Dominick Matarese is the Senior Features Editor at the Spectrum. He enjoys writing about interesting people, places, and things. In addition to running an independent blog, he has worked worked with the Owego Pennysaver, BROOME Magazine, the Fulcrum Newspaper, and Festisia. He is passionate about music journalism and can be found enjoying live music most weekends.
Bags of trash and recycling were taken from all three campuses and then analyzed. The results are being used to inform UB’s efforts to improve recycling on campus.
South Campus’ MacKay Heating Plant tower is home to a family of rare birds: peregrine falcons. UB installed a “Falcon Cam" to observe the two eggs and two hatchlings.
Pro-Palestinian protesters marched on campus and attempted to set up an encampment outside Hochstetter Hall. The night ended with multiple arrests and injuries. Here's how it happened.
Photo: Courtesy of Jorge Zhang and Mohamed Ali Larbi Daho Bachir.
Senior computer science major Mohamed Ali Larbi Daho Bachir and 2023 graduate Jorge Zhang, better known as “Algerian roommate” and “Chinese roommate” respectively, regularly post wholesome and humorous videos of their daily lives and travels to the UB 2024 Snapchat story.
Some of the most captivating performances in Buffalo aren’t happening in large venues or popular bars. They’re happening beneath one Tonawanda house, known only as “The Lavender Room.”
The Spectrum spoke with representatives of all parties about their prior experience, their platforms and the future of UB’s undergraduate student government — and the clubs that depend on it.
The policy wonk turned author of “The Sum of Us” discussed how racism harms everyone, optimism and the 2024 election.
What if no one had to DD? What if no Ubers had to be called? What if there was a way to hit some of the best college bars in Buffalo without entering a single car? Lucky for you, there is! The Spectrum presents… the NFTA bar crawl.
Some of UB’s biggest and strongest students took to the stage of the SU theater earlier this semester to participate in the first ever on-campus bodybuilding competition. The event was organized by UB’s newly formed Strength and Power Club, a student group dedicated to strength-training, bodybuilding and overall physical fitness.
UB removes just over a ton of waste from its campuses every day, a majority of which ends up in landfills. The university is working toward sending only 10% of UB-generated waste to landfills, but around 70-80% of waste currently goes to the dump.
Recycling collected from UB's campuses is sorted on South Campus, compacted into large bales and sold to a recycling mill. From there, the bales are broken down, sold to factories and made into new products.
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