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Rail roadblocks
By AMANDA LOW | Oct. 7, 2014UB students without cars will often use the NFTA metro system, but also find the rail inconvenient to use.
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McCarley Gardens residents 'at ease' for now in Buffalo
By AMANDA LOW | Sep. 30, 2014The people of McCarley Gardens are now excited after learning UB is no longer planning on buying the low-income housing complex.
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UB community responds to media coverage of the Heights
By AMANDA LOW | Sep. 10, 2014John Della Contrada, UB?s spokesperson, believes WIVB News 4 ?sensationalized? its coverage of student parties near South Campus on the first weekend of the semester. On Sept.
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PokerStars.UB
By ANDY KONIUCH | June 28, 2014Kevin Mathias holds his first place trophy from event number one of the Western New York Poker Challenge.
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Accidents lead to the deaths of two UB students
By AMANDA LOW and TORI ROSEMAN | June 28, 2014Two UB students died in June in unrelated accidents. On June 2, Rajan Verma, a 28-year-old first-year UB medical resident died in an accident at the Tralf Music Hall in downtown Buffalo.
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Center of Material Informatics seeks to reinvent the 'Rust Belt'
By MADELAINE BRITT | Apr. 1, 2014The Center for Material Informatics (CMI) is doing what it can to revitalize the City of Buffalo. Founded two years ago, CMI is a catalyst for regional growth and economic development in the Buffalo-Niagara region, spurring progress in manufacturing technology. For local companies, the center is a resource for research and development, faculty and student expertise and modern facilities that allow for businesses to expand and reinvent their products in the area of materials informatics.
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One Region Forward creates new Citizen Planning School
By AMANDA LOW | Mar. 25, 2014People from all over Erie and Niagara Counties will have the opportunity to champion an idea for community change. UB's Regional Institute (UBRI), a subset of UB's School of Architecture and Planning, is offering a new program to teach Buffalo residents how to create sustainable developments in the two-county region.
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LPCiminelli to construct first phase of downtown medical campus
By GISELLE LAM | Mar. 11, 2014The SUNY Construction Fund has chosen LPCiminelli, a Buffalo commercial construction company, to build the first part of UB's new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in downtown Buffalo. The SUNY Construction Fund awarded LPCiminelli a contract worth approximately $52.05 million.
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I DO Love Buffalo
By ANDREA SAADAN | Feb. 11, 2014On Monday, gay rights in the United States reached another milestone with the government expanding recognition of same-sex marriages in federal legal matters. On March 13, Buffalo will also hit a marriage-equality milestone. 'I DO Love Buffalo,' a new organization, will host its business premiere and first event expo geared toward, but not limited to, the
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Buffalo news briefs
Feb. 9, 2014Shooting by South Campus On Saturday around 11 p.m., a person was injured in a shooting in the University Plaza on Main Street by South Campus.
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Food Lab takes steps toward a healthier Buffalo
By MADELAINE BRITT | Feb. 2, 2014It's easy to miss the Hayes A. Annex building on South Campus. The small aluminum-sided warehouse, nestled in between Diefendorf Hall and the Health Sciences Library, resembles more of a temporary construction site than a research lab with a nationally award-winning staff. Yet according to the staff of the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, or the "Food Lab," the research being conducted in the facility is anything but quaint.
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UB expands health care options for students
By SAM FERNANDO | Feb. 2, 2014On Thursday, UB announced a new connection with MASH Urgent Care service for students seeking treatment after hours. The new collaboration is available to students immediately.
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UB Safe Day offers precautionary advice for students on and off campus
By SHARON KAHN | Oct. 10, 2013Hongzheng Han was walking back to his Goodyear dorm from the Health Sciences Library on South Campus when he felt a gun pointed at his head. In shock and fear, Han looked around to see if there was help nearby. A car noticed Han and his attacker and pulled over to help.
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Getting dirty for a cause that's worthy
By SHARON KAHN | Sep. 12, 2013Madison Darling, a junior health and human services major, was covered in mud from head to toe and she loved every second of it. Approximately 10,000 females covered in pink and brown climbed, crawled and challenged themselves to complete the Dirty Girl Mud Run in support of cancer awareness in Buffalo suburb Lancaster on Saturday and Sunday. The participants organized in teams to take on various woman-themed obstacles at the non-competitive 5K race.
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Smoking incident causes fire in Spaulding 1
By Rebecca Bratek | May 2, 2013Flames broke out in a Spaulding Building 1, fourth floor dorm room at approximately 6 p.m. on Thursday.
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Hope for Boston
By ANDREA SAADAN | Apr. 28, 2013In about a month's time, Buffalo's annual marathon will take place. Thomas Scott, a senior political science major, said it's scary to think what happened during the Boston Marathon could happen anywhere. On Patriots' Day this year, two bombs exploded during the annual Boston Marathon near the finish line.
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Around the world in 20 months
By Rebecca Bratek | Apr. 18, 2013Over the past two years, UB has invested $400,000 in an alumni engagement and fundraising tour. The tour has raised over $8.9 million - over 22 times more than the investment. And it's not over. UB President Satish Tripathi has traveled to nine states and four countries on the tour.
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Baby steps for UB Child Care Center
By ANDREA SAADAN | Apr. 16, 2013In a hidden corner of UB North Campus, just beside South Lake Village, is a small building. It isn't a place meant for UB students.
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Not a gold digger
By ANDREA SAADAN | Apr. 16, 2013Don't call Douglas Perrelli a modern-day Indiana Jones. As an archaeologist himself, Perrelli sees the fictional character as nothing but a "fake" and a "borderline unethical artifact looter." Perrelli is the director and principal investigator of the Archaeological Survey within the Department of Anthropology at UB.
