UB in the News

An article in the Appleton Post Crescent on area residents and blogging quotes Alex Halavais, assistant professor of communication, who says "I would say blogging exists at the boundary between conversation and publication. The culture of blogging -- valuing conversation, freely sharing content and radical transparency -- is a big part of the force behind the popularity of blogging. The ability of the blog to fulfill such a wide range of communication tasks makes it a perfect carrier for these new values."

An article in National Geographic on reports that disease outbreaks in humans are likely to increase as global climate change reshapes the world's ecosystems quotes Richard V. Lee, professor of medicine, who says "Global climate change is not the same all over the globe. We know that the range of mosquito species known to carry certain infections like malaria will expand as temperatures and rainfalls vary."

An article in The New York Times on the controversy over treating carotid artery disease with stents rather than surgery quotes L. Nelson Hopkins, professor and chair of neurosurgery, who said "We are beginning to see results that make us believers that carotid stents will replace endarterectomy, and that it's only a matter of time."

An Associated Press article on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's murder by Mark David Chapman quotes Charles Patrick Ewing, professor of law, who says "Very few people with a life cap ever get paroled and his case has generated so much negative publicity." The article was picked up by more than 150 outlets, including The New York Times.

An article in Newsday on kids and allowances quotes Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics, who said, "Being on a regular allowance, no chores needed, to my mind is like being on welfare. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, but if you recieve money as an entitlement, I think, people tend not to care as much about it and probably don't pay as much attention as [they do] when they have to work for it or beg for it."

An article in The New York Times on Pocahontas and the inaccuracies in the way she and other Native Americans are portrayed in movies quotes John Mohawk, director of indigenous studies, who said "Pocahontas was not romantically involved with John Smith."

An Associated Press article reports on research that shows new mothers should get up and start walking as soon as possible to prevent the risk of a potentially fatal blood clot, and quotes Richard Lee, professor of medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics.

An article in the Baltimore Sun on two new reward programs that promise to squirrel away a bit of money into savings accounts for consumers who use their cards quotes Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics.

An article in the Orlando Sentinel on a Central Florida police officer who killed his two children and himself reports that each year, so many police officers kill themselves across America that the number of suicides sometimes exceeds those who die in the line of duty and quotes John Violanti, research professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine.

An article on WIS-TV (Columbia, SC) on the need for increased organ donation awareness reports on a UB study that found that most young, healthy college students don't sign on for organ and tissue donation, and quotes Thomas Feeley, research associate professor of communication.