In the News
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For 80 years, ancient gold treasure rested undisturbed in UB library
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015Finding a $20 bill could make your day. Find priceless, 2,500-year-old gold and silver Greek and Roman coins, and you’ve made the discovery of a lifetime. That’s what …
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U.S. College Finds Priceless Coin Collection — In Its Own Library
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015Dozens of Greek and Roman coins are part of a collection of ancient coins that was donated to the University at Buffalo in 1935. But it was only …
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U.B. finds treasure trove of ancient coins
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015One Professor at University at Buffalo found a treasure trove of ancient coins which have been untouched for about 80 years. Students will get to study the ancient …
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Priceless ancient coins ‘rediscovered’ at university in New York
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015A priceless cache of ancient Greek and Roman coins that had become a kind of buried treasure has been “rediscovered” at the University at Buffalo, which had paid …
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Hidden in plain sight, rare coins spend 80 years unseen on college shelf
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015University at Buffalo faculty member Philip Kiernan heard a rumor back in 2010 and went on a hunt for a collection of rare, ancient and priceless Greek and …
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UB students share their on-campus ‘sexperiences’
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015About 23 percent of students claim to have had sex in on-campus buildings other than residential bedrooms, according a Spectrum survey of 837 students. It’s not unusual for …
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Women’s sports history joins online collection
Monday, February 9th, 2015The UB Sports History Digital Collection has more than 500 images of student-athletes, some taken as far back as 1894. The one thing the collection is missing: women. …
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Printing wait time for first week of semester rises 200 percent
Sunday, February 8th, 2015Adam Fries paid for one order of printouts on three separate occasions. Each time he went to Lockwood Library, a printer was down. When the graduate business student …
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Capen renovations are an exercise in patience
Monday, February 2nd, 2015“Delayed gratification” will have to serve as the motto for students using North Campus libraries this year, as “Club Capen” shuts down in order to undergo a dramatic …
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Student soundoff: Capen renovations
Sunday, February 1st, 2015The third floor of the Oscar A. Silverman Library, located in Capen Hall, is closed. This is one of many Heart of the Campus renovation projects across all …