A conversation with Selma Blair
By TENZIN WODHEAN and SUHA CHOWDHURY | Mar. 19Though memorable for playing a frigid Vivian Kensington, Selma Blair showed to be quite the opposite off screen.
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Health Promotion hosts ‘How to Help a Sexual Assault Survivor’ workshop
By KATIE SKOOG | Mar. 8Aaron Maracle and Jessica Mencia host “How to Help a Sexual Assault Survivor” event for UB Health Promotion
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‘I am the Band-Aid to a gushing wound’: India Walton speaks at UB
By AJ FRANKLIN | Mar. 8India Walton, a current candidate for the Buffalo Common Council’s Masten district and nurse, spoke to a small group of around 20 students on Feb. 27 in the Student Union.
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Greiner Hall’s ‘COBE’ event offers students ‘opportunity, space, a home’
By ALISHA ALLISON , YVONNE MORALES and NATHAN RHOADS | Mar. 8Greiner Hall hosted a Celebration of Black Excellence (COBE), a two-day event to honor Black leaders, students and arts at UB last Friday and Saturday.
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‘Every year it’s only gotten better and more fun’: SAE wins E-week’s Battle Bot Competition
By KATIE SKOOG | Mar. 2E-Week’s annual Battle Bot Competition took place last Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m in the Student Union.
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‘I feel a duty to make sure I am not the last’: UB alum on breaking barriers as a Latina in law
By Kiana Hodge | Mar. 2Ventura took office as a New York State Supreme Court justice on Jan. 1, 2020.
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Pandemic pains: UB monitoring ‘historic’ bird flu outbreak as migrant geese return to campus
By KYLE NGUYEN | Mar. 2A record-breaking outbreak of bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, is sweeping poultry, wild birds and mammal populations across the globe.
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‘I’m the space where you could be yourself’: Jarael Adams speaks on his opportunity in the Buffalo art scene
By JASMIN YEUNG | Mar. 1Jarael Adams is the owner of two businesses in Allentown — Paint the Town, an art studio and The Ink Gallery, a tattoo and piercing studio.
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Black Explosion ‘Mosaic: Collections of the Divine’ showcases creators of Black art
By ALISHA ALLISON | Feb. 27The show featured looks inspired by artistic movements such as Surrealism, Afro-futurism, Romanticism, and Neo-Expressionism.
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Meet the 2023 Life Raft Debate competitors
By JASMIN YEUNG | Feb. 22UB students will vote on which of six professors — each representing a different field of study — they’ll bring with them to create a new society during the university’s 12th annual Life Raft Debate on March 6 from 6-8 p.m. at the SU Theatre.
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Family and faculty mourn tragic passing of UB alum Sonja Jackson to Winter Storm Elliott
By AJ FRANKLIN | Feb. 22Twenty years after leaving school, Sonja Ta’shale Jackson was determined to get her bachelor’s degree in sociology.
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Turkish UB students share stories about devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, ask university community for help
By VICTORIA HILL | Feb. 22Nearly 47,000 people died in the Feb. 6 earthquake, with millions more being displaced.
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‘This is by far the most alive the club has ever been’
By KATIE SKOOG | Feb. 22Improv Club requires a surprising amount of preparation — but club leaders say it's worth it.
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UB Center for Information Integrity discusses bias in artificial intelligence at panel
By SUHA CHOWDHURY | Feb. 22Panelists touched on AI-generated Seinfeld, political extremism and how AI interacts with culture.
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A conversation with former NAACP Legal Defense Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill
By AJ FRANKLIN and Kiana Hodge | Feb. 19Sherrilyn Ifill sat down with The Spectrum before her appearance as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series to discuss Supreme Court precedents, the importance of diversity and pushing through traumatic experiences as a community.
