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By News Desk | Oct. 2, 2017Here's what's been going on around the world and in your backyard.
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Spectrum's Q&A with UB President Satish Tripathi
By HANNAH STEIN , MAX KALNITZ , SARAH CROWLEY and MADDY FOWLER | Sep. 28, 2017Q: Can you describe your specific role at the university? What does a typical work day look like for you? A: There’s no typical day in the life that I can walk you through. The president has a team of people he works with for a lot of different issues on the campus, whether it’s what’s going on in the academic side of the house, the business side. But the main job for the president really is that everything’s going right and that there are enough resources to do it...And then of course, anything that goes wrong is my job.
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UB Transportation reinstates some late-night weekend busing
By MADDY FOWLER | Sep. 28, 2017Starting Friday evening, UB will operate a Yellow Line shuttle between Flint Loop and Main Circle every half hour between 2 a.m.
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UB students attend STEM job fair
By HARUKA KOSUGI | Sep. 28, 2017Wednesday’s UB STEM UP job and internship fair fair ran from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Alumni Arena and focused on giving students in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors a chance at networking with prospective employers. This year's fair featured notable companies such as Bloomberg, General Mills, Con Edison, Moog, PepsiCo and many others.
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Moving troubles: Medical school staff concerned over parking options downtown
By SARAH CROWLEY | Sep. 28, 2017UB is scheduled to open the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences this winter, but UB has not finalized a plan for transporting employees to the new medical campus Members of the United University Profession (UUP) are working alongside “multiple UB units” to find a solution for students and faculty who will be working and studying at the new campus, according to UB Spokesperson John Della Contrada.
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By News Desk | Sep. 28, 2017Here's what's been going on around the world and in your backyard.
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Students, faculty hold rally demanding fair graduate stipends
By MADDY FOWLER | Sep. 26, 2017Roughly 100 participants rallied for living TA and GA stipends Monday afternoon. Participants marched from the Student Union to the administrative offices on the fifth floor of Capen Hall.
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TEDxBuffalo lineup announced
By SARAH CROWLEY | Sep. 25, 2017Matthew Schwartz has always loved TEDTalks. A graduate student in the school of social work, Schwartz watches them in many of his classes. When a friend suggested he apply for Buffalo’s TEDx event, Schwartz submitted a quick pitch on his iPhone and hoped for the best.
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The parking disconnect
By SARAH CROWLEY | Sep. 25, 2017Fifty-six percent of students said they have missed class because they could not find a parking spot, according to The Spectrum’s parking survey. Thirty percent said they’ve been late to class for the same reason.
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By SARAH CROWLEY | Sep. 24, 2017UB finishes up GRoW home on South Campus UB students are wrapping up two years of work on an award-winning sustainability project located on South Campus. More than 100 students competed and for the School of Architecture and Planning in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2015 Solar Decathalon, according to the UB Reporter.
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University Police bring Coffee with a Cop invitation to South Campus
By SARAH CROWLEY | Sep. 24, 2017University Police (UPD) invites students and faculty to join them at this year’s Coffee With a Cop event, Oct. 4 from 12 p.m. to 4p.m. at Abbott Hall on South Campus. This is the second year UPD participated in the national event, which offers students free coffee and conversation with University Police officers.
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UB police blotter 9/12-9/19
By News Desk | Sep. 24, 20171:22 a.m. A UB student reported seeing a male wearing all black pacing between the Richmond B parking lot and Crossroads Culinary Center (C3). The caller reported seeing the same person doing the same thing at the same time in the past. Patrol reported the person who was pacing was talking on his phone.
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UB Council of Advocacy and Leadership addresses student concerns with administration
By MAX KALNITZ | Sep. 22, 2017UB Council Student Representative Mike Brown wants more transparency and shared governance between the UB student population and administration. President Satish Tripathi, Vice President for Student Life Scott Weber and Chief of Staff Beth Del Genio met with members within the Council of Advocacy and Leadership (COAL) on Thursday to discuss student concerns and suggestions for a more transparent community.
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Mythbusters: Going abroad edition
By HARUKA KOSUGI | Sep. 21, 2017Alize Scott could be the first member of her family to travel outside the U.S. Her lack of travel experience has held her back from studying abroad – until now. Scott, a junior communication major, hopes to study abroad somewhere in Africa, despite her anxiety of the unknown.
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UB graduate students and faculty to march for TA stipend increase
By DAN MCKEON | Sep. 21, 2017A mix of graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and other community members are planning to march on Monday to present a petition to guarantee a livable minimum stipend for teaching assistants (TA).
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UB looks forward to upcoming Buffalo Humanities Festival
By ANNA SAVCHENKO | Sep. 21, 2017Most people consider Bill McKibben the country’s current leading environmental activist. What most don’t know is how he earned that title. McKibben was arrested in 2011 after leading one of the decade’s largest protests against the Keystone XL pipeline construction.
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Former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden kicks off UB’s Space Week
By MADDY FOWLER | Sep. 20, 2017Over 100 people gathered in 101 Davis Hall on Monday evening to hear the former NASA Administrator speak. Students packed the room, filling every seat, spilling into aisles and crouching in back corners. Bolden served as the keynote speaker for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Space Week. Bolden discussed the components of NASA, Mars exploration, plans for future expeditions and the possibility of life in outer space.
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Malala Yousafzai speaks at UB Distinguished Speaker Series
By SARAH CROWLEY | Sep. 20, 2017Malala Yousafzai called out the Taliban, climate change deniers and world leaders who need to do more for girl’s education. Yousafzai, the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate and leading human rights activist, brought the audience to its feet with roaring applause before she even took the stage at Tuesday night’s sold-out lecture in a sweltering hot Alumni Arena.
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Back to school blotter: 9/1-9/11
By News Desk | Sep. 18, 20179/1 11:19 p.m. A resident advisor (RA) in Wilkeson Quad reported she was in a room where students had been drinking. The RA confiscated the students’ IDs, got rid of the alcohol they were drinking and requested police.
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University Police identify suspect in dorm burglaries
By SARAH CROWLEY | Sep. 18, 2017University Police named their suspect in a string of residence hall burglaries. Darnell Cleveland is 20-years-old and is not affiliated with UB. Cleveland has been named as the suspect in seven on-campus burglaries since July. Police are sharing his identity with UB students to prevent any more students from becoming burglary victims.
