Thanks to the generosity of some UB students, about 225 more pounds of clothing will be made available to the homeless population of Western New York, which includes more than 5,750 people.
The Spectrum’s editorial board unanimously elected Tom Dinki as next year’s editor in chief on Sunday. Dinki, a junior English major and current senior news editor at the newspaper, ran unopposed.
Michael Chaskes, a professor in the Department of Medicine, is wondering how “anything is going to get done” at UB with the consistent struggle the Faculty Senate has getting enough members present at a meeting to take a vote.
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee assigned a committee to draft a policy on professors assigning self-published textbooks after a Spectrum editor presented her reporting to the Executive Committee Wednesday.
All UB students will pay $300 more in tuition every year until at least 2020. But only about 10 to 15 students were present at a town hall style forum Wednesday night about tuition increases.
Students trying to make snack selections from on-campus vending machines unknowingly became part of the Independent Health Foundation’s initiative to spark UB students to start thinking about making healthy choices while snacking or dining on campus.
University at Buffalo Police blotter from Feb. 24 to March 1.
The Society of Professional Journalists announced Thursday three editors of The Spectrum have placed in the SPJ’s Mark of Excellence regional awards competition.
A small amount of gas was released in the Natural Science Complex this afternoon, which caused a professor teaching in NSC 225 to evacuate her class. University Police said it was “not a large scale incident,” and the evacuation was not needed.
Roughly 32 percent of UB students are planning to go on vacation for spring break this year, according to a spring break survey of 218 students conducted by The Spectrum. But it’s not what every student is doing, despite culture’s obsession with the stereotypical college spring break experience.
UB’s tuition rates will increase $150 – or roughly 4 percent – every year for the next six years.
Andrew Kuch, a first-year MBA student, has been counting down the days until he can leave the record-breaking cold weather of Buffalo for the heat of Cancun, Mexico. He has been monitoring Buffalo’s weather every day this semester to make sure it’s safe to for him to make the commute to campus.
Alternative break programs coordinated through clubs and programs at UB offer students travel opportunities on a tight budget for fall, winter and spring breaks.
Seventeen people – including 13 UB students – were arrested for using fake identification or using another person’s ID as part of a three-bar police sting.
UB’s engineering majors dropped eggs from the third floor of the Student Union, catapulted ping pong balls into cups of water and held cage-match-style fights during Engineering Week.
It takes a woman 16 weeks to earn as much as a man in a given year and the United States is 75th in the world in terms of women holding positions in government, according to Diana Cihak, founder of Women Elect.
The Student Association announced Wednesday that The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams will headline UB’s 14th annual Comedy Series on March 12.
Approximately 50 faculty members and students participated in National Adjunct Walkout Day by marching in protest of adjunct faculty rights and wages, risking potential termination.
The Social Work Graduate Student Association presented “What Ferguson can Teach Us: Working Together for Justice and Community Safety” on Wednesday afternoon.
Starting in the fall of 2015, some students will no longer need the exam to get into UB’s law school. UB students who meet certain criteria will not be required to take the LSAT for admittance into UB’s law school for the 2015 fall semester.
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