UB in the News

An article distributed by HealthDay News reports lung cancer patients should be assessed for sleep disturbances, anxiety, smoking and alcohol consumption following a study conducted by Grace E. Dean, assistant professor of nursing, and colleagues who found a link between the rates of smoking and alcohol consumption in lung cancer patients and their relationship to anxiety and insomnia. The article appeared in news outlets that include MDNews.com, Modern Medicine and Doctors Lounge.

An article in the Legislative Gazette reports 11 of SUNY's 64 campuses were rated by Kiplinger's Personal Finance as among the Top 100 Best Values in Public Colleges, with UB coming in 46th on the list. The article reports SUNY had more schools in the top 100 list than any other state university system.

An article on the blog TheraBreath reports biological physicists in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have found that a strain of bacteria that emits volatile sulfur compounds may be the cause of a significant amount of human halitosis.

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the fear and uncertainty foreign students and scholars are experiencing every time they leave their campuses because U.S. Border Patrol agents have been setting up roadblocks reports U.S. Customs and Border Protection has greatly increased its manpower along the northern border, and quotes Ellen Dussourd, director of international student and scholar services.

UB Law professor Suzanne Tomkins, director of the school's Women, Children and Social Justice Clinic, is quoted in an article distributed by the Associated Press about jury selection that is starting for the trial of man accused of beheading his estranged wife and who claims he acted in self-defense after suffering years of physical and emotional trauma. The article appeared in news outlets throughout the nation, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC and the Huffington Post. In the international press, the article appeared in the Arab Times. Local coverage includes WBEN-AM and the Buffalo News.

Research led by Paras N. Prasad, PhD, executive director of the UB Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and SUNY Distinguished Professor, and colleagues in the institute, was the focus of the "Sightings" column in American Scientist magazine. In the column, institute research assistant professor Artem Pliss recounts the new approach to mapping macromolecules that he and colleagues, including Aliaksandr Kachynski and Andrey Kuzmin, developed.

An op-ed in the Toronto Globe and Mail about the physical dangers of youth hockey reports a study by UB researchers found that 66 percent of overall injuries were the result of game accidents.

A column in Canada's National Post cites UB research results on the role CCSVI may play in the development of multiple sclerosis and criticizes the positions some Canadian politicians have taken on funding for studies of the disease.

An article in The Intelligencer and the Wheeling News-Register about briny wastewater left over from fracking that is going into water treatment plants that empty into Pennsylvania rivers reports Tracy Bank, assistant professor of geology, recently told a concerned group in Pittsburgh that "uranium is being mobilized by the fracking process."

Mark Frank, professor of psychology, is quoted in an article in the Wall Street Journal about institutional investors who are using behavior specialists to weed out dishonest fund managers. Frank said that in recent months he has repeatedly turned down requests to analyze subjects for Wall Street firms. He also was quoted in a Psychology Today article titled "Secrets of Special Agents" that looks at techniques professionals use to tell whether someone is lying.