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Because of their expertise and reputations, members of UB faculty and staff are sought out by reporters who quote them in print, broadcast and online publications around the world. Here is a sampling of recent media coverage in which UB is mentioned prominently.
"We have the hardest time paying attention to things that haven't happened yet."
Natalie C. Simpson, associate professor in the School of Management and an expert on emergency management, in an Associated Press story about the Federal Emergency Management Agency's budget and the lack of federal money to prepare for disasters that have yet to occur that appeared in The New York Times and scores of newspapers across the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Hurricanes-FEMA-Spending-HK4.html
"The technology used to build levees is really very primitive-sometimes it involves just the piling of dirt. Surely there's a lot of room to use higher technologies than that."
Deborah D.L. Chung, Niagara Mohawk Professor of Materials Research and director of the Composite Materials Research Laboratory in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, discusses how "smart concrete" invented by her would be a better alternative to strengthen levees and monitor their reliability in a UPI article.
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=120741&n_date=20050925&cat=Science
"You're asking them to participate so it keeps them energized and more interested in the lecture, and the attendance level is much higher in situations like this, even if you don't have it tied to attendance."
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Clyde "Kip" Herreid discusses the impact of "clickers"—slender, handheld devices also known as "Audience Response Systems" that are used in television shows such as "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"—in an introductory biological sciences course that he is teaching this semester in an Associated Press article that appeared in Newsday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--collegeclickers0921sep21,0,3843822.story?coll=ny-region-
"It just isn't easy for us to change our basic behavior patterns."
Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics, in The New York Times on the National Endowment for Financial Education and its efforts to improve people's financial literacy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/business/media/20adco.html