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Specializes in investment management and financial analysis, drawing from nearly 25 years as a financial practitioner, with expertise in portfolio construction, equity research, and alternative assets.

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Focuses on empirical and theoretical investments, examining performance and asset allocation of hedge funds and university endowments, and how economic instability is reflected in asset prices.

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Research spans employee cyberbehavior, consumer engagement with gamification, cybersecurity awareness and training, and policy analysis.

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Research spans economics of IT, conceptual modeling, database systems, and predictive analytics of cloud computing and service-level contract mechanisms.

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Specializes in investment management and financial analysis, drawing from nearly 25 years as a financial practitioner, with expertise in portfolio construction, equity research, and alternative assets.

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Research spans experiential and project-based learning, pedagogical self-awareness among educators, and the perceived value of experiential learning in international higher education contexts.

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Research focuses on manufacturing and operations management, specializing in cellular manufacturing systems, flexible automation, global supply networks, and supply chain disruptions.

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Research spans supply chain incentives, coordination, behavioral operations, sustainable operations, and supply chain strategy.

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Communication expert focusing on business communication, leading with empathy, and how health communication, with research on patient/provider interactions, and how empathetic leadership positively affects business outcomes.

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Researches examines how new communication technologies and social media affect interpersonal relationships and social capital, including social information seeking on platform like Facebook.

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Focuses on nonverbal communication, particularly facial expressions and deception in real-world settings, with expertise in the Facial Action Coding System.

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Research centers on how narratives influence thought and behavior through 'transportation into a narrative world,' and social media's impact on women's advancement in STEM.

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Research focuses on cross-cultural adaptation, intercultural communication, and the influence of new media on international students' social networks and friendship development.

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Investigates media effects, persuasion, misinformation, and conspiracy theories with emphasis on political and science communication, using surveys, experiments, and computational analysis.

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Examines the intersection of communication theory and health behavior outcomes, with focus on stigma management, social support in chronic illness, and sexual communication dynamics.

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Examines computer-mediated communication and social media, exploring effects on interpersonal relationships, professional networks, social capital, selfie behavior, and online grieving.

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Studies strategic dynamics in conflict resolution through network analysis, game theory, and mathematical modeling of communication phenomena.

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Focuses on entertainment-educatiion, social and behavior change communication, and health promotion, with expertise addressing sexual/reproductive health and gender-based violence through storytelling.

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Investigates how communication behaviors and decision-making are influenced by risk perception, with focus on environmental and health risk contexts.

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Focuses on health and interpersonal communication with emphasis on social influence and social support, examining how persuasive messaging strategies affect health decision-making and behavior.

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Specializes in macroeconomics, international finance, currency, and banking, teaching advanced topics including information asymmetry, oligopoly models, and labour market signaling.

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Focuses on applied microeconomics, examining human capital's role in economic development, returns to education, economics of crime, and how children's education affects parental health.

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Specializes in international political economy with emphasis on trade and security dynamics between developed and developing nations, drawing from a background in global finance and economic integration.

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Applied economist examining disparities in well-being across human capital, health, and crime, with research in intergenerational mobility, returns to education, health economics, and economics of crime.

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Focuses on medical geography and spatial epidemiology, employing GIScience methods to examine spatiotemporal patterns affecting public health outcomes.

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Research focuses on geographic patterns in South America and Southeast Asia, with emphasis on Korean immigration and its demographic and economic implications.

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A fluvial geomorphologist who studies fish responses to changing river currents using experimental methods and machine learning to track fish behavior in hydraulic flumes.

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An urban geographer examining the technological restructuring of American cities, with a focus on mass surveillance programs and real-time crime centers built by police departments.

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Specializes in international trade, foreign investment, regional economic development, and Asian business, with focus on multinational firms' strategies and technological upgrading in Asia.

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Specializes in remote sensing and GIScience, with research on forest characterization, environmental modeling, and spatio-temporal analysis of land cover and urban populations.

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Examines how close relationships (friendships, parent-child) influence social-emotional development in late childhood and early adolescence, with focus on peer relationships as  risk/protective factors.

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Pursues psychoanalytic political theory and scholarship of teaching and learning, with emphasis on critical thinking, communication literacy, and autoethnographic writing.

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Studies animal acoustic communication using psychoacoustic techniques, examining hearing, vocalization preferences, and signal perception across species with particular focus on mice as models for aging and hearing loss.

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Studies language comprehension and production in monolingual and bilingual speakers, with focus on spoken word recognition and structural priming in bilingual language processing.

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Investigates auditory perception and cognition, with emphasis on connections to emotion, mental imagery, and physiological responses within musical and linguistic contexts.

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Investigates hazardous alcohol and other substance use among young adults, with focus on on the intersection of trauma and posttraumatic stress with alcohol and drugs.

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Research spans metacognition, self-regulated learning, and comparative cognition, examining metacognitive monitoring in humans and non-human primates and their role in learning.

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Employs a social psychophysiological approach to study stress and coping, choice overload, mindfulness, social comparison, the emotional experience of awe, and political ideology.

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Focuses on personality assessment and psychopathology measurement, particularly dimensional models and item response theory applications to computerized adaptive testing.

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Focuses on comparative behavioral endocrinology, sex differences in the brain and behavior, and STEM education with emphasis on optimizing science pedagogy.

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Specializes in residential segregation, neighborhood inequality, immigration, internal migration, and labor force disparities shaping urban communities.

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Examines relationships between social inequalities and health, with a focus on spatial health inequalities, rural health, medicalization, and the sociology of education.

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Examines gender, family, and the life course in comparative perspective, exploring how social context shapes beliefs, behaviors, well-being, and family dynamics, with research funded by the Japan Foundation and Fulbright.

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Specializes in race and ethnic relations, military sociology, and social stratification, exploring disparities and experiences of women, minorities, and veterans in armed forces and institutional hierarchies.

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Research focuses on health and income security, long-term care, families, aging and the life course, and comparative public policies/welfare states.

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Focuses on race and social justice with emphasis on food and racial justice in the Buffalo region, with scholarship spanning criminology, social theory, and urban community studies.

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Examines social inequality through law/legal institutions and gender/sexuality/the body, with projects on college-in-prison outcomes and prosecutorial decision-making.

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Teaches Korean popular culture and Japanese anime courses in the SIM-UB Program. Her scholarly interests include transnational cinema, cultural studies, transmedia, postcolonial theory, and gender studies.

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Examines how physical and sensory experiences can foster solutions to sustainability challenges, combining design, community science, and governance to address infrastructure and environmental decision-making.

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Teaches world civilization and modern history in the SIM-UB program with engaging multimedia approaches; no published research profile.

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Focuses on clinical dietetics, weight management counseling, and nutrition education; has been teaching at UB since 1999.

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Clinical focus on women's health nutrition—specifically nutrition during pregnancy, postpartum, and PCOS management—integrating evidence-based approaches with exercise science.

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Specializes in modern European and Irish history, examining imperialism, colonialism, and social and cultural history including fashion and sport; current work explores the Irish Famine from a global perspective.