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UB Solar Strand hits milestone: 1 million kilowatt hours

5/23/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Barely a year old, the University at Buffalo’s Solar Strand has produced 1 million kilowatt hours of electricity.

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.

Photo illustration of bullying behavior in the workplace.

Why bullies thrive at work

5/16/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Despite resistance to bullying from both employers and employees, many workplace bullies achieve high levels of career success, according to a new study from the University at Buffalo School of Management.

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.

News Releases

June in Buffalo 2013: Felder, Cendo, Ferneyhough, Read Thomas, Wuorinen, Wyner and 29 new composers

5/24/13

June in Buffalo (JIB) is back, and it is even more high-end than usual this year with a spectacular selection of internationally known senior composers and critically acclaimed individual artists and guest artists, one of whom, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen, will receive an honorary doctorate from SUNY.

Three named SUNY Distinguished Professors at UB

5/24/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Three more University at Buffalo faculty members have been appointed to the ranks of distinguished professors by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.

UB is recognized nationally as a ‘next generation university’

5/24/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo is among six public research universities from across the country recognized in a new report by the New America Foundation for “embracing key strategies that make them models for national reform.”

Caffeine may enhance performance in athletes, but not in couch potatoes

5/23/13

BUFFALO, N. Y. – A preliminary study conducted at the University at Buffalo has found that although trained athletes derive performance benefits from caffeine, most sedentary or lightly active adults do not like exercise more – or perceive their exertion to be less – when given caffeine.

UB in the News

The Buffalo News reports on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ‘major economic development’ plan delivered at UB

5/22/13

Business executives and government officials were in attendance

Runner’s World reports on UB study that hardship may make you stronger

5/21/13

Adversity may benefit your run

TIME Magazine reports on UB study of workplace bullies and job performance

5/21/13

Bullying and success on the job may be related

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

5/17/13

A high crash safety rating may not help

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UB Faculty Experts

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
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
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
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
5/21/13

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

Tom Ulbrich

Executive Director of UB's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Expertise: Entrepreneurship, small businesses, family businesses, women-owned and minority-owned businesses
9/14/12

Ia Iashvili

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, search for supersymmetric particles
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

Matthew Dimick

Associate Professor of Law

Expertise: Income inequality, tax and welfare policy as it relates to income inequality, corporations, employment law, labor law
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
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
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
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
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
9/14/12

Avto Kharchilava

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, phenomena beyond the Standard Model
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
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

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

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
9/12/12

Mark Bartholomew

Professor of Law

Expertise: Intellectual property, copyright, trademarks, cyber law, cybersecurity bills (such as SOPA and CISPA), advertising law
9/6/12

Shambhu Upadhyaya

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

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

Paul Tesluk

Donald S. Carmichael Professor of Organizational Behavior

Expertise: Leadership development, work team design and effectiveness, organizational climate and performance
10/10/12

Jonathan D. Katz

Associate Professor of Visual Studies

Expertise: Queer history, art history, Cold War-era art
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
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
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
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

Robin Lally

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Expertise: Breast cancer, cancer survivorship, psychosocial oncology
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
2/7/13

John J. Leddy

Director of the UB Concussion Management Clinic

Expertise: Concussions, post-concussion syndrome, sports medicine
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