Social Issues

News about UB research and outreach relating to societal issues such as poverty, homelessness, bullying, domestic violence, human rights, diversity and inclusion. (see all topics)

New book co-authored by UB sociology professor explores how cities are changing
4/10/18
Thinking critically about cities and the social mechanisms that underwrite them provides people with the power to influence the places where they live and work, according to a new book by a UB sociologist.
Studies show hookah also plays critical role in tobacco product landscape
4/9/18
The findings of two recently published studies on the emergence of hookah use indicate that public health officials may need to consider broadening their tobacco prevention efforts beyond traditional cigarettes.
UB’s School of Architecture and Planning launches Affordable Housing Initiative
4/6/18
Students and faculty in architecture, real estate development and urban planning will develop housing prototypes that will be replicable both for Buffalo and cities like it across the U.S.
UB awarded federal funding to expand research team’s successful Veggie Van program
4/5/18
National Cancer Institute funding will allow Lucia Leone and her team to expand their work by helping organizations across the Northeast and Southeast start mobile markets using the Veggie Van model.
Annual Creeley lecture explores the contemporary relevance of an endangered medieval language’s political power
4/3/18
Lisa Robertson, an internationally renowned Canadian poet, feminist and essayist, will be the featured speaker for UB’s third annual Robert Creeley Lecture on Poetry and Poetics on April 12.
UB partners with South African, Zimbabwean universities to battle tuberculosis, HIV
3/26/18
To help fight the tuberculosis and HIV epidemics facing the world, the UB Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences will partner with the University of the Western Cape and University of Zimbabwe.
Study: Are they lying? What non-verbal clues can and cannot tell you
3/23/18
‘There is no Pinocchio response,’ says UB non-verbal communication expert.
College education linked to opioid misuse among baby boomers
3/21/18
University at Buffalo research connects education, depression and more to prescription opioid abuse in adults over age 50.
UB students win scholarships in intensive language instruction and cultural enrichment
3/20/18
Both students are part of UB’s growing Asian languages programs.
Don’t blame adolescent social behavior on hormones
3/19/18
Reproductive hormones that develop during puberty are not responsible for changes in social behavior that occur during adolescence, according to new University at Buffalo research.

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