UB in the News

An article in the Los Angeles Times' Greenspace blog, which focuses on environmental news, reports on a movement to recycle the 3 billion aerosol cans that are sold in the U.S. each year and quotes Liz Alnutt, a UB senior who was among the first to join the effort. "It was shocking that we hadn't thought about aerosol can recycling before. So many people don't know this is an issue," she said.

An article distributed by Agence France-Presse, a global news agency, reports UB researchers have found that men who have prostate cancer have a higher risk of developing colon cancer than men who don't have prostate cancer. The article quotes Ognian Pomakov, assistant professor of medicine, who stressed the importance of men diagnosed with prostate cancer having routine screening for colon cancer. Articles appeared in international news outlets that include Canada.com, Montreal Gazette, MSN News, Channel News Asia and France 24. The findings also were reported on several CBS television stations, including WGCL in Atlanta and KKTV in southern Colorado.

Kathleen Miller, a research scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions, is quoted on Inside Higher Ed in a story about the popularity of caffeinated alcoholic beverages among college students and the risks the drinks pose. "It's inherently potentially dangerous to mix caffeine and alcohol because you're sending your body mixed signals," she said.

An article on PC Authority reports that the often incomprehensible CAPTCHA security checks on websites could be on the way out following an innovation from researchers at UB. Articles also were distributed by the South Asian news service ANI and appeared on Medical News Today and Secure Computing magazine.

An article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about new techniques being used at UPMC Sports Medicine to treat concussion reports UB's Concussion Clinic is one of the few places that uses two of the same treatment approaches regularly.

An article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle about a recent poll that showed a dismal view of the national and, especially, state economies and political directions quotes Hodan Isse, assistant professor of finance and managerial economics. The problem, he said, is the glut of available workers is mismatched with what the U.S. market needs.

An article in the Wall Street Journal reports on research conducted by Mark Seery, assistant professor of psychology, that showed that people who had experienced a few adverse events in their lives reported better mental health and well being than people with a history of frequent adversity and people with no history of misfortune. "So much of the existing literature shows that having experience with a negative life event is bad, with negative effects on mental and physical health," he said. "But we've found that that is not the whole story, and that people are more resilient in general than we may think." An article on his research also appeared in the Allentown Morning Call's Lehigh Valley Health blog.

An article in the Toronto Globe and Mail looks research conducted by UB marketing student Satheeshkumar Seenivasan and others that found that consumers who use debit or credit cards to pay for food are more likely to make impulsive purchases of unhealthy products. The study, which was published in the Journal of Consumer Research, suggests that there may be a connection between rising obesity and the increased use of paying by plastic in America. Consumer Affairs, The Medical News, PhysOrg, England's Daily Mail and Telegraph newspapers and the South Asian news service ANI also reported on the study.

A story on Wired reports that a recent UB study of personality and social psychology offers scientific evidence to prove the old adage: "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." Articles also appeared in England's Express newspaper; Futurity, WKBW-TV, Medical News Today, PhysOrg and Science Daily also report on the study; and the South Asian news service ANI distributed an article on the research.

An article on The Architect's Newspaper Blog reports on Dennis Maher's installations, Animate Lost/Fount Matter in the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo and "End Wall" in Brooklyn's Black & White Gallery/Project Space. Inhabitat also reported on the installations.