UB in the News

An article in The Wall Street Journal about asbestos abatement trust funds that have come under fire from insurance companies and legal scholars with concerns about their lack of transparency quotes S. Todd Brown, associate professor of law, who said there is a concern that people who get sick in the future may not get paid what they are entitled to because the trusts are using their assets to pay more marginal claims.

An article in Port Strategy magazine reports researchers from UB and Georgia Tech will test a one-tenth scale model of a shipping container crane on UB's shake table to measure the response of the crane from small levels of shaking to those large enough to cause the test crane to collapse.

Shira Gabriel, assistant professor of psychology, was interviewed on KTRS Talk Radio in St. Louis about cultural and media appetite for celebrity and scandal in the wake of Tiger Woods' car accident.

Robert Silverman, associate professor of urban and regional planning, was interviewed on WFAE-FM in Charlotte, N.C., about the number of Buffalo residents who have relocated to that city.

An article in Sleep Review magazine reports that the combination of night work, overtime and shortened sleep can contribute to the development of metabolic syndrome among police officers, and quotes John Violanti, research associate professor of social and preventive medicine.

A story in the Buffalo News on the number of international students in Buffalo reports that UB has 4,539 international students, or 16.7 percent of the university's enrollment, who come from more than 100 countries.

An editorial in the Buffalo News about projects that are high priority for the region puts the UB 2020 plan at the top of the list.

Alan Lockwood, professor of neurology, is quoted in an article distributed by McClatchy Newspapers looks at efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency to crack down on coal pollution and reports the new rule, proposed this month, is the first time since 1971 that the EPA has tightened control s on sulfur dioxide to protect the public health. "Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from inhaling pollutants from coal burning," Lockwood said. The article appeared in newspapers throughout the country, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Charleston Gazette, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Miami Herald.

An article in The Buffalo News on the roll out of the "2010 Regional Agenda," a collaboration by area business and political leaders to set an annual agenda to tell state and federal lawmakers what they view as the highest economic-development priorities for the year, reports UB 2020 tops the list for the third straight year.

An article in the Los Angeles Times reports police may have poorer health due to late shifts and overtime they often work, and quotes John Violanti, research associate professor of social and preventive medicine.