MEDIA MENTIONS

April 17, 2025: Teen Vogue quoted Michael Rembis, associate professor in the Department of History, Gender Institute Affiliate, and director of the Center for Disability Studies, in an article about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments that Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms” to be “re-parented.”

April 11, 2025: Salon quoted Michael Rembis, associate professor of history, Gender Institute Affiliate, and director of the Center for Disability Studies, in a story about how Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts are making it harder for people with disabilities to live in their communities.

April 3, 2025: “Women’s health can change a lot between pregnancy and menopause, but it’s a period we know very little about.” Zhongzheng Niu, assistant professor of epidemiology and environmental health, Gender Institute Affiliate, and first author of a study that found that blood pressure patterns during pregnancy predict later hypertension risk.

April 7, 2025: Vice quoted Daniel Kruger, research associate professor of community health and health behavior and Gender Institute Affiliate, in an article about his research on how psychedelics are helping people explore their sexuality.

March 31, 2025: Spectrum News 1 features UB archivist and Gender Institute Affiliate Hope Dunbar in a story about what goes into preserving history, with a special focus on Women’s History Month and taking a look into making sure those records aren’t lost to time.

March 31, 2025: Young Observer. Luis De Jesús Báez, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Gender Institute Executive Committee member, has been selected as a 2025 Young Observer by the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

March 13, 2025: “Science is a human endeavor. I think this research suggests that avoiding human stories is counterproductive.” Robin Costello, assistant professor of biological sciences, Gender Institute Affiliate, and first author of a study that found that more that photos are needed to make scientists more relatable to students.

March 10, 2025: “This simulation helped people see that re-entry isn’t just about personal choices; it’s about systemic barriers that we, as a society, have the power to change.” Mary Nell Trautner, associate professor of sociology and criminology, Gender Institute Affiliate, and director of the UB College in Prison Program, on a recent simulation exercise that demonstrated the difficulties people face following their release from incarceration.

March 12, 2025: The Scientist quoted Vincent Lynch, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Gender Institute Affiliate, in an article about the genes that make larger animals resilient to cancers.

March 7, 2025: HuffPost quoted Kari Winter, professor of global gender and sexuality studies and former Gender Institute Director, in an article about Rep. Marilyn Strickland winning praise online for responding to CNN conservative pundit Scott Jennings with a no-nonsense hand gesture.

March 5, 2025: In UBNow, “a battle unfolds on a giant cube,” says Christine Marie, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Media Study and Gender Institute Affiliate, describing her latest project, which has received an Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The installation, “Analog as Nature,” explores environmental precarity through the interplay of analog and digital imagery projected onto the surfaces of a 10-foot cube. Marie harnesses the theatricality of light and shadow, layering collages of moving film and photographic transparencies — cast from below — to form natural landscapes. 

March 4, 2025: The Associated Press quoted Vincent Lynch, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, and a Gender Institute Affiliate, in an article about research that genetically engineered mice to produce thick fur like woolly mammoths.

February 28, 2025: "Community-engaged research is perhaps more relevant now than ever before.” Robert Granfield, vice provost for faculty affairs and Gender Institute Affiliate, at a recent reception for recipients of grants from UB’s Civic Engagement Research Fund.

February 25, 2025: USA Today quoted Michael Rembis, associate professor of history, Gender Institute Affiliate, and director of the Center for Disability Studies, in an article about Elon Musk’s use of slurs on social media targeting people with disabilities.

February 24, 2025: NPR affiliate WSHU interviewed LaGarrett King,director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education and Gender Institute Affiliate, in a story about how commemorating Black history this year is challenging for many teachers.

February 18, 2025: A Buffalo News story about Research Laboratory High School becoming the Buffalo Public Schools’ first University-Assisted Community School through a partnership with UB quoted Suzanne Rosenblith, dean of the Graduate School of Education, and professor and Gender Institite Affiliate Chris Proctor.

February 12, 2025: “Animals, just like humans, want shelter,” says Joyce Hwang, professor of architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, Gender Institute Affiliate, and director of the practice Ants of the Prairie.  UBNow recently spoke to Hwang about her work. 

February 10, 2025: Canadian Affairs quoted historian and Gender Institute affiliate David Herzberg in an article about how Canada is following the U.S. example by appointing a “drug czar” to crack down on fentanyl use.

February 5, 2025: Vox quoted Lora Park, professor in the Department of Psychology and Gender Institute Affiliate, in an article about why other people’s approval is so intoxicating.

February 4, 2025: It’s estimated that by 2016 as many as 400,000 French citizens had relocated to London. And though there have always been French people living in London, the migration trend greatly accelerated in the early 21st century. Migration studies look mostly into the experiences of people who move searching for a better life in a more prosperous country. But moving from one socially and economically well-off country to a similar one is a population shift that didn’t even have a name until the publication of a recent book by Deborah Reed-Danahay, a UB researcher, Jean Monnet Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and Gender Institute Affiliate and research fellow. Her book, “Sideways Migration: Being French in London” (Routledge), explores the personal narratives and other factors that lead middle-class people to move to a country geographically close to and much like the one they left and was recently discussed in UBNow.

February 4, 2025: Mickey Sperlich, associate professor in the School of Social Work and Gender Institute Affiliate and research fellow, and the Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network (BPPN) have won a $208,000 challenge prize from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) IMPROVE initiative to help improve maternal health outcomes in Western New York.

February 4, 2025: LaGarrett King, director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education and Gender Institute Affiliate, wrote in Education Week’s Black History Month special issue about why Black history education is necessary.

January 22, 2025: Michael Rembis, associate professor of history and Gender Institute Affiliate, was interviewed by WBFO in a story on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s support for expanding involuntary commitment to people deemed unable to provide or unwilling to accept help with basic needs.

January 20, 2025: Capital & Main quoted Erin Hatton, professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and Gender Institute Affiliate, in an article about how rideshare drivers do not have typical workplace protections due to their status as independent contractors.

January 15, 2025: WBFO’s “What’s Next?” featured social work professors Katie Stalker and Gender Institute affiliate Annahita Ball discussing the Buffalo Mental Health Service Professional Fellowship program, designed to address mental health needs in rural communities.

January 10, 2025: LaGarrett King, director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education and GI Affiliate, was quoted in an article about how prominent conservatives are using the LA wildfires to slam diversity initiatives.

January 7, 2025: Science News quoted epidemiologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor and former GI Deputy Director Jo Freudenheim in an article about the U.S. surgeon general’s report on the link between drinking alcohol and developing cancer.

December 18, 2024: WTTW, the PBS affiliate in Chicago, quoted Erin Hatton, professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and Gender Institute Affiliate, in an article about staffing apps skirting labor laws.

December 10, 2024: “Intimacies of Violence,” a new book by Nadine Shaanta Murshid, associate professor in the School of Social Work and Gender Institute affiliate and faculty fellowship awardee, examines how middle-class Bangladeshi migrant women personally embody structural violence to shed light on the ways in which violence is produced, perpetuated and resisted. Murshid’s career-long research has focused on partner violence. In this, her first book, she explores how transnational Bangladeshi women — individuals who occupy space in both the U.S. and Bangladesh — face cultural, social, gender and systemic inequities across borders.

December 6, 2024: UBNow spoke to Gender Institute Director Victoria W. Wolcott about the $44,000 in research awards the GI provided UB Faculty this fall. 

December 6, 2024: UBNow reported that Jessica Kruger, clinical associate professor in the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior and director for teaching innovation and excellence in the School of Public Health and Health Professions and Gender Institute Affiliate has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the Public Health Academy of the National Academies of Practice.

December 5, 2024: Ebehitale Imobhio, assistant director for diversity, inclusion and community engagement in the School of Public Health and Health Professions and Gender Institute Affiliate, was quoted by UBNow on the school’s Envision Mentoring Program for undergraduate public health students of color.

December 3, 2024: Michael Boucai, professor in the School of Law and Gender Institute Executive Committee member, was quoted in an article by The Christian Science Monitor about an upcoming Supreme Court case concerning transgender rights.

November 12, 2024: The Buffalo News quoted marketing professor Charles Lindsey and urban planning professor and Gender Institute Affiliate Samina Raja in an article about New York State’s plan to encourage grocery stores to expand to underserved areas.

November 11, 2024: The UB Libraries has received a collection of historical materials from St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, one of the oldest African American Episcopal congregations in the country. The records, dating from the mid-19th century, will be added to the collection of University Archives, which will care for and ensure the conservation of the ledgers and documents that hold invaluable insights into the social, cultural, political and religious history of Buffalo’s Black community. “These archives talk about the interests of the parishioners, their political activities, their involvement in anti-slavery movements and the benevolent associations that addressed community issues,” says Lillian Williams, associate professor in the Department of Africana and American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences and Gender Institute Affiliate. “We wouldn’t know about these people and their leadership in various reform movements in the African American community without these vital records.”

November 1, 2024: Newsweek  in an article about the pressure on President Biden to get adopted children out of China after the country ceased all foreign adoptions,  quoted Kristin Stapleton, professor in the Department of History and Gender Institute Affiliate.

October 4, 2024: UB Now wrote about three bronze monuments now standing outside Old County Hall at 92 Franklin St. are a tribute to three of Western New York’s pioneering women and a testament to the women who made this honor a reality — including several with ties to UB. The Monument Project honoring trailblazing women of Western New York was spearheaded by the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women, which set out in 2018 to begin remedying an inequality dotting the local landscape: Of the 106 public statues, only two commemorated women. Among those from UB chosen to serve on the project steering committee were  Gender Institute Affiliates Kelly Hayes McAlonie, director of campus planning, and Lillian Williams, associate professor in the Department of Africana and American Studies.

September 23, 2024: VOX  in an article about “why America hates to love chicken nuggets.” quoted Kyla Wazana Tompkins, professor and chair of the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and Gender Institute Executive Committee Member and Affiliate.

September 11, 2024: David Schmid, associate professor of English and Gender Institute Affiliate, was among the experts interviewed in a roundup in Time magazine of 33 documentaries and docuseries that influenced the true crime genre.

September 8, 2024: David Schmid, associate professor of English and Gender Institute Affiliate, was quoted in a Fox News story about the recent boom in movies about older women with younger love interests.

August 28, 2024: Earth.com in an article about the extinction of woolly mammoths referenced  Vincent Lynch, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, and Gender Institute Affiliate,.

August 27, 2024: The Washington Post quoted computer scientist and Gender Institute Affiliate Kenneth Joseph in an article about the media hysteria created by rumors that Beyonce was performing at the Democratic National Convention.

August 14, 2024: Michael Boucai, professor in the School of Law and Gender Institute Executive Committee member, was quoted in a USA Today fact-check article about a false claim that as Minnesota governor, Tim Walz signed a bill recognizing pedophilia as a sexual orientation.

July 24, 2024: UBNow published an article on a new UB elective called Social Work in the Black Community which provides students with an understanding of the social challenges facing the Black community and strategies to help overcome these challenges. The course is taught by Noelle M. St. Vil and Christopher St. Vil, associate professors in the School of Social Work, a husband-and-wife pair who have co-authored work on Black trauma but had never co-taught a class before. “The school is moving toward racial justice as a core component of what we want to address strategically,” Noelle explains. “Those conversations are what led to the development of this course and recognizing the need for it.” Noelle is a Gender Institute affiliate and recently became its Deputy Director. 

July 11, 2024: NPR quoted Vincent Lynch, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Gender Institute Affiliate, in an article about a recent study on woolly mammoth genome sequencing and its implications for de-extinction.

July 15, 2024: Three faculty members have been named UB Distinguished Professors. UB Distinguished Professors are members of the faculty who have been full professors for a minimum of five years with a demonstrated record of excellence in artistic or scholarly contributions. This year’s honorees include History Professor and Gender Institute Affiliate Erik Seeman.

July9,2024:  TODAY.com quoted Kari Winter, professor in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and former Gender Institute Director, in an article about a social media personality who has received criticism for identifying herself by her husband’s occupation.

June 24, 2024: USA Today  quoted David Herzberg, professor of history and Gender Institute affiliate, in an article about the shocking response to Justin Timberlake’s DWI arrest.

May 16, 2024: UBNow posted an article about UB Archivist and Gender Institute Affiliate Hope Dunbar in their series "Out of Office" that highlights UB faculty and staff who pursue interesting hobbies, community engagement and other endeavors outside of their day jobs. Hope has spent the past seven years perfecting her art in a basement ceramics studio at Buffalo State University. The evolution of her work is on display with her capstone project, "UNYIELDING," on view through May 21 at The Crucible Art Collective, 334 Connecticut St., Buffalo. “It’s been a real journey,” Dunbar says. “Learning what works for me and what my aesthetic is and what I like and what I don’t like. It’s taken me a while to find my style.”

May 15, 2024: UBNow reported that Gender Institute Executive Committee Member Rachel Ablow, an expert in 19th-century literature and culture with research interests in the theory of the novel and the history of medicine, has co-edited with Catherine Robson, a University of California, Berkeley, professor of English, “The Victorian Age” — one of six volumes chronicling literary eras from the Middle Ages to the 21st century that comprise the entire collection — first published by W.W. Norton in 1962 and now in its 11th edition.

May 9, 2024: USA Today quoted historian and Gender Institute Affiliate Carole Emberton in a story about how a Virginia school board will reconsider — for the second time — a previous action to remove the names of Confederate leaders from two of its schools. She states, "Despite the large public outcry against Confederate monuments in 2020, there’s still a lot of people who support the practice, or at least, don’t understand why it’s a problem," she told USA TODAY. "I see it all the time in the courses I teach, and most of my students are from NY state, so it’s not just a 'Southern thing,' either."