Federal judge dismisses YAF’s lawsuit against SA By SOL HAUSER and MYLIEN LAI | Jan. 17 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).

NEWS 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 ...

Jan 15, 2025 · UB reopened its doors to the Student Union (SU) Wednesday morning, marking the completion of a year-long project. SU renovations started in Dec. 2023, with plans beginning in 2018. The building underwent two phases of construction. The first — completed at the start of the fall ‘24 semester ...

2 days ago · Twenty seven UB dental residents have unionized under the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) on Jan. 23 and are soon to begin contract negotiations with their employer, University Dental Resident Services P.C. (UDRS), to improve clinical training, staffing support and salaries. The ...

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Oct 9, 2024 · 30,558 students — 19,117 matriculating undergraduates and 11,441 graduate students — enrolled at UB this fall, making it the sixth consecutive year that UB exceeded its enrollment goal of 30,000 students.

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Sep 11, 2024 · 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.

Oct 5, 2023 · A short power outage from Sept. 22 that delayed  had a lasting effect on UB’s IT infrastructure. IT workers had to manually restart hundreds of IT systems across UB’s campus. Power was restored before most students arrived on campus that morning, and outages continued into the afternoon.

FEATURES 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.