Governor Kathy Hochul flipped Empire AI’s switch on Oct. 11, powering on the beginning of a supercomputing future housed right here on UB’s downtown campus.
Adam Berete was arrested for last Sunday night’s Creekside apartment burglary, University Police (UPD) told residents in an email Tuesday afternoon. Police report that the 21-year-old Buffalo resident also broke into a vehicle in that area around that time.
Four Student Association (SA) senators — Riya Gaikwad, Laibah Ahmed, Dilasha Thapa and Nicholas Bausch — resigned their positions, leaving only 19 filled seats out of 23 total in SA Senate. SA opened applications to fill the vacant seats in an Instagram post Tuesday afternoon.
A communist group at UB called in an open letter for the university to investigate and expel “white nationalist and Zionist” students and staff.
University Police (UPD) are reminding students to lock their doors, roll up their windows and hide valuables when they park their cars after a recent spate of car break-ins and catalytic converter thefts on UB’s North Campus.
A burglar stole “a number of belongings” from a Creekside Village apartment Sunday night, University Police (UPD) told Creekside residents in an email Monday morning.
UB ceremonially cut the ribbon on the new Brittany Murchie Mulla Sports Performance Center, which will provide student athletes with new gym equipment, last Thursday.
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham gave a talk on the Center of the Arts (CFA) mainstage Wednesday night about American democracy, history and the upcoming presidential election to kick off UB’s ‘24-25 Distinguished Speakers Series.
Before his Distinguished Speakers Series presentation, Meacham sat down with The Spectrum Wednesday night to weigh in on the importance of voting, the “compelling” stakes of the 2024 presidential election and why learning from the past matters.
UB President Satish Tripathi delivered his 13th annual State of the University Address at Lippes Concert Hall on Friday, discussing UB’s increased investments in international research and outreach programs and developments in artificial intelligence.
Von Hedemann, who became head coach in 2021, said the undergraduate Student Association (SA) requested that he resign as a condition to allow the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams to be reinstated.
UB saw an increase in domestic violence reports and a decrease in robberies and burglaries last year, an annual crime report by the University Police Department (UPD) shows.
30,558 students — 19,117 matriculating undergraduates and 11,441 graduate students — enrolled at UB this fall, making it the sixth consecutive year that UB exceeded its enrollment goal of 30,000 students.
In a public alert Thursday morning, University Police reported that two UB students were robbed near Creekside Village at 12:40 a.m. by three men wearing ski masks.
UB lifted bans on chalking, anonymous posters and amplification equipment in its recently drafted assembly policies in response to feedback from students and faculty, including the Faculty Senate, as of yesterday. The policy review period is extended for two more weeks with its end date being updated to Oct. 14.
Due to the club’s current derecognition status under UB’s Student Association (SA), the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams announced that they are unable to compete for this fall semester. The possibility of the two teams competing in the spring remains uncertain.
Ten UB employees spent $209,187.65 in travel expenses during the ‘23-24 academic year, according to a travel expenditure spreadsheet acquired by The Spectrum. University Provost A. Scott Weber incurred $487.58 in costs while President Satish K. Tripathi did not have any recorded.
UB ranks No. 36 in best public colleges and No. 76 in national universities in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, showing no change from last year.
Over the past week, voters elected seven senators to fill 12 open seats. The Spectrum reached out to all seven elected senators to ask about their previous experiences, policy platforms and goals. Six out of those seven senators agreed to an interview.
Approximately 35 demonstrators chalked sidewalks and used a megaphone in defiance of new UB policies that prohibit such activities. The policies are currently under a 30-day review period that ends next Saturday, Sept. 28.
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