Times Higher Education, a leading higher education magazine, has named UB as one of the world's top 200 universities in its annual world university rankings published Oct. 3, 2012.

An article in USA Today about the low number of college students who get their annual flu shots reports on research by Janet Yang, assistant professor of communication.

An article in Self magazine reports on research by Jaye Derrick, research scientist in UB's Research Institute on Addictions, that showed that watching reruns of your favorite TV show can re-energize you when your stores of motivation and drive have been sapped.

An article in The Washington Post reports on presidential election predictions published in the new issue of PS: Political Science and Politics and quotes UB political scientist James E. Campbell, who wrote the introduction for the package and rates them.

An article on CNN reports on a UB study that found that obese teenage boys have alarmingly low levels of testosterone - 40-50 percent less than males of the same age with a normal body mass index.

An article in Forbes about UB alum Robin Li, founder of the successful Chinese search engine Baidu, interviews Sargur N. Srihari, director of UB's Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition, about Li.

Erin Lawless, associate director for affiliate programs in Alumni Relations, and UB seniors Vincent Buttimier and Jordan Tartaglia were interviewed on WNLO-TV's Winging It about True Blue