UB in the News

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.

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.