UB in the News

An article in the Boston Herald on the Baby Boom generation's refusal to age quietly quotes Elayne Rapping, professor emeritus of American studies.

An article in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle on the lack of diversity among coaches in colleges in the Rochester area competing at the Division III level looks at UB's athletic staffing and reports UB is the only Division I-A school with African Americans in the three most visible posts in its athletics department -- athletics director, football head coach and men's basketball head coach -- as well as a number of minority head coaches in other sports.

An article in theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel on the science behind falling in love quotes Mark Kristal, professor of psychology. "It's tough to study in the laboratory," he said. "Once you find people who are in love, you can't go back and find out what their brain formation was like before they were in love to see what changed."

An article in Newsday on personalized license plates quotes Lora Park, assistant professor of psychology, who said, "We are interested in and want to form relations with other people. On the other hand, we have a need to be different and stand out."

An article distributed by Reuters news service reports that a UB psychologist has found that some people become anxious and expect that they will be rejected by others based on their physical appearance, and quotes Lora Park, assistant professor of psychology and director of the Self and Motivation Research Laboratory.

An article distributed by UPI looks at the neurochemistry of romance and quotes Mark Kristal, professor of psychology.

An article in USA Today on police suicides and what law enforcement agencies are doing to prevent the deaths of their officers quotes John Violanti, professor of social and preventive medicine, who said that [Fallout from suicide] "lasts a long time, and morale goes down the tube. I've seen entire departments go into states of depression."

An article in the Houston Chronicle on the unexpected death of Anna Nicole Smith quotes Elayne Rapping, professor emeritus of American studies, who said, "This is someone who was an exhibitionist, who led a life that was self-destructive. She was famous for being extremely strange."

An article in The Washington Post on the StoryCorps Griot project, a collaboration between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's StoryCorps and the National Museum of African American History and Culture to record stories of African Americans, quotes Michael Frisch, professor of history and American studies.

An article distributed by Bloomberg News on a new drug for treating psoriasis that appears to deliver better results and is easier to take, but has not been cleared by U.S. regulators, quotes Robert Kalb, clinical associate professor of dermatology. The article appeared in several newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune.