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UB and Erie County join forces to fight opioid abuse
1/21/16
Partnership to emphasize interprofessional education focused on safe prescribing practices and culture change.
UB expert: Hawaii’s new cigarette law may be only part of the solution
1/12/16
States should take advantage of the flexibility they have to adopt different legal purchasing ages, Lynn Kozlowski writes in the current issue of Issues in Science and Technology.
The psychology behind Powerball fever
1/12/16
1 in 292 million? So what. Even risk-averse humans are swept-up in Powerball, a UB psychologist says.
Why do college-aged young adults use e-cigarettes?
1/11/16
A study of college students from four upstate New York universities finds that young adults use e-cigarettes for affective reasons, such as enjoyment, not for cognitive purposes like quitting smoking.
Grand Rapids YMCA is first building to adopt universal design standards
1/5/16
UB's IDeA Center, in collaboration with the Global Universal Design Commission, has developed the first set of universal design certification standards for commercial buildings.
During Great Recession employees drank less on the job, but more afterwards
1/5/16
Periods of economic uncertainty tend to influence drinking problems among people who lose their jobs, as some turn to alcohol due to stress or because they have more free time and fewer responsibilities.
Fifteen UB research projects that made headlines worldwide in 2015
12/21/15
From robot bees to designer neurons, here are highlights from a great year of research.
College Success Centers open the world of higher education to those who could be left behind
12/15/15
For UB education professor Nathan J. Daun-Barnett, hundreds of completed student financial aid applications that might never have been successfully filed are not enough.
Media Advisory: UB students to present plans for Buffalo's Shelton Square
12/15/15
Students from a UB School of Architecture and Planning studio will outline plans they spent the fall semester developing during a public presentation today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at ECC City Campus.
Policy shift improves outcomes for addressing cases of child neglect
12/10/15
Child protection services personnel respond to some 3 million reports of maltreatment per year, andmany states respond identically to all incidents, regardless of their nature. Differential response is a significant policy shift in how child welfare systems approach families, says Annette Semanchin Jones.