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Because of their expertise and reputations, members of the 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.
"Definitely not justified."
Richard Lee, professor of medicine and an expert on bird flu, in an Associated Press article on the radical and illogical steps that some Latin American nations are taking, such as banning rice imports, to stop bird flu before it even shows up. The article appeared in more than 110 news outlets throughout the world, including The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Bird-Flu-Paranoia.html
"What I see is two things. One is a growing recognition that China is a significant part of world culture and society, and learning about it is of concrete benefit and interest to our students. The second point is that both the number and quality of graduate students from China leads departments to want to hire faculty mentors who will be able to work with them."
Thomas W. Burkman, director of Asian studies, in an article in Inside Higher Ed on the unprecedented increase in the study of Chinese language, history, economics and society.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/28/chinese
"You don't have to really remove any significant bone. You don't have to destroy or remove any significant amount of muscle and tissue in order to do this fusion. There's a very natural pathway to do this fusion."
Elad Levy, associate professor of neurosurgery, in a segment filmed recently by Medstar TV on a new, minimally invasive spinal-fusion surgery technique being used to help patients with lower back pain recover faster and with less discomfort than with conventional spinal-fusion surgery. The segment aired on WIS-TV in Columbia, S.C., among others.
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4023213&nav=0RaP
"Do they bounce back to normal? We don't have the answer yet."
Lani Burkman, associate professor and head of the Section on Andrology, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, in The New York Times' "Vital Signs" column on UB research that shows that men who smoke are less likely to make a woman pregnant than nonsmokers, and the more they smoke the worse their chances are of conceiving.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/health/25fert.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1130246673-elDA+gV7Mb5pMxmHaR4BRQ.
"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. One of my other quite famous students was Hillary Clinton. You would have picked her out immediately as someone who was going places in a big hurry. He didn't have that kind of flamboyance or obvious aspiration."
Lee Albert, professor of law, in an article in USA Today on the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr., who was a student of Albert's when Albert taught at Yale University Law school in the early 1970s.
The article is not available online.