UB in the News

An article in the Greenwich Time about treatments and remedies for Irritable Bowel Syndrome quotes Jeffrey Lackner, director of the Behavioral Medicine Clinic in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

An article in Forbes about the different ways that men and women lie quotes Mark Frank, associate professor of communication, who says that "feminine wiles" are small, deceptions necessary for procreation and social survival, and not deliberate, misleading lies. "In some environments, lying is socially essential," he says.

An article in Newsweek reports on research by Steven Hoffman, visiting assistant professor of sociology, that shows that some people form and cling to false beliefs about health care reform and other issues despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary thanks to a mental phenomenon called motivated reasoning.

An article in the New York Examiner on health care reform myths reports research conducted by Steven Hoffman, visiting assistant professor of sociology, shows that rather than search for information that confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. Hoffman's research also was the subject of an article distributed by UPI.

An article in Newsweek about the obesity epidemic reports that a study by Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, assistant professor of pediatrics, and her colleagues found that overweight kids consume significantly more calories when they chow down with friends who are also overweight than when they eat with lean friends.

An article in the Allentown Morning Call about the increasing number of people receiving help through the state gambling hotline following the opening of a casino nearby reports that the data seem to support UB research that suggests that people who live within 10 miles of a casino face 90 percent greater odds of struggling with gambling.

Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, was interviewed on National Public Radio's Marketplace program for a story about the reality TV show "Project Runway," and whether the high price Lifetime is paying to air the show will be worth it.

New York Daily News picked up the Reuters article that reports that overweight children and teens may eat more when they have a snack with an overweight friend rather than a thinner peer.

An article in U.S. News & World Report reports that UB, in an effort to pursue its UB 2020 goals, is lobbying the New York legislature to let it raise its tuition and keep the money instead of sending some of it back to the state general fund. The article quotes UB President John B. Simpson.

An article on Ivanhoe Newswire reports that people with multiple sclerosis who smoked for as little as six months during their lifetime exhibited more destruction of brain tissue and more brain atrophy than MS patients who never smoked, according to a UB study.