MAXIMILIAN MALAWISTA

Ramaswamy and Musk (pictured from middle to right) announced their plan to cut government spending by approximately 2 trillion through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

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UB students supportive, but unsure of DOGE’s impact

By MAXIMILIAN MALAWISTA | Dec. 7

President-elect Donald Trump selected Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, and Vivek Ramaswamy, former presidential candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination and founder of Roivant Sciences, as the leaders of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in an announcement released on Nov. 12.

Chirag Ohiri (left) and Aryan Mudgal (right) doing a campus cleanup near the Ellicott Complex.

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‘Clean Campus’ has students step up to clean UB, one weekend at a time

By MAXIMILIAN MALAWISTA | Dec. 3

Aryan Mudgal and Chirag Ohri observed in the Spring 2024 semester that the campus was not cleaned during the weekends. There was trash, cigarette butts and other litter accumulating around all parts of campus, left to be cleaned during the week.

The Hackathon Leads responsible for putting together UBHacking

Photo: Courtesy of Aryan Sawant and Christo Abraham

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Hackathon puts UB students’ coding skills to the test

By MAXIMILIAN MALAWISTA | Nov. 12

A student-run Hackathon organized by UBHacking took place in Davis Hall over the weekend of Nov. 9-10, featuring team-led projects, mentorship, networking events and a career fair with Valmar Holdings and M&T Tech. The event aimed to showcase students’ hacking and coding skills Amazon Web Services (AWS) sponsored the event, but only had representation present.

Left to right: Thomas G. O’Connor, Nikita Korolkov, Emily Milton, and Maximus Wunderlich

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UB NiCE club offers students opportunities in nuclear engineering

By MAXIMILIAN MALAWISTA | Nov. 12

UB’s Nuclear Energy is Clean Energy (NiCE) club looks to bring a nuclear engineering curriculum to UB, spread awareness about the plethora of opportunities and bring the cleanest and some of the fastest energy developments on a national scale.

Governor Hochul flipped the switch for Empire AI, marking the inaugural beginning of advanced supercomputing research at UB.

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Governor Hochul flips the switch for Empire AI at UB

By MAXIMILIAN MALAWISTA | Oct. 31

Governor Kathy Hochul flipped Empire AI’s switch on Oct. 11, powering on the beginning of a supercomputing future housed right here on UB’s downtown campus.

UB students supportive, but unsure of DOGE’s impact

‘Clean Campus’ has students step up to clean UB, one weekend at a time

Hackathon puts UB students’ coding skills to the test

UB NiCE club offers students opportunities in nuclear engineering

Governor Hochul flips the switch for Empire AI at UB

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