The Spectrum elects Mylien Lai as 2026-2027 editor-in-chief
By CIAH COURTNEY | 8:29pmOn Thursday evening The Spectrum’s editorial board elected Mylien Lai as the next editor-in-chief for the 2026-2027 academic year.
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Q&A: 2026-27 SA e-board candidates
By MARIA ARANGO , DOROTHY SIMILIEN , MAIRA FAYYAZ , AIDEN DICKERSON and MYLIEN LAI | Mar. 26
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UB reopens Foster Hall after three-year-long, $41 million renovation
By MONTEL MILES | Mar. 3After a three-year-long renovation worth approximately $41 million, UB’s Foster Hall reopened Friday morning on South Campus.
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SA Senate denies senator’s motion to leave committee
By MYLIEN LAI | Mar. 3A senator wanted to leave the undergraduate Student Association Senate’s advocacy committee — a decision that his fellow senators did not like.
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SA Senate calls for student referendum on student space allocation
By MAIRA FAYYAZ | Mar. 3The undergraduate SA Senate called on the university to host a referendum on the allocation of student spaces during a meeting Wednesday night, with 19 ayes and one nay.
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UB Council member Jonathan Dandes dies at 72
By NADIA BANGAROO | Feb. 27Jonathan Dandes, longest-serving UB Council member and prominent advocate in an initiative that catalyzed the university’s integration into downtown Buffalo, passed away Sunday at 72.
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“We’re desperate:” UB Iranian students call for help during Iran’s violent crackdown
By MONTEL MILES and MYLIEN LAI | Feb. 17The blackout has prevented accurate counts of the deaths that were done by Iranian security forces. So far, the Human Rights Activists News Agency — a nongovernmental organization that focuses on human rights issues in Iran — puts the death toll to be at least 7,005 with more than 17,000 under investigation, while doctors outside Iran estimate it to be at least 33,000.
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State funding reinstates UB’s teaching residency program, but federal gap still felt
By DOROTHY SIMILIEN | Feb. 17UB’s Urban Teacher Residency program was left in financial limbo since March, when the sudden termination of $4 million in federal grants prevented the program from onboarding its 2025-26 cohort and left an unclear future of whether it was viable enough to remain running. The program was created to diversify Buffalo’s high-need districts, helping to close the racial disconnect between students — the majority from racial minority backgrounds — and a teacher demographic predominately white.
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Artist talks ‘celloboxing’ and creativity at ‘25-26 Distinguished Speakers series
By CASSANDRA CHIAPPETTA and MYLIEN LAI | Feb. 15Words were not needed to introduce Kevin Olusola, UB's third speaker at '25-26 Distinguished Speakers series.
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UB researcher released from ICE custody after three weeks
By AIDEN DICKERSON | Feb. 14Shovgi Huseynov, a research scientist at UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been released from a detainment facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Michigan on Monday, Feb. 2 and is back in Buffalo, per a video posted to his Facebook page and confirmed by university officials.
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Cole DeVantier to fill SA Senator vacancy for spring ‘26
By MYLIEN LAI | Feb. 13Cole DeVantier will fill a recently-vacated seat on the undergraduate Student Association Senate as by a unanimous vote held during a meeting Wednesday evening.
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Man arrested for starting fire at Baldy Hall
By NADIA BANGAROO | Feb. 10University Police arrested a 53-year-old man last Tuesday for allegedly starting a fire in a Baldy Hall classroom around 2:30 p.m. on UB’s North Campus.
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61st State Senator candidates talk ICE and federal funding at UB-hosted forum
By AIDEN DICKERSON | Feb. 10Democratic candidate Jeremy Zellner and Republican candidate Dan Gagliardo took similar stances on the same issues in a UB-hosted forum Thursday night in Student Union 330 amidst a race to take over the recently-vacated State Senator seat in NYS’s 61st District in a special election Tuesday, Feb. 3.
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Aidan Thomas elected SA Senate chairperson for Spring ‘26 term
By MYLIEN LAI | Jan. 29First-time Senator Aidan Thomas has replaced Gavin Krauciunas as the undergraduate Student Association Senate’s chairperson for this spring semester, finishing off Krauciunas's third-term in the role.
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Federal case links UB athletes to a multimillion‑dollar point‑shaving network spanning 17 teams
By CIAH COURTNEY | Jan. 15Former guard Shawn Fulcher, former forward Isaiah Adams, and an unnamed third former teammate, were recently indicted by the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Federal District Court.
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Police disperse LGBTQ+ space sit-in, ending group’s monthslong fight to keep room
By MYLIEN LAI | Dec. 20A student group’s monthslong fight to preserve a student-run LGBTQ+ space in the Student Union (SU) ended unceremoniously Friday evening, with University Police escorting remaining sit-in protesters from the room.
