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  • Time: Handwriting analysis expert weighs in on authenticity of letter
    1/16/08
    An article in Time magazine on the authenticity of a letter that is the basis of a terror case being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's office reports that Sargur Srihari, director of the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition, was one of two experts who conducted a handwriting analysis on the letter.
  • USA Today: UB jobs have contributed to area's growth
    1/15/08
    An article in USA Today looks at Buffalo Niagara's rising home prices and notes that research-related jobs at UB have contributed to the growth.
  • News Courier: Rapping discusses television writers strike
    1/11/08
    An article in The (Athens, Alabama) News Courier on the impact the television writers strike is having on what is being aired quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies.
  • National Geographic: UB study links temperature change, malaria
    1/10/08
    An article on National Geographic News on the impact climate change is having on the rate of malaria in Kenya reports a study conducted jointly by UB and the Kenya Medical Research Institute showed that changes in temperature can affect the development and survival of malaria parasites and the mosquitoes that carry them.
  • The Buffalo News: Spitzer says UB 2020 will provide vital boost to Buffalo's future
    1/10/08
    An article on the front page of The Buffalo News reports on Gov. Eliot Spitzer's State of the State address in which he called for UB to be a focal point in the state's plans to boost the Western New York economy, using UB 2020 as a centerpoint in the strategy, as well as the creation of a new medical campus downtown.
  • Sun News: Karen Allen discusses pets, blood pressure
    1/10/08
    An article in the Myrtle Beach Sun News on the unconditional love that pets provide reports on research by Karen Allen, research scientist, on the effect pets had on the blood pressure of hypertensive stock brokers.
  • Seattle Times: First initials affect decision making
    1/9/08
    An article in the Seattle Times looks at research by two professors who unsuccessfully tried to prove Brett Pelham, associate professor of psychology, wrong about his research on people making decisions based on the initial of their first name. The article also appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
  • Inside Higher Ed: Prof quoted on funding graduate study
    1/7/08
    An article on Inside Higher Ed on programs that focus on the research process for new history doctoral students quotes Kristin Stapleton, associate professor of history, who said, "Financing of graduate education is a problem. [Graduate students] don't lose the passion, but are pulled by family concerns or the fact that they can earn money [elsewhere]."
  • NPR: Matua interviewed on unrest in Kenya
    1/3/08
    Makau Mutua, interim dean of the UB Law School, was interviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program on the role that a long-standing tangle of tribal affiliation, poverty and political corruption is playing in the recent violence in Kenya.
  • AP: President Simpson quoted on need for more minority coaches
    1/2/08
    An article distributed by the Associated Press looks at efforts by NCAA President Myles Brand to have more head coach positions at major schools filled by non-whites and reports that UB is the only Division I school with a black athletic director, football coach and men's basketball coach. The article quotes President John Simpson.

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