University Police is investigating anti-Semitic slurs written on a men’s restroom stall in Capen Hall that were reported on March 23.
More than 100 children living in the zip code 14215 – which includes the University Heights – have had elevated blood-lead levels from 2013-15, according to the Erie County Department of Health.
Locally: FBI takes computers from Buffalo Police Department The FBI took several computers and cell phones from the Buffalo Police Department’s Intelligence Unit last week in an unknown investigation, according to WGRZ.
The Progress Party has an early lead after the first day of voting for the Student Association elections, according to The Spectrum’s exit polls. The Spectrum polled 52 students leaving the voting booths in the Student Union Theater Tuesday, and the majority of them say they voted for the three Progress Party candidates in the race for SA president, vice president and treasurer.
The treasurer is elected separately from the president and vice president. The treasurer is the chief controller of SA's budget and is responsible for the disbursement of SA's budget and revenue.
The Student Association executive board is responsible for controlling approximately $4 million of student money collected through the mandatory student activity fee of $104.75 a semester. The SA president and vice president must run on a ticket together. The president is the chief executive officer of SA and has the ultimate responsibility for the enforcement of the SA constitution and bylaws. The vice president directs, assists and oversees SA recognized clubs and organizations. Elections will be held March 29-31 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Student Union Theater.
Browar said he is currently leasing out more than a dozen properties in the area.
UB students living off campus will often sign a lease to a new apartment and end up inhabiting unsafe living conditions.
While the majority of freshmen dorms are located on UB’s North Campus in Governors Residence Hall and the Ellicott Complex, Goodyear Hall and Clement Hall on South Campus are home to first-year students as well. And, like many housing situations, there are both positive and negative sides to living on South Campus. Though many UB students have found advantages to living on South Campus, they feel the disadvantages may outweigh them.
In addition to transmission through mosquito bites, the disease can also be passed sexually from one person to another, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. The virus exists mainly in South American countries and is prominent in Brazil and El Salvador. Though the CDC states that there have been no confirmed local cases of people contracting Zika within the United States, there have been over 250 confirmed travel-associated cases of the Zika virus.
UB spokesperson John Della Contrada released a statement on March 12 that said the Department of Health is speaking with the students’ close personal contacts and that UB is currently reviewing immunization records to identify students who are not immune to mumps who may need to either be vaccinated or excluded from classes and activities when the semester resumes, which it did on March 21.
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Locally: UB struggles to boost its research and fundraising assets UB is currently behind most of its peer universities in the fields of research, scholarships and fundraising. An analyst at The Buffalo News found that Rutgers University dished out $86 million more in federal research in 2012 compared to UB.
Two parties, as well as two independent treasurer candidates, are running for next year’s SA e-board, which consists of the SA president, vice president and treasurer.
It seems between all the music, dance routines and costumes that help make International Fiesta an annual UB tradition, one important element was over looked: accurately tallying up the teams' final scores.
UB has warned the campus this weekend that a number of students have "probable and suspected" cases of mumps.
The pledge is in support of UB’s new Creative Arts Initiative (CAI), which brings creative and performing artists to UB for on-campus residencies. Jackson is co-director of CAI with music professor David Felder.
UB’s medical school recently received a five-year grant of $2.35 million from New York State to develop a Center of Excellence that intends to improve diagnostic and treatment plans for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders across Western New York. The initiative will combine person-centered care with state-of-the-art research and treatment facilities.
Her film follows five black UB studentsand their involvement in the “Black Lives Matter” movement and their lives as black students on campus. “Black Lives Matter” is a movement that rallies against violence and injustice toward black people based on their race. The movement gained national recognition after the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner – both black men killed by police in 2014.
Law professor Makau Mutua has been on leave from UB for nearly a year and recently took a job in Washington D.C., yet the university is still paying the former law school dean his full salary – a salary that nears $300,000.
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