UB in the News

An article on Live Science about research that found that people who imagined every chew and swallow of a food actually ate less quotes Leonard Epstein, professor of pediatrics and social and preventive medicine. "Thinking about food has many of the same effects on eating as actually eating the food," he said. "That's new." The article also appeared on Fox News and Mother Nature Network.

An article on Futurity.com reports a UB computer scientist has figured out a way to determine how rare a fingerprint is, and how likely it is to belong to a particular crime suspect.

A story in the National Law Journal reports that the University at Buffalo was the only law school in New York State that saw an increased number of its students pass the bar exam this past summer, moving to an 83 percent pass rate from 81 percent last year. UB's numbers contrasted with the widespread decrease in the pass rate of many New York law schools, which was the focus of the story.

An article on MSNBC about memory and how men's and women's brains respond differently to stress reports research conducted by Zhen Yan, professor of physiology and neuroscience, showed that female brains are better able to handle chronic stress.

HealthCanal covered a study by the UB Research Institute on Addictions that showed that couples where both people who drink similar amounts of alcohol and together have healthier relationships than those couples where each person drinks separately and consumes different levels of alcohol. It also was covered by Phys.org.

A New York Times story on a study of college students taking foreign languages and sign language quotes Rosemary Feal, a UB professor of Spanish and executive director of the Modern Language Association, who calls it "a vulnerable time for language study. But student interest remains strong." The story ran in papers around the US and Canada, including the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Businessweek and USA Today.

A report in My Health News Daily discusses a study by Jennifer Temple, assistant professor, departments of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Psychology, that found that boys, but not girls, who consume caffeine, see an increase in their blood pressure.

A story on Phys.org reports on UB research by Sargur Srihari, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, into computational methods to prove how rare is a specific human fingerprint.

An article on Inside Higher Ed looks at the new exhibit, "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," co-curated by Jonathan Katz, associate professor of visual studies. England's Guardian newspaper and Media Matters for America also ran articles.

An article in the New York Times about a Baltimore cardiologist who inserted 30 of a company's cardiac stents in a single day and now faces a lawsuit from patients who claim they received unnecessary implants quotes William Boden, professor of medicine and preventive medicine. Articles also appeared in the Spartanburg Herald Journal and St. Louis Post Dispatch, among others.