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  • UB Family Medicine Expert Available to Discuss Supreme Court Decision
    6/28/12
    The Supreme Court's decision to uphold much of the Affordable Care Act will not only provide as many as 30 million or more uninsured Americans with healthcare coverage, it may also help foster changes that will "right-size" the healthcare system in some important and long overdue ways, says Tom Rosenthal, MD, chair of the Department of Family Medicine in the Â鶹´«Ã½o School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Law School Health Care Expert Available to Discuss Supreme Court Ruling on Obama Health Care Plan
    6/28/12
    The long-awaited Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's signature health care law upholds much of the act's intentions to expand coverage, with one major exception, says a Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School professor who is an expert on health care.
  • UB Expert Available to Speak on Supreme Court Ruling on Immigration
    6/25/12
    The U.S. Supreme Court has taken the "remarkable" step and upheld the single most controversial provision of the Arizona immigration law, giving law enforcement officials the right to verify immigration status of anyone reasonably suspected to be an unauthorized immigrant, according to Rick T. Su, an expert on immigration law and associate professor at the Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School.
  • Report: Health Care Reform Must be Local, Regardless of Court Decision
    6/20/12
    Even with an imminent Supreme Court ruling on the health care overhaul law, it's still the primary care physician and the local community that will determine the path of true health care reform. That's the message from "Communities of Solution: The Folsom Report Revisited," a policy paper published online in the May/June issue of Annals of Family Medicine.
  • At Attorney General Holder's Request, UB Expert on Police Health Will Participate in Law Enforcement Summit
    6/18/12
    John Violanti, PhD, professor of social and preventive medicine in the Â鶹´«Ã½o's School of Public Health and Health Professions, will participate in a Law Enforcement Executives Summit on June 27 at the invitation of U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.
  • Plaintiffs Face Greater Obstacles in Discrimination Suits, Study Shows
    5/22/12
    Â鶹´«Ã½o Sociology Professors Ellen Berrey, PhD, and Steve G. Hoffman, PhD, have co-authored a study that shows plaintiffs' limited resources and tumultuous experiences in employment discrimination lawsuits lead them to see this litigation as profoundly unfair.
  • Harvard Law Dean to Deliver Keynote at UB Law Commencement Ceremony
    5/14/12
    Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Law as well as the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at that institution, will be the keynote speaker May 19 as the Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School celebrates its 123rd commencement.
  • Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School Alumni to Honor Six at Annual Dinner
    4/16/12
    Five Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School alumni and one non-alumnus will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards on May 3 as the Law Alumni Association holds its annual dinner at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
  • Lippes Speaker Series to Feature Renowned Harvard ethicist Lawrence Lessig
    4/2/12
    Award-winning ethicist and Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig will deliver a lecture entitled "Institutional Corruption and the Financial Crisis."
  • After 32 Years, Buffalo Authors Revisit the Tragic World of Death Row
    3/28/12
    Bruce Jackson is known in some circles as the dean of prison culture. Since the early 1960s he has been studying the little-known lives and culture of inmates in one of America's oldest penal institutions, the O.B. Ellis Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison in the Walker County, Texas.