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  • The Independent: Research shows energy drinks associated with risky, aggressive actions
    10/20/09
    An article in the British newspaper, The Independent, on the benefits and drawbacks of energy drinks reports that a study by Kathleen Miller, research scientist in the Research Institute on Addictions, suggested that high consumption of energy drinks is associated with "toxic jock" behavior: risky, aggressive actions including unprotected sex, substance abuse and violence.
  • The Commonwealth Times: Alcoholic energy drinks generate dangerous buzz
    10/19/09
    Kathleen Miller, research scientist in the Research Institute on Addictions, is quoted in an article in The Commonwealth Times, the student newspaper out of Virginia Commonwealth University, about the dangers of combining energy drinks and alcohol, a combination that can lead to greater likelihood of engaging in risky behavior such as drinking and driving.
  • Parade: Friends affect your weight, expert says
    10/18/09
    An article in Parade magazine, a supplement that appears in weekend newspapers around the nation, interviews Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, assistant professor of pediatrics, about her research on how young people's weight and eating habits are influenced by their friends' and peers' weight and eating habits.
  • West Virginia Gazette: Should we have shame?
    10/18/09
    An op-ed in the West Virginia Gazette about current society being shameless quotes Ronda Dearing, research scientist in the Research Institute on Addictions, who said guilt is different from shame, which involves a negative evaluation of one's self.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education: Prolific inventor improves health and quality of life for millions
    10/18/09
    An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles Esther Takeuchi, Greatbatch Professor in Power Sources Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and looks at her work developing batteries for medical devices such implantable cardiac defibrillators, drug pumps and neurostimulators.
  • Indianapolis Star: Prescription information is not really private
    10/18/09
    An article in the Indianapolis Star about the declining privacy of patients' prescription histories quotes Jack Freer, associate director of UB's Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care.
  • New York Times: Building a ballet and filming it
    10/18/09
    An article in Sunday's New York Times interviews Elliot Caplan, professor of media study and director of the Center for the Moving Image, about his documentary, "15 Days of Dance: The Making of 'Ghost Light.'"
  • Wall Street Journal: School of Management Alum to lead SEC fraud branch
    10/16/09
    An article in The Wall Street Journal reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped UB School of Management alumnus Adam Storch to serve as the agency's first-ever chief operating officer of the enforcement division. Storch most recently worked as vice president of Goldman Sach's Business Intelligence Group. His appointment to the SEC also was carried by dozens of other media outlets, including the Associated Press, CBS News, Reuters and the Washington Times.
  • The Hill: Popular candidate running for important office brings out more partisans voters
    10/13/09
    An article in The Hill about the effect state governor's races could have on Senate and House elections in 2010 quotes James E. Campbell, professor and chair of political science, who said that while the impact is less than in a presidential race, having a popular candidate at the top of the ticket can have a pronounced effect.
  • Los Angeles Times: Thinking like terrorists in order to stop them
    10/12/09
    An article in the Los Angeles Times about efforts by scientists to dream up ways a weapon might be slipped onto an airplane and the figure out how to prevent it quotes Colin Drury, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The article also appeared in the San Jose Mercury News.

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