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Hobby Council
Coordinator: Matthew Dowd
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 | Animation Production Club | Anime | Audubon Club | Chess Club | Code-Switch and Stitch Club | Cornhole Club | Cosplay | Crafter's Guild | Creative Arts Club | Debate Society | Drivers Club | EDM Club | Fashionista Club | Glee | Graphic Design and Digital Media Club | Improv | Impulse Dance Force | Irish Dance Club | Kickline | Mock Trial | Outdoor Adventure Club | Photo Club | Poker Club | RE:VIVE K-pop Dance Team | Skateboard Club | Skydiving Appreciation Club | Stand Up and Laugh | Step Troupe | Strategists and Role Players Association (SARPA) | UB Musicians | Unicyclists
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: | Emily Macfarlane |
| Vice President: | Jacob Cornell |
| Treasurer: | Jennifer Tsang |
| Secretary: | Dominic Emphasis |
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Animation Production Club
The club aims to provide aspiring animators with a place to hone their skills, teach them about collaboration and working with others in a professional setting, add pieces to their portfolios, build up a network of fellow animators, and let them get out their creative urges in a free environment boasting creative freedom, expression, and experimentation. (Mostly 2D and some 3D)
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| Date Established: 10-22-2021 | |
| President: | Sergio de la Vega |
| Vice President: | Alexa Billings |
| Treasurer: | Andy Wilson |
| Secretary: | Nicolee Jimenez |
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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: | Jake Acocella |
| Vice President: | Tamaji Tigenoah |
| Treasurer: | Tony Yang |
| Secretary: | Isabelle Ingleman |
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| Date Established: 02-22-2022 | |
| President: | Claudia Choroser |
| Vice President: | Victoria Miller |
| Treasurer: | Kaitlyn Ballou |
| Secretary: | Kaelie Butterfield |
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Chess Club
To create an enjoyable chess environment for students what would like to play and learn how to play chess.
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| Date Established: 11-04-2016 | |
| President: | Alexander Stroud |
| Vice President: | Ryan Jong |
| Treasurer: | Sophie Su |
| Secretary: | Craig Jones |
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Code-Switch and Stitch Club
To create a safe and welcoming environment for bilingual and monolingual students alike in an effort to practice their lesser-used language or to learn new languages from others. All while in the environment and based around stitched-based crafts such as crocheting, knitting, embroidery, etc.
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| Date Established: 10-31-2022 | |
| President: | Layla Jensen |
| Vice President: | Cameron Laird |
| Treasurer: | Brynne Parkman |
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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 | |
| President: | Luke Wereski |
| Vice President: | Adam Velasquez |
| Treasurer: | Brandon Licursi |
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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: | Cade Dewey |
| Vice President: | Moel Mezquita |
| Treasurer: | Jorden Tethong |
| Secretary: | Jamie Jiang |
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Crafter's Guild
The club will strive to build a haven of support among creative students of UB, with a strong focus on giving back to the Buffalo community. These goals will be achieved through a mixture of relaxed meetups where members can socialize and craft over coffee and snacks, charity-focused semester-long projects where members will handcraft items for donation to shelters and other charitable organizations, and events where members get together to learn new crafts and skills.
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| Date Established: 09-02-2022 | |
| President: | Emma Gillebaard |
| Vice President: | Emmaline Kunkel |
| Treasurer: | Ashley Allegretti |
| Secretary: | Kaylee Hutchins |
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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 |
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| Treasurer: | Daphkar Albert |
| Secretary: | Abuk Majok |
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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: | David Hozempa |
| Vice President: | Joyce Marshall |
| Treasurer: | Jeremy Caradonna |
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| Advisor: | Andrew Adam Sachs |
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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: | Aidan Boebel |
| Vice President: | Eric Groff |
| Treasurer: | Brandon Pettit |
| Secretary: | Jake Hall |
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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: 03-08-2023 | |
| President: | Dominick Matarese |
| Vice President: | Lizzy Manderson |
| Treasurer: | Angelica Therese Franciso-Morales |
| Secretary: | Noah Ortiz |
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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: | Samantha Polanco |
| Vice President: | Sifat Ullah |
| Treasurer: | Jessica Gurbacki |
| Secretary: | Addison Schoonmaker |
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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: | Chloe Nugent |
| Vice President: | Gavin Fox |
| Treasurer: | Thierry Juang |
| Secretary: | Savanna Falsone |
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Graphic Design and Digital Media Club
The purpose of the Graphic Design and Digital Media Club is to allow graphic designers to network, critique others, and generally improve their skills through collaboration. It will allow people going into the field of design to build up their portfolio/resume, make new friends and share their ideas of creating specifically through a digital medium.
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| Date Established: 10-17-2022 | ||
| President: | Josh Lemke | Brody Krombach |
| Vice President: | Nicholas Pratt | |
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| Secretary: | Sydney Ardanuy | |
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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: | Moca Tanaka |
| Vice President: | Tim Nunez |
| Treasurer: | Paige Kent |
| Secretary: | Killian Hannigan |
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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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| President: | Jenna Bradshaw |
| Vice President: | Ashlynn Wrobleski |
| Treasurer: | Hannah Ruth |
| Secretary: | Jessica Reale |
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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: | Kelly ONeill |
| Vice President: | Grace Power |
| Treasurer: | Katie Bales |
| Secretary: | Alyssa Lickfeld |
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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: | Jacquelyn Williams |
| Vice President: | Anna Testa |
| Treasurer: | Vienna Volpe |
| Secretary: | Savannah Walker |
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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 |
| President: | Mathew Dowd |
| Vice President: | Austin Wolfgang |
| Treasurer: | Sarah Benstock |
| Secretary: | Julian Said |
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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: | John Toftegaard |
| Vice President: | Grace Koebcke |
| Treasurer: | Heidi Eberhardt |
| Secretary: | Cameron Defendorf |
| Advisor: | Russ Crispell, crispell@buffalo.edu, 716-481-5406 |
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Photo Club
To help students explore their creative side through the lens of a camera and share their images with one another.
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| Date Established: 04-17-2011 | |
| President: | Brianna Friend |
| Vice President: | Eric Alcalde |
| Treasurer: | Mark Anthony Punsamie |
| Secretary: | Ilsa Kloiber |
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Poker Club
This club will bring together individuals who enjoy playing poker in a social yet competitive environment and to hone the skills of UB Students.
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| Date Established: 02-22-2017 | |
| President: | Harry Feinberg |
| Vice President: | Adam Plecha |
| Treasurer: | Nyla Beaton |
| Secretary: | Matthew Mittiga |
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RE:VIVE K-pop Dance Team
We are a multicultural, competitive K-pop dance team. In our organization, we will host events such as the following: random dance plays, dance relays, and dance workshops. As a competitive dance team, we will also learn choreographies and compete in dance competitions hosted by UB clubs and outside organizationsAs a team we value diversity, inclusivity, and personal growth. We welcome dancers of all skill levels as we also teach choreographies.
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| Date Established: 02-19-2023 | |
| President: | Jourdan Ezzell-Kelley |
| Vice President: | Sophia Rafaloff |
| Treasurer: | Sonny Hsia |
| Secretary: | Rachel Li |
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Skateboard Club
The purpose of our organization is to connect fellow skaters around the UB campus and ensure a fun and social environment to meet new people and sharpen skills. More specifically, events will include skateboard sessions at local parks as well as skateboard competitions.
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| Date Established: 10-25-2021 | |
| President: | Anthony Curione |
| Vice President: | Schaefer Scarritt |
| Treasurer: | Michael Testone |
| Secretary: | Ethan Kenney |
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Skydiving Appreciation Club
The UB Skydiving Club will serve to educate undergraduate students about the sport of skydiving and the topics related to it without having to engage in the sport itself. The goal will be to create a more positive understanding of the sport through informational demonstrations by professionals and bringing in guests who participate in the sport.
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| Date Established: 08-30-2022 | ||
| President: | Calvin Gath | |
| Vice President: | Adrienne Neilson | |
| Treasurer: | Rick Henkel | Zayn Johnson |
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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: | John Garcia |
| Vice President: | Tina Rocha |
| Treasurer: | Robert Havner |
| Secretary: | Ofeibea Micah |
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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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| President: | Stephanie Sam |
| Vice President: | Ahmya Mcmillan |
| Treasurer: | Audi Tanusantoso |
| Secretary: | Brianna Quashie |
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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 |
| President: | Isabelle Ingleman |
| Vice President: | Donnie Hartel |
| Treasurer: | Ryan Davidson |
| Secretary: | Joe Perry |
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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: | Spencer Szeto |
| Vice President: | Nicholas Lee |
| Treasurer: | Matt Nastro |
| Secretary: | Matt Reimer |
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Unicyclists
The purpose of this club is to create a community where unicyclists can gather, socialize, and teach other members how to unicycle.
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| Date Established: 10-31-2022 | |
| President: | Ryan Kahle |
| Vice President: | Sean Smith |
| Treasurer: | Skyler Roth |
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