Social Sciences

News about UB’s social sciences programs, including anthropology, psychology and social work. (see all topics)

  • Who Will Drive Miss Daisy?
    11/10/05
    We love our wheels, even as we age, but when driving is no longer an option, many of us will be stranded by myriad obstacles unless public transportation systems are able to meet our changing needs.
  • RERC on Universal Design Receives $5 Million Grant
    11/7/05
    The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center) in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to fund a second five-year cycle of its Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD).
  • McHale Fellow a Master of Stunning Collaborations
    11/1/05
    James Cathcart, the 2005 John and Magda McHale Fellow at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, is an architect, artist, designer and planner of national and international museums, public institutions and events. Known as well for his exhibition design and intriguing interactive installations, Cathcart will present a free public lecture on Nov. 9 at the University at Buffalo.
  • "Interval": How Film Can Help Us "Think Thought"
    10/27/05
    They are variously referred to as "makers of art films," "avant-garde filmmakers" and "experimental filmmakers." By any name, they will travel to Buffalo next month from several nations to explore the nature of the cinematic image in relation to time. They will join viewers, scholars and theorists in a two-day film conference Nov. 5 and 6 titled "Interval."
  • Researchers to Describe Katrina's Damage
    10/25/05
    In a live and online Webcast seminar, structural engineers and social scientists who were dispatched to New Orleans and Mississippi in the days after Katrina hit will describe the vast devastation they saw and discuss strategies for improving U.S. resilience and response to natural disasters, terrorist attack and other extreme events.
  • New Orleans -- What Urban Myths Say about U.S.
    10/19/05
    It is now evident that the reports of child murder, rape, widespread looting, snipers and chaos resulting from the total breakdown of moral and legal order in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina were enormously exaggerated if true at all.
  • Men Who Smoke Heavily May Impair Sperm, Fertility
    10/17/05
    Men who smoke cigarettes may experience a significant decline in their capacity to father a child, research by a reproductive medicine specialist from the University at Buffalo has shown.
  • Study Tests New Method to Instill Abstinence after Detox
    9/27/05
    An addiction specialist at the University at Buffalo has received a $1.28 million grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to develop and test a new program designed to improve abstinence rates after alcohol detoxification.
  • Teen Labels Provide Insights into Drug, Alcohol Use
    9/23/05
    The labels that teen-agers use to describe themselves and their peers provide an insight into their drug and alcohol use, according to a study at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
  • God, Cosmos, Katrina and Rita
    9/23/05
    The desire to assign cosmic significance to the arrival of hurricanes Katrina and Rita is an example of humankind's ages-old need to find reason within chaos, according to University at Buffalo anthropologist Phillips Stevens Jr., Ph.D., a renowned expert on the origins, nature and meaning of cults, superstitions and cultural identities.