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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.
"The '50s look to us now like a very free time. There seemed to be more air, more space. During World War II, there were virtually no cars, and gasoline was rationed so there was very little point in owning one. Suddenly we were pouring them out by the hundreds, and people had a mobility they'd never had before. The economy was expanding at a prodigious rate; people were buying homes and graduating on the GI bill; the lower class was becoming the middle class. There was no scary thing hovering over the '50s as it [did] for the decades on either side of them."
Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the departments of English and American Studies, is quoted in the Christian Science Monitor in an article on the opening in Oklahoma of a time capsule containing a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried 50 years ago.
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"Most Romans lived in apartments or rather confined spaces, and there is not much evidence for stoves and other cooking equipment in them....Italy's vibrant street and bar scenes today, along with the often multipurpose design of homes with bedsteads stacked in a corner or kitchenettes in surprising places, reflect the wonderful, slightly chaotic, aspects of early Roman life."
Stephen Dyson, professor of classics, in an article on the Discovery Channel on the eating habits of ancient Romans.
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"This is one of the first studies in community-dwelling, postmenopausal women that assessed bacteria presence and associated it with oral bone loss, while controlling for other factors, such as age, smoking status and income."
Jean Wactawski-Wende, associate professor of social and preventive medicine, in an article distributed by UPI on a UB study that has shown that women infected with four bacteria that cause periodontal disease were more likely to have more severe oral bone loss.
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