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)

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.
Media Advisory: UB hosts school safety conference on Tuesday
3/19/18
National leaders on preventing and recovery from school violence converge on campus.
For soldiers who have served in combat, perceptions of trauma and marital satisfaction strongly influence resiliency
3/16/18
Marriage satisfaction helped soldiers better deal with trauma from combat and resulted in lower levels of alcohol problems.
Politics is not the primary reason people are leaving churches, study suggests
3/15/18
Extreme political views might be driving some people away from churches, but the actual number of departing parishioners is not large and those who leave are mostly marginally involved with the institution, according to a new UB study.

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