Expert Tip Sheets

For health care professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, practicing mindful self-care – even if for minutes each day – can help with avoiding burnout.

With crisis comes misinformation, warns UB digital literacy expert Heidi Julien. Use the CRAP test, she recommends, a four-step assessment that filters out info filled with bias and fiction.

As small businesses shutter in record numbers, two UB School of Management experts share their advice to help entrepreneurs ride out the storm.

Despite technological advancements and alternative voting methods, the voting booth still serves a vital purpose, according to Jacob Neiheisel.

In modern and historic times, health care institutions have often wrongly assumed people with disabilities have a poor quality of life, says UB researcher Michael Rembis.

UB environmental historian Adam Rome is author of ‘The Genius of Earth Day,’ a book documenting the history of the very first Earth Day in 1970.

The first Earth Day in 1970 was a “youthquake.” It wasn’t one event. It was at least 12,000, and most were organized by teenagers and twenty-somethings, says UB environmental historian Adam Rome.

Workers are united with a more powerful motivation than they have had in the past century: survival.

Organizations should gather information, take action and be transparent, says James Lemoine, assistant professor of organization and human resources.

As the COVID-19 crisis grows, we worry not only about our health, but also about our jobs, our portfolios and our future. Professor Cristian Tiu answers common questions.