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Students have experienced longer wait times than usual for printouts at university libraries this semester. There was a 200 percent increase in printing time during the first week of the spring ...
Two UB Professors, Dr. Ndubueze Mbah and Dr. Loss Pequeno Glazier share their experiences as professors who are from and have instructed overseas.
Who hasn’t heard “We should talk about something else” when politics comes up at a family gathering? Politics have always been contentious, but it’s become empirically much more heated since the 2016 ...
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Grant Ashley is the editor in chief of The Spectrum. He's also reported for NPR, WBFO, WIVB and The Buffalo News. He enjoys taking long bike rides, baking with his parents’ ingredients and recreating ...
Nick Thompson’s job has changed a lot in 2023. Thompson, the CEO of The Atlantic, is preparing for new AI-powered competitors and the end of search engines, where most of the magazine’s online traffic ...
In 1972, Gerald O’Grady was offered a position that many academics spend their whole lives pursuing. As director of the Educational Communications Center at UB, O’Grady would be responsible for ...
Graduate student workers across the SUNY system celebrated last May when the New York State Legislature voted to include $3 million in the 2024 state budget to mitigate the broad-based fees paid by ...
Since The Spectrum’s founding in 1950 as UB’s independent student news publication, thousands of students have come and gone. But a few things remain the same: there are still student journalists who ...