UB in the News

A story on the front page of the Buffalo News' City & Region section reports Ralph and Mary Wilson, in an effort to honor the Buffalo Bills' team physicians, will donate $1 million to the UB Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine to support new research and educational programs, particularly for the training of orthopedic residents and sports medicine fellows. Stories about their gift also appeared in Business First, WBFO-FM, WIVB-TV and WKBW-TV. The Associated Press also distributed an article on the gift, which appeared in outlets that include the Albany Times Union and Houston Chronicle.

A story in Business First reports a week-long celebration of the inauguration of Satish K. Tripathi as UB's 15th president begins today and features a series of events about UB's role in research, academics and the community.

Heather Orom, assistant professor of community health and health behavior, was quoted in an article distributed by Reuters Health about a new study that showed that Latinos were less likely than whites to get screened for colon cancer, and much less likely to be screened when both groups had a family history of the disease.

An Associated Press article reports former President Richard Nixon offered his unqualified support to former New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller after the deadly Attica uprising in 1971, with tapes of their conversation played as part of "Forty Years After Attica: Looking Back, Moving Forward," a three-day UB conference examining the legacy of Attica. The story interviews Teresa Miller, professor of law and organizer of the conference.

An article in National Geographic about a huge Roman gladiator school found buried in Austria quotes Stephen Dyson, Park Professor of Classics, who called the newly found school "important." "It's the only one of this size and scale to be found anywhere in the Roman provinces," he said.

Mateo Taussig-Rubbo, associate professor of law, is interviewed in The New York Times about the things people saved – a piece of a t-shirt, a subway ticket, some dust from the collapse of the first tower – following the Sept. 11 attacks. They are significant because the objects, particularly those directly related to the catastrophe, he says, "are no longer what they appear to be. They are something else."

Michael Poulin, assistant professor of psychology, is quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times about the psychological impact of the Sept. 11 attacks and people's subsequent efforts to feel normal again. As a nation, he said, we endeavored to put our fear and grief in the back of our minds so we could return to our usual, sometimes trivial, business.

An article in The New York Times about the use of technology in the classroom and the affect is could have on student test scores quotes Randy Yerrick, associate dean of educational technology in the Graduate School of Education. Research does not establish a clear link between computer-inspired engagement and learning, he said.

UB President Satish K. Tripathi is quoted in an article in the Albany Business Review about plans by the four SUNY research centers to build $825 million worth of health-related construction projects, creating 3,500 high-paying faculty and staff positions. The article notes UB's proposal calls for a $375 million medical school relocation project through a partnership with Kaleida Health.

Christina Boyd, assistant professor of political science, is quoted in an Associated Press article about U.S. officials destroying millions of paper federal court records to save storage costs, a move that is being criticized by some historians, private detectives and others who rely on the files.