Social Sciences

In their continuing search for promising targets for treating mental disorders, a group of neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo has identified a pathway critical to the functioning of antidepressants, antipsychotic drugs and drugs for anxiety disorders.

Prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke and exposure to cigarette smoke over the first two years of life have been associated with emotional, behavioral and learning problems later in childhood. A new study in the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will enhance understanding of why children exposed to cigarette smoke might have difficulty with self-regulation of behavior that contributes to such problems.

The latest Policy Briefs prepared by the University at Buffalo Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth contain key findings on poverty in New York State and Western New York and demographic change in the region's rural areas.

Michael Batty, one of the world's leading authorities on geographic information systems (GIS), is the 2006 Will and Nan Clarkson Visiting Chair in Planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.

The University at Buffalo has acquired three important archival collections that will facilitate a deep understanding of several aspects of the Jewish, medical, women's and academic history of the region and the United States.

A new discussion group, collectiveXchange, has formed at the University at Buffalo. The group will meet from 5:30-7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month to explore the intersections of contemporary art practice, politics and culture. For the inaugural fall 2006 season, collectiveXchange has invited three artist collectives to discuss their history, missions and current projects.

Lynda Schneekloth, professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, is calling on city officials and residents alike to be very careful in the treatment of trees damaged in the recent October snowstorm.

In the aftermath of October's historic snowstorm, Western New Yorkers were painfully reminded of the widespread destruction that snowy weather can bring, which is why new steps are needed to avert winter-weather disasters, according to University at Buffalo professor Ernest Sternberg, who studies disaster preparedness and response.

A new multidisciplinary graduate program in evolution, ecology and behavior that focuses on the interactions between organisms and their environments over time is being offered by the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences.

The Graduate Group for German and Austrian Studies at the University at Buffalo will screen two gems of East German cinema on Oct. 16 as part of the national tour titled "Rebels Without a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany."