Mylien Lai is the editor-in-chief at The Spectrum. Outside of getting lost in Buffalo, she enjoys practicing the piano and being a bean plant mom. She can be found at @mylien.lai on Instagram.
Nadir Hassan, who graduated just weeks ago with a bachelors in environmental design, is currently held in an ICE detention facility in El Paso, Texas.
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Caroline Genco — Tufts University’s provost and senior vice president — will succeed Satish Tripathi as UB’s 16th president starting Aug. 10, making her the first woman to lead the university in its 180-year history. She will also be the first Buffalo native to oversee the university after the presidency was established in 1962.
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) Senate’s third and final attempt this semester to raise e-board stipends to $24,180 has failed to pass by a single vote.
Two elected officials in the undergraduate Student Association have obtained no-contact orders against each other through the university, with each student accusing the other of harassment and stalking.
After a nearly two-hour-long meeting Friday evening, the undergraduate Student Association Senate voted to pass a resolution to raise annual e-board stipends to $24,180 in a vote of 10 ayes and four nays.
Approximately 20 pro-Palestine protesters were escorted by University Police out of a student event that hosted two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers Tuesday evening at the Center for Tomorrow.
A UB student detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement remains in a Louisiana detention facility after his bond was denied last Monday.
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The “REAL” party swept all five seats on the undergraduate Student Association’s 2026-27 e-board in a year that saw the highest turnout --- 4,937 voters --- for SA e-board elections.
Under Tripathi’s watch, the university had expanded the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, became a leader in artificial intelligence research and oversaw the construction or modernization of several buildings.
A candidate running to be president of the undergraduate Student Association is denying dozens of allegations of aggressive and harassing behavior toward students, colleagues and employees, both at UB and at another college he previously attended.
A protester chalks on a concrete planter in front of the Center for the Arts, intentionally violating a new UB policy prohibiting chalking on campus.
The Spectrum attempted to reschedule an interview with Tripathi 12 times over the course of four months.
Pro-Palestine demonstrators criticize UB's police response to May 1 encampment during May 3 protest
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