Every semester, students pay a mandatory student activity fee of $104.75, which funds various activities like Fall and Spring Fest.
UB promoted John DellaContrada to interim vice president for University Communications on Wednesday. DellaContrada, who previously served as the associate vice president for media relations and stakeholder communications, replaces outgoing Vice President for University Communications Nancy Paton. Paton stepped down on Wednesday to join the University of Florida as the school’s vice president for strategic communications. UB President Satish Tripathi emailed UB community members about Paton’s departure on July 31.
A student was transported to the hospital from the Villas on Rensch on Monday afternoon with non-life threatening injuries. Amherst Police and university police responded to the party at approximately 4 p.m.
UB community members gathered on Friday to promote Native American culture and solidify the university’s commitment to representing native students, faculty and staff in and outside the classroom. About 50 students, faculty and community members attended the Native American welcome event outside of the Student Union. The event, hosted by the Office of Inclusive Excellence, featured faculty and community speakers who discussed their work at the university, research and need for an understanding of the Native American community at UB.
UB is roughly 71 percent complete with its major fundraising campaign Boldly Buffalo. Over 400 alumni, faculty, staff and UB community members attended a reception promoting the campaign on Tuesday evening at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Olli, the autonomous eight-passenger shuttle bus, is hitting the roads on North Campus this fall. The bus is equipped with IBM Watson IoT, and lidars –– a radar-like technology that uses laser beams instead of radio waves to detect objects and measure distance. The self-driving shuttle could be a future alternative to UB Stampede busses.
It’s advertised on cars, walkways and doors: UB’s Wi-Fi boost, promising lightning fast connection anytime and anywhere on campus.
The National Science Foundation awarded UB $1.45 million in federal investment for high-energy physics research, New York’s Senators announced Tuesday. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said the funding will go toward the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, according to a press release.
For the first time ever, the Student Union will be open 24/7, providing students with another location to study, congregate and take the occasional nap. Historically the building has closed every day at midnight, but that will change when the new hours commence with the start of the semester on Monday.
The wait is finally over and this year’s lineup for UB’s Distinguished Speakers Series is a lot more presidential. Former Vice President Joe Biden will be headlining the series on Oct. 25 at Alumni Arena. Biden is among a list of other crowned achievers who will come to UB throughout the upcoming school year. Biden along with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are two of the undergraduate Student Choice speakers this year.
UB will hold its annual full-scale “emergency training exercise” in and around Hadley Village on North Campus Wednesday from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., according to a UB press release. The university’s emergency management department is teaming up with local, state and federal emergency responders to conduct the active shooter exercise. The drill is designed to ensure coordinated, timely and effective response and recovery in the event of an “active shooter” emergency, according to the press release.
UB football player Tyrone Hill won his lawsuit against the university after delivering an oral argument in the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court on July 6.
Troy Miller, assistant vice president for enrollment management at Bowie State University, will replace Jose Aviles as associate vice provost and director of admissions on July 26. The announcement comes more than a year after Aviles stepped down from his position on June 23, 2017 after accepting a position at Louisiana State University. Lee Melvin, vice provost for enrollment management filled the position temporarily.
After 47 years at the university, nearly 30 of which were spent leading UB’s international programs, Stephen Dunnett announced he will be stepping down from the position Sept. 1, according to a UB press release. The university named John Wood, currently the senior associate vice provost in the department, as the interim vice provost once Dunnett officially steps down in September.
Dr. Edward Furlani, a professor in the electrical engineering department, died unexpectedly on Tuesday at 65 years old.
A female reported being sexually assaulted at UB's Independence Day event on North Campus. She reported that before the fireworks show on Wednesday, an unknown male entered a portable restroom she was using and assaulted her.
Most high school students are attracted to sports or clubs, but Gunnar Haberl always gravitated toward student government.
A lot happened at UB and within the Buffalo community last academic year. Here’s a breakdown of some of our most interesting news stories of the past year’s highlights and what to keep an eye on this upcoming year. What you may have missed last year: 5.SUNY audit recommends 29 changes to UB Foundation finance, management operations In SUNY’s first-ever audit of the UB Foundation, officials recommended 29 changes to the financial and management policies the private nonprofit has in place to oversee the university’s $1 billion endowment. The report examined the 2014-16 school years and identified at least four instances where UBF board members failed to disclose conflicts of interest. Email: news@ubspectrum.com
5/2 6:37 p.m. Six students were trapped in a Spaulding Hall elevator on the building’s second floor. 9:19 p.m.
The financial aid office projects a 200 to 300 student increase of Excelsior Scholarship recipients for the 2018-19 academic year, according to Janessa Givens Daniels, acting senior assistant director of financial aid.
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