UB in the 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.

An article on Hispanically Speaking News, a Spanish and English website for news about and for Hispanics, about Saturday's 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Chile quotes Andre Filiatrault, director of MCEER, who said the country established strict building codes after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck in 1985.

An article in The New York Times' Science Times section about personal resilience and how people behave when confronted by adversity reports new research suggests that resilience may have at least as much to do with how often people have faced adversity in the past as does with who they are and what they're facing now, and quotes Mark Seery, assistant professor of psychology.

PhysOrg.com featured the research of UB chemistry Professor Michael Detty, who helped develop dyes that improved solar technologies for producing electricity and hydrogen fuel. Stories also appeared in Global Print Monitor and on Sciencely.com.

A UPI article reports UB chemists have developed photosensitizing dyes that could greatly increase the efficiency of light-driven systems that produce green energy.

An article in the Business Insider about financial firms that are rumored to have been using deception experts to train their employees reports Mark Frank, professor of communication and an expert in detecting deception, told the Wall Street Journal that he has received repeated requests from Wall Street firms asking him to analyze people for them.