Nadir Hassan, who graduated just weeks ago with a bachelors in environmental design, is currently held in an ICE detention facility in El Paso, Texas.
Caroline Genco — Tufts University’s provost and senior vice president — will succeed Satish Tripathi as UB’s 16th president starting Aug. 10, making her the first woman to lead the university in its 180-year history. She will also be the first Buffalo native to oversee the university after the presidency was established in 1962.
A president of a student right-wing organization who was alleged to have made threats to “shoot up the school” will not be allowed to own firearms for six more months as decided in a court hearing Tuesday morning.
A homeowners association (HOA) in a community north of UB’s North Campus tried to cull the neighborhood’s geese for population control this summer. At least 25 residents opposed, resulting in a pause of the program for now.
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) Senate’s third and final attempt this semester to raise e-board stipends to $24,180 has failed to pass by a single vote.
The UB Nuclear in Clean Energy (NiCE) club's ambitious goal to bring nuclear engineering education back to campus after its phase out in the early 1980s became a reality when UB officially approved the Nuclear Engineering minor in March.
Two elected officials in the undergraduate Student Association have obtained no-contact orders against each other through the university, with each student accusing the other of harassment and stalking.
After a nearly two-hour-long meeting Friday evening, the undergraduate Student Association Senate voted to pass a resolution to raise annual e-board stipends to $24,180 in a vote of 10 ayes and four nays.
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) Senate rejected a resolution that would have increased the e-board’s salaries by at least three percent after a tense hour-long discussion Wednesday evening.
UB is facing approximately $965 million in deferred maintenance fees accumulated over “many years,” University Facilities told The Spectrum.
A UB student that has been in a U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) facility at Louisiana for a month and a half will be departing back to China at an indeterminate date.
The pharmacy building was the first to see the additions of Narcan in fall 2025.
Approximately 20 pro-Palestine protesters were escorted by University Police out of a student event that hosted two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers Tuesday evening at the Center for Tomorrow.
Since January, the Royal Blue Medical Emergency Response Service (RBMERS) has called itself UB’s student collegiate EMS agency, where students would respond to on-campus emergencies in collaboration with university police and local EMS agencies.
A UB student detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement remains in a Louisiana detention facility after his bond was denied last Monday.
University Police are investigating two thefts in Clement Hall last week, which occurred within four days of each other.
The “REAL” party swept all five seats on the undergraduate Student Association’s 2026-27 e-board in a year that saw the highest turnout --- 4,937 voters --- for SA e-board elections.
Under Tripathi’s watch, the university had expanded the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, became a leader in artificial intelligence research and oversaw the construction or modernization of several buildings.
On Thursday evening The Spectrum’s editorial board elected Mylien Lai as the next editor-in-chief for the 2026-2027 academic year.
A candidate running to be president of the undergraduate Student Association is denying dozens of allegations of aggressive and harassing behavior toward students, colleagues and employees, both at UB and at another college he previously attended.
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