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Faculty Senate falls to former low-attendance trend
By SARA DINATALE | Feb. 4, 2014In its December meeting, the Faculty Senate had the chance to vote for the first time since at least 2007.
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Weather continues to affect UB utilities
By SAM FERNANDO | Feb. 4, 2014On Jan. 30, the Internet connection at UB, Canisius College and Daemen College was down for more than six hours. Chief Information Officer Brice Bible said UB is still investigating the cause of the outage - which lasted from about 3-10 a.m.
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Bringing more culture to The Commons
By GISELLE LAM | Feb. 2, 2014Tea junkies: There's a new player in The Commons vying to satisfy your addiction. Kung Fu Tea, a national chain, had its grand opening on UB's campus on Jan.
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Creating recycling habits
By AMANDA LOW | Feb. 2, 2014From now until March 29, UB students could find themselves rewarded for simple acts of recycling. UB is once again participating in RecycleMania - a national competition held each spring that compares the amount of waste reduction between universities.
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SA Senate votes Judy Mai as vice president
By AMANDA LOW | Feb. 2, 2014On Sunday, the Student Association Senate unanimously approved Judy Mai as SA vice president - 13 senate members voted yes and four were not present. Lyle Selsky, the former SA vice president, resigned from his position on Jan.
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UB to host fifth-annual Winterfest
By AMANDA LOW | Jan. 30, 2014When Carolyn Cormier was younger, she would spend some winters skating on a makeshift ice rink in a nearby field.
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Obama calls for more action in State of the Union address
By SAM FERNANDO | Jan. 30, 2014On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union address. In a speech that lasted roughly 65 minutes, Obama spoke on a myriad of topics, including wealth inequality, energy independence, job growth and education.
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Medical school receives $5 million donation
By AARON MANSFIELD | Jan. 30, 2014The John R. Oishei Foundation, Western New York's largest private foundation, announced Wednesday that it has contributed a $5 million donation to UB's new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in downtown Buffalo. The medical school, which will cost $375 million total and will comprise seven stories and 540,000 square feet, will be constructed in 2016. "The Oishei Foundation recognizes the new UB medical school as a game-changing addition to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
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Flood causes water damage in dorms
By LISA KHOURY | Jan. 30, 2014A refrigerator unplugged in the middle of the dorm. Boxes, bulletin boards, a fan on her bed. Mouthwash and olive oil across the hall. Jaime Lachapelle returned to Buffalo on Sunday and found her and her roommate's belongings tossed all over the place. On Jan.
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Student Association Vice President Selsky resigns
By SAM FERNANDO | Jan. 28, 2014Student Association Vice President Lyle Selsky resigned on Wednesday, Jan. 22, making him the second person from the original executive board elected last March to leave office. On Jan.
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New winter session popular among students and faculty
By SAM FERNANDO | Jan. 28, 2014While some students were at home doing what they could to avoid the polar vortex, over 1,000 students were busy participating in UB's new winter session program. The three-week session, which ran Jan.
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Entrepreneurial spirit captures UB students
By MADELAINE BRITT | Jan. 28, 2014For Houghton College graduate Chris Way, the Kenya he studied was not the Kenya he found. On the contrary, the international development student who had devoted his college education to global poverty alleviation and intercultural studies saw great joy in the Kenyan people. Amidst the scarcity of resources, he found an abundance of happiness in the African communities - not only in the streets, but also in the rubber tires that drove on them. Way is the co-founder of the start-up company Atinga, which markets and sells handmade shoes and sandals made by Kenyan artisans from discarded taxi tires. The company plans to reinvent the way global economies work and how Western nations see Africa.
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UB student dies in fatal car accident
Dec. 19, 2013A 20-year-old international student from Taiwan died in a one-car accident on Millersport Highway at 5 a.m.
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First on-campus ice rink to open spring semester
By KEVIN HONG | Dec. 5, 2013Before the start of Thanksgiving break, a sign was posted outside the Student Union telling students not to forget to bring a pair of ice skates back to UB after winter break. Starting this spring semester, UB students will be able to ice skate for free on campus.
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A new meth-od to the madness
By MOHAMMED SHARIFF | Dec. 3, 2013Bruce Jackson is "crazy" about Breaking Bad. The SUNY distinguished professor is teaching a graduate course this spring about the television show.
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A home for history and tunes
By AMANDA LOW | Dec. 3, 2013Almost every night at Buffalo Iron Works, live music rings throughout its historical, industrial interior. Buffalo Iron Works, located on 49 Illinois St., is a new music venue in the Cobblestone District next to the First Niagara Center.
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Faculty Senate passes motion asking UB Foundation to make budget public
By SARA DINATALE | Dec. 3, 2013The Faculty Senate has passed a motion requesting UB administration make the UB Foundation's budget public - something the non-profit, private organization, which handles the millions of dollars in donations UB receives annually, is not legally required to do. At Tuesday afternoon's meeting, 38 senators physically stood up in support of the motion.
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FAFSA Project aims to increase opportunities for high school students
By KEVIN HONG | Nov. 24, 2013When Nathan Daun-Barnett was in the middle of talking to a class of high school seniors about the college process, he realized one particular student was not engaged.
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UB students come together in Haiyan's wake
By JAMES DRAGONETTE | Nov. 24, 2013Since being decimated by record-breaking Super Typhoon Haiyan earlier this month, Filipinos are continually working to locate missing loved ones and put their lives back together the way they were before the storm. Haiyan, a category-5 super typhoon with winds that reached up to 195 miles per hour on Nov.
