UB’s branding initiative is aiming to make the university a “distinctive brand.” The strategy looks to unite all of UB’s schools and units around the “University at Buffalo” name and is focused on clearing up the longtime confusion about the university’s name, said Nancy Paton, vice president of university communications.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will be the second presidential candidate to visit UB in less than four days. Cruz is set to speak at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in the Ellicott Complex on UB’s North Campus on Thursday morning, according to WGRZ. The event will be a town hall meeting in accordance with MSNBC at the North Campus venue that holds 340 people. It will start at 11 a.m.
Locally Buffalo supporters wait in rain for hours to see Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders visited UB on Monday for his “A Future to Believe In” rally.
Sarah Koenig made the first season of her now award-winning podcast in her basement. She had to pause the recording each time one of her kids flushed the toilet upstairs. She didn’t realize just how popular the podcast would be until there were 300,000 downloads in just a few days.
All information according to University Police.
Sanders held his “A Future to Believe In Rally” in a packed Alumni Arena Monday – discussing the pay disparity between the top 1 percent and the rest of the country, the rising cost of college and student debt and environmental issues like fracking.
Bernie Sanders supporters began lining up outside Alumni Arena as early as 8 a.m. Monday – about eight hours before doors open and 11 hours before the Democratic presidential candidate will even speak at his “Future To Believe In Rally.”
The Student Association started giving out tickets in its third floor Student Union office around 10:15 a.m.
With limited access to kitchen appliances, some students resort to food delivery. This has sparked a frenzy of “online food-ordering” companies to bring their services to college campuses.
Some universities have faculty clubs, which provides a formal area for faculty and staff to eat together, or occasionally with students and visiting guests.
When Lisa Cannavale first noticed her Facebook newsfeed taken over by food blogs and how-to recipe videos, she got curious. She wondered whether there was a social media source that displayed UB’s wide array of food options. When she realized there wasn’t, Cannavale, a sophomore communication major, decided to start one of her own: an Instagram page named UB_hungry, which displays various photos of food in UB and currently has more than 300 followers.
Two people were shot at approximately 1:51 a.m. Sunday morning in the parking lot of Habibi Sheesha Lounge, a hookah bar located in the University Plaza Shopping Center just across the street from South Campus.
Students with a valid student ID were supposed to be able to pickup free tickets to Spacey's April 27 talk on Monday from 5-8 p.m. in Alumni Arena, but Sanders' recently announced rally will take place in Alumni Arena at the same time, so ticket distribution has been postponed until Tuesday. Students can pickup tickets from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a rally at the Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum in downtown Buffalo on Friday afternoon.
Bernie Sanders will speak at UB in Alumni Arena for his "Future to Believe In Rally" on Monday at 7 p.m. Doors will open at 4 p.m.
Mukherjee spoke at Alumni Arena as part of UB’s 29th annual Distinguished Speakers Series.
The police report of the incident states that the two students were studying in O’Brien Hall around 1 a.m.
Students living away from home must go through a different process to vote than those who go to school near home. Absentee ballots are required to vote if one is away from his or her county the day of the election, according to the New York State Board of Elections.
Roughly one percent of the undergraduate population voted in last year’s uncontested Student Association elections. And this year, despite a contested election, did not bring much better results, as just 1,254 students or six percent of undergraduates hit the polls.
Hillary leads the Democratic primaries with 1,712 delegates over candidate Bernie Sanders, who has 1,011 delegates.
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