New Yorkers have until Friday to register to vote for the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 6. Erie County currently has 589,157 voters, which is 64 percent of the district’s population according to a 2017 Census report.
UB professors created a portable cancer detection tool intended to help detect cancer in patients in areas that do not have hospitals.
The UB Council violated New York State’s Open Meetings Law on Monday by barring students from its meeting, according to the state’s top open-government official.
Despite two graduate students being permitted into Monday’s UB Council Meeting, chairman Jeremy Jacobs adjourned the meeting without letting them voice their concerns about graduate stipends levels. Before the end of the meeting, council student representative Mike Brown proposed a brief period of public comment for biological sciences Ph.D. student Stephanie Gill and English Ph.D. student Arianna Nash to talk about stipend concerns.
The Student Association’s mandatory student activity fee will now be $109 starting fall 2019, according to SA President Gunnar Haberl.
The Student Association hosted UB’s first Fall Food Festival, featuring food from vendors across Buffalo on Friday.
Monroe County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man in connection to a double homicide that left a UB student and his high school classmate dead, according to WXXI and ABC affiliate WHAM.
UB Parking and Transportation is changing 20 parking spots in the Flint Village parking lot to metered parking.
9/14 1:39 a.m.: Two suspicious people were reported to university police in front of Allen Hall. Police issued a SCA issued for underage alcohol consumption and disorderly conduct.
For three decades, the Faculty Student Association has said it has no idea how much student money went into the $785,500 it used to buy a piece of land in Amherst in 1964. The UB-controlled nonprofit has made that claim in response to efforts by the student-founded organization Sub-Board I to gain control of the money, now worth $1.5 million. SBI says the money belongs to students because the original purchase was made with student fees.
Members of the Council of Advocacy and Leadership met Wednesday night to discuss student concerns such as raising graduate students’ stipends, UB’s Breath Free Policy and providing an NFTA pass for students.
The University Police Department is gathering input from faculty members for what qualities they would like to see in a new chief of police.
The Student Association is holding its annual Senate elections and bi-annual Referendum Vote this week. The referendum asks students two questions: whether they want to keep paying the Mandatory Student Activity fee –– currently $104.75 –– and if they support a $4.75 fee increase.
Students said they are shocked and frustrated that another UB employee stole state money from the university after Dennis Black and Andrea Costantino’s arrests last year.
A former UB Facilities interim director who was reassigned as a hazardous materials technician is making the same salary from his prior title.
The university has begun its search for a new Chief of Police and is calling on the UB community to give its input.
UB is the number one public university in New York State, according to the 2019 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Ranking.
New York gubernatorial candidate Larry Sharpe talked about his “no ground rules” approach during his latest campaign stop on Monday. Sharpe, a self-proclaimed businessman, teacher, and veteran, talked to roughly 75 students and community members in Student Union 228 on Monday night. The event, hosted by the Student Association and UB’s Young Americans for Liberty chapter, was billed as a “town hall” stop for the candidate, who is running in the upcoming New York State gubernatorial election on Nov. 6. His running mate for lieutenant governor, Andrew Hollister, was not in attendance.
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