Ten UB employees spent $209,187.65 in travel expenses during the ‘23-24 academic year, according to a travel expenditure spreadsheet acquired by The Spectrum. University Provost A. Scott Weber incurred $487.58 in costs while President Satish K. Tripathi did not have any recorded.
UB ranks No. 36 in best public colleges and No. 76 in national universities in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, showing no change from last year.
Over the past week, voters elected seven senators to fill 12 open seats. The Spectrum reached out to all seven elected senators to ask about their previous experiences, policy platforms and goals. Six out of those seven senators agreed to an interview.
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.
865 undergraduates – 72.1% of voters – opted to keep the fee mandatory, while 335 – 27.9% – voted to make it voluntary. Students also elected seven members to the SA Senate.
Shovels hit dirt at Furnas Lot Tuesday morning as UB broke ground for the construction of a new engineering building, Russell L. Agrusa Hall.
Rae Sremmurd, Saweetie and Cash Cobain will perform for this year’s Fall Fest on Sept. 27, according to an Instagram post the Student Association (SA) released yesterday.
UB students and professors gathered in Student Union (SU) 120 and over Zoom to watch and discuss the first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Sept. 10. Here’s what each candidate had to say:
Nine pro-Palestine protesters intend to sue various counties and police departments, including Amherst Police, Buffalo Police and Erie County Sheriff’s Office, over the entities’ alleged "negligence, carelessness, recklessness and/or unlawful conduct" during the protesters’ arrests at an on-campus protest on May 1.
Approximately 400 UB resident physicians, represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), went on a four-day strike at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) last week to demand financial transparency and an equitable labor contract from their employer, University Medical Resident Services P.C. (UMRS), and the university.
UB will be operating 11 new 25-passenger shuttles and 20 refurbished 39-passenger transit buses under a new 10-year transportation contract with WeDriveU, a non-UB-affiliated transportation provider, to transition into fully-electrified Stampede bus fleets.
UB President Satish Tripathi skirted an interview with The Spectrum after four months of attempts to reschedule. The interview was intended to give readers an unscripted view of Tripathi’s decision-making.
With a unanimous vote of 3-0, the UB Student Association Executive Committee called upon the private UB Foundation to “not invest in entities, companies or organizations that engage in human rights abuses” in a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-backed resolution that passed on Aug. 16.
Over 800 UB resident physicians will begin a four-day strike on Tuesday as labor contract negotiations to increase salaries and improve working conditions failed to reach an agreement.
UB released drafts of new protest policies that reinforce the prohibition of encampments, restrict assemblies to outdoor areas and limit posters to bulletin boards. John Della Contrada said that the alterations are “partly” in response to the criticism regarding UB’s forceful arrests of 15 pro-Palestine protesters during the May 1 encampment
Approximately 830 UB resident physicians intend to go on a two-day strike next month if “negotiations fail to improve” with their employer, University Medical Resident Services P.C. (UMRS).
As of last Wednesday, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Dean Robin Schulze will end her eight-year tenure as CAS dean and resume her role as a tenured UB professor.
As its contract with UB expires, Au Bon Pain (ABP) — located in Greiner Hall — will be closed and reopened as a new Bulls on the Run location in the fall.
Rising sophomore and engineering student Maria Eichas died on Burritt Road in Parma, NY, on June 2 at approximately 1 a.m., when 33-year-old Alexander Hackett crashed a Toyota Camry into the rear of Eichas’ Honda CRV. Hackett allegedly admitted to investigators that he consumed approximately four beers prior to driving and that he was not aware that he was on Burritt Road at the time of the incident.
Fourteen pro-Palestine protesters — including seven UB students — were arraigned in Amherst Town Court on Tuesday for various non-criminal violations, including loitering, trespassing and disorderly conduct related to the May 1 pro-Palestine rally held on UB’s North Campus.
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