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.
About 30 students from various departments across UB are working together to build a modular home that will embrace the urban farming culture of Buffalo with its four seasons.
Convicted murderer Jeffrey Basil’s sentencing won’t come for at least another two months, now that his attorney is filing a motion to set aside the verdict.
The Wall Street Journal officially recognized the UB Solar Strand, located on North Campus, in its list of “The Best Architecture of 2014: Sense and Sensitivity.”
(sopho)MORE House is living and learning class for sophomores living in Greiner Hall. The class is taught once a week in the Intercultural and Diversity Center and aims to teach sophomore students about leadership, diversity and being involved in their community and on campus.
Approximately 500 students were forced out of Red Jacket Hall, one of the six quadrangles in the Ellicott Complex, Wednesday after a frozen sprinkler head caused a power outage.
Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken became the first people to ice climb Niagara Falls on Jan. 27. The pair of ice climbers ascended 148 feet up overhanging ice that formed on the left side of Horseshoe Falls.
Jason Young, Victoria Wolcott and Carole Emberton, hosted a discussion panel on racial profiling, violence and police brutality entitled “#blacklivesmatter” on Wednesday.
Approximately 550 students were forced out of Red Jacket Hall, one of the six quadrangles in the Ellicott Complex, Wednesday after flooding caused a power outage. Students were offered housing for the night in the Triple Gym of Alumni Arena.
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