ALEXANDRA MOYEN

Equashia Mumeen (right) says she loves the support she has received and hopes to form a demonstration alongside students and staff protesting CDS' face mask policy

Photo: Photo courtesy of Equashia Mumeen

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‘I’m not letting this go:’ C3 staff member reprimanded for Black Lives Matter mask

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Dec. 21

Equashia Mumeen switches her Black Lives Matter mask to a plain blue surgical one before she arrives to work at Campus Dining & Shops’ C3.

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#SupportBlackBusinesses

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Dec. 7

During Shop Black Week, BSU Historian Sanyia Julien was working her shift at Shake Shack in Brooklyn when a girl walked into the store selling sweatsuits for $120.

Students have expressed concerns over UB's decision to continue in-person instruction

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UB will continue in-person instruction until Tuesday, despite rise in COVID cases

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Nov. 18

On Tuesday, UB President Satish Tripathi announced in an email that the university still plans on transitioning to remote learning on Nov. 24, even as on-campus COVID cases rise.

UB will delay spring semester and cancel spring break in accordance with SUNY guidelines in an effort to slow the spread of COVID.

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UB to delay spring semester, cancels spring break

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Nov. 10

After weeks of convening, the UB Faculty Senate announced on Sunday the spring semester will be pushed from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 and there will be no spring break in accordance with SUNY guidelines.

Young voters walking inside Sweet Home High School to cast their ballot for the 2020 election

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UB community members anxiously await presidential election results

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Nov. 6

Junior political science major Ameerah Ahmed stayed up till 4 a.m. on Election Day to watch live coverage of the presidential election.

Hundreds of people braved the cold weather to vote early at the Lancaster Municipal Building in Lancaster last Thursday.

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As the election nears, UB encourages students to vote

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Nov. 1

In an effort to increase student voter turnout, UB Student Engagement created UB Votes in 2016 to give students free transportation to voting polls on Election Day. UB Votes has also collaborated with the Residence Hall Association to create a five-episode “call to action” video series to encourage students to vote.

The UB School of Social Work building on South Campus.

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Second dean in one week resigns to return to faculty role

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Oct. 22

UB School of Social Work Dean Nancy Smyth will step down as dean and assume a faculty role following the spring 2021 semester. She is the second dean to resign this week, after School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Dean James O'Donnell resigned on Oct. 14.

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‘Hamilton’ star Leslie Odom Jr. discusses understanding yourself and the power of intention

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Oct. 17

Leslie Odom Jr. said he wasn’t “athletically inclined” as a child, even though his father put him on “every” sports team within a “10-mile radius” of their Philadelphia home.

(from left to right) Ross Cellino '82 and Stephen Barnes '83 donated $1 million to the UB School of Law. As a result, UB’s law school renamed 509 O’Brian Hall the “Cellino & Barnes Conference Center.”

Photo: UB School of Law

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Stephen Barnes of Cellino & Barnes dies in plane crash

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Oct. 4

A plane piloted by Stephen Barnes, a UB School of Law graduate and former partner of Cellino and Barnes, crashed in Genesee Friday, killing him, 61, and his niece Elizabeth Barnes, 32.

Photo: WKBW

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Legal observer struck by vehicle in Niagara Square

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Sep. 24

Police are investigating an incident where a cyclist was struck by a pickup truck during a Black Lives Matter protest in Buffalo’s Niagara Square Wednesday night.