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Jeffrey Grabill named CAS dean
By AMY ARACENA | Mar. 25UB’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) dean search committee named Jeffrey Grabill CAS dean on March 13.
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A conversation with Damar Hamlin
By RICARDO CASTILLO and HANNAH RASHAD | Mar. 14, 2025Before Hamlin delivered his presentation, he sat down for an interview with The Spectrum to discuss his work with the Chasing M’s foundation, his honorary doctorate from Canisius University and his go-to spot for wings in Buffalo.
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UB finalizes candidates for new CAS dean
By AMY ARACENA , MADISON PEMBER and MYLIEN LAI | Feb. 17, 2025UB’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) search committee finalized four candidates in a search to appoint a successor to replace CAS dean Robin Schulze, who resigned last summer.
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Broken insulator behind power outage in UB residence halls
By BOB SECK | Feb. 15, 2025A power outage struck the Ellicott Complex, Greiner Hall and Governors Complex for approximately 45 minutes at around 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. The outage caused the affected residents to be curious about its source.
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UB physicians reach labor contract agreement
By DELICIA MADHO and MYLIEN LAI | Dec. 23, 202496% of 830 UB physicians, represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), voted to ratify their first labor contract with their employer, University Medical Resident Services, P.C. (UMRS) on Dec. 13, ending a year-and-a-half long stalemate in negotiations.
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A conversation with Nadia Murad
By DELICIA MADHO and MYLIEN LAI | Nov. 15, 2024Before the presentation, Murad sat down with The Spectrum, emphasizing the importance of redefining herself as a survivor, pursuing education and continuing advocacy despite challenges.
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‘Silence is not an option’: Nobel Prize-winning activist shares her survival story
By EMILY HORNBECK and RICARDO CASTILLO | Nov. 15, 2024Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and First United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Nadia Murad shared her story as a survivor of her imprisonment by the Islamic State group (ISIS) and her efforts to help other survivors rebuild their lives post-ISIS on the Center for the Arts mainstage Thursday night.
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UB communist group calls for expulsion of “white nationalist and Zionist” students and staff
By RICARDO CASTILLO | Oct. 22, 2024A communist group at UB called in an open letter for the university to investigate and expel “white nationalist and Zionist” students and staff.
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UB opens new sports performance center
By EMILY HORNBECK | Oct. 20, 2024UB ceremonially cut the ribbon on the new Brittany Murchie Mulla Sports Performance Center, which will provide student athletes with new gym equipment, last Thursday.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian discusses America’s past at UB
By CAMDEN BARTLO and MYLIEN LAI | Oct. 17, 2024Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham gave a talk on the Center of the Arts (CFA) mainstage Wednesday night about American democracy, history and the upcoming presidential election to kick off UB’s ‘24-25 Distinguished Speakers Series.
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A conversation with Jon Meacham
By SARAH OWUSU and CAMDEN BARTLO | Oct. 17, 2024Before his Distinguished Speakers Series presentation, Meacham sat down with The Spectrum Wednesday night to weigh in on the importance of voting, the “compelling” stakes of the 2024 presidential election and why learning from the past matters.
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Facing SA pressure, von Hedemann steps down as men’s ACHA ice hockey head coach
By SOL HAUSER and MYLIEN LAI | Oct. 9, 2024Von Hedemann, who became head coach in 2021, said the undergraduate Student Association (SA) requested that he resign as a condition to allow the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams to be reinstated.
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Domestic violence up, burglaries down in 2023, annual UPD report shows
By AMY ARACENA | Oct. 9, 2024UB saw an increase in domestic violence reports and a decrease in robberies and burglaries last year, an annual crime report by the University Police Department (UPD) shows.
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UB revises protest policies, extends review period
By EMILY HORNBECK | Oct. 2, 2024UB lifted bans on chalking, anonymous posters and amplification equipment in its recently drafted assembly policies in response to feedback from students and faculty, including the Faculty Senate, as of yesterday. The policy review period is extended for two more weeks with its end date being updated to Oct. 14.
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At Friday protest, demonstrators defy new UB assembly policies
By XIOLA BAGWELL , BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO , MICHAEL RANDALL , MYLIEN LAI and NADIA BANGAROO | Sep. 21, 2024Approximately 35 demonstrators chalked sidewalks and used a megaphone in defiance of new UB policies that prohibit such activities. The policies are currently under a 30-day review period that ends next Saturday, Sept. 28.
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UB breaks ground on new engineering building
By CASSANDRA CHIAPPETTA | Sep. 17, 2024Shovels hit dirt at Furnas Lot Tuesday morning as UB broke ground for the construction of a new engineering building, Russell L. Agrusa Hall.
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Labor negotiations remain at standstill after UB physicians’ four-day strike
By CASSANDRA CHIAPPETTA and DELICIA MADHO | Sep. 10, 2024Approximately 400 UB resident physicians, represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), went on a four-day strike at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) last week to demand financial transparency and an equitable labor contract from their employer, University Medical Resident Services P.C. (UMRS), and the university.
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UB conducts first wide-scale waste audit in 10 years
By DOMINICK MATARESE | May 16, 2024Bags of trash and recycling were taken from all three campuses and then analyzed. The results are being used to inform UB’s efforts to improve recycling on campus.
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A video timeline of UB's pro-Palestine protests and police backlash
By DOMINICK MATARESE | May 7, 2024Pro-Palestinian protesters marched on campus and attempted to set up an encampment outside Hochstetter Hall. The night ended with multiple arrests and injuries. Here's how it happened.
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Hundreds march on campus after arrests, police aggression at Wednesday’s protest
By SOL HAUSER , DARCY WINTER , MYLIEN LAI and ALISHA ALLISON | May 3, 2024On Friday, protesters gathered in Founders Plaza at 3 p.m. and circled the campus before stopping in the grassy lawn outside of Hochstetter Hall where Wednesday’s attempted encampment, and many of the arrests, occurred.
