Jason Tsoi is an assistant features editor at The Spectrum. He is an English major with a certificate in journalism. During his free time, he can be found listening to music and watching films.
If you told me three years ago that I would be an editor at The Spectrum, I would not have believed you. Going into my sophomore year, I felt disoriented. I was beginning a new major and readjusting to life after the pandemic lockdown.
The cycling initiative raises money and awareness to advance Alzheimer’s research toward a cure. The cause hit close to home for Ryan; his father-in-law and mother-in-law were both diagnosed with the brain condition.
“I think too often [rock music] gets neglected as an art form,” Golove said. “People talk about it as though it were just a throwaway… But I don’t believe that. I believe that the best of the rock musicians are really good artists. They take what they do very seriously, and what they make is of real quality, so it’s worthy of study.”
This month, dozens of UB students will meet every Sunday to construct bee hotels — nesting spaces for solitary and wild bees to lay their eggs. The bee hotels, which are made out of blocks of wood and hollow bamboo sticks, will be placed around the North Campus.
In anticipation of Monday’s total eclipse, The Spectrum spoke with five experts to discuss the upcoming phenomenon.
Photo: Patricia Logan-Greene
As part of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare’s Grand Challenge for Social Work (GCSW) — an initiative that aims to confront 14 of the country’s biggest social issues — Patricia Logan-Greene and other social work researchers pushed for a new way, or “challenge,” to address the country’s gun violence epidemic.
Gorman was the first U.S. national youth poet laureate, and she became the youngest inaugural poet when she delivered one of her poems at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021.
Muslim students at UB will join millions around the world in observing the first night of Ramadan Monday.
In response to the systemic problem of food apartheid, UB groups and organizations developed community-based initiatives to support marginalized communities.
Photo: Courtesy of Society of Women Engineers
Women engineers discuss how they navigate the male-dominated field at UB through community.
UB alum Bob Ryan biked from Buffalo to Albany to raise money and awareness for Alzheimer's.
Jonathan Golove poses in his office with a Jimi Hendrix figurine gifted to him by students of MUS 365: "Rock Music".
The beehives, located between Crofts Hall and Bizer Creek on UB's North Campus, produce about 55 gallons of honey a year.
UB student Aicha Niang started her hairstyling venture five years ago, and brought it to UB.
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