UB in the News

Jonathan Reichert, UB professor emeritus of physics, who has donated to UB a rare collection of materials from poet Robert Frost, was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition on the 50th anniversary of the poet’s death.

A major feature story on the front page of the Buffalo News explores the materials-science research being conducted at UB and the opportunity it presents to boost private industry and economic development in the Buffalo Niagara region.

An Associated Press article about a virulent new stomach virus that is affecting people around the world quotes John Crane, associate professor of medicine and an infectious disease specialist who had to deal with a norovirus outbreak in a hospital a couple of years ago.

A major feature article in The New York Times reports on the work of Dennis Maher, UB clinical assistant professor of architecture, who has been making sculptures out of pieces of demolished houses.

A major feature story on the front of the Spotlight section in Sunday’s Buffalo News interviews UB Law Professor Teresa Miller about her documentary film, “Attica, The Bars that Bind Us,” which looks at the human toll exacted upon those who live and work in America’s maximum security prisons.

A major feature story on the front page of the Buffalo News reports on a gift from Jonathan R. Reichert, professor emeritus of physics, to UB of a collection of letters, inscribed books, voice recordings, photographs and other materials that were exchanged between his father, Victor E. Reichert, and the poet Robert Frost over the course of about 20 years.

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.

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.

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.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education featured the dean of the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.