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News Releases

Incoming UB faculty researchers selected as Simons Empire Faculty Fellows
8/18/26
Established by the Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International, the program supports tenure-track faculty positions.
Media Advisory: UB students to begin moving into residence halls
8/17/26
UB will also host Welcome Weekend, an annual celebration to mark the start of the school year.
New study explores why females experience more side effects from head and neck cancer radiation
8/17/26
Side effects interfere with eating and drinking, and there are limited treatments.
UB study looks at the current state of ethically balancing AI and social work
8/14/26
UB social work study shows professional bodies providing little guidance for AI.

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Faculty Experts

6/23/23
Athena D. Mutua

Professor of Law and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar
Expertise: civil rights law; constitutional law (Fourteenth Amendment); critical race and feminist legal theory; law and political economy; race and the legal justice system
Phone: 716-645-2873. Athena D. Mutua can sometimes be contacted more quickly through the UB Media Relations team at ub-news@buffalo.edu.
Email: admutua@buffalo.edu
4/30/24
Clayton Masterman
Associate Professor of Law
Expertise: Health law, tort law, benefit-cost analysis, damages and other remedies, law and economics
Phone: 716-645-2480
Email: cjmaster@buffalo.edu

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UB in the News

Is hydroponic lettuce safer during the cyclosporiasis outbreak? Food safety experts weigh in
8/13/26
Food & Wine magazine sought the expertise of John Hu in a report on whether hydroponic lettuce is a better choice during the cyclosporiasis outbreak.
What kind of problem is 34,000 pieces of space junk circling the Earth?
8/9/26
National Public Radio program Weekend Edition featured the expertise of John Crassidis for a report on how a four-ton section of a SpaceX rocket recently hit the moon, as well as the growing problem of space debris.
When do kids go back to school? It's complicated
8/6/26
USA Today features Julie Gorlewski in a report on when schools start across the nation.
AI is giving hackers an edge. Here’s how to protect yourself from online scams
8/4/26
CNN features the expertise of Siwei Lyu in an article exploring how AI is giving hackers an edge.

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