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By News Desk | Mar. 3, 2019Campus 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.
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.
2/11 3:17 a.m. A woman stopped a UPD officer on patrol to report someone robbed her of $60 at the M&T bank on Kenmore Ave. She said the subject was an older man wearing brown pants and a brown jacket. UPD filed a report and escorted the woman.
Student Association coordinators were upset after the SA senate charged their clubs with “high” late fees at the Feb. 8 senate meeting.
Campus UB recruits Business leaders and scientists to spearhead global initiatives in research and health. The UB Center of Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences has now created the Sustainable Development Leadership Committee, according to UB News.
New York State is closer than ever to legalizing recreational marijuana, but that doesn’t mean UB students would be able to spark a joint on campus any time soon.
2/04 12:33 a.m. A student reported her roommate was stealing her food in Goodyear Hall. UPD filed a report.