UB Research News

Contracts Foster Trust, but Flexibility Is Needed, Research Says

2009-10-30T00:00:00-05:00

While detailed contracts can foster trust between parties, there needs to be flexibility in negotiating potential changes, according to research recently published in MIS Quarterly.

UB Study Explores How Women Make Decisions About Breast Cancer Surgery

2009-10-26T00:00:00-05:00

For women just diagnosed with breast cancer, one of the important decisions confronting them is whether to have a lumpectomy or mastectomy. Most studies investigating how women make this choice have surveyed women months and sometimes even years after their decision was made. Recently, however, the publication of a new University at Buffalo study, one of the few to focus on the time period between women's breast cancer diagnosis and surgery, provides insight into what women are thinking when faced with this decision.

Two New NIH grants Use Cell Phones to Collect Real-Time Data on Substance Use

2009-10-21T00:00:00-05:00

Scenario: A group of friends are drinking at the local pub, when one gets a cell phone call. He takes it in a quiet corner; nothing unusual. But this isn't a "What's Up" call from a friend: It's a "What-are-you-doing-right-now?" call from an automated voice system programmed to collect data in real time, via cell phone, from participants enrolled in research studies on alcohol, marijuana and the situational factors that surround their use.

HIV/AIDS Funding to UB Will Help Zimbabwe Dramatically Increase Research and Treatment Capacity

2009-10-20T00:00:00-05:00

New funding for an innovative University at Buffalo program that trains Zimbabwe's clinician scientists and translational pharmacologists will bring additional health care professionals and researchers to Buffalo to be trained to fight the war on AIDS in Zimbabwe.

Will Judicial Judgment Change Cyberspace?

2009-10-20T00:00:00-05:00

The struggle of American courts to control the explosion of intellectual property rights violations on some of the most traveled highways of cyberspace poses a legal challenge to the judicial system with implications that could threaten the survival of Web sites clicked on by the average Internet user every day, a University at Buffalo Law School expert on online intellectual property issues said today.

Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation

2009-10-19T00:00:00-05:00

The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to evidence in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published today . The research reveals that sediments retrieved by University at Buffalo geologists from a remote Arctic lake are unlike those seen during previous warming episodes.

Adolescents' gambling a part of a cluster of problem behaviors

2009-10-15T00:00:00-05:00

Ten percent of young adolescent boys -- or one in 10 -- exhibit a symptom of conduct disorder as well as a symptom of risky or problem gambling, according to new research findings from the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).

Despite Risk, Older African Americans More Likely Than Others To Avoid Flu Vaccine

2009-10-15T00:00:00-05:00

A study about why African American seniors do or do not get influenza vaccinations finds that many of them do not have accurate and complete information about the flu itself, the safety and efficacy of the inoculations, and the ease and necessity of getting the shots.

Michael Glick Named Dean of UB Dental School

2009-10-15T00:00:00-05:00

The appointment of Michael Glick, D.M.D., as dean of the School of Dental Medicine at the University at Buffalo was announced today by David L. Dunn, M.D., Ph.D., UB vice president for health sciences. Glick is professor of oral medicine and associate dean for oral and medical sciences at the School of Osteopathic Medicine at A. T. Still University (ATSU) in Arizona and editor of the premier peer-reviewed journal

Nancy Nielsen Elected to the Institute of Medicine

2009-10-14T00:00:00-05:00

Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D., Ph.D., senior associate dean for medical education and a clinical professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo, has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. IOM membership is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.