UB in the News

An article on the Daily Commercial News and Construction Record reports on Joyce Hwang's "Bat Tower," a twisted tower designed to house bats at Griffis Sculpture Park, as well as to raise awareness about a fatal disease threatening them.

An article in Marie Claire magazine online reports that a study by UB that analyzed the shopping habits of 1,000 households found that consumers who take cash to shop and leave their debit cards at home are more likely to resist buying junk food.

Michael Poulin, assistant professor of psychology, is quoted in an article on Discovery News about the rescued Chilean miners and post-traumatic stress disorder. For most of these men, chronic stress is probably a bigger concern than PTSD, he said.

Pop culture expert Elayne Rapping, professor emeritus of American studies, is quoted in an article on Fox News about a trailer for an upcoming movie in which one of the film's characters refers to electric cars as "gay." "This gaffe hit a point in time where this kind of thing really gets noticed and criticized and may well hurt the future of a film like this that targets a younger, more culturally open, demographic," she said.

An article in the Los Angeles Times' Greenspace blog, which focuses on environmental news, reports on a movement to recycle the 3 billion aerosol cans that are sold in the U.S. each year and quotes Liz Alnutt, a UB senior who was among the first to join the effort. "It was shocking that we hadn't thought about aerosol can recycling before. So many people don't know this is an issue," she said.

An article distributed by Agence France-Presse, a global news agency, reports UB researchers have found that men who have prostate cancer have a higher risk of developing colon cancer than men who don't have prostate cancer. The article quotes Ognian Pomakov, assistant professor of medicine, who stressed the importance of men diagnosed with prostate cancer having routine screening for colon cancer. Articles appeared in international news outlets that include Canada.com, Montreal Gazette, MSN News, Channel News Asia and France 24. The findings also were reported on several CBS television stations, including WGCL in Atlanta and KKTV in southern Colorado.

Kathleen Miller, a research scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions, is quoted on Inside Higher Ed in a story about the popularity of caffeinated alcoholic beverages among college students and the risks the drinks pose. "It's inherently potentially dangerous to mix caffeine and alcohol because you're sending your body mixed signals," she said.

An article on PC Authority reports that the often incomprehensible CAPTCHA security checks on websites could be on the way out following an innovation from researchers at UB. Articles also were distributed by the South Asian news service ANI and appeared on Medical News Today and Secure Computing magazine.

An article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about new techniques being used at UPMC Sports Medicine to treat concussion reports UB's Concussion Clinic is one of the few places that uses two of the same treatment approaches regularly.

An article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle about a recent poll that showed a dismal view of the national and, especially, state economies and political directions quotes Hodan Isse, assistant professor of finance and managerial economics. The problem, he said, is the glut of available workers is mismatched with what the U.S. market needs.