Social Sciences

The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo will sponsor the 18th annual Summer Institute for Advanced Social Work Practice and Addiction Studies from June 23 through July 28.

Geographers and epidemiologists from the University at Buffalo, using life-course data from a cohort of breast cancer patients and controls in Western New York and geographic information systems (GIS) technology, have shown that women who developed breast cancer before menopause tend to cluster based on where they were born and where they lived when they began menstruating.

A psychology professor at the University at Buffalo is conducting a new study that will look at auditory perception of drug names and develop a software program that will address the problem of confusing prescription nomenclature, labeling, packaging and handwriting, a problem that the National Institute of Medicine estimates results in more than 7,000 fatalities a year.

Murray Levine, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, will be honored by his peers on June 5 for his contributions to the field of community psychology, of which he is considered to be a founder.

When the economy turns sluggish, where are the job opportunities? All over the map, if you've got a graduate degree in geography. That's been the experience of graduate students who completed their master's or doctoral degrees in the University at Buffalo's Department of Geography this month, all of whom have found good jobs that take full advantage of their degrees.

Substance-abusing men who engage in behavior that puts them at high risk for direct exposure to HIV are likely to put their wives at high risk for indirect HIV exposure through unprotected sexual intercourse with their spouses, according to a study at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.

Claudine Sikorski, a master of social work candidate at the University at Buffalo, has been selected as one of two recipients of the Student of the Year award presented by the New York State Social Work Education Association.

Gender, race and type of strenuous physical activity -- whether on an organized sports team or informal physical exercise -- play a role in the relationship between physical activity and sexual risk-taking by teen-agers, according to a study led by a researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions

The U.S. is on the verge of exiting from the passenger-aircraft industry, a market that it has led for more than half a century, according to a research paper by two University at Buffalo geographers. Authors of the study, focusing on Boeing Corp., the only remaining U.S. manufacturer of large commercial aircraft, predict that the company will cease making large passenger jets within the next 10 years.

Middle East oil may have center stage right now, but because many scientists and policymakers fear that water will be at the center of future regional disputes, a University at Buffalo professor is studying the environmental impact of the region's hydrology resources and projects.