Politics

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  • Campbell Predicts Small Inroads for Democrats in House Elections
    9/17/12
    James E. Campbell, a University at Buffalo political scientist nationally recognized for his highly accurate election-prediction models, says that this year the Democrats are likely to pick up between three and 14 seats in elections for the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Memory of Late Historian and Human Rights Activist Alison Des Forges Honored by UB Scholarship
    9/4/12
    The University at Buffalo has established a scholarship in memory of Alison L. Des Forges, the late historian and human rights activist who was killed in the crash of Continental Flight 3407 near Buffalo on Feb. 12, 2009.
  • Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: Battles Over Segregated Recreation Shaped Civil Rights Movement
    8/23/12
    Victoria W. Wolcott, PhD, associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, is the author of a new book in which she exposes the legacy of segregated recreation in American cities after World War II. The book, "Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America," out this month from the University of Pennsylvania Press, continues Wolcott's research on the African-American experience in the 20th-century urban North.
  • Real to Reel: Ancient Greece and Rome in the Movies
    8/16/12
    Was "Spartacus" an anti-fascist polemic? Does "Agora" demonstrate the horrors of anti-science religious zealotry? Did the Trojans really dress only in blue and white outfits? Quiz: Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor in un-credited roles plus 32,000 costumes. The answers are yes, yes, no and "Quo Vadis."
  • UB Anthropology Professor Authors Book on Texas Immigrants
    8/9/12
    Deborah Reed-Danahay, professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo, has recently co-authored her second book with Caroline B. Brettell, a professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University.
  • New Documentary by UB's Miller Sheds Light on Attica and the Human Costs to Workers, Inmates in Maximum-Security Prisons
    8/8/12
    The scene looks normal -- a father kicking a soccer ball to his children, rubbing their heads in playful affection. The iconic towers and fence in the background tell the real story.
  • Legal Scholar Says Romney "Absolutely Legally Responsible for Bain Capital After 1999"
    8/2/12
    "Mitt Romney absolutely was legally responsible for the actions of Bain Capital after he 'retired' from the company in 1999 to run the Utah Olympics," says David Westbrook, JD, a legal scholar and recognized voice in corporate, contract and international law.
  • 'Hitler at Home' -- A Study in the Politics of Domestic Aesthetics
    7/30/12
    Architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, an award-winning scholar of modern German architecture, is at work on the first in-depth study of the aesthetic and ideological constructions of the "domestic" Adolf Hitler and the uses to which they were put by propagandists of the Third Reich.
  • UB Family Medicine Expert Available to Discuss Supreme Court Decision
    6/28/12
    The Supreme Court's decision to uphold much of the Affordable Care Act will not only provide as many as 30 million or more uninsured Americans with healthcare coverage, it may also help foster changes that will "right-size" the healthcare system in some important and long overdue ways, says Tom Rosenthal, MD, chair of the Department of Family Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Law School Health Care Expert Available to Discuss Supreme Court Ruling on Obama Health Care Plan
    6/28/12
    The long-awaited Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's signature health care law upholds much of the act's intentions to expand coverage, with one major exception, says a University at Buffalo Law School professor who is an expert on health care.