Jeremy 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.
Roughly 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.
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 revealed foundation board members failed to disclose conflicts of interest, and on several occasions, voted on official business without quorum.
James Balog has traveled the world, photographing and documenting the impact climate change has had on nature, including old-growth forests, glaciers and wildfires.
James 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.
Normally, 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.
Before 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.
Student 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.
Food 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.
4/4 12:03 p.m. A student reported her wallet was stolen from her backpack in Crosby Hall. 4/5 3:49 p.m.
Campus 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.
The 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.
On Tuesday, UB will host a symposium to begin an effort in the architecture school to address Buffalo’s affordable housing shortage. As graduate students wrap up a semester-long design project focused on creating affordable, inclusive housing, Tuesday marks the beginning of a more collaborative effort to bring together alumni, interested donors and experts in affordable housing development.
While UB officials have said there are several hundred parking spaces free at any given time, students have long complained about driving from lot to lot searching for a spot in time for class. UB alum Andrew Mingola wants to help with the parking problem with the launch of his new app, Spot Swapper.
The Student Association appointed a new SA vice president on Thursday, after the SA Senate approved current Director of Club Services Benjamin Harper to take over the role. The position had been left vacant since Feb. 2.
For years, clubs like UB Democrats, UB Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom have attracted like-minded students to discuss current events, but Harris Bresowsky, a senior international affairs and public policy major, felt students needed a non-partisan club on campus.
Campus Women in STEM Summit to focus on roles of females in advancing sustainability The fourth annual Women in STEM Summit, coinciding with Earth Day on April 18, will focus on the roles of women in advancing sustainability and how local leaders are influencing sustainable change.
A newly opened student lounge gives military-affiliated students a space to work, relax and meet others with similar life experiences on campus. The lounge, located in SU 321, has two rooms: one for socializing, furnished with couches, a TV and an Xbox, and another conference-style room for group study. Only military-affiliated students have access to the lounge, which opened this semester after a donation from a WWII veteran, Efner “Lucky” Davis, 91.
The Spectrum’s editorial board elected Hannah Stein as editor in chief for the 2018-19 school year. Stein, the current editor in chief, ran against Maddy Fowler, the editorial editor. The editorial board voted 12-4 in favor of Stein.
It was no nail-biter, but elections for the 2018-2019 Student Association e-board still managed to bring over 650 students out to vote, which is an improvement since the last time an SA e-board ran unopposed in 2015 when only 217 students voted.
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