Sub-Board I, the nonprofit auxiliary organization responsible for managing student fees on behalf of student governments, passed a vote yesterday to keep Blue Cross Blue Shield as UB’s health insurance provider, even though it charges $90 more than Independent Health.
UB’s department of African and African American Studies, one of the oldest in the country, celebrated its 50th anniversary Tuesday, eight years after merging into the Transnational Studies department.
It’s a Friday night. The underground dressing rooms at Club Marcella thump to the beat of pop songs playing above. UB graduate student Shawn Jenner sits in front of a mirror with a full face of makeup. He puts on a large bubblegum-pink wig.
This spring, UB Health Promotion is looking to get a snapshot of student health at UB. UB Health Promotion will email the National College Health Assessment to 20,000 students starting on Monday. The survey, a pilot test by the American College Health Association, collects students’ answers on everything from views on sexual health to mental health. This year’s survey will include questions on food insecurity, health resilience and health communication, according to UB Health Promotion employees.
Bralettes are worn as shirts; Instagram models post photos wearing lace corsets with sweatpants. Lingerie is no longer resigned to the bedroom.
Campus UB Employees Campaign for the Community surpasses campaign goal
Students and professors came together to pull off what history professor Dalia Muller called “an impossible project” – a tribute to civil rights leaders, using limited resources.
The Buffalo community knew Torin Finver as a “driven” man and an expert in addiction medicine, who for the past four years forged unique bonds with patients by making them feel he understood their struggles.
Student Association President Gunnar Haberl presented UB’s first State of the Student Association address on Wednesday night.
Students woke up to blistering snow, cancelled classes and unforgivable winds as plows cleared UB parking lots on Wednesday and Thursday. Across the Buffalo-Niagara region, up to 24 m.p.h. winds and 18 inches of snow whistled in between Tuesday and Thursday night. And you were lucky to feel your face after two minutes if you stepped outside at all.
Thomas Halleck was a “fireball.” He was the kind of guy who lit up every room he entered. Sometimes with his infectious passion for journalism. Other times with a couple of pizza slices, a hula hoop and a toilet paper roll in hand.
Twenty-eight motor vehicle accidents happened on campus Tuesday through Thursday because of low visibility and icy road conditions, according to UPD Deputy Chief Joshua Sticht. Callers reported 10 motor vehicle accidents on Tuesday — seven accidents on North Campus and three on South Campus.
At least two UB international students fell victim to scam phone calls from sources claiming to be Department of Homeland Security officials, who are asking students to purchase gift cards to avoid deportation. International students across the university are receiving the calls, in which the caller impersonates an officer.
A UB faculty member was arrested at his Hamburg home on Monday and charged with a federal drug crime, according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. on Tuesday. Torin Finver, a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was arrested and charged with importing a controlled substance, a charge that has a maximum penalty of a $1 million fine and 20 years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
University Police appointed a new chief of police Monday after a national search. Chris Bartolomei, former UPD assistant police chief and interim chief, began the official role as chief on Monday, following his appointment. UPD chose Bartolomei after community forums for him and two other final candidates earlier this month.
Graduate students held signs reading “UB works because we do” and chanted with clenched fists as the UB Council conducted its Monday meeting in Capen Hall’s Buffalo Room. Roughly 100 TAs, faculty, graduate students and Ph.D. students attended the meeting to voice concerns about the university’s choice to not increase graduate student stipends.
Lisa Genova, a Harvard-educated neuroscientist, has written five novels and spent some time on the New York Times bestseller list. Genova sat down with The Spectrum for an exclusive interview on Thursday night, ahead of her Distinguished Speakers Series speech at the Center for the Arts.
11/29 1:45 a.m.: A custodian notified UPD of a homeless woman sleeping in the Flag Room in the Student Union. UPD advised the woman she couldn’t stay there, escorted her out of the building and gave her directions to Harbor House if she needed a place to stay for the remainder of the night.
Chabad of Buffalo is working to ensure that Jewish students have a place to call home while they celebrate Hanukkah during the last week of classes.
The University Police Department is holding forums this week, where three chief-of-police candidates will present their visions to the UB community.
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