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Hobby Council
Coordinator: Jacob Murphy
The Hobby Council represents a wide range of activities for UB students to enjoy. Whether you want to learn a new hobby, or want to continue your passion, this Council is the place for you. Our clubs range from music, fitness, creating, playing and anything and everything to help you unwind and relax after your academic studies.
Academic Bowl | Anime | Audubon Club | Chess Club | Cornhole Club | Cosplay | Creative Arts Club | Crochet Club | Debate Society | Drivers Club | Drone Club | EDM Club | Fashionista Club | Film Club | Game Development Club | Glee | Improv | Impulse Dance Force | Irish Dance Club | Kickline | Mock Trial | Outdoor Adventure Club | Photo Club | Pie Club | Poetry Club | Pokemon Club | Stand Up and Laugh | Step Troupe | Strategists and Role Players Association (SARPA) | Strength and Power | UB Musicians | Volume Up | Women's Fitness Club
Academic Bowl
The purpose and mission of the UB Academic bowl is to foster friendly, academic competition within the UB community; to compete in team and individual academic contests regionally and nationally; finally, to work to establish such competition as a means towards achieving a complete collegiate education.
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| Location: | SU 316 |
| President: | Hayley Mundy |
| Vice President: | Daniel Chen |
| Treasurer: | Benjamin Glahe |
| Secretary: | Alex McHugh |
Anime
- To introduce Japanese culture through Japanese anime.
- To bring together people with our common interest in anime.
- To provide and maintain a source of anime, though a library, to donors.
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| Location: | SU 303 |
| President: | Tamaji Tigenoah |
| Vice President: | Anthony Spanitz |
| Treasurer: | Tony Yang |
| Secretary: | Eric Posses |
Cornhole Club
The purpose of this club is to provide students an opportunity to practice their cornhole skills and compete against other members of the club, all while meeting new people with whom they share a similar interest and enjoy themselves.
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| Date Established: 02-23-2023 | |
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Cosplay
1. To bring together people with a common interest in cosplay.
2. To educate and share different techniques of cosplay, be they sewing, crafting, or any other cosplay-related skill.
3. To assist in the creation or fabrication needs of any member by means of providing resources including work space, tools, fabrics, etc.
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| Date Established: 03-08-2023 | |
| President: | Kay Wu |
| Vice President: | Cristal Perez Gautreaux |
| Treasurer: | Howell Phillips |
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Creative Arts Club
Creative Arts Club aspires to create an all-inclusive club for students at the University at Buffalo to create and learn art by providing educational, social, and recreational activities. This club will hold events for students to learn skills, volunteer, and eventually visit some local museums. We further promote diversity and inclusion by hoisting some events geared toward cultural art as well. Additionally, this club is a place to relax and enjoy yourself to take away the daily stresses of college life.
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| Date Established: 09-15-2022 | |
| President: | Kaly Lin |
| Vice President: | Daphkar Albert |
| Treasurer: | Neha Anil Kumar |
| Secretary: | Mahiyat Alam |
Crochet Club
To provide students with a relaxing environment over the course of the academic semester to share our interests in crocheting/knitting, as well as decompress from the stress of school. The club will welcome any kind of student and does not discriminate against skill level in the craft; rather our focus is to bond and share skills related to crocheting!
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| Date Established: 03-19-2024 | |
| President: | Mahnoor Ahmed |
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| Treasurer: | Kellyann Cleary |
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Debate Society
Debate Society will provide a structure for students to debate past and current topics or issues. The club will encourage students to actively research and evaluate current problems and present them in a parliamentary style debate.
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| President: | Aisha Adam Bechir |
| Vice President: | Abdiel Singh |
| Treasurer: | Brayden Curran |
| Secretary: | David Hedquist |
| Advisor: | Andrew Adam Sachs |
Drivers Club
We the enthusiasts, in order to form a more perfect car community, seek to promote the continuance of car culture in a safe and accepting environment. We aim to enable students that are interested in cars to experience and learn what it's like to work on cars without physically working on them. We would like to create a network of enthusiasts that can assist each other with any questions regarding cars while sharing experience and advice for a collective learning environment.
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| Date Established: 10-15-2021 | |
| President: | Roy Miller |
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| Treasurer: | Rebecca Roy |
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Drone Club
This club seeks to introduce students to the creation, coding, and flight of First-Person View Drones (or FPV). Every year there is also a collegiate drone race that takes place with Universities across the US that we will train a team to compete in.
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EDM Club
The purpose of UB EDM Club is to bring together UB undergraduate students with a shared interest in EDM music. This club aims to bring these students together to attend local EDM events such as raves, host workshops so that students interested in music production can collaborate with each other, host weekly events such as album release listening parties or kandi making sessions, and to host our own raves on campus.
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| Date Established: 08-22-2023 | |
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Fashionista Club
The purpose of this club is to showcase our love for fashion. Showcase our photography, makeup, and fashion design skills. Bring body and diversity inclusivity into light within our showcases. Teach about the fashion industry and the good and bad surrounding it. For example, cultural appropriation within clothes. Learn how to sew, draw fashion designs, upscale thrift clothes, and how to model. all of this will bring the students closer together and build up everyone's confidence. Hold events such as runway shows, designing tote bags, decorating jeans, learning how to fashion illustrate, photoshoots, etc. Our meeting will help students destress and get to relax in a harmless and fun environment. We will build a close-knit community that is open for anybody to join. Many people that are interested in fashion are scared to fully commit to it, but with the fashionista club, they can explore and engage with the fashion world in a safe space with no consequences.
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| Date Established: 12-14-2021 | |
| President: | Kahmil Monk George |
| Vice President: | Stephanie Newberger |
| Treasurer: | Emily Rachpaul |
| Secretary: | Catarina Rasizzi |
Film Club
Film Club provides a positive and safe atmosphere that brings together students with a shared interest in movies. We aim to learn about and discuss various topics relating to movies and tv shows, such as genres, film history, and movie-making processes. No prior knowledge is necessary.
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| Date Established: 10-24-2023 | |
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Game Development Club
The purpose of the UB Game Development Club is to provide a space where students can learn about and discuss game design and development, and collaborate on student-led digital media/game projects.
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| Date Established: 04-24-2023 | |
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| Vice President: | Eli Zak |
| Treasurer: | Garrison BouchardFerdon |
| Secretary: | Everett Wong |
Glee
To provide entertainment to the University at Buffalo through music and singing and provide a safe and welcome environment for UB students to learn and hone their musical skills through voice and instrument.
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| Date Established: 09-08-2022 | |
| President: | Linh Vu |
| Vice President: | Ekamjot Singh |
| Treasurer: | Breanna Totaro |
| Secretary: | Kallia Hernandez |
Improv
To explore different form of improvisational theater; to create a relaxed and open creative environment with fellow students and to share improv with the University at Buffalo campus and its surrounding community; above all to foster a sense of fun in our members and audiences.
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| President: | Zane Roth |
| Vice President: | Edwin Irizarry |
| Treasurer: | Jacob Murphy |
| Secretary: | Tobias Pfluke |
Impulse Dance Force
Impulse Dance Force was founded in the Fall of 2004 by UB Alumni Samantha Sorrentino and Jaime Scheff. After observing a lack of dance classes available to non-dance majors, they sought to create a club that could incorporate any student at any level. Impulse is ran by students and functions much like a dance studio does. Every week we host numerous classes and at the end of the Fall and Spring semesters we put on a showcase for our friends and families. Styles of dance taught include jazz, ballet, pointe, tap, contemporary, modern, lyrical, hip-hop, and more! We welcome dancers of all skill levels! In addition, throughout the semester we host several social events and community service events – all great ways to meet your fellow IDF members and even help your community!
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| Vice President: | Sarita Das |
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Irish Dance Club
To practice and learn Irish dance and hopefully perform. Possibly compete against other Irish dance teams in the collegiate Irish dance competitions such as the Villanova dance competition.
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| Date Established: 12-10-2021 | |
| President: | Alicia Tow |
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Kickline
UB Kickline is a student-run dance club that combines movements of cheerleading and dance in an organized line dance. The club encourages the participation of all UB students to help promote school spirit across UB's campuses, express themselves through dance and meet new people.
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| President: | Kiera McHerron |
| Vice President: | Brianna Matthew |
| Treasurer: | Moa Lopez |
| Secretary: | Hailey Getsler |
Mock Trial
- To promote the reputation of UBMT within the American College Mock Trial community and beyond
- To promote interest in Mock Trial at the University at Buffalo
- To equip interested and qualified participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to be competitive in American Mock Trial Competition
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| Location: | SU 316 |
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| Vice President: | Tyler Michaels |
| Treasurer: | Nathan Upright |
| Secretary: | Haleena Haddad |
Outdoor Adventure Club
The objectives of the OAC are to promote the enjoyment of the outdoors in a variety of venues and activities as well as educate about the aforementioned venues and activities and their associated safety thereof. The OAC will pursue these objectives through regularly scheduled meetings, activities, and projects.
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| Location: | SU 370 |
| President: | Devon Logel |
| Vice President: | James Trometer |
| Treasurer: | Andrew Cancilla |
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| Advisor: | Russ Crispell, crispell@buffalo.edu, 716-481-5406 |
Pie Club
The purpose of a Pie Club is to create a community of pie enthusiasts who come together to celebrate and enjoy all things pie-related. This includes organizing pie tastings, sharing baking tips through workshops, exchanging homemade pies, hosting pie contests, and even using their passion for pies to support charitable causes through fundraising activities. Ultimately, Pie Clubs aim to foster a sense of camaraderie among members who share a common love for both sweet and savory pies while enjoying social interactions and culinary exploration.
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| Date Established: 10-05-2023 | |
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Pokemon Club
To bring Pokémon fans together and foster and environment for fans to share their love of Pokémon with each other. As well as facilitate events in the prominent formats of Pokémon, being the video games and the Trading Card Game. Events for other mediums under the Pokémon umbrella will also be represented at smaller scale.
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| Date Established: 08-22-2023 | |
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Stand Up and Laugh
This club will act as our own on-campus stand-up comedy club; with opportunities for workshops and collaboration in building public speaking/performance skills, networking, and collaborating with other like-minded creatives, as well as, strengthen writing skills among members, and most importantly, be comfortable space for students to relax and laugh.
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| Date Established: 10-01-2021 | |
| President: | Amber Manto |
| Vice President: | Lily Watson |
| Treasurer: | Michael Perez |
| Secretary: | Jon Rainer |
Step Troupe
Our mission is To uplift the spirit of the University at Buffalo in the form of step and dance techniques. We are a competing step team that performs at events at the University at Buffalo as well as other schools around the area. We also participate in competitions in and out of state. ?
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Strategists and Role Players Association (SARPA)
In recognition of that historical, simulation, and role-play gaming is practiced by millions, the UB Strategies and Role Players Association exists to unify those gamers attending the State University of New York at Buffalo, and others from the surrounding community. The UB Strategists and Role Players Association will serve as a forum to meet other gamers, so that games, both short and long term, can be organized and enjoyed.
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| Location: | SU 303 |
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UB Musicians
The UB Musicians is where Buffalo's musicians come together to play music and meet other music lovers. In a no-pressure free jam environment, musicians of every caliber can use Jam Club to hone their skills and perform.
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| Club E-Mail: | ubsa-jam@buffalo.edu |
| Location: | SU 302 |
| President: | Elias Price |
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| Secretary: | Denys Ostapenko |
Volume Up
Volume Up is a karaoke club that gathers undergrads who are interested in singing and having fun. The club aims to provide students with a creative outlet to express themselves and decompress after classes. In addition, the club will expose them to more artists and songs, offering a new perspective into the world of music.
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| President: | Kartikey Sharma |
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Women's Fitness Club
The purpose of this group is to support and encourage women looking to engage in different fitness activities like yoga or hiking. While women are the focus of this group, the club is open to anybody willing to participate. Our goal is to build
community and reduce stress through group fitness and other bonding activities.
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| Date Established: 03-07-2024 | |
| President: | Erin Piegza |
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