The undergraduate Student Association (SA) Senate voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to create a committee focused on issues affecting the student body.
President-elect Donald Trump selected Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, and Vivek Ramaswamy, former presidential candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination and founder of Roivant Sciences, as the leaders of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in an announcement released on Nov. 12.
In a tight vote of 11 ayes and 9 nays on Wednesday afternoon, the Student Association (SA) Senate postponed the creation of a Senate advocacy committee to next Wednesday, during the last Senate meeting of the Fall 2024 semester, due to disagreements over who would be the committee’s chairperson.
Before the presentation, Murad sat down with The Spectrum, emphasizing the importance of redefining herself as a survivor, pursuing education and continuing advocacy despite challenges.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and First United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Nadia Murad shared her story as a survivor of her imprisonment by the Islamic State group (ISIS) and her efforts to help other survivors rebuild their lives post-ISIS on the Center for the Arts mainstage Thursday night.
Former President Donald Trump secured a total of 312 electoral votes in the 2024 presidential election, a 35-point increase from the Associated Press’ (AP) initial projection of 277 votes, last Tuesday night. The AP — which has called election results for decades — made the final projection Sunday, Nov. 10, after calling Arizona’s results to be in favor of Trump two days prior.
Approximately 300 UB students and community members voted at the Center for Tomorrow — UB’s on-campus polling site from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. — on Tuesday. The voter turnout remained steady throughout, with a line often stretching out of the entrance.
Governor Kathy Hochul flipped Empire AI’s switch on Oct. 11, powering on the beginning of a supercomputing future housed right here on UB’s downtown campus.
Adam Berete was arrested for last Sunday night’s Creekside apartment burglary, University Police (UPD) told residents in an email Tuesday afternoon. Police report that the 21-year-old Buffalo resident also broke into a vehicle in that area around that time.
Four Student Association (SA) senators — Riya Gaikwad, Laibah Ahmed, Dilasha Thapa and Nicholas Bausch — resigned their positions, leaving only 19 filled seats out of 23 total in SA Senate. SA opened applications to fill the vacant seats in an Instagram post Tuesday afternoon.
A communist group at UB called in an open letter for the university to investigate and expel “white nationalist and Zionist” students and staff.
University Police (UPD) are reminding students to lock their doors, roll up their windows and hide valuables when they park their cars after a recent spate of car break-ins and catalytic converter thefts on UB’s North Campus.
A burglar stole “a number of belongings” from a Creekside Village apartment Sunday night, University Police (UPD) told Creekside residents in an email Monday morning.
UB ceremonially cut the ribbon on the new Brittany Murchie Mulla Sports Performance Center, which will provide student athletes with new gym equipment, last Thursday.
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham gave a talk on the Center of the Arts (CFA) mainstage Wednesday night about American democracy, history and the upcoming presidential election to kick off UB’s ‘24-25 Distinguished Speakers Series.
Before his Distinguished Speakers Series presentation, Meacham sat down with The Spectrum Wednesday night to weigh in on the importance of voting, the “compelling” stakes of the 2024 presidential election and why learning from the past matters.
UB President Satish Tripathi delivered his 13th annual State of the University Address at Lippes Concert Hall on Friday, discussing UB’s increased investments in international research and outreach programs and developments in artificial intelligence.
Von Hedemann, who became head coach in 2021, said the undergraduate Student Association (SA) requested that he resign as a condition to allow the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams to be reinstated.
UB saw an increase in domestic violence reports and a decrease in robberies and burglaries last year, an annual crime report by the University Police Department (UPD) shows.
30,558 students — 19,117 matriculating undergraduates and 11,441 graduate students — enrolled at UB this fall, making it the sixth consecutive year that UB exceeded its enrollment goal of 30,000 students.
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