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  • Newsweek: Celebrity board members can impact company's stock price
    4/18/10
    An article in Newsweek about the profits investment banks made in 2009 includes a sidebar featuring a study by Kenneth Kim, associate professor of finance and managerial economics, about the impact having a celebrity on a company's board has on its stock price. The article is not available online; a pdf of the article is available upon request.
  • Democrat and Chronicle: Law School study used as Power Authority wind farm planning blueprint
    4/18/10
    A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle story on the New York Power Authority's proposal to place electricity-generating turbines off the shores of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie reports that a 2008 study by the Law School recommends doing environmental and other studies, and engaging in plentiful public participation before developers are brought in.
  • Business First Editorial Urges Passage of PHEEIA
    4/16/10
    An editorial in Business First urges the state legislature to save UB 2020 by passing the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (PHEEIA). "The PHEEIA would allow UB and other state colleges and universities to leverage private funding to create growth. It would free UB from some of the most restrictive bureaucratic constraints and allow the university's leaders to make key financial decisionsÂ….We'd really like to see our assemblymembers and senators stop giving lip service to UB 2020 and start demanding action in Albany."
  • Business First Spotlights President Simpson, UB 2020 and PHEEIA
    4/16/10
    A Business First cover story explains the economic benefits of UB 2020 that are imperiled by state budget cuts. The article also describes why so many business, community and government leaders in Western New York support UB 2020, and why UB and SUNY need the legislature to pass the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (PHEEIA). "We have got to see our way to this. I just don't think failure is an option here," said Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, president and CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
  • Business First: UB development in Fruit Belt will spur downtown development projects
    4/15/10
    An article in Business First looks at last week's announcement about St. John Baptist Church's decision to sell its McCarley Gardens to UB to spur a $500 million development project downtown, and reports that the church has a long, solid history in economic development and has completed several multimillion-dollar projects in the past decade that will serve as building blocks for the larger $500 million plan.
  • Phil Stevens Comments on Tea Party
    4/15/10
    A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle story on local Tea Partiers quotes Phillips Stevens, Jr., associate professor anthropology. Stevens said it is not unusual for groups like the Tea Party to form during economic downturns and interest in protests groups decline after people become more comfortable in their own lives.
  • Buffalo News: UB 2020 will not advance without SUNY reforms
    4/14/10
    A Buffalo News editorial urges the state legislature to pass reforms -- known as the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act -- that would allow UB to move forward with its UB 2020 plans. "Albany is failing to grant the tools to complete UB 2020, essentially eliminating the chance at 6,700 direct jobs at UB, 20,000 good-paying building and construction jobs and nearly $2 billion more in economic impact from the build-out and the kind of future economic growth seen in other research triangles. The stakes are high and the time is now to act."
  • Daily News of India: Study shows triclosan/copolymers in toothpaste may kill bacteria better than fluoride
    4/14/10
    A story in the Daily News of India discusses a recent study by researchers in the UB School of Dental Medicine that found that toothpaste with triclosan/copolymers kills bacteria better than fluoride toothpastes and quotes UB's Joseph J. Zambon, one of the study's authors and a distinguished teaching professor. MedIndia.net also covered the story.
  • UB M.S. Research Receives Continuing Coverage
    4/14/10
    Canadian News outlets reported on a live broadcast of a panel discussion conducted at the American Academy of Neurology on a recently-discovered condition that may be associated with multiple sclerosis. The stories quoted Robert Zivadinov, PhD, MD, one of the panelists and UB associate professor of neurology who is conducting research on the condition. CTV, About.com, the Canadian Press, CBC News, the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Calgary Herald covered the story.
  • UPI Focuses on UB Dental Research
    4/14/10
    United Press International reported on a study conducted by Joseph J. Zambon, Distinguished Teaching Professor and associate dean of Periodontics and Endodontics, on the advantages of triclosan/copolymer toothpaste in fighting bacteria that can lead to cavities and gum disease. The study was published in the journal General Dentistry.

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