UB in the News

A UPI story in The Washington Times on the skyrocketing popularity of blogs and the new insights they provide into the buying habits, political interests and social and cultural attitudes of important segments of the U.S. marketplace reports that researchers in the School of Informatics are studying how blogs reflect politics, opinion and attitudes, and quotes Alex Halavais, assistant professor of communication.

UB volcanologist Michael Sheridan, professor of geology, was interviewed on BBC "The World" radio about the likelihood of an eruption of Mexico's Colima volcano. Described as a long-time Colima watcher, Sheridan said Colima is extremely dangerous and is "just inching toward its climactic phase, where it will have gigantic eruption...probably within a year."

An article distributed by the Associate Press reports on the opening of UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, and was picked up by a number of newspapers throughout the state, including the Staten Island Advance.

An article in The New York Times looks at software being developed Rohini Srihari, UB professor of computer science and engineering, and a team in the Center of Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition to find the best path for connecting two difference concepts, technology that will be used to help fight terrorism.

An article in the May 30 issue of The New York Times on the impact that closing the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station will have on a city already in decline quotes John B. Sheffer, II, executive director of the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, and Lawrence Southwick, associate professor emeritus of finance and managerial economics.

An article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the link Vietnam veterans have to the music of that era quotes Elayne Rapping, who says that personalizing songs such as "We've Got to Get Out of This Place," which is considered an anthem of the Vietnam era, is not unusual because people make their own meanings out of songs that may have been intended to mean something else.

An article in the June 6 issue of Time magazine on the remarkable things exercise does for your health quotes Carlos Crespo, professor of social and preventive medicine, who says "fitness is not a matter of being skinny. It's a matter of being healthy."

Carolyn Korsmeyer, professor and chair in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences and author of "Making Sense of Taste: Food & Philosophy," was interviewed on the "Odyssey" radio program distributed by WBEZ-FM, Chicago Public Radio, a National Public Radio member station, as part of a series, "The History of the Senses," in which she discusses the sense of taste.

Mark Hurwitz, assistant professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences, is quoted in a Boston Globe story on the Senate battle over judicial nominees and efforts to arrive at a compromise.

Elayne Rapping, UB professor of American studies and author of "Law and Justice as Seen on TV," is quoted in a Cox News Service story that appeared in the Austin American Statesman, among other outlets, describing TV's depiction of dedicated women cops and lawyers.