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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.
"You'll need a lot more than fragments, like an entire bullet."
Charles Patrick Ewing, professor of law, in an article in Newsday on the Jan. 23 murder of a Syosset couple that reports a motive for the killings remains a mystery and quotes Ewing on the likelihood police will make a ballistic match to the murder weapon using only the bullet fragments that were found at the scene.
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"The Super Bowl, particularly the halftime show, stands out as a public sphere for music. Music has become so private with iPods and the Internet. It's probably the only time we all come together and listen to the same thing, kind of like how it was in the '60s, when everybody seemed to be listening to the same thing and seeing the same shows."
Elayne Rapping, professor emeritus of American studies, in an article in the Baltimore Sun on the choice of Prince, perhaps the raciest and most unpredictable pop performer of the 1980s, to perform in the Super Bowl halftime show.
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"We have 200 to 300 beds there, so we'll run out of beds pretty quickly."
Richard Lee, professor of medicine, discussing one of the hospitals he works with in an article on ABC News on a recent gathering of many of the world's top influenza experts to outline how hospitals would deal with a pandemic event.
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"I think the market for these types of things have reached the saturation point. The Pickton trial is in competition with every multiple homicide trial that gone before it."
David Schmid, professor of English and the author of "Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture," in an article distributed by Canadian Press news service on the controversy over whether to make public videotapes of the interrogation of Robert Pickton, a Canadian pig farmer accused of murdering at least six women. The article appeared in about 15 Canadian news outlets, including Macleans.
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