enrichment

5/16/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo is offering a wide variety of courses and educational programs this summer for students of all ages.

UB in the News

NBC News reports on UB study findings of passenger car and SUV collisions

5/17/13

A high crash safety rating may not help

Los Angeles Times interviews UB volcanologist about Mexican volcano

5/14/13

Sheridan describes them as "subterranean chambers"

Discover magazine reports on UB method for automating crime-scene shoe prints

5/14/13

It's called footwear forensics

Nature interviews UB scientist about experimental volcanoes

5/14/13

It needs to be outdoors and it will get messy

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UB Faculty Experts

9/13/12

Jason Briner

Associate Professor of Geology

Expertise: Climate change, Arctic glaciers and ice sheets, response of glaciers and ice sheets to climate change
1/9/13

Alan Rabideau

Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: Pollution, groundwater contamination, radioactive and hazardous waste management, mathematical modeling
9/12/12

Mark Bartholomew

Professor of Law

Expertise: Intellectual property, copyright, trademarks, cyber law, cybersecurity bills (such as SOPA and CISPA), advertising law
1/9/13

Will Kinney

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: Astronomy, cosmic inflation, accelerating universe, dark matter/dark energy, solar storms, cosmic microwave background physics, public outreach in science
9/14/12

Ia Iashvili

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, search for supersymmetric particles
9/4/12

Tom Ulbrich

Executive Director of UB's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Expertise: Entrepreneurship, small businesses, family businesses, women-owned and minority-owned businesses
1/9/13

Diana Aga

Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: Environmental pollution; emerging contaminants including nanomaterials, brominated flame retardants and endocrine-disrupting chemicals; wastewater treatment of pharmaceuticals; environmental mass spectrometry
1/9/13

Robin Lally

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Expertise: Breast cancer, cancer survivorship, psychosocial oncology
1/9/13

Karl Fiebelkorn

Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professional Relations for UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science

Expertise: Laws and regulations affecting pharmacy practice, medication errors, systems for improving practice sites, adult asthma, pharmacy business plan modeling
9/4/12

Nallan Suresh

Distinguished Professor and Chair of Operations Management and Strategy

Expertise: Global supply networks, supply chain disruptions, U.S. and global manufacturing
1/9/13

Michael F. Sheridan

Professor Emeritus of Geology

Expertise: Volcanoes, volcanic eruptions (including pyroclastic flows, avalanches and mud flows), volcanic risk assessment, emergency preparedness near volcanoes
9/14/12

Avto Kharchilava

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, phenomena beyond the Standard Model
1/9/13

Amanda Nickerson

Director of the UB Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention

Expertise: School violence, bullying prevention and intervention, parent and peer relationships, assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral disorders
1/9/13

David Schmid

Associate Professor of English

Expertise: Popular culture, cultural studies, celebrity, crime, manhood, the monstrous, contemporary British and American fiction, American literary and cultural treatments of the city
1/9/13

Andrew Whittaker

Director of MCEER, UB's Extreme Events Engineering Research Center

Expertise: Earthquake engineering, blast engineering, risk assessment of nuclear power plants
4/2/13

Pavani Kalluri Ram

Associate Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine

Expertise: Public health consequences of natural disasters, handwashing, diarrheal diseases, acute respiratory infections, infectious disease epidemiology, child survival
9/6/12

Adel Sadek

Associate Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: Traffic; applying information technology to crash risk, border-crossings, environmental effects, infrastructure and land-use design
3/14/13

Jeremy D. Finn

Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology and Educational Leadership and Policy

Expertise: Class size, student engagement, drop-out prevention, at-risk students, student suspensions, school security measures, quantitative methods to study K-12 policy issues
1/9/13

Helen Domske

Associate Director of UB's Great Lakes Program

Expertise: Great Lakes, water pollution, invasive species, Asian carp, zebra mussels, quagga mussels
2/7/13

John J. Leddy

Director of the UB Concussion Management Clinic

Expertise: Concussions, post-concussion syndrome, sports medicine
1/9/13

Teresa Miller

Professor of Law

Expertise: Prisoners’ rights; immigration laws and their impact on sentencing; the Attica prison riots; video technology in law school classrooms
9/12/12

Matthew Dimick

Associate Professor of Law

Expertise: Income inequality, tax and welfare policy as it relates to income inequality, corporations, employment law, labor law
9/4/12

Paul Tesluk

Donald S. Carmichael Professor of Organizational Behavior

Expertise: Leadership development, work team design and effectiveness, organizational climate and performance
5/15/13

Anne B. Curtis

Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of Medicine

Expertise: Heart health, heart rhythm abnormalities, atrial fibrillation, cardiac devices, pacemakers, implantable cardiac defibrillators
10/10/12

Jonathan D. Katz

Associate Professor of Visual Studies

Expertise: Queer history, art history, Cold War-era art
9/6/12

Shambhu Upadhyaya

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: Cybersecurity, hacking, encryption, cyberattacks
9/4/12

Arun Jain

Samuel P. Capen Professor of Marketing Research

Expertise: Retail marketing strategy and trends; consumer perception, habits and needs; brand loyalty; coupons; private label groceries; international marketing
2/13/13

Joseph A. Gardella Jr.

John and Frances Larkin Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: K-12 science education, surface chemistry of plastics and polymers, industrial pollution, air pollution, soil contaminants, brownfield cleanups, urban farming
4/17/13

Gary A. Giovino

Professor and Chair of Community Health and Health Behavior

Expertise: Tobacco use, risk factors for nicotine addiction, smoking cessation, effect of exercise and nutrition on smoking cessation
9/4/12

Cristian Tiu

Assistant Professor of Finance and Managerial Economics

Expertise: Stock market, hedge funds, government bailouts, financial collapses (Peso events), risk management and asset allocation, university endowments, institutional investors
1/9/13

James Campbell

Professor and Chair of Political Science

Expertise: Campaigns and elections, American political parties, election forecasting, campaign finance, presidential politics, presidential-congressional relations