Today, March 9, is the deadline for academic departments and student programs to submit their lists of awards received by members of the Graduating Class of 2020 for print in the Commencement program.

Instructions for both bachelor's and gradate-level programs are provided on the Commencement website.

Please contact Academic Affairs with questions regarding bachelor's lists, and contact the Graduate School with questions regarding the graduate-level lists.

Thank you.

Please be reminded that the submission deadline for the list of academic department and student program awards received by members of the graduating Class of 2020 is Monday, March 9, for publication in the Commencement program.

Instructions for both bachelor's and graduate-level programs are provided on the Commencement website.

Thank you.

The Philosophy Department's spring colloquium “Ex Machina and Philosophy,” ?presented by Jason Grinnell, chair and associate professor of philosophy, scheduled for today, April 20, has been canceled.

The Philosophy Department spring colloquium "Up in the Air as Philosophy: Buddhism and the Middle Path,” presented by Leigh Duffy, assistant professor of philosophy, scheduled for today, has been canceled.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

Please join the Philosophy Department for the spring colloquium “Being Thoughtful: How to Navigate Moral Complexity,” ?presented by John Draeger, professor of philosophy and director of the Teaching and Learning Center, on Monday, March 16, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Buckham Hall B145. Tommy Carr, senior honors student (philosophy and criminal justice major), will serve as commentator. The talk is free and open to the public. Please direct questions to Kimberly Blessing, professor of philosophy.

Please join the Philosophy Department for the spring colloquium "Critiquing Popular Theories about the Meaning of Life," ?presented by Kimberly Blessing, professor of philosophy, on Monday, March 9, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in Buckham Hall B145. The talk is free and open to the public. Please direct questions to Dr. Blessing.

Please join the Chemistry and Physics departments for the seminar "Synthetic, Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, and Catalytic Implications of Fe/Co/Ni-Based Complexes towards Small Molecule Activation," presented by Debashis Basu, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on Thursday, March 5, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Science and Mathematics Complex 176.

The lecture will survey recent applications of Fe/Co/Ni complexes toward a range of topical themes including water splitting, homogeneous catalysis, and biomimetic chemistry. Cobalt complexes of redox-active ligands are active electrocatalysts for proton reduction to generate dihydrogen. Ligands were optimized to confer water solubility and to stabilize lower oxidation states of the metal center. Both tetra- and pentadentate ligand architectures were investigated, especially those with pyridine-based ligands at one of the axial positions. In another project aimed at water oxidation, very different ligands were investigated. Specifically, the tetradentate pyridine-rich 2-(2-(pyridin-2-yl)quinolin-8-yl)-1,10-phenanthroline) (PPQ) afforded iron complexes that were effective under oxidizing conditions. Yet a third class of metal complexes were developed as catalysts for hydrosilylation catalysts. Thus Fe(II)/Co(II) complexes of the pincer-type phosphine-quinoline-pyridine [RPQPy] ligands were effective for alkene hydro/dehydrogenative silylation reaction. Time permitting, tripodal trithiolate ligands will be described as structural models for the active sites of the [NiFe] hydrogenase.

The Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (USRF) program supports eight weeks of full-time research, scholarly, or creative activity. USRF 2020 applications are welcome from all Buffalo State undergraduates with a graduation date of December 2020 or later.

Each fellowship provides a student stipend of $3,000, a faculty stipend of $1,000, and $500 for travel, supplies, or equipment to support the project. The deadline for student applications is 10:00 p.m. Monday, April 6; mandatory faculty mentor approval is due by 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 8.

To learn more about the program and access the online application portal, please visit the USRF program page on the Undergraduate Research Office website.

The Dean of Students Office and the Student Leadership and Engagement Office will co-sponsor the event SUNY's Got Your Back on Thursday, March 12, from noon to 2:30 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union lobby. The event provides students, faculty, staff, and community members from across the state with the opportunity to create comfort kits for victims and survivors of violence, and to learn methods of better preventing and responding to violence. We are looking for student, faculty, and staff volunteers for the event. Please e-mail Nina Pierino, sexual violence prevention coordinator, to sign up or for volunteer information.

In preparation for the academic year 2020–2021, please use the Software Request form to submit requests for new or upgraded lab software. All software requests for academic year 2020–2021 must be received by close of business Friday, March 20.

IT Strategic Planning and Operations works to research, document, acquire, and make available software for installation and access. IT is guided by campus policy and works in collaboration with a governance approval structure to be sure all requests are responsibly considered. The impact of decreased enrollment on Technology Fee revenues may affect the ability of IT to fulfill all requests.

Software licenses are treated as contracts by the New York State Office of General Services and the SUNY Office of General Counsel. Consequently, IT cannot guarantee the installation of or access to new software titles in time for the start of the academic year.

Completing a request form is necessary if

• lab software must be upgraded to a new version, or
• you are requesting a new software title (not yet installed) that is essential to your student outcomes.

To request software for your lab, please visit the IT Software Request web page and open a ticket for each title needed. Please complete a separate form for each request. For example, if the lab in Bacon Hall 123 requires an upgrade to SPSS and a new installation of iMovie, two separate requests should be submitted.

We also strongly encourage you to test the basic functionality of all equipment and software in your labs and classrooms before the start of the semester and to report any issues you encounter to the IT Help Desk.

IT Services will follow up with you if additional information is necessary. Thank you for your cooperation.