UB in the News

An article in the Mail & Guardian, an African online newspaper, on global warming and the growing number of cases of malaria in Africa reports that researchers at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and UB found that a 1-degree Celsius increase in the minimum and maximum monthly temperature would lead to an 8-95 percent increase in the number of malaria outpatients.

Christian Tiu, assistant professor of finance and managerial economics, was quoted in an article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle about the uneven stock market results, which, he said, reflect investor's uncertainty over where the economy is going.

An article on Psychology Today's "The Science of Willpower" blog about what is more effective in helping people to eat a healthier diet, making healthy food more affordable or making unhealthy food more expensive, reports that a UB study found that increasing the cost of unhealthy foods led study participants to choose healthier foods.

An article distributed by Reuters about the human gene catalog and how little is known about the many hundreds of different types of bacteria, viruses and yeast that inhabit people's skin, mouth, scalp and gut reports that in 2006, Steven Gill, associate professor of oral biology, estimated that 90 percent of the cells on the human body are actually bacteria.

An article on the Associated Press of Pakistan reports on a presentation given by David A. Westbrook, Floyd H. and Hilda Hurst Faculty Scholar in the Law School. Pakistan has great potential in the form of natural resources and human capital but there is need to improve security, increase power generation and implement laws to curb corruption, he said.

An article in Seven Days, an independent Vermont publication, quotes Kari Winter, professor of American studies, about a new book about the black families who farmed and thrived in a small town in the state. "It's unquestionable that black farmers would have encountered racism in Vermont," she said.

An op-ed in the Providence Journal about Arizona's controversial new immigration law and the threat it poses to Americans' basic rights and liberties was co-written my Jason Sorens, assistant professor of political science, who calls the new law "as much a threat to our liberty as a protector of it."

An article in USA Today about the use of police "report cards" that rate cars' vulnerability to theft quotes John DellaContrada, senior director of media relations, who said UB, like cities in Vermont, Texas and California, has a report card program.

David Schmid, professor of English, was interviewed on the CBS Sunday Morning for a story about the popularity of television crime shows and how that reflects on America post-9/11. Based on U.S. crime shows, "from the perspective of people in other countries, America is an extremely violent culture," which reinforces what they already think of the U.S., he said.

An article in the Baltimore Sun about using self hypnosis to deal with pain caused by breast cancer quotes Lisa Butler, associate professor of social work. The article also appeared in a number of news outlets, including the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.