Oozefest, UB’s annual mud volleyball tournament, will take place May 7, following the event’s cancellation in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19.
Monday saw UB’s “LevelUp” gaming lounge open its doors to experienced gamers and curious students alike. The lounge combines a large game room, “gaming console pods” and high-tech computers for work or leisure. Located opposite Lockwood Library, “LevelUp” has its gaming provisions open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and its computing facilities from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
A total of nine candidates — four for president, three for vice president and two for treasurer — are running for positions on the Student Association e-board for the 2022-23 academic year, SA Chief of Staff Will Eaton confirmed in an email Tuesday.
For the first time since New York State implemented its mask mandate on April 15, 2020, no students, faculty, staff or visitors — vaccinated or not — were required to wear masks indoors following UB’s decision to lift its requirement on Saturday.
The new Student Health Services center on Maple Road is no longer expected to open to students this semester, Vice President for Student Life Brian Hamluk told The Spectrum last week.
UB's "student activity fee" helps fund extracurricular activities, student events like Fall and Spring Fest and finances necessary SA services like legal fees. Here’s a list of some of the best-attended events from the last semester-plus.
UB will not require students, faculty, staff or visitors to wear masks “in most settings” on campus “regardless of vaccination status” beginning March 5, Vice President for Student Life Brian Hamluk announced in a school-wide email Wednesday.
UB President Satish Tripathi released a statement Monday expressing UB’s solidarity with Ukraine and its people.
Campus Dining is still looking to hire more than 80 employees to staff One World Café, the three-story, 53,500-sq. ft. international-themed eatery located outside of Capen Hall.
UB announced Monday that its mask mandate will remain in place for the time being, and that a decision to relax its mask requirement would be made in collaboration with SUNY and Erie County leaders.
Residents of UB’s Flint Village 301 and Hadley Village 110 and 113 were without hot water for a few days in early February as the result of boiler issues.
New York’s statewide mask requirement in schools will be lifted, effective Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced in a press conference Sunday afternoon.
University Communications and the True Blue student cheering section have collaborated on a new initiative called “True Blue,” which aims to create a long-term sense of community at UB.
D’Youville College will be known as D’Youville University after the New York State Board of Regents voted unanimously to grant the 114-year old institution approval for the name change on Feb. 15.
Canada will allow fully vaccinated travelers to enter the country with negative COVID-19 rapid test results starting Feb. 28, Canada’s Public Health Agency announced Tuesday.
UB’s Student Association formally derecognized 17 permanent clubs at an SA Senate meeting last week.
Just over 100 students faced the aftermath of the apocalypse for the 11th year in a row in the Student Union Theater Tuesday to the tune of “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” by R.E.M.
As was the case last semester, Parking and Transportation Services has had to contend with debilitating local and national trends, which resulted in a 20% reduction to its bus fleet.
UB will continue to require mask wearing on its campuses, the university announced in a campus-wide email Friday.
Eight graduate students piled into the cramped Graduate Student Employees Union office in The Commons on Valentine’s Day to write Valentine’s Day cards to President Satish Tripathi and Provost A. Scott Weber.
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