Social Sciences

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

  • UB Students Unearth Parts of Guard Houses, Trinkets During Archaeological Field School at Old Fort Niagara
    8/31/01
    Students in the University at Buffalo's summer archaeological field school at Old Fort Niagara have unearthed parts of the enlisted men's and officers' guard houses built by the British around 1768, as well as sections of the protective palisade around the old French "castle."
  • Mysterious Re-Emergence of Malaria Is Focus of UB Study Aimed at Predicting and Preventing Outbreaks
    8/28/01
    A biological scientist and ecologist at the University at Buffalo has received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine how man-made environmental changes affect the transmission of malaria in Africa.
  • Father's Alcohol Abuse, Depression and Other Problems Shown to Impact Negatively on Children's Development
    7/11/01
    While there has been considerable research documenting the problems of children born to depressed and alcohol-abusing mothers, research scientists at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) have demonstrated that alcohol abuse, depression and other problems in the father also are related to children's development.
  • "Alarming" Lack of Effort to Prevent Second Heart Attack or Stroke Found by UB Researchers
    6/27/01
    With mortality looming, people who have survived one heart attack or stroke would do everything possible to avoid a second. Right? Wrong. A study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo using information from a national population-based database, indicates there is "an alarming magnitude of inadequate secondary prevention in the U.S. population."
  • Drinking Alcohol Daily and Without Meals Is Associated with Increased Risk of Hypertension, UB Study Finds
    6/13/01
    If you are a drinker, when and in what situations you drink may affect your blood pressure, findings of a University at Buffalo study presented at the Society for Epidemiology Research have shown.
  • The Sports World Wrongly Empowers Male Athletes at Great Expense to Women, Says UB Sports Historian
    6/6/01
    The past few decades seem to have marked a sea of change in public regard for female athletes. Does this signal a broader social definition of what it is to be female and feminine in American society? Emphatically no, says Susan Cahn, a distinguished and widely published scholar of sports history at the University at Buffalo.
  • Alcohol Consumption and Marriage: A Good Mix?
    6/6/01
    Alcohol's impact on marriage -- for better or for worse -- is the focus of a study being conducted by a research scientist at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) under a new $1.5 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
  • 12-Hour ADHD Drug as Effective as Thrice Daily Doses
    6/4/01
    A new 12-hour formulation of the most commonly prescribed drug for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, has proved to be as effective as the standard three-times-a-day dosing regimen, a clinical trial conducted by University at Buffalo researchers has shown.
  • Listening to Music of Choice During Outpatient Eye Surgery Lowers Patients' Cardiovascular, Emotional Stress
    5/24/01
    Older adults who listened to their choice of music during outpatient eye surgery had significantly lower heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac work load than patients who did not listen to music, a study by researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown.
  • Want Your Child to Eat Broccoli? Try a Dash of Sugar
    5/23/01
    College students can be taught to like cauliflower and 5-year-olds to drink grapefruit juice. It can be accomplished through flavor-flavor learning and all it takes is a sprinkling of sugar, says Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Ph.D., University at Buffalo provost and professor of psychology, who studies the origins and development of taste preferences.