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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.
“I guess when you have this information and this situation where there are so few African Americans in coaching and in athletic directors positions when so many of our athletes are African American, there should be some level of concern among my colleagues.”
President John B. Simpson in an article distributed by the Associated Press that looks at efforts by NCAA President Myles Brand to have more head-coach positions at major schools filled by nonwhites. The article reports that UB is the only Division I school with a black athletic director, football coach and men's basketball coach, and appeared in about a dozen newspapers, including The Detroit News.
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“People don’t use it anymore because they don’t need to. It is not the standard of care. There are alternative procedures that do not involve adversives like electronic shock. And I am not talking about drugs as an alternative. I am talking about other behavioral treatments.”
William Pelham, director of the Center for Children and Families, in an article in The New York Times on a controversial Massachusetts school that specializes in treating the most-challenging special-education students by using electric shocks as a punishment for bad behavior.
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“Pay attention to [your] child’s good behavior and praise them when they do things the right way.”
Gregory A. Fabiano, assistant professor of counseling, school and educational psychology, in an article in USA Weekend describing a UB study on how to involve fathers more in the treatment of a child with ADHD.
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“We can use food to trick the body and engage the satiety mechanisms that are already there, rather than using drugs that target the brain. This just uses your gut to signal your brain, and that’s a very safe, modest approach. It’s going to produce small results, but they can be sustained over a long period of time safely, and that’s really exciting I think.”
Christine Pelkman, assistant professor of nutrition, in an article on Reuters Health that reports on an experimental beverage that turns to gel in the stomach and could serve as an aid for weight loss.
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“Financing of graduate education is a problem. [Graduate students] don’t lose the passion, but are pulled by family concerns or the fact that they can earn money [elsewhere].”
Kristin Stapleton, associate professor of history, in an article on Inside Higher Ed on programs that focus on the research process for new history doctoral students.
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