UB in the News

An article in the Chicago Sun-Times on a Boston Red Sox jersey buried in -- and unearthed from -- the foundation of the new Yankees stadium looks at the role of superstition in baseball and quotes Phillips Stevens, Jr., associate professor of anthropology.

An article in The New York Sun about the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry and the role of superstition in baseball quotes Phillips Stevens, Jr., associate professor of anthropology.

Richard Salvi, director of the Center for Hearing and Deafness and one of the top researchers on the causes and treatment of tinnitus, was interviewed ABC News' Good Morning America, which taped the interview with Salvi in his lab for a story on tinnitus.

"The Body Odd" blog on MSNBC reports that researchers in the School of Dental Medicine have identified a tongue bacteria that they say is associated with severe bad breath and that while not much is known about the bacteria strain, the researchers say it originally come from human feces.

Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics, is quoted in an article distributed by the Associated Press that reports that according to a nationwide survey released by the Federal Reserve, high school seniors' financial knowledge has gotten worse, with students on average answering correctly only 48.3 percent of question. The article appears in hundreds of news outlets, including The New York Times.

An article on Live Science on whether the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compound in Texas is a religious sect or a full-blown cult quotes Phillips Stevens, associate professor of anthropology, what the term "cult" means.

Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics, was interviewed in an article in The Economist on the problems that are caused by widespread ignorance about finance.

Douglas Clements, professor of learning and instruction and a member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, was quoted in an article on computer-based instruction in the "Bits" technology blog of The New York Times.

An article in The New York Times on promising new therapies to treat tinnitus quotes Richard Salvi, director of the Center for Hearing and Deafness, who said, "We've never been so hopeful of finding treatments for a disorder that haunts people and follows them everywhere they go."

An article in the Newark Star Ledger on the different way the media portrays fictional female U.S. presidents and fictional African-American male presidents quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies and an expert in pop culture.