Most short children are well-adjusted and have no serious social or emotional problems, despite assumptions by some physicians and parents, a new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and Children's Hospital of Buffalo has shown.

A patient is wheeled into the emergency room of a small rural hospital. While the resident physician works on the patient, a phone call is placed to the region's major trauma center in an urban teaching hospital 75 miles away.

While nurse practitioners are considered part of the solution to physician shortages, many states still place restrictions on their practice, according to a study by researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing.

James E. McConnell, Ph.D., professor of geography and director of the Canada-U.S. Trade Center at the University at Buffalo, has been named chair of the university's Department of Geography for a three-year term.

Negativity isn't always bad. In fact, when it comes to encouraging consumer recycling, advocacy messages that are negative are more effective than messages that are positively framed, a researcher at the University at Buffalo has found.

The more a listener likes a radio show and is actively involved in the program, the more receptive he or she will be to the advertisements aired during the show, a study by a University at Buffalo researcher has found.

A recent donation of 25,000 science-fiction, adventure and pulp-fiction books and magazines has added a new dimension to the University at Buffalo's highly respected library holdings.

The University at Buffalo School of Management has ranked first on the May 1993 Certified Public Accounting (CPA) exam among candidates with advanced degrees.

Student demand and the increasing importance of the Pacific Rim to the economy of the United States prompted the University at Buffalo to expand its Asian Studies program, established 18 months ago.

Residents of Buffalo's low-income, largely Hispanic Lower West Side are twice as sick as the U.S. population living in poverty, and face major barriers to receiving adequate health care, results of a comprehensive health survey conducted by the University at Buffalo Center for Urban Research in Primary Care has revealed.

While most people may think of toys only as recreational items for children, researchers in the Early Intervention Lab of the Center for Assistive Technology at the University at Buffalo see them, and other everyday items, as a means to help infants and toddlers with disabilities communicate, move and learn.