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Interim Vice Provost Scott Weber confirmed the Ph.D. students will remain in assistantships and maintain their benefits.

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Funded Ph.D. students keeping benefits, interim provost announces more funding

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN and BRITTANY GORNY | Oct. 20, 2019

Interim Provost A. Scott Weber confirmed Saturday that funded Ph.D. students will remain in assistantships, meaning they will continue to have benefits such as health insurance, dental insurance and retirement plans. Some students worried their roles would change to fellowships –– which don’t include these benefits –– when the August Ph.D. Excellence Initiative announcement stated first-year Ph.D. students will not teach classes.

UB students from the Sustainable Urban Environments digging through waste at Tri-Main to help improve their waste process.

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Diving into Buffalo’s waste

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Oct. 16, 2019

UB students were elbows-deep in garbage on Wednesday, searching for sustainable ways to manage large-scale waste and encourage companies to do the same.

UB President Satish Tripathi giving his eighth annual State of the University Address.

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UB President Satish Tripathi discusses UB 2020 in State of the University Address

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN and BRITTANY GORNY | Oct. 6, 2019

UB President Satish Tripathi delivered his eighth annual State of the University address in the Student Union Theater Friday. Tripathi discussed UB 2020, both retrospectively and looking into the future, UB’s carbon footprint, research advancements and UB’s increased ranking as the No. 31 best public research university in front of roughly 350 students, faculty and community members. Tripathi also spoke briefly about the Ph.D. Excellence Initiative after the address.

UB student using Adobe Premiere in the new iMac station at Silverman library.

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iMacs with Adobe Creative Cloud now available to students

By AMAL ELHELW | Oct. 2, 2019

UB Information Technology installed 42 new iMacs with Adobe Creative Cloud in the Lockwood Cybrary and on the third floor of the Oscar Silverman Library at the beginning of the semester.

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Four women speak their truths through UB Art Gallery

By AMAL ELHELW | Oct. 2, 2019

Women were not allowed into art school until the late 1800s. Almost 200 years later, UB’s Department of Art created an exhibit to help give women in art a voice.

The recently-moved campus garden at Statler Commissary.

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UB Sustainability moves campus garden to Statler Commissary

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Sep. 29, 2019

UB Sustainability hosted Campus Garden Work Day on Friday as part of Climate Week, giving the UB Campus Garden a new home outside the Statler Food Commissary.

Student check-in during UB’s Tuesday event for National Suicide Prevention week.

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UB hosts events for National Suicide Prevention Week

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Sep. 11, 2019

Student Life is hosting events this week to commemorate National Suicide Prevention Week. The office is hosting four events from Sept. 7-14, which began with an Out of the Darkness Walk for Suicide Prevention at Canalside on Saturday.

UB community members cut the crosswalk ribbon at Thursday's ceremony.

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UB unveils rainbow crosswalk with ribbon-cutting ceremony

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Aug. 29, 2019

The Office of Inclusive Excellence held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, Aug. 29 to commemorate the rainbow crosswalk in front of the Student Union. Roughly 50 community members attended the event, which also celebrated UB’s LGBTQ community and its value of inclusion.

(left to right) Aneri Dholakia and Nayna Madhudi pick up cigarette butts. They are two of 50 students who participated in Student Association Environmental Affairs’ second cigarette butt clean-up on Sunday.

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‘Butts suck:’ Students pick up over 30 pounds of cigarette butts on campus

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | May 5, 2019

Roughly 50 UB students collected 31.5 pounds of cigarette butts around UB’s North Campus Sunday afternoon.

Judith Enck, a former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator under the Obama administration, discusses the dangers of single-use plastics. Enck visited UB to discuss Beyond Plastics, a program which aims to reduce plastic pollution.

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The 'silent emergency' of the plastic trifecta

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN and JACKLYN WALTERS | Apr. 15, 2019

Judith Enck’s first experience with an environmental catastrophe was at Love Canal. She came to Niagara Falls with a sociology class her junior year of college to learn about the toxic disaster. The mayor of Niagara Falls told the class Love Canal wasn’t a problem, simply fabrication from “hysterical housewives.”

ChoreoLab’s performance titled “POWER: the preservation of order” had students, faculty and guest artists work together to bring new ideas and technology into the Theatre and Dance Department.

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Thinking outside the box

By ANASTASIA WILDS | Apr. 14, 2019

ChoreoLab presented a full display of dance, lighting and projections in the CFA’s Black Box Theatre last weekend.

The Black Student Union Vice President Daniel Edwards speaks to students to commemorate the life and death of rapper Nipsey Hussle on Wednesday.

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Black Student Union remembers Nipsey Hussle

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Apr. 14, 2019

The Black Student Union commemorated the life of rapper Nipsey Hussle on Wednesday. Roughly 30 students attended BSU’s event at 5 p.m. on April 10 to honor the rapper, whom Eric Holder fatally shot on March 31. Hussle was gifting clothes to a friend recently released from prison when Holder shot him six times, according to Nonprofit Quarterly. Hussle left behind three children, an older brother, a girlfriend and a mother. BSU held the event to give students the opportunity to mourn Hussle’s death and honor his involvement in his community.

Black Student Union Vice President Daniel Edwards addresses the room during a BSU meeting Wednesday. Club members and students shared their opinions on the amount of black faculty on campus and more.

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Students continue to advocate for more black faculty

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN and THOMAS ZAFONTE | Mar. 14, 2019

Black Student Union members discussed systemic racism, representation in faculty and UB’s treatment of the African and African American Studies program at its general body meeting Wednesday. BSU members and students talked throughout the meeting about the current state and future of the AAS program. Roughly 40 club members and students attended to voice concerns over the number of black faculty and AAS classes offered in the UB curriculum.

UB remained open on Nov. 18 after a snowstorm hit several Buffalo areas. It left many UB commuter students in Lancaster, Orchard Park and West Seneca unable to drive to school with unplowed roads and buried cars. Sara DiNatale, The Spectrum

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UB forgoes holding snow day during Tuesday's lake effect storm

By AMANDA LOW | Nov. 18, 2014

UB remained open on Nov. 18 after a snowstorm hit several Buffalo areas. It left many UB commuter students in Lancaster, Orchard Park and West Seneca unable to drive to school with unplowed roads and buried cars.

On Monday, UB is sending out its new campus-wide course evaluation to students that will be available online. Faculty will now receive an immediate report based on the collected data from the evaluation. Some students like Nick Oddo, a junior political science major, don’t think the evaluations make enough of an impact on their academics. Amanda Low, The Spectrum

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UB rolls out new course evaluation system

By AMANDA LOW | Nov. 16, 2014

On Monday, UB is sending out its new campus-wide course evaluation to students that will be available online.

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UB downsizes construction plans for campuses

By AMANDA LOW | Nov. 11, 2014

UB is more than $500 million short of what it needs to finish its original construction and renovation plans across all three campuses. The university has hit its spending cap for capital projects and recently presented a new plan with revised expenditures. The original Five-Year Capital Plan allocated $404 million for projects on North Campus, $136 million for South Campus and $24 million for the downtown campus.

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SUNY board of trustees approves tuition increase

By AMANDA LOW | Nov. 9, 2014

On Thursday, SUNY trustees approved an increase SUNY tuition by $300 for the final year in the NYSUNY 2020 Tuition Plan.

Jason Berger, founder of UB Skydiving, jumps with former student Jillian Schuppenhauer. On Saturday, Berger will dive into UB Stadium to deliver the football team's game ball.
Courtesy of Jason Berger

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Dropping the ball

By ANDY KONIUCH | Oct. 24, 2014

Jason Berger, founder of UB Skydiving, jumps with former student Jillian Schuppenhauer. On Saturday, Berger will dive into UB Stadium to deliver the football team's game ball. Courtesy of Jason Berger Jason Berger will be getting high and dropping out before

On Wednesday, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee
voted not to pass making the Institute of Jewish
Thought and Heritage into a department. Bruce Pitman,
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, helped to create
the proposal and he said feels there should have
been more discussion on the creation of the department. 
Courtesy of UB News Center

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Faculty Senate Executive Committee votes not to create department of Jewish Studies

By AMANDA LOW | Oct. 19, 2014

On Wednesday, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee voted not to pass making the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage into a department.

Wednesday evening, author, Army combat veteran and youth advocate Wes Moore spoke to UB students as the second guest in UB’s Distinguished Speaker Series about taking advantage of higher education and using it to help those in need. Cletus Emokpae, The Spectrum

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Wes Moore encourages students to be more than a major

By AMANDA LOW | Oct. 16, 2014

Wednesday evening, author, Army combat veteran and youth advocate Wes Moore spoke to UB students as the second guest in UB?s Distinguished Speaker Series about taking advantage of higher education and using it to help those in need.

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