UB in the News

An article in the Philadelphia Daily News on Delphi's bankruptcy filing and the economic ripple effects that are expected to be felt throughout the nation quotes Nallan Suresh, professor and chair of operations management and strategy in the School of Management, who says that "in the long term, bankruptcy could pave the way for taking a fresh look at the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing."

An article in the Business Week issue dated Oct. 17 reports that the National Theatre for Children (NTC) is performing 45-minute shows in New York for middle-school students, using sketch comedy to teach savings, budgeting and credit, and that Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics, has been hired by the NTC to evaluate the impact of its new presentation.

An article in Macleans magazine looks at a poll conducted by UB and SES Research in Ottawa that surveyed resident of both countries on a wide range of issues from national security to energy policy, and showed the two nations defined more by our similarities than our differences. The article quotes Munroe Eagles, associate professor of political science and one of the people who first conceived of the study, who said that "what shows up clearly is that we share a great deal, including an interest in creating a secure North America."

The current issue of R&D magazine reports a research team headed by Paras Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and executive director of UB's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, has developed two novel approaches for fabricating quantum dots.

Andre Filiatrault, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering and deputy director of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), was interviewed on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight." Filiatrault joined a discussion about the earthquake in Pakistan and India and spoke about the need to improve the seismic resilience of buildings in the U.S.

An article in the Oct. 7 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education on young academics without tenure and blogging quotes Alex Halavais, assistant professor of communication, who says that blogs seem "threatening to those who are established in academia, to financial interests and to ... well, decorum."

An Associated Press article on youth culture testing the boundaries of gender identity and roles quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, who says she believes this experimentation will influence acceptance in a society where gender identities are already blurring.

An article in USA Today about the connotations of the word "suck" quotes David Fertig, associate professor of linguistics, who says "The word 'sucks' was an innocent word that developed a powerful and vulgar sexual connotation related to the taboo subject of fellatio."

An article in USA Today about how hurricanes Katrina and Rita have left thousands of displaced American at risk for mental disorders quotes Nancy Smyth, dean of the School of Social Work, who recently volunteered at a Texas shelter for hurricane victims, and says that Rita triggered flashbacks to Katrina in some and that disasters like the hurricanes can cause flashbacks to "older terrors" in some individuals.

An Associated Press article that appeared in scores of newspapers across the U.S., including The New York Times, on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's budget and the lack of federal money to prepare for disasters that have yet to occur, quotes Natalie Simpson, associate professor in the School of Management and an expert on emergency management