UB in the News

An article on MSN Money about suggestions that allegations that The Boeing Co. received billions of dollars in illegal subsidies should be tied to a similar case against its biggest rival Airbus quotes David Pritchard, research associate in the Canada-U.S. Trade Center in the Department of Geography and a trade specialist. The article appeared in a number of news outlets, including CNBC; The Economic Times, an international business periodical; Canadian Business; and The China Post.

GOOD magazine reports on the Bat Tower designed by UB assistant professor of architecture, Joyce Hwang.

William Boden, professor of medicine and preventive medicine, was quoted in the August issue of Consumer Reports on Health magazine in an article about what tests and procedures to pursue for various stages of heart disease.

An editorial in the Toronto Globe and Mail suggests Canada has an obligation to be aggressive in determining whether a controversial new treatment for multiple sclerosis works, and reports UB will soon enroll 20 patients in a preliminary treatment study. The editorial quotes L. Nelson Hopkins, professor and chair of neurosurgery.

D. Bruce Johnstone, professor emeritus of higher and comparative education, is quoted in an article in The New York Times about college affordability and the soaring admission demands that are seen as driving up costs, along with a desire by governments to accommodate the increased student interest. "Part of the problem in much of the world is exploding enrollments," he said.

An article in the Press of Atlantic City on the thousands of local students who now are either walking or being driven to school by their parents because budget cuts have curtailed school busing reports a small study at UB showed that walking to school could reduce stress reactivity in children, helping to reduce increases in blood pressure and heart rate.

An article in The Atlantic about finding reliable election ratings reports James E. Campbell, professor and chair of political science, conducted a study that found one prognosticator, the Cook Political Report, to be a credible election predictor.

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Buildings & Grounds blog reports on the bat tower in Griffis Sculpture Park created by Joyce Hwang, assistant professor of architecture, to draw attention to the infection that has decimated the bat population in parts of the country.

An article in The New York Times reports on "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," an exhibit of 100 works from the late 19th century to the present that examines how gender and sexual identity have altered the development of the genre, and quotes Jonathan D. Katz, an organizer of the show and director of the visual studies doctoral program at UB. The exhibition opens Oct. 29 in the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.

An article on USA Today's Science Fair blog about a poll that showed that two-thirds of Americans think that synthetic biology should move forward reports that "the science of designing and constructing new biological parts, devices and systems, or even re-engineering existing life is promising and in general Americans who've heard of it like the idea, but are cautious. For example, scientists at [UB] are working to produce a strain of yeast that makes gasoline."