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After competing in two half marathons, Kelsey Barbour, a cancer survivor and former UB swimmer, plans to run cross country from San Francisco, California to Baltimore, Maryland with 28 college students from various colleges across the country to raise money for cancer awareness.
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UB student and cancer survivor to run across United States

While stricken with cancer her junior year, Kelsey Barbour used running as a mechanism to cope. Now a graduate student, Barbour is set to compete in the “4K for Cancer,” a cross-country relay-style event across the United States which will raise money for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Kids.


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UB students organize strike with Fight for $15 to raise minimum wage

In the Student Union Flag Room on Wednesday, Frieh and Joel Inbody, a graduate sociology student, and a D’Youville student spoke at the panel. They discussed the workers’ right to unionize without backlash from managers and owners, the working conditions in fast food restaurants, cruel and exploitative managers and the struggles people face living on the current minimum wage – $8.75 in New York State.


Over 7,000 students live in residence halls and campus apartments on North and South Campuses. To make housing selection simpler, UB housing has created a random lottery selection that not many students are pleased with. Greiner Hall on North Campus is one of the dorms preferred by UB students.
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UB students share their experience with UB’s dorm lottery

Some schools let students pick their rooms based on when they submit their deposit, but not UB. As an attempt to avoid a lack of housing and to assign on-campus housing to students, UB Campus Living has created a lottery system that randomly assigns students reservation numbers based on how many semesters they’ve spent living on campus.


The 2014-15 Western New York Prosperity Scholars met with several refugees and immigrants who have become leaders in their Buffalo neighborhood. The scholarship encourages the development of more leaders in Western New York.
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Building Buffalo through ‘Prosperity’ scholarship

Juweria Dahir, a senior sociology major, moved from Mogadishu to Britain in 2002 to escape the sectarian violence in Somalia. Dahir now promises to serve the refugee women in Buffalo and continue empowering women. The Prentice Family Foundation created the Western New York Prosperity Scholarship Program for “entrepreneurial civic-minded students” like Dahir, according to a 2013 UB Graduate School news and events article.


UB’s Haiti Medical Mission is a five-day medical clinic in Fontaine, Haiti. It is conducted and fundraised by UB’s first year medical students through the Friends of Fontaine organization.
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Students in UB's Haiti Medical Mission save lives in Haiti

UB’s Haiti Medical Mission is working to prevent the problems that arise when people don’t have access to health care from increasing. The mission is a five-day medical clinic in Fontaine, Haiti. It’s conducted and fundraised by UB’s first-year medical students through the Friends of Fontaine organization that is dedicated to supporting community-based development in Haiti.


Catch Mothers and Sons, a production of the Buffalo United Artists, on Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14 at Alleyway Theatre.
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The perfect staycation in Buffalo

Being snowbound in Buffalo doesn’t mean you can’t have a brilliant Spring Break. There’s enough new art exhibitions in the city, sports games, plays and even tropical cocktails at the Botanical Gardens to keep you busy every glorious day of break.






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