Heather McGhee took to the CFA mainstage as UB’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. speaker and the third entry in UB's Distinguished Speaker Series.
Sechrist starts on March 1 and will replace Lawrence Mullen, who has held the position for over three years.
The bevy of new policies aim to improve club funding allocation, ensure club participation and maintain Senate attendance, while eliminating a budget review process.
UB was allocated $813,000 by SUNY. But months later, not a dollar has gone toward covering fees for a graduate worker.
Of seven scheduled Senate meetings so far in the 2023-24 academic year, three were canceled because too few senators showed up.
Since 2021, a total of 383 police incidents have been reported in UB’s on-campus 17 residences according to UB's Clery reports.
University Police (UPD) are asking owners of Kia and Hyundai vehicles to “consider utilizing a steering wheel locking device” and “be vigilant at all times” after three vehicles were damaged in possible theft attempts on South Campus earlier this month, according to a UB Alert email.
The UB Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science and the UB Center for Embodied Autonomy and Robotics are joining the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), which has been tasked with improving safety and trustworthiness by more closely analyzing the risks of the most advanced AI.
Members of the Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU)-- the bargaining unit that represents graduate students working as teaching assistants (TAs) and graduate assistants (GAs)-- gathered last week to write satirical Valentine’s Day cards to UB President Satish Tripathi to to advocate for better pay and conditions for graduate student workers.
The incident is expected to cause at least $40,000 and follows a similar, wipe-induced pump failure in 2022.
The university said in an email to the student that the fees will pay for increased wages and inflation, among other things.
Health professionals are searching for alternatives to provide treatment and services for those dealing with opioid use disorder (OUD). One local physician and UB professor of emergency medicine, Dr. Joshua Lynch, decided to take action in 2015 when he created the Medication for Addiction Treatment and Electronic Referrals (MATTERS).
The Harlem Quartet — which includes violinist and UB music professor Melissa White — won the Best Classical Compendium Grammy Award for their album “Passion For Bach And Coltrane” during the awards show Sunday night.
With the start of a new semester, students returned to North Campus to an unfamiliar scene: the atrium of the Student Union (SU) was blocked by temporary walls, accompanied by roaring sounds of construction.
The original goal was set in 2020 as part of UB’s Climate Action Plan, which calls to “transition the University’s bussing contract and internal bussing services to 100% electrification by 2025.” Currently, UB has no active electric buses or shuttles.
Gov. Kathy Hochul selected UB as the “home” for “Empire AI,” a consortium of several public and private institutions working in artificial intelligence development, the University announced last month.
A new master’s degree program debuting at UB this fall engages the humanities and the social sciences in the study of the effects of drugs in our collective bloodstream.
The eatery is located on the second floor of the Student Union behind Pistachio’s in the Tiffin Room’s former location. It operates from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays as a sit-down restaurant.
The Office of Admissions says it has replaced their old admissions system with an “extensive and comprehensive holistic admissions application review approach.”
Many of the violations — which ranged from inadequate refrigeration facilitates to improper methods of thawing potentially hazardous foods — were corrected during the inspection.
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