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UB police blotter 4/17-4/22
By News Desk | Apr. 26, 20184/17 9:53 a.m. A 22-year-old student requested an ambulance to Flint Village after feeling abdominal pain.
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Members of Fossil Free UB discuss past year’s accomplishments, plans for next year
By MADDY FOWLER | Apr. 22, 2018Anthony DeFeo said he believes Fossil Free UB’s “grassroots” approach and lack of association with SA have been key to getting the UB Foundation to listen to the organization’s concerns. Fossil Free UB, formed in 2015, is a student organization calling for UB to divest from the fossil fuel industry.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo signs Middle Class Recovery Act at UB
By BENJAMIN BLANCHET | Apr. 19, 2018Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Middle Class Recovery Act in front of over 300 people at UB’s Downtown Medical Campus on Thursday.
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By News Desk | Apr. 19, 2018Campus UB Athletics wins Emmy “UB Football Insider: Training Camp Edition,” a behind-the-scenes television series produced by UB Athletics won an Emmy, in the Sports: Daily or Weekly Program category, the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, according to UB Now. The announcement came during the 61st Annual New York Emmy Awards, held at the Marriott Marquis in New York City on Saturday.
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Faculty Senate passes academic integrity policy, amendments for students
By BRENTON J. BLANCHET | Apr. 19, 2018The Faculty Senate voted to amend UB’s academic integrity policies and create an office to handle academic dishonesty on campus.
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Students, faculty discuss U.S. attack on Syria
By MADDY FOWLER | Apr. 19, 2018Early Saturday morning, the U.S. and its allies launched over 100 missiles, targeting chemical weapons facilities in Syria. The airstrike was a response to an alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians in a Damascus suburb.
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Futuristic smart corridor planned for Main Street
By MAX KALNITZ | Apr. 19, 2018A smart corridor is being planned for 2.5 miles of Main Street near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, stretching from Goodell Street to Humboldt Parkway.
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Student wants changes to Engineering Council constitution
By BENJAMIN BLANCHET | Apr. 16, 2018A UB transfer student has proposed changes to a Student Association policy that he said denies undergraduates who come to Buffalo from other schools the ability to serve as Engineering Council coordinator. Omran Albarazanchi, a junior chemical engineering major, said current Student Association election rules discriminate against transfer students.
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Vaping prohibited on campus, policy not enforced
By MAX KALNITZ | Apr. 16, 2018Jeremy Rodriguez sits in the back corner of his documentary class, stealthily hitting his Juul –– a compact e-cigarette that resembles a USB stick more than a tobacco product.
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Living Stipend Movement holds rally on Accepted Students Day
By ANNA SAVCHENKO and HARUKA KOSUGI | Apr. 16, 2018Roughly 30 UB graduate students, faculty and community members gathered in the Student Union on UB’s Accepted Students Day to participate in the rally to fight for higher wages and lower fees for graduate students.
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SUNY audit recommends 29 changes to UB Foundation finance, management operations
By SARAH CROWLEY | Apr. 16, 2018In 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 revealed foundation board members failed to disclose conflicts of interest, and on several occasions, voted on official business without quorum.
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A conversation with James Balog
By MAX KALNITZ | Apr. 13, 2018James Balog has traveled the world, photographing and documenting the impact climate change has had on nature, including old-growth forests, glaciers and wildfires.
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James Balog speaks at 31st annual Distinguished Speakers Series
By MAX KALNITZ | Apr. 13, 2018James Balog has had several near death experiences. While he was flying over a 3,000-foot cliff in Greenland and surrounded by icebergs and 29 degree seawater, his helicopter’s engine died.
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Everyday I’m brusselin’
By MAX KALNITZ | Apr. 12, 2018Normally, people might be skeptical of a big white van trying to lure them toward its cargo. But the Veggie Van is different. Underprivileged neighborhoods across the nation struggle to afford fresh produce and often don’t have access to grocery stores. That’s why numerous cities are investing in mobile markets, like the Veggie Van, to deliver fresh fruits and vegetables to low-income neighborhoods.
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Project helps female STEM students overcome gender discrimination in workforce
By ANNA SAVCHENKO | Apr. 12, 2018Before she was Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UB, Liesl Folks dealt with gender discrimination in the workplace. In a sit-down interview with The Spectrum, Folks recalled specifically avoiding a male colleague at work. He’d often walk up behind her and start massaging her shoulders when she had to perform electron microscopes in dark, soundproof rooms.
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Student efforts to bring food pantry to campus slowed
By ANNA SAVCHENKO | Apr. 12, 2018Student leaders hoped to create an on-campus food pantry to tackle the growing problem of food insecurity on college campuses, but efforts to partner with UB administration have recently slowed.
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UB community weighs in on bringing food trucks to campus
By HARUKA KOSUGI | Apr. 12, 2018Food truck vendors have the rare opportunity to pull onto North Campus Sunday for the Student Association’s Buffalo Untapped event. Over the last several years, food trucks have gained popularity in Buffalo with events like Food Truck Tuesdays at Larkin Square in downtown Buffalo, but the Faculty-Student Association relegates their presence on campus to the FSA-run Big Blue and Little Blue trucks.
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UB Police Blotter
By News Desk | Apr. 12, 20184/4 12:03 p.m. A student reported her wallet was stolen from her backpack in Crosby Hall. 4/5 3:49 p.m.
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By News Desk | Apr. 12, 2018Campus UB to host annual Refugee Health Summit UB will host its fifth annual refugee health summit on April 20, bringing together clinicians, resettlement caseworkers, community health workers, researchers, students, municipal leaders and refugees to raise awareness to the factors affecting the health and well-being of Buffalo’s refugee population.
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Campus Dining & Shops budgets for students’ missed meals
By SARAH CROWLEY | Apr. 12, 2018The nonprofit organization overseeing dining at UB counts on students not to use all the meals they buy. Budget officials at Campus Dining & Shops, which reported nearly $5 million in profits in 2015-16, say they can’t introduce a rollover or refund system for unused meals because the money students paid for the meals is reinvested.
