NEWS
2026-27 SA e-board election sees 22 candidates
By MAIRA FAYYAZ | Mar. 10This spring’s undergraduate Student Association e-board elections for the 2026-27 term will see 22 candidates in the running.
Campus Affairs
NEWS
UB reopens Foster Hall after three-year-long, $41 million renovation
By MONTEL MILES | Mar. 3After a three-year-long renovation worth approximately $41 million, UB’s Foster Hall reopened Friday morning on South Campus.
NEWS
“We’re desperate:” UB Iranian students call for help during Iran’s violent crackdown
By MONTEL MILES and MYLIEN LAI | Feb. 17The blackout has prevented accurate counts of the deaths that were done by Iranian security forces. So far, the Human Rights Activists News Agency — a nongovernmental organization that focuses on human rights issues in Iran — puts the death toll to be at least 7,005 with more than 17,000 under investigation, while doctors outside Iran estimate it to be at least 33,000.
NEWS
Artist talks ‘celloboxing’ and creativity at ‘25-26 Distinguished Speakers series
By CASSANDRA CHIAPPETTA and MYLIEN LAI | Feb. 15Words were not needed to introduce Kevin Olusola, UB's third speaker at '25-26 Distinguished Speakers series.
NEWS
UB researcher released from ICE custody after three weeks
By AIDEN DICKERSON | Feb. 14Shovgi Huseynov, a research scientist at UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been released from a detainment facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Michigan on Monday, Feb. 2 and is back in Buffalo, per a video posted to his Facebook page and confirmed by university officials.
NEWS
Man arrested for starting fire at Baldy Hall
By NADIA BANGAROO | Feb. 10University Police arrested a 53-year-old man last Tuesday for allegedly starting a fire in a Baldy Hall classroom around 2:30 p.m. on UB’s North Campus.
NEWS
61st State Senator candidates talk ICE and federal funding at UB-hosted forum
By AIDEN DICKERSON | Feb. 10Democratic candidate Jeremy Zellner and Republican candidate Dan Gagliardo took similar stances on the same issues in a UB-hosted forum Thursday night in Student Union 330 amidst a race to take over the recently-vacated State Senator seat in NYS’s 61st District in a special election Tuesday, Feb. 3.
SPORTS
Federal case links UB athletes to a multimillion‑dollar point‑shaving network spanning 17 teams
By CIAH COURTNEY | Jan. 15Former guard Shawn Fulcher, former forward Isaiah Adams, and an unnamed third former teammate, were recently indicted by the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Federal District Court.
NEWS
Firearms ban extended six months for YAF president after alleged mass shooting threat
By CASSANDRA CHIAPPETTA | Nov. 25A judge has extended a temporary firearms ban by six months for the president of a right-wing UB student group that was alleged to have threatened to “shoot up the school tomorrow.”
NEWS
Police seize firearms after UB YAF president allegedly threatens mass shooting
By News Desk | Nov. 21Police seized multiple firearms from the president of a right-wing UB student group Thursday morning, after witnesses described overhearing him threaten to “shoot up the school tomorrow.”
NEWS
Queer space closure extended to Dec. 19
By MYLIEN LAI | Nov. 10The student-run queer space in Student Union 373 will remain open until Dec. 19, with a further extension no longer possible, according to the university.
NEWS
UB financial advisor charged with murder of girlfriend
By NADIA BANGAROO | Oct. 26A UB employee is alleged to have murdered his girlfriend by strangulation prior to a house fire Saturday at Elmwood Village, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s Office.
NEWS
UB to close queer space in SU 373; the club that runs it is fighting the decision
By MYLIEN LAI | Oct. 25All organizations, except for the LGBTA club, have moved out of rooms they were once assigned in SU and must now book rooms through UBLinked. But the LGBTA club’s e-board is fighting to keep the space with a petition that reached about 560 signatures.
NEWS
A conversation with James Stavridis
By JACOB WOJTOWICZ and AVA MARSALA | Oct. 2216th Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis oversaw The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) operations in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and the Balkans, including a 2011 intervention in Libya that helped end Moammar Gadhafi’s dictatorial and violent regime.
FEATURES
Admiral James Stavridis discusses international relations at UB
By EMMA MENDOLA and CASSANDRA CHIAPPETTA | Oct. 22James Stavridis spoke at the Center for the Arts on Tuesday, Oct. 21 about international adversaries, alliances and other geopolitical risks.
NEWS
All 17 students’ canceled immigration status reinstated, university officials say
By IZABELLA DUCATO | May 2All 17 current and former UB students’ immigration status was restored by the federal government last weekend.
NEWS
UB’s Breadbox and Stackers set to close to accommodate new ‘The Halal Shack’
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO | Apr. 29The scent of freshly toasted paninis and juicy burgers will soon be just a memory in UB’s Student Union, as Breadbox and Stackers are set to close at the end of this semester to make way for a new addition: The Halal Shack.
NEWS
UB graduate sues over visa revocation
By CIAH COURTNEY | Apr. 22A UB graduate filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. government last Tuesday to reinstate his visa that was terminated over a four-year-old traffic misdemeanor.
NEWS
Uncertainty and fear live on-campus
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO , MYLIEN LAI and NADIA BANGAROO | Apr. 16Last Tuesday morning, Heather Squire gave up the remaining four years of her five-year PhD fellowship in UB’s Department of Environment and Sustainability to protest the university's silence amid national arrests and planned deportations of international students in recent weeks.
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SA cancels Spring Fest, will now host one Fest annually
By MYLIEN LAI | Apr. 8SA’s Bullsapalooza — a campus-wide fair — is intended to replace the second Fest in the future.
