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Kevin Spacey spoke as a Distinguished Speaker at Alumni Arena Wednesday night.

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Kevin Spacey rounds out UB's Distinguished Speakers Series

By Jordan Grossman | Apr. 28, 2016

On Wednesday night, Spacey took the stage at Alumni Arena as the sixth and final participant of this year’s UB Distinguished Speaker Series in front of a packed crowd to discuss a wide range of topics. He discussed the origins of his acclaimed Netflix series “House of Cards,” his opinion of what it takes to tell a story and his belief that virtual reality will help transform the world.

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UB Police blotter 4/19/16 – 4/26/16

By News Desk | Apr. 28, 2016

All information according to University Police.

Madelaine Britt, a junior environmental design and political science major, is UB’s first-ever Truman Scholarship winner. The scholarship honors students who have done exceptional public service work.

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UB student Madelaine Britt wins Truman Scholarship

By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Apr. 26, 2016

Britt, a junior environmental design and political science major, is one of the 54 students who were selected from 200 finalists to receive the scholarship. Britt will receive $30,000 toward her graduate school education and will also travel to Washington D.C. next summer to participate in a professional development program.

Kaitlin Halligan (pictured) brought the “Meatless Mondays” pledge to UB to encourage students to stop eating meat once a week.

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UB students pledge for Meatless Monday

By SARAH CROWLEY | Apr. 26, 2016

Halligan has brought the Meatless Monday pledge to UB in an effort to encourage students to reduce meat from their diets. Meatless Monday is a non-profit initiative with a goal of reducing meat consumption by 15 percent.

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News briefs

By News Desk | Apr. 26, 2016

Locally Eight-year-old dies after fire After spending a month at Shriner’s Hospital in Cincinnati for severe burns that covered more than 90 percent of her body, eight-year-old Treasure Brighton died Sunday.

John Wood, senior associate vice provost for International Education, speaks to students and faculty at the Shakespeare Read-A-Thon in Lockwood Memorial Library.

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UB libraries honor the birth and death of Shakespeare

By HANNAH STEIN | Apr. 26, 2016

Barbara Bono, a UB associate English professor, and UB librarians held a Shakespeare Read-A-Thon on April 21 in the Lockwood Memorial Library Lobby to honor Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary of his birth and death. UB students and professors read out some of Shakespeare’s most iconic works in honor of the anniversary.

Students observe Passover together. Hillel of Buffalo hosted Passover Seder dinners on Friday and Saturday night in Pistachios in the Student Union. Seder dinners mark the start of Passover, a Jewish holiday.

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Hillel of Buffalo host traditional Jewish Passover Seder

By James MacDavid | Apr. 26, 2016

Hillel of Buffalo kicked off Passover with two Seder dinners, one on Friday and the other on Saturday night. The dinners were held in Pistachios in the Student Union. The Passover Seder dinner is a Jewish ritualistic feast that marks the start of the Jewish holiday of Passover. Passover is a holiday that celebrates the Jewish liberation from the Egyptians who enslaved them.

Jimmy Corra, a junior economics major and current Student Association Assembly speaker, has been elected UB Council student representative for the 2016-17 school year.

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Jimmy Corra elected 2016-17 UB Council student representative

By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Apr. 24, 2016

Jimmy Corra, a junior economics major and current Student Association Assembly speaker, has been elected UB Council student representative for the 2016-17 school year.

Paul Tesluk has been named the dean of UB’s School of Management after former dean stepped down from the position in April 2015.

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Paul Tesluk named dean of UB School of Management

By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Apr. 24, 2016

Paul Tesluk has been named the dean of UB’s School of Management after a lengthy international dean search. Tesluk has served as the interim dean of the School of Management since 2015. Former School of Management Dean Arjang A. Assad stepped down from the position in April 2015.

Graduate students Ghalia Ajouz (left) and Leilasadat Mirghaderi (right) are currently designing a temporary housing community for refugees in Buffalo’s East Side.

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UB architecture students hope to integrate refugees into Buffalo

By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Apr. 21, 2016

Ajouz, a third-year graduate architecture student, and her fellow classmates are currently working to design a temporary housing community for refugees who have resettled in Buffalo.

Bowers, a transgender doctor who has specialized in transgender surgical procedures, spoke in the Student Union Monday evening.

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Transgender doctor Marci Bowers speaks at UB

By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Apr. 20, 2016

Bowers, a transgender doctor who has specialized in transgender surgical procedures and medicine since 2003, spoke about different aspects of her practice on Monday night in the Student Union.

Big Sean performs in front of a sold-out crowd at Fall Fest held in Alumni Arena last semester. This year's Spring Fest will also be held in Alumni Arena due to weather forecast.

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Spring Fest 2016 to be held inside Alumni Arena

By GABRIELA JULIA | Apr. 20, 2016

The Chainsmokers, Mac Miller, Icona Pop and Coleman Hell were originally suppose to perform outdoors at Baird Point, but will now perform inside Alumni Arena. Since Alumni Arena is a smaller venue, UB's Student Association stopped selling general public tickets last week so students have a chance to attend the concert.

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New York State primary results

By SARAH CROWLEY | Apr. 19, 2016

With 95 delegates up for grabs on the Republican side and 291 on the Democratic side, the stakes were high going into the New York primaries.

The Office of Admissions has had to do things differently during COVID.

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UB sends out roughly 5,000 erroneous acceptance emails

By HANNAH STEIN | Apr. 19, 2016

UB received over 25,000 applications this year and mistakenly sent acceptance emails to 5,109 applicants earlier this week. The miscommunication occurred when an incorrect email list was generated from an applicant database, according to UB Spokesperson John Della Contrada.

Buffalo Police form a barricade in front of Trump protestors outside of the First Niagara Center.

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Hundreds of Trump protesters line up in downtown Buffalo

By Jordan Grossman | Apr. 19, 2016

Outside the arena, close to 700 protesters held signs with slogans like, “Love Trumps Hate,” “No Racism in Buffalo,” “No to Fascist Trump,” “Buffalo Says No to Islamophobia.”

Windows and furniture have been vandalized in Goodyear Hall on UB's South Campus. A monetary amount is likely to be charged to each Goodyear Hall resident’s bill if no students come forward.

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UB Goodyear Hall marked with vandalism

By HANNAH STEIN | Apr. 19, 2016

University Police are currently investigating vandalism in Goodyear Hall that will exceed $10,000 in repairs. Campus Living sent out an email to residents living in South Campus’ Goodyear Hall on April 15 stating that lights, ceiling tiles, windows and furniture that is “no longer usable” have been vandalized. The email stated a monetary amount is likely to be charged to each Goodyear Hall resident’s bill if no students come forward.

Rally-goers hold signs in the air as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets the crowd.

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Trump wins New York primary, uses Buffalo as last stop to rally over 11,000 people

By TORI ROSEMAN | Apr. 19, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump used Buffalo Monday night as his last campaign stop and a chance to ignite a crowd of over 11,000 people before winning the New York Republican primary.

The New York presidential primary may be many students’ first opportunity to vote in a major U.S. election.

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What to know about voting in New York presidential primary

By Evan Schneider | Apr. 18, 2016

The New York primary on April 19 will determine how many delegates each candidate will be allotted from the New York state election. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump currently has 756 delegates while Ted Cruz and John Kasich have 559 and 144, respectively.

Meet the candidates running for UB Council student representative.

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Meet the candidates for UB Council student representative

By News Desk | Apr. 18, 2016

The UB Council serves as the primary oversight and advisory body to UB and its president and senior officers.

(From left to right) Dominique Case, Nicole O’Heron, Emily Snyder, Brian De Guzman, Julia Schoonover, and Courtney Miller plant trees in the University Heights Saturday as a part of ReTree the District in the spring of 2015.

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‘ReTree the District’ phase four

By James MacDavid | Apr. 17, 2016

Kenney, along with other students, professors and community members, joined the University Heights Collaborative and University District Common Council Saturday to “ReTree the District,” an initiative to plant 1,000 trees in the University Heights neighborhood off South Campus. The initiative has been going on since 2014 and has separate phases, with this past Saturday being the fourth.