Registration is now open for UB’s seventh annual Step Challenge, a free initiative sponsored by the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions (SPHHP) to encourage UB community members to get outside this spring and exercise.
Four years after announcing plans to study whether a metro expansion to UB’s North Campus would be feasible, a project manager for Niagara Frontier Transit Authority says the organization is planning to release a draft environmental impact statement this fall.
Fully vaccinated travelers may enter Canada without submitting negative COVID-19 rapid test results starting April 1, Canada’s Public Health Agency announced on March 17.
On-campus students will no longer have access to cable or streaming services provided by Campus Living after June 30, 2022.
UB’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is seeking to change the way its PharmD students get graded.
Students will no longer need to make reservations to eat at the Crossroads Culinary Center (C3) starting March 27.
The Spectrum’s editorial board elected Anthony DeCicco, a junior communication major, editor-in-chief for the 2022-23 academic year last week.
Oozefest, UB’s annual mud volleyball tournament, will take place May 7, following the event’s cancellation in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19.
Monday saw UB’s “LevelUp” gaming lounge open its doors to experienced gamers and curious students alike. The lounge combines a large game room, “gaming console pods” and high-tech computers for work or leisure. Located opposite Lockwood Library, “LevelUp” has its gaming provisions open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and its computing facilities from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
A total of nine candidates — four for president, three for vice president and two for treasurer — are running for positions on the Student Association e-board for the 2022-23 academic year, SA Chief of Staff Will Eaton confirmed in an email Tuesday.
For the first time since New York State implemented its mask mandate on April 15, 2020, no students, faculty, staff or visitors — vaccinated or not — were required to wear masks indoors following UB’s decision to lift its requirement on Saturday.
The new Student Health Services center on Maple Road is no longer expected to open to students this semester, Vice President for Student Life Brian Hamluk told The Spectrum last week.
UB's "student activity fee" helps fund extracurricular activities, student events like Fall and Spring Fest and finances necessary SA services like legal fees. Here’s a list of some of the best-attended events from the last semester-plus.
UB will not require students, faculty, staff or visitors to wear masks “in most settings” on campus “regardless of vaccination status” beginning March 5, Vice President for Student Life Brian Hamluk announced in a school-wide email Wednesday.
UB President Satish Tripathi released a statement Monday expressing UB’s solidarity with Ukraine and its people.
Campus Dining is still looking to hire more than 80 employees to staff One World Café, the three-story, 53,500-sq. ft. international-themed eatery located outside of Capen Hall.
UB announced Monday that its mask mandate will remain in place for the time being, and that a decision to relax its mask requirement would be made in collaboration with SUNY and Erie County leaders.
Residents of UB’s Flint Village 301 and Hadley Village 110 and 113 were without hot water for a few days in early February as the result of boiler issues.
New York’s statewide mask requirement in schools will be lifted, effective Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced in a press conference Sunday afternoon.
University Communications and the True Blue student cheering section have collaborated on a new initiative called “True Blue,” which aims to create a long-term sense of community at UB.
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