UB’s Faculty Senate elected Kristin Stapleton, a professor and department chair in history, as its chairperson for the 2025-27 term last December.
The undergraduate Student Association’s (SA) advocacy committee elected SA Senator Aidan Sumrall as its chair in a landslide election Tuesday afternoon, with five out of eight members voting for Sumrall.
Twenty seven UB dental residents have unionized under the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD).
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) Senate split SA’s vice-presidential position into three separate roles – each representing advocacy, events and clubs – in a near unanimous vote of 17 ayes and one abstention Wednesday afternoon. The new roles will be on the ballot in the upcoming SA officer elections for the ’25-26 term.
Judge Lawrence Vilardo wrote that UB's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) failed to make a valid legal claim, and that his court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case, in which YAF alleged free-speech violations and discrimination by UB officials and the undergraduate Student Association (SA).
UB reopened its doors to the Student Union Wednesday morning, marking the completion of a year-long project.
96% of 830 UB physicians, represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), voted to ratify their first labor contract with their employer, University Medical Resident Services, P.C. (UMRS) on Dec. 13, ending a year-and-a-half long stalemate in negotiations.
Following approximately seven months of derecognition, the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams were reestablished by the undergraduate Student Association (SA) on Dec. 6, with access to their funds restored two weeks later. The two teams will now be able to compete, ending two months of inactivity.
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) Senate voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to create a committee focused on issues affecting the student body.
President-elect Donald Trump selected Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, and Vivek Ramaswamy, former presidential candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination and founder of Roivant Sciences, as the leaders of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in an announcement released on Nov. 12.
In a tight vote of 11 ayes and 9 nays on Wednesday afternoon, the Student Association (SA) Senate postponed the creation of a Senate advocacy committee to next Wednesday, during the last Senate meeting of the Fall 2024 semester, due to disagreements over who would be the committee’s chairperson.
Before the presentation, Murad sat down with The Spectrum, emphasizing the importance of redefining herself as a survivor, pursuing education and continuing advocacy despite challenges.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and First United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Nadia Murad shared her story as a survivor of her imprisonment by the Islamic State group (ISIS) and her efforts to help other survivors rebuild their lives post-ISIS on the Center for the Arts mainstage Thursday night.
Former President Donald Trump secured a total of 312 electoral votes in the 2024 presidential election, a 35-point increase from the Associated Press’ (AP) initial projection of 277 votes, last Tuesday night. The AP — which has called election results for decades — made the final projection Sunday, Nov. 10, after calling Arizona’s results to be in favor of Trump two days prior.
Approximately 300 UB students and community members voted at the Center for Tomorrow — UB’s on-campus polling site from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. — on Tuesday. The voter turnout remained steady throughout, with a line often stretching out of the entrance.
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.
Solutions by The State News
