Masks will continue to be required on buses, trains and other forms of public transportation in New York State “for now,” Gov. Kathy Hochul announced at a press conference in Syracuse Wednesday.
New York State’s $220 billion budget passed on April 7. The budget includes dedicated money for initiatives intended to elevate SUNY into a “nation-leading public higher education system,” according to the state's briefing book.
UB has commenced a “thorough [internal] review of events and activities” surrounding Lt. Col. Allen West’s controversial on-campus speech on April 7, according to a university statement.
A new piece of legislation would reimburse SUNY and CUNY students who were disenrolled from their courses for failing to comply with SUNY’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The normally still hallways of UB’s North Campus were transformed into a battleground of competing ideologies Thursday, as students attended and protested Lt. Col. Allen West’s speech in the Student Union.
The New York State-run COVID-19 testing site at the Center for Tomorrow building on North Campus closed last Friday, according to the university’s COVID-19 site. The clinic had the capacity to provide 200 tests per day and operated for just under three months.
University Police are responding to Yik Yak posts that threatened violence against students protesting an on-campus speech by Allen West, the university said in a statement.
Over a dozen UB graduate schools and programs continued their upward trajectory in the latest rankings of America’s best graduate schools released by U.S. News and World Report last Tuesday.
UB’s vision for a massive international-themed café became a reality as Kali Orexi and Tikka Table officially opened their doors to students on March 28.
The Paul&Pang party won the race for president and vice president of the SA e-board during a five-day election that ended Friday.
Lunay and Shenseea will headline the Student Association’s first Spring Fest small show, according to a Friday post on the SA’s Instagram account.
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.
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