UB in the News

An article in Business First looks at last week's announcement about St. John Baptist Church's decision to sell its McCarley Gardens to UB to spur a $500 million development project downtown, and reports that the church has a long, solid history in economic development and has completed several multimillion-dollar projects in the past decade that will serve as building blocks for the larger $500 million plan.

A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle story on local Tea Partiers quotes Phillips Stevens, Jr., associate professor anthropology. Stevens said it is not unusual for groups like the Tea Party to form during economic downturns and interest in protests groups decline after people become more comfortable in their own lives.

A Buffalo News editorial urges the state legislature to pass reforms -- known as the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act -- that would allow UB to move forward with its UB 2020 plans. "Albany is failing to grant the tools to complete UB 2020, essentially eliminating the chance at 6,700 direct jobs at UB, 20,000 good-paying building and construction jobs and nearly $2 billion more in economic impact from the build-out and the kind of future economic growth seen in other research triangles. The stakes are high and the time is now to act."

A story in the Daily News of India discusses a recent study by researchers in the UB School of Dental Medicine that found that toothpaste with triclosan/copolymers kills bacteria better than fluoride toothpastes and quotes UB's Joseph J. Zambon, one of the study's authors and a distinguished teaching professor. MedIndia.net also covered the story.

Canadian News outlets reported on a live broadcast of a panel discussion conducted at the American Academy of Neurology on a recently-discovered condition that may be associated with multiple sclerosis. The stories quoted Robert Zivadinov, PhD, MD, one of the panelists and UB associate professor of neurology who is conducting research on the condition. CTV, About.com, the Canadian Press, CBC News, the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Calgary Herald covered the story.

United Press International reported on a study conducted by Joseph J. Zambon, Distinguished Teaching Professor and associate dean of Periodontics and Endodontics, on the advantages of triclosan/copolymer toothpaste in fighting bacteria that can lead to cavities and gum disease. The study was published in the journal General Dentistry.

Steve Hoffman, UB professor of sociology, is quoted in an MSNBC story about "Five personality traits that divide us politically." Hoffman, who has published research on political beliefs, said "You tend to form emotional ties to the belief that you hold," so people seek out information that confirms their beliefs.

USA Today and nearly a dozen different outlets covered the "miraculous" recovery and return home of UB wrestler Dan Bishop after suffering a life-threatening spinal injury during a match.

A story in the Vancouver Sun on yogurt and weight loss reports on a UB study that showed that women given high-fat yogurt at breakfast ate less yogurt but they consumed more calories.

A New York Times political blog examining midterm elections quotes James E. Campbell, department chair of political science, who called the period between 1996 and 2004 "the dead-ball era" of Congressional competition.