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  • Hartford Courant: People who live within 10 miles of a casino face twice the risk of problem gambling, says RIA expert
    10/19/04
    An article in the Hartford Courant on the boom in gambling in Connecticut quotes John Welte, principal investigator in the Research Institute on Addictions, who said people who live within 10 miles of a casino have twice the risk of becoming a problem gambler.
  • The New York Times: Article looks at UB linguist's research on children's slips of the tongue
    10/12/04
    An article in The New York Times reports on research conducted by Jeri Jaeger, associate professor of linguistics, who studies children's slips of the tongue and how they acquire language.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education: Article looks at the "secret lives of academics," including UB management prof
    10/12/04
    An article in the current issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education looks at some of the interesting ways professor spend their time when they're not in the classroom, and profiles at Natalie C. Simpson, associate professor of management science and systems and a lieutenant in a volunteer fire department in East Aurora.
  • USA Today: It's not appropriate for parents to be their children's best friend, says UB sociologist
    10/12/04
    An article in USA Today on parents who want to be their children's best friend quotes Samson Lee Blair, associate professor of sociology, who says years ago parents saw their children as financial assets who were needed to help run the farm, but parents today view their kids as "emotional assets, the objects of their love and affection."
  • Albany Times-Union: Retro images of women on television undermining gains of feminism, says UB gender studies expert
    10/11/04
    An article in the Albany Times Union on the way television portrays women quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, who says we're seeing "a return to an even more retro picture, where women are consumed with things that go against the grain of what I think were the most progressive impacts of feminism."
  • Los Angeles Times: New recommendations to help air travelers avoid blood clots quotes UB expert
    10/3/04
    An article in the Los Angeles Times reports on new recommendations for airline travelers to avoid blood clots and quotes Holger Schunemann, associate professor of medicine and senior editor of the guidelines.
  • The New York Times: Impact of blogs in job searches is growing, says UB informatics prof
    10/3/04
    An article in the The New York Times on using blogs as part of the job-search process quotes Alexander C. Halavais, assistant professor of communication, who says that while recruiting using blogs is now invisible, he expects to see blogs become a much bigger part of job searching and recruiting.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education: 2,000-pound bronze book at Buffalo airport is "heavy reading"
    10/1/04
    An article in the "Short Subjects" section of The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the installation at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport of UB's 2,000-pound bronze book, "Building Buffalo," which traces the architectural history of the city.
  • Reuters: Study shows that obese children as young as seven may have beginnings of artery disease
    9/28/04
    An article distributed by Reuters appeared today in a number of outlets throughout the world, including Yahoo! News and the Los Angeles Times, and reports on UB research that found that obese children as young as seven already have the beginnings of artery disease.
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: UB cultural studies expert quoted on television and politics
    9/25/04
    An article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the intertwined nature of politics and TV, and the impact a heatedly partisan election is having on television shows, quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, who says the most-influential late-night presence may be Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."

UB faculty frequently offer expert perspectives on issues that are part of the current public discourse, including ones that may be perceived as controversial. It is our belief—and at the core of UB’s academic mission—that constructive, thoughtful dialogue fosters a better understanding of our world. Thus, we openly share these perspectives.