• Supreme Court nominee Alito remembered by UB prof
    11/1/05
    An article in USA Today quotes Lee Albert, professor of law on the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr., who was a student of Albert's at Yale University. Albert said, "I would not have picked him out of a crowd as the one who is going to rise. He did not strike me as a student with that kind of ambition. He was too low-key for that."
  • Children's films featuring more violence
    11/2/05
    An Associated Press article on the increase in violence in children's movies quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, who says that as animation techniques become more sophisticated and cartoons speak to audiences of all ages, the animated world looks more like reality and people become increasingly desensitized, so movies have to be more and more viscerally exciting.
  • Sports safety and the real hazards of youth hockey
    11/8/05
    An article in the Vital Signs section of The New York Times reports on a UB study on injuries among young hockey players that found most injuries are caused when players collide with the boards or, by accident, with one another, and not by body checks. The article quotes John Leddy, associate clinical professor of orthopaedics and associate director of UB's Sports Medicine Institute.
  • Growing rudeness is a sign of the times
    11/10/05
    An article in the Sacramento Bee on a video that ran before Sacramento's basketball home opener against Detroit that showed a disparaging view of the City of Detroit, including burned out cars, dilapidated building and garbage-filled streets quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies.
  • Raising the awareness of organ donation in college
    11/11/05
    An article on WIS-TV (Columbia, SC) on the need for increased organ donation awareness reports on a UB study that found that most young, healthy college students don't sign on for organ and tissue donation, and quotes Thomas Feeley, research associate professor of communication.
  • What is the real price of having a pet?
    11/11/05
    An article in the New York Daily News on what it costs to have a dog reports that investing in a dog may yield a return that's more than financial -- in 1999, a UB researcher studying hypertensive New York stockbrokers found that those with dogs were more likely to keep their blood pressure down in stressful situations than their petless peers.
  • Two new reward programs may help people save
    11/13/05
    An article in the Baltimore Sun on two new reward programs that promise to squirrel away a bit of money into savings accounts for consumers who use their cards quotes Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics.
  • Police suicides can exceed line-of-duty deaths
    11/13/05
    An article in the Orlando Sentinel on a Central Florida police officer who killed his two children and himself reports that each year, so many police officers kill themselves across America that the number of suicides sometimes exceeds those who die in the line of duty and quotes John Violanti, research professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine.
  • Helping new moms avoid blood clot risks
    11/15/05
    An Associated Press article reports on research that shows new mothers should get up and start walking as soon as possible to prevent the risk of a potentially fatal blood clot, and quotes Richard Lee, professor of medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics.
  • Pocahontas: separating fact and fiction
    11/27/05
    An article in The New York Times on Pocahontas and the inaccuracies in the way she and other Native Americans are portrayed in movies quotes John Mohawk, director of indigenous studies, who said "Pocahontas was not romantically involved with John Smith."
  • Should kids receive an allowance?
    11/28/05
    An article in Newsday on kids and allowances quotes Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics, who said, "Being on a regular allowance, no chores needed, to my mind is like being on welfare. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, but if you recieve money as an entitlement, I think, people tend not to care as much about it and probably don't pay as much attention as [they do] when they have to work for it or beg for it."
  • Law expert calls Chapman's chances of parole slim
    11/29/05
    An Associated Press article on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's murder by Mark David Chapman quotes Charles Patrick Ewing, professor of law, who says "Very few people with a life cap ever get paroled and his case has generated so much negative publicity." The article was picked up by more than 150 outlets, including The New York Times.
  • Seeing results with carotid artery stents
    11/30/05
    An article in The New York Times on the controversy over treating carotid artery disease with stents rather than surgery quotes L. Nelson Hopkins, professor and chair of neurosurgery, who said "We are beginning to see results that make us believers that carotid stents will replace endarterectomy, and that it's only a matter of time."