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UB teacher residency program in limbo after federal funding cuts

An impending loss of two federal grants threatens to significantly scale back UB’s teacher residency program.

REAL and Stampede party members elected to SA’s e-board for 2025-26 term

Approximately 13,755 votes were tallied for this year’s election, roughly 85.3% greater than last year’s election which had 7,423 votes counted.

Q&A: SA’s 2025-26 e-board candidates

The Spectrum interviewed 17 candidates competing for SA's e-board for the 2025-26 term about their experiences, platforms and plans for the undergraduate student government's future.

19 candidates to run in 2025-26 SA e-board elections

Nineteen candidates are in the race for five positions on the undergraduate Student Association (SA)’s e-board for the 2025-26 academic year. Except for three candidates, all will run under a party banner.

UB student arrested for forcible touching

24-year-old UB student Sujiewan Satgunaraja was arrested last Thursday, Feb. 18, for forcibly touching two female shoppers at a Walmart. 

UB finalizes candidates for new CAS dean

UB’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) search committee finalized four candidates in a search to appoint a successor to replace CAS dean Robin Schulze, who resigned last summer. 

UB researchers would lose $47M to Trump funding cuts, Gillibrand, Kennedy warn

Medical and scientific researchers at UB could lose $47 million in funding for the “indirect costs” of research, such as lab space, equipment and support staff, under the Trump administration’s planned cuts to the National Institutes of Health, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Tim Kennedy warned Friday.

Kristin Stapleton to serve as Faculty Senate chair for 2025-27 term

UB’s Faculty Senate elected Kristin Stapleton, a professor and department chair in history, as its chairperson for the 2025-27 term last December. 

SA elects Aidan Sumrall advocacy committee chair

The undergraduate Student Association’s (SA) advocacy committee elected SA Senator Aidan Sumrall as its chair in a landslide election Tuesday afternoon, with five out of eight members voting for Sumrall.

Federal judge dismisses YAF’s lawsuit against SA

Judge Lawrence Vilardo wrote that UB's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) failed to make a valid legal claim, and that his court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case, in which YAF alleged free-speech violations and discrimination by UB officials and the undergraduate Student Association (SA).

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A headshot of Spectrum writer Emily Hornbeck.

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A protester chalks on a concrete planter in front of the Center for the Arts, intentionally violating a new UB policy prohibiting chalking on campus.

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The Spectrum attempted to reschedule an interview with Tripathi 12 times over the course of four months. 

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Pro-Palestine demonstrators criticize UB's police response to May 1 encampment during May 3 protest