UB in the News

An article in USA Today reports on a study by William Pelham, Jr., UB Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and Brian Wymbs, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology, that showed that parents of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are almost twice as likely as other parents to divorce by the time their child is 8 years old.

An article in The New York Times on colleges and universities around the nation that encourage walking and bicycling on campus as a means to combat traffic and parking Jim Simon, an associate environmental educator.

William Ruyechan, professor and associate chair of microbiology and immunology, is quoted in Science magazine in an article about an outbreak of the herpes simplex virus among the sumo wrestling community.

An editorial in The Buffalo News supports UB President John B. Simpson's call for reforms in Albany that would save taxpayers millions of dollars, accelerate the pace of UB's growth and benefit the Buffalo Niagara region.

Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies and a pop culture expert, is quoted in the Chicago Tribune in an article about the cultural shifts that are making the values of older generations more fashionable.

An op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on whether undecided voters are still truly undecided at this point in the election cycle quotes James E. Campbell, professor and chair of political science.

An article in the Asbury Park Press on the impact American culture is having on the Hispanic tradition of giving children the surnames of both parents quotes Jose F Buscaglia-Salgado, director of the Caribbean studies program and associate professor of American studies.

A story on Vermont Public Radio reports a former slave who won his freedom and settled in Poultney will be honored by the town on Sunday with a historic marker, noting that a UB professor did research and published her work on the man in 2005.

An article in the Los Angeles Times on a new study that links consumption of energy drinks to an increase in the risk of abusing harder drugs quotes Kathleen Miller, senior research scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions.

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes Christian Tiu, assistant professor of finance and managerial economics, on whether the financial crisis should affect how economic theory is taught.