Longtime UB Distinguished Professor Dr. Robert Genco died Wednesday morning in Foster Hall during a meeting with colleagues, according to UB officials.
Former UB student Hannah Christensen is scheduled to appear before Justice Christopher Burns at Erie County Supreme Court at 9:30 a.m. for her arraignment on Friday.
UB community members chanted “A seat, a voice and a vote” at the fourth-annual Shared Governance Day to emphasize the purpose of shared governance Tuesday afternoon.
Students in the Buffalo Bhangra group use Bhangra as a way of preserving their culture through integration with popular culture.
Students protested for the African and African American Studies Program Friday afternoon in the Student Union. Over 50 students and faculty members gathered to join or watch the demonstration, as students demanded UB administration increase funding and resources toward the Educational Opportunity Program and the AAS program. The students also demanded structures named after 13th U.S. president and UB founder Millard Fillmore be renamed to honor activist Frederick Douglass. The students chanted phrases like “more money for EOP, more black faculty” and held signs that read “end white supremacy,” “more funding for EOP” and “from Millard Fillmore to Frederick Douglass.”
Campus UB steps up for heart health with month-long step challenge The School of Public Health and Health Professions is honoring National Public Health Week from April 1-7, according to UBNow.
Seventy-five students told UB last month that they’re unhappy with their broad-based fees.
Campus Dining & Shops is clearing the way toward the future of drinking soda on campus.
UB community members discussed the naming of university landscapes, which are sometimes named after people with complicated pasts, during Wednesday’s DIFCON panel.
2/18 9:05 a.m. A caller reported a vehicle slid off the road and into the guardrail at the Flint entrance from Millersport Highway. Patrol arrived on the scene. There were no injuries reported. 1:31 p.m. A student reported someone stole his laptop and bag outside of Knox 20. UPD arrived and filed a report. The student later called back stating someone returned his items to him.
Nearly 50 years after speaking at UB for the first time, political activist Angela Davis visited UB again on Wednesday to relay her message of justice.
Members of the UB community set up a 9-foot-by-6-foot replica cell before and during Angela Davis’ speech Wednesday to protest against solitary confinement.
The University Bookstore partly reopened on Wednesday after Sunday’s windstorm blew the roof off the building and the university is still cleaning up roof debris.
The Student Association Senate voted on the status of four clubs at its Feb. 22 meeting, and discussed the contents of a Feb. 18 Spectrum article.
Campus UB leads Western New York in giving Parkinson’s patients their voices back Two new UB programs are helping people with Parkinson’s disease maintain their ability to speak, according to UBNow.
High winds blew the roof off the University Bookstore, caused a power outage at The Commons and shattered a window in the Ellicott Complex.
The Office of International Education awarded roughly $15,000 to programs for international students this spring.
Your $104.75 student activity fee isn’t just funding Spring Fest. The Spectrum broke down the Student Association’s budget –– using SA’s General Ledger –– to determine how the organization disperses its $4.2 million.
Reported sexual offenses in the South Campus area reached a five-year high in 2018, but data doesn’t tell the complete story, according to UB officials.
Construction for the One World Café is set to start this summer and finish in August 2021.
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