UB in the News

An article in The Wall Street Journal on Thanksgiving holiday travel reports on a UB study that showed that back-seat passengers who aren't wearing seatbelts are three times more likely to die in a head-on crash than belted passengers, and drivers are twice as likely to be killed if the passengers behind them aren't belted in.

Alan Lockwood, professor of neurology, was a guest last week on NPR's Science Friday for a show on the controversy over a new EPA study on pesticide exposures in young children.

An article by the Associated Press reports on UB research that found that people who live near border crossings have an increased risk of developing asthma. The article quotes Jamson Lwebuga-Mukasa, director of the Center for Asthma and Environmental Exposure.

An Associated Press article that was picked up by about 20 outlets throughout the nation, including SportsIllustrated.com, looks at the men's basketball program, which is garnering a great deal of attention since it was picked to top the Mid-American Conference's East Division this year.

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the Muschenheim Digital Archive, a Web project involving Kent Kleinman, chair of architecture, as well as librarians at Columbia University and the University of Michigan, that brings together the works of Austrian-born architect William Muschenheim.

An column in the Hartford Courant looks at a theory floated 10 years ago by Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics, who said states, Connecticut in particular, could benefit if the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade because places like Connecticut would keep reproductive rights intact, giving progressive-minded people an incentive to relocate to, or remain a resident of, socially liberal states.

An article in the Daily Herald on supermarket discount cards calls them good for business and buyers, and quotes Arun Jain, professor and chair of marketing, who said knowing who the customers are and what they are buying is critical to supermarkets, which receive roughly 80 percent of their revenue from 20 percent of their customers.

An article on ESPN.com looks at the success Reggie Witherspoon has had building the men's basketball program from one that struggled at the bottom of the MAC to a team that has been dubbed the favorite in the conference's East Division.

An article in the Baltimore Sun on the impact the Internet had on the 2004 elections quotes James E. Campbell, professor of political science, on the role various media -- radio, television, cable and the Internet -- have played historically in presidential campaigns.

An article in the Wilmington News Journal about television's fascination with women in their domestic lives -- as seen in shows such as "Desperate Housewives," "Wife Swap" and "Trading Spouses" -- quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, who calls the shows a throwback to the 1950s and the images portrayed in the shows the reason women rebelled in the '60s.