A UB employee is alleged to have murdered his girlfriend by strangulation prior to a house fire Saturday at Elmwood Village, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s Office.
Burglaries were up by 50% and drug violations were at a record zero — for the first time in UPD history — according to University Police’s 2024-25 annual security report released on Oct. 1.
Satish Tripathi, UB’s 15th president, highlighted a 14-year legacy of transformations in the university’s research, academic programs and campuses in his last State of the University address Friday at Lippes Concert Hall.
Officers from University Police (UPD), Amherst Police and the New York State Police negotiated with a driver “in distress” for four and a half hours at the intersection of Chestnut Ridge and Sweet Home roads — just outside UB’s Flickinger Court apartments — Sunday night, university officials told The Spectrum.
Last Tuesday morning, Heather Squire gave up the remaining four years of her five-year PhD fellowship in UB’s Department of Environment and Sustainability to protest the university's silence amid national arrests and planned deportations of international students in recent weeks.
Offering a unique twist on traditional one-center-lane fashion show venues, Buffalo Fashion Week’s (BFW) three-laned “Fashion on the Field,” was hosted on Oct. 19 at an indoor turf field on 97 Rosalia St.
UB President Satish Tripathi delivered his 13th annual State of the University Address at Lippes Concert Hall on Friday, discussing UB’s increased investments in international research and outreach programs and developments in artificial intelligence.
The UB Student Association’s (SA) Fall Fest lit up Baird Point on Friday with performances by Saweetie and Rae Sremmurd, even after a late announcement about Cash Cobain’s absence that left some attendees disappointed.
Approximately 35 demonstrators chalked sidewalks and used a megaphone in defiance of new UB policies that prohibit such activities. The policies are currently under a 30-day review period that ends next Saturday, Sept. 28.
From TikTok to the catwalk, fashion is moving faster than ever — and UB’s 30,000-plus students are quick to make new styles shine on the Spine. The Spectrum asked six UB students to weigh in on which trends they’re loving and which ones need to be tossed aside.
The BFW crowd started piling in up to two hours before the show began.
Hand-drawn portraits depicting UB's custodians.
"Variable Sombre Dimension I" by Salem Browning.
The “Domestic Portraits Series” by Chloe Koegel.
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