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Protecting your uterus under another Trump administration
By SARAH OWUSU | Nov. 19, 2024Does this new Trump administration mean a national abortion ban?
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UB students share their favorite Thanksgiving foods
By HALEY DIMISA | Nov. 19, 2024The new holiday lineup at Starbucks and fall-themed decorations throughout UB’s campuses can only mean one thing: Thanksgiving is right around the corner. With Thanksgiving break less than two weeks away, UB students are eager to get home to their families’ annual festivities and enjoy holiday foods. These foods topped their list of favorites:
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How to celebrate your 21st in Buffalo
By SOPHIA STINES | Nov. 19, 2024Ringing in the late birthday queens, kings and royalty, most UB seniors have turned 21. Early graduates, this doesn’t apply, sorry. For fourth-years, it’s time to pass the torch and give some advice on how to ring in your twenty-first.
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UB professor takes next steps to close the happiness gap
By SARAH OWUSU | Nov. 13, 2024Henry-Louis Taylor Jr., director of the UB Center for Urban Studies, has cultivated a community development project that he hopes will not only change one neighborhood in Buffalo, but also the whole world.
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Hackathon puts UB students’ coding skills to the test
By MAXIMILIAN MALAWISTA | Nov. 12, 2024A student-run Hackathon organized by UBHacking took place in Davis Hall over the weekend of Nov. 9-10, featuring team-led projects, mentorship, networking events and a career fair with Valmar Holdings and M&T Tech. The event aimed to showcase students’ hacking and coding skills Amazon Web Services (AWS) sponsored the event, but only had representation present.
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UB NiCE club offers students opportunities in nuclear engineering
By MAXIMILIAN MALAWISTA | Nov. 12, 2024UB’s Nuclear Energy is Clean Energy (NiCE) club looks to bring a nuclear engineering curriculum to UB, spread awareness about the plethora of opportunities and bring the cleanest and some of the fastest energy developments on a national scale.
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UB students on what issues matter most this presidential election
By KAYLA CHAMOY and RICARDO CASTILLO | Nov. 5, 2024As election season draws to a close, there are key issues several randomly selected UB students across campus told The Spectrum influenced their votes.
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Spectrum recommends: Last-minute Halloween costumes
By THE SPECTRUM STAFF | Oct. 31, 2024If Halloween crept up on you faster than you can say “Boo,” and you don’t have a costume planned for your night of fun this Thursday (or whichever day you decide to celebrate this spooky holiday), The Spectrum staff has got you covered. Scroll through our suggestions for some very last-minute costumes that will still have you looking scary good this Halloween!
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What was Halloween like at UB 34 years ago?
By RICARDO CASTILLO | Oct. 31, 2024One thing that remains unchanged is the sentiment surrounding Halloween. For UB students, past and present, it has always been about partying. Tracey Drury experienced life at UB in real time, attending from 1988 to 1992.
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Spectrum staff childhood costume superlatives
By SARAH OWUSU | Oct. 30, 2024How was The Spectrum staff showing their spooky spirit?
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‘Chill Out’: Health Promotion shares healthy stress management tactics
By HALEY DIMISA | Oct. 30, 2024On Oct. 23, UB Health Promotion’s student wellness department partnered with the UB Student Association to host “Chill Out,” an event aimed to teach students about healthy stress management techniques and on-campus resources.
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The Menendez brothers, the media and the most controversial: the audience
By SARAH OWUSU | Oct. 22, 202435 years after the Menendez brothers killed their parents, the Netflix series, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” premiered and made the case an instant pop-culture phenomenon. But it's also caused controversy. Many have called for the release of the brothers, with one petition reaching over 100,000 signatures.
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The ebbs and flows of Michael Stefanone’s life
By TIBYAN SALIM | Oct. 22, 2024After immigrating from Italy to the United States, Michael Stefanone’s father made a purchase that wouldn’t only impact him but would play a significant role in his kid's future. Decades later, this legacy still lives on.
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UB women’s rugby’s got talent
By SOPHIA STINES | Oct. 22, 2024Ginuwine’s hit song “Pony” normally isn’t normally heard through the halls of UB’s Natural Science’s Complex (NSC). UB women’s rugby changed the norm of both the NSC and their high stress sport when they let loose Friday night in NSC 210, performing and bonding through the team’s talent show.
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Games, rides and sweet treats on the side
By MICHAEL RANDALL and HALEY DIMISA | Oct. 22, 2024The UB Student Association’s annual Homecoming Carnival was a ray of sunshine on Friday around Student Union and Lee Road.
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Honoring the land of the Seneca Nation
By SARAH OWUSU | Oct. 16, 2024UB’s Director of Undergraduate Indigenous Studies and citizen of the Seneca Nation’s Deer Clan Jason Corwin says the Seneca Nation has been living on this land since the end of the Ice Age.
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Spectrum recommends: Bills tailgate essentials
By THE SPECTRUM STAFF | Oct. 8, 2024Regardless of what happens after the game, Bills fans run rampant with Buffalonian pride whenever their team takes the field. Whether it’s jumping through tables, loud chanting or complaining about the current coaching staff, tailgates are a staple in Buffalo. The Spectrum staff has some suggestions for what to bring to your next Bills tailgate.
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Career dreams: a notion of the past and childhood
By TIBYAN SALIM | Oct. 8, 2024Dreams: a passion that was once the reason many wanted to grow up is now stored far back in their memory for reasons like being unrealistic or unstable. Giving up on dreams isn’t just about forgetting them entirely, it can simply mean losing the passion to pursue them.
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Do politicians want to take your guns away? UB professors say no
By SARAH OWUSU | Oct. 2, 2024With more guns in the U.S. than people and statistics showing that Americans are 25 times more likely to be shot and killed than citizens in other high-income countries, gun control is a hot-button topic in 2024’s upcoming presidential election.
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Fall Fest 2024 brought energy, music and community
By NADIA BRACH , BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO and NADIA BANGAROO | Oct. 2, 2024The UB Student Association’s (SA) Fall Fest lit up Baird Point on Friday with performances by Saweetie and Rae Sremmurd, even after a late announcement about Cash Cobain’s absence that left some attendees disappointed.
