UB in the News

An article on Ivanhoe Broadcast News reports on using virtual reality to look inside the human body and interviews Jillian Scott, a UB medical-illustration student and one of the team of anatomists, bio-chemists and medical-illustration students who built the new detailed images to create a never-before-seen virtual view of the body.

An article on Ivanhoe Broadcast News looks at UB research that subjected a full-scale, fully furnished home to a 6.7 magnitude earthquake and quotes Andre Filiatrault, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, who said, "We shook this building past its so-called design level. We shook it to an extreme event."

An article in The Economist on a "Rethinking Gravity" conference being held at the University of Arizona looks at the mysteries that still surround the physics of gravity and reports that William Kinney, assistant professor of physics, told the conference of future plans to detect the extremely faint gravitational waves still ringing in space from the Big Bang.

An article distributed by UPI reports on UB research that showed that self-affirmation or having close relationships helps people cope with insecurities regarding their appearance, and quotes Lora Park, assistant professor of psychology.

An article distributed by UPI reports UB dental researchers are testing a nasal spray that numbs the upper teeth, eliminating the need for dental injections, and quotes Sebastian Ciancio, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Periodontology.

An article in Newsday on a Syosset couple found shot dead in their home despite a locked front door and no sign of a forced entry quotes Charles Patrick Ewing, professor of law, who said, "It might suggest the possibility of more than one perpetrator."

An article in the Guardian Unlimited (UK) on the science behind divination quotes Barbara Tedlock, professor and chair of anthropology, who said, "One must take what diviners say and do seriously."

An article in Flight International on allegations that subsidies to Airbus are driving U.S. rivals Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas out of commercial aviation quotes David Pritchard, research associate in the Canada-U.S. Trade Center in the Department of Geography.

Mark Frank, associate professor of communication, is quoted in an article on how to tell if someone is lying to you in the Syracuse Post Standard.

An article in the Jan. 22 issue of Newsweek magazine on a proposal to require students at Harvard to do coursework in an area called "Reason and Faith" quotes Elaine Howard Ecklund, assistant professor of sociology, who in 2006 conducted a study of religious beliefs of science professors at elite universities and found many are infuriated by what they see as a widespread erosion of belief in proven scientific theories.