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A story in Grist quotes UB psychology professor Leonard Epstein about his research showing that taxing junk food may help increase the nutritional value of grocery shopping trips. (March 2, 2010)

ANCIENT DNA FROM RARE FOSSIL REVEALS THAT POLAR BEARS EVOLVED RECENTLY AND ADAPTED QUICKLY Researchers sequence the oldest ancient genome to date from a mammal
March 1, 2010 -- A rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is yielding a treasure trove of essential information about the age and evolutionary origins of the species whose future is now seen as synonymous with the devastation wrought by climate change.

UB Chemist Will Receive Prestigious Mentor's Award from AAAS
February 19, 2010 -- Luis A. Colón, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, is receiving the 2009 AAAS Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

UB BIOLOGISTS DISCOVER ENZYME DEGRADES PROTEIN THAT SUPPRESSES OR PROMOTES CANCER
January 28, 2010 -- University at Buffalo biologists have identified an enzyme that degrades an important protein present in cancers of both adults and children.

Physics faculty member / Astronomy Magazine
December 16, 2009 -- An article in Astronomy magazine about a new kind of star, an electroweak star, reports Dejan Stojkovic, assistant professor of physics, is among the authors on a paper describing electroweak stars. The article also appeared on the Web site Space Daily.

UB's First Civic Engagement and Public Policy Research Fellows Named
December 15, 2009 -- Collaborative community research to address social problems in Buffalo, Pennsylvania, Alaska.

Psychology faculty member / The National

December 16, 2009 -- An article in The National on the affect a child's name can have on his or her life reports Brett Pelham, associate professor of psychology, has done a variety of work on what he calls "implicit egotism" -- the theory that people tend to prefer people, places or things that remind them of themselves.

Psychology faculty member / Washington Post
December 16, 2009 -- An article in The Washington Post on the controversial practice of using neurofeedback to treat ADHD and other disorders reports William Pelham, director of the Center for Children and Families, is a critic of the treatment, which he includes on his list of common but ineffective treatments.

UB Faculty Member will appear on History Channel
December 11, 2009 -- Michael F. Sheridan, UB Distinguished Professor Emeritus and founding director of UB’s Center for GeoHazards Studies, will be featured on the History Channel show “How the Earth Was Made: Vesuvius”, Tuesday December 15 at 8pm and Wednesday December 16 at 12 am. Sheridan and his colleagues in Italy have for several years been conducting research on Vesuvius; In the spring of 2006, they published work showing that approximately 4,000 years ago during the Bronze Age, Vesuvius produced an eruption that devastated the area now occupied by metropolitan Naples. It suggested that this event -- more powerful than the famous Pompeii eruption -- should be a reference for current hazard planning for metropolitan Naples, home to more than 3 million people, possibly the world’s most densely populated volcano. “How The Earth Was Made: Vesuvius” explores the geology of Vesuvius and what it means for contemporary Naples. It features Dr. Sheridan as one of a handful of scientists who have alerted authorities to the possibility that the volcano may pose a far more lethal hazard to the vicinity than was previously thought.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH KEY TO RECRUITING AND RETAINING UB STUDENTS
December 4, 2009 -- As a research-intensive institution, the University at Buffalo is committed to providing rewarding opportunities for research discovery, even to undergraduate students, a group not traditionally provided many opportunities to work with faculty engaged in research.

NSF Awarded CAREER Awards to Six UB Faculty in 2009
November 24, 2009 -- Six University at Buffalo scientists and engineers have won 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER awards, the foundation's most prestigious award for junior investigators, which recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars "who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century."

"Clickers" in Science Class Is Subject of UB Professor's Half-Million-Dollar NSF Grant
November 10, 2009 - Clyde (Kipp) Herreid, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the University at Buffalo's Department of Biological Sciences and co-director of UB's National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, has received a $500,000 grant to explore innovative and improved methods of teaching science using "clickers," electronic response devices that allow professors to gain immediate student feedback in large classes.

UB Researcher is Part of $13 Million Grant from NCI to Cornell University to Establish a New Microenvironment and Metastasis Research Center
October 26, 2009 -- Gail Seigel, PhD, research assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Physiology and Biophysics, will be part of a group of researchers taking part in the new National Cancer Institute-funded Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, which will be headquartered at Cornell University.

Artic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming is Unlike Natural Variation
October 19, 2009 - The research reveals that sediments retrieved by University at Buffalo geologists from a remote Arctic lake are unlike those seen during previous warming episodes.

Gasparini oversees growth in physics
October 7, 2009 - The Department of Physics has made significant strides under the leadership of UB Distinguished Professor Francis Gasparini. During his five years as chair, the faculty and student populations have grown to their highest totals, while the department has developed cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research programs in new materials, nanoscience, quantum devices, biological physics, complex systems, cosmology and high-energy physics.

Mother’s experience guides Swartzenberg’s career path
September 30, 2009 - Gretchen Swartzenberg’s journey to becoming a speech-language pathologist began when she was 15, a high school student from Youngstown whose mother had recently awoken from a coma resulting from bacterial meningitis.

Symposium highlights chemical biology
September 2, 2009 - Some of the most influential new ideas—and the scientists who developed them—in the emerging field of chemical biology are coming to the Sept. 12 symposium on “Chemical Biology in the 21st Century” sponsored by UB and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.

Cosmetic surgery more appealing to those sensitive about appearance
July 3, 2009 - Researchers have found that men and women who feel sensitive to rejection based on their physical appearance are more likely to express interest in having cosmetic surgery than those who are less sensitive to appearance-based rejection. This effect is particularly true when people recall negative comments about their physical appearance.

Painting conveys complex science
August 12, 2009 - UB students are being trained in the interdisciplinary field of ecosystem restoration, in which they learn how to restore ecosystems damaged by natural or manmade influences. But communicating this new, multidisciplinary science to the outside world—or even to one another—has been a challenge.

Ice sheets can retreat in ‘geologic instant’
June 24, 2009 - Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by UB paleoclimatologists.

Organic Chemist to Launch Inaugural Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture Series at UB
April 28, 2009 - Albert Padwa, a former professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Chemistry and currently the William Patterson Timmie Professor of Organic Chemistry at Emory University, will visit UB on May 8 to deliver the inaugural Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture.

Grant to help improve alternative communication
January 30, 2009 - The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Communication Enhancement (AAC-RERC), a partnership involving UB, Duke University and other research institutions, has been awarded a $4.75 million grant by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).

Protecting against biological attacks. BioBlower passes federal tests; patent to be issued soon
March 6, 2008 - A powerful air sterilization technology developed at UB has killed every biological agent with which it has been challenged, including airborne spores, viruses and bacteria in independent tests conducted for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Celebrating an annual tradition
February 4, 2009 - For a groundhog pushing 30, Ridge Lea Larry is remarkably well-preserved.

UB physicists celebrate collider startup
September 10, 2008 - Particle physicists don’t ordinarily have a reputation as the most effusive bunch in the world, but UB physicists, along with their colleagues all over the planet, are positively exuberant about the debut of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (the European Center for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, the most powerful particle physics accelerator ever built.

Conference to honor McCombe
February 28, 2008 - “Magnetic Excitations in Semiconductors: Bridges to the Next Decade,” a two-day scientific conference at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center in Amherst, is being held to honor McCombe and the scientific—and highly collegial—collaborations he has organized over the years, both at UB and around the globe.