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When Lisa Cannavale (pictured) first came to UB she found that the school didn’t have social media dedicated to showing food options on campus. This led Cannavale to create the Instagram page UB_Hungry, which now has over 300 followers.
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Student-run Instagram shows students where to eat around UB

By Kori Hughes | Apr. 10, 2016

When Lisa Cannavale first noticed her Facebook newsfeed taken over by food blogs and how-to recipe videos, she got curious. She wondered whether there was a social media source that displayed UB’s wide array of food options. When she realized there wasn’t, Cannavale, a sophomore communication major, decided to start one of her own: an Instagram page named UB_hungry, which displays various photos of food in UB and currently has more than 300 followers.

Alpha Epsilon Pi hosted its fifth annual Balling for Boobs three-on-three charity basketball tournament on April 2. The event raised $800, triple the amount projected for this year.
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Alpha Epsilon Pi hosts ‘Balling for Boobs’ basketball tournament

By Kori Hughes | Apr. 3, 2016

Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) hosted its fifth annual Balling for Boobs three-on-three charity basketball tournament on April 2. This year’s tournament was originally projected to raise $500, but raised $800 – nearly triple the donations from last year. All proceeds from the tournament went to the American Cancer Society with part of the money being set aside for breast cancer research.

(From left to right) Kathleen Murphy, Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah, Rebecca Borowski, Terri Budek, Caitlin Hoekstra, Rebekah Burke, Robin Sullivan, Teresa A. Miklitsch, Letitia Thomas, Katie Barnum and Liesl Folks attended last year's Women in STEM summit. The summit looks to inspire girls who are studying or may be looking for a career in the STEM fields. 
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Women in STEM Summit looks to inspire UB female students

By Kori Hughes | Mar. 31, 2016

During the last 10 years, Murphy said the percentage of women pursuing a professional degree in the STEM fields has remained relatively stable, with the numbers for women obtaining either a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree in these fields at or less than 30 percent.

UB graduate student Aisha Abdelmula’s (pictured middle) "Black Lives Matter" film explores the lives of black students on campus. Afiya Grant (left) and Christina Dunn (right) are two participants featured in the film. The “Black Lives Matter” movement rallies against violence and injustice toward black people.
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UB graduate student creates ‘Black Lives Matter’ film

By Kori Hughes | Mar. 10, 2016

Her film follows five black UB studentsand their involvement in the “Black Lives Matter” movement and their lives as black students on campus. “Black Lives Matter” is a movement that rallies against violence and injustice toward black people based on their race. The movement gained national recognition after the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner – both black men killed by police in 2014.

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