While Buffalo Esports is still in its infancy, UB Student Life has fought long and hard to pioneer the professionalization and destigmatization of university-level gaming.
Ed Wright recalls times when certain restaurants wouldn’t serve him and when opposing fans had to be roped off from his bench to prevent violence.
On Sunday, murmurs of grief turned into a rallying cry of defiance as UB community members gathered to express solidarity with Ukraine in the Student Union.
“Spirit Teams” are the hidden backbone of UB Athletics: they give students, fans and athletes alike the perfect atmosphere to bleed blue.
“Yik Yak” is an app that allows users to post anonymously to a message board. The app is popular on college campuses across the nation, including UB. The Spectrum compiled a list of funny messages posted on Yik Yak after 1 a.m. and within the last week.
As the weather gets warmer and the semester ramps up, it’s more important than ever to leave the classroom and enjoy everything the Queen City has to offer. Lucky for you, the staff of The Spectrum has compiled a list of things you can do over the coming weeks.
UB sophomore Kallie McKenzie and grad student Preston Arment set up two tables in the Student Union during Random Acts of Kindness Week to encourage passing students to make thank you cards for CDS workers.
These scams, especially on data-rich campuses like UB, occur more often than one would expect.
Students don’t often return to classes they have already completed, but that’s not the case for the protégés of Professor Dalia Muller.
United University Professions, the union representing SUNY faculty members, has started negotiations with SUNY and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office regarding a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for faculty.
Nikole Hannah-Jones sat down with The Spectrum before her appearance as part of the 35th annual Distinguished Speaker Series to talk about race and becoming informed citizens.
Nikole Hannah-Jones served as UB’s 46th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Keynote Speaker Wednesday at the Center for the Arts. Her 50-minute Q&A session touched on the value of representation in education, the importance of affecting positive change and the idea that progress toward racial equality isn’t guaranteed.
UB’s campus governance organizations and unions passed a resolution addressed to President Satish Tripathi on Jan. 26 calling on UB to “provide a N95, KF94 and/or KN95 mask to each of its employees” and make said masks available to the university community “for no cost/nominal cost.”
The Food Recovery Network, a national nonprofit focused on the would-be food waste of colleges and universities, has a UB chapter, which is run out of the UB Sustainability Office.
It’s always a good time to highlight the work of artists who haven’t yet hit the mainstream. From U.S.-based bands to foreign singer-songwriters, The Spectrum put together a list of 12 underrated artists worth listening to in 2022.
Black History Month presents broke and busy college students — many of whom don’t have a reliable method of transportation — with extra incentive to support Black on-campus entrepreneurs.
UB is leading the charge in an emerging area of national military and strategic interest: space domain awareness.
Stranded in South Africa, a Congolese mother of three applied to resettle her family in the U.S. But she made a mistake on her paperwork. Her application was denied.
The Graduate Student Employee Union staged its Dec. 15 “grade-in” to advocate for a $22,000 minimum stipend and the elimination of broad-based fees.
Lawrence Tabak, who earned his Ph.D. in oral biology and an advanced certificate in endodontics from UB’s School of Dental Medicine, is the acting director of one of the nation’s largest federal agencies.
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