UB in the News

Kathleen E. Miller, Ph.D., research scientist at UB's Research Institute on Addictions, was featured in a segment of the Today show on the dangers of energy drinks. Miller's research on the subject also was featured in The New York Times.

An article in Health magazine suggests women weighing their breast cancer treatment options consult an oncology nurse for advice and quotes Robin M. Lally, research assistant professor in the School of Nursing and a former breast cancer clinical nurse specialist.

D. Bruce Johnstone, professor emeritus of higher and comparative education, is quoted in an article on Inside Higher Ed on plans by New York University to discontinue awarding academic credit for college classes that also count for high school credit, beginning with students who enter in the fall of 2009.

An article in The Washington Post on the lack of unity in the Democratic party as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continue to battle for the party's presidential nomination quotes James E. Campbell, professor and chair of political science and author of "The American Campaign."

An article on the News Blog section of The Chronicle of Higher Education reports foreign business schools -- bogged down by red tape, problems with local partners and limited demand -- are shutting down their executive MBA programs in China and that UB closed its joint-venture program in 2004.

An article in Forbes offers tips on how to cutting costs in order to offset rising food and fuel prices quotes Debu Talukdar, associate professor of marketing.

An article distributed by Reuters on the "Sex and the City" movie and the corporate marketing opportunities that go along with its release quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American Studies, who said, "The selling of lifestyles and clothes was a major factor in the success of that show. It's very much a female fantasy of what working women wish they had, but we all know we don't have."

An article in BusinessWeek on the difficulties Western business schools have encountered in China notes UB in 1998 launched the first executive MBA program at Renmin University and quotes John M. Thomas, dean of the School of Management.

A story on Nature.com describes the retraction of two major scientific papers from the journals Science and the Journal of Molecular Biology as the result of work done by John P. Richard, professor, Tina Amyes, research associate, and Astrid Koudelka, technician, all in the UB Department of Chemistry. The story describes how the two original papers were withdrawn by Duke University biochemist Homme Hellinga when the UB team found it could not replicate the published results.

Gov. Paterson's plan to limit the spending of SUNY campuses to deal with state budget problems is criticized by The Buffalo News in an editorial that focuses on the harm it would do to UB.