UB in the News

An article on ABC News looks at concerns about the safety of the arthritis drug Celebrex, which may increase the risk of heart attack, and quotes Mark Lema, chair of anesthesiology, who says "my concern is that we have some drugs that clearly benefit patients who now are being deprived of these drugs because of the medical-legal environment in this country."

Daily Health Feed news service is featuring two UB research stories: William Pelham, UB Distinguished Professor of Psychology, describes his research showing the effectiveness of behavioral therapy for treatment of children who have ADHD; and L. Nelson Hopkins, professor and chair of neurosurgery, describes the effectiveness of a stenting technique he developed for the treatment of stroke.

An Associated Press article looks at a Web site created by Fred Stoss, associate librarian in the Science and Engineering Library, and David Bertuca, associate librarian in the Libraries' Central Technical Services Department, who have constructed a Holiday Gift Web Site that features oddball gifts that appeal academics' disciplinary leanings.

An article in USA Today reports that a research team in the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has isolated a substance in tarantula venom that shows promise as a therapy for conditions including muscular dystrophy, cardiac arrhythmias and urinary incontinence. Go to article

She's chatted on national television with Leno and Oprah, but 10-year-old Elizabeth Mule of Atlanta says in an article in USA Today that her favorite public appearance was participating in a recent event at the University at Buffalo where she was interviewed by the Buffalo news media. Go to article

An article in Wired magazine reports the team behind Wikipedia is attempting to apply its collaborative information-gathering model to the news field, and quotes Alex Halavais, assistant professor of communication, who says "Wikinews" has a lot in common with other efforts at citizen journalism, but because of its collaborative editing process, should have a more neutral tone in the content of its stories.

An article in today's issue of The Wall Street Journal on entrepreneurs who lean heavily on credit cards when starting up their businesses quotes Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics, who says the only situation in which an entrepreneur might consider racking up a lot of debt on a corporate cards is "if you have an almost-sure thing and just need to finance a couple months of credit in order to do production and finance receivables."

An Associated Press article that looks at the work of snowflake photographer Wilson Bentley appears in today's issue of USA Today, as well as several other outlets throughout the Northeast, and reports that UB students created a digital library of a collection of Bentley's work in the Buffalo Museum of Science.

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the architecture and history of Buffalo's grain elevators and interviews Robert Shibley, professor and chair of architecture, and Lynda Schneekloth, professor of architecture, who share a vision of preserving this part of Buffalo's industrial past and making it a destination for some of the tourists who visit Niagara Falls each year.

An article in Time magazine reports on UB research that showed that the younger a person is when they have their first drink, the more likely they are to abuse alcohol as adults.