Please join us for an hour of student, faculty, and staff networking on Thursday, April 25, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore. This month's theme is "Next Level Success," featuring The Magic of Thinking Big, by David J. Schwartz.

The book is on sale at Barnes & Noble for 20 percent off the list price. Refreshments will be served.

Join the Buffalo State team for the 27th annual AIDS Walk Buffalo on Saturday, May 4, at Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park. Sign up through the Bengal Allies page.

This 5K walk benefits Evergreen Health (formerly AIDS Community Services), a nonprofit agency that fosters healthy communities by providing medical, supportive, and behavioral services to individuals and families in Western New York, especially those who are living with chronic illness or who are underserved by the health-care system.

Visit the website to show your support by joining the team, by making a donation to Evergreen Health or in direct support of one of the team's registered participants, or by just showing up to cheer us on!

Learn more about the Buffalo State Bengal Allies and the LGBTQ+ Resource Center.

Campus departments and offices are invited to add fliers and other information about their areas to the new student welcome bags that will be distributed during the summer Orientation sessions. All materials must be dropped off at the Student Leadership and Engagement office, Campbell Student Union 400, no later than Tuesday, May 14.

Please indicate if your materials are for first-year, transfer, or parent bags (or any combination). The following quantities are needed: first-year (2,000), transfer (1,000), parent (1,000).

If you need further information or have questions, please contact the Student Leadership and Engagement Office, 878-5336.

The LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the Bengal Allies invite all members of the campus community to the final Bengal Ally Mixer of the semester on Wednesday, May 1, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union Fireside Lounge (third floor). We will take a group photo at 4:00 p.m. to commemorate our successful first semester of the LGBTQ+ Resource Center. Join students and other faculty and staff members in a casual, friendly environment with free refreshments and excellent conversation. These mixers are an opportunity for members of the campus's lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning, and ally community to informally meet and strengthen our association and visibility at Buffalo State.

Mission Statement
The Buffalo State LGBTQ+ Resource Center provides a safe, inclusive, and celebratory environment for LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff. We seek to provide members of our campus community with resources that will support and affirm each individual’s process of self-discovery and identity development and facilitate connections between our campus and the Buffalo community. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center provides access to informative media, training, professional development, and advocacy.

Lavender Graduation, an opportunity for graduating LGBTQ+ students to be celebrated and honored for their achievements and contributions they bring to our campus, will be held on Wednesday, May 8, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Grande Conference Room, Cleveland Hall 418.

To learn more or to register for this event, please visit the Student Leadership and Engagement Office Lavender Graduation web page.

The Anne Frank Project is partnering with Buffalo's Rwandan and East African communities to host “Kwibuka25: Remember. Unite. Rebuild” on Sunday, April 28, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center 215. Kwibuka is an international commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, held at designated conferences and embassies around the world. The public is invited to attend.

The program includes the following:

• Candle lighting and survivor testimony
• Speakers from the Rwandan Embassy and local Rwandan community
• Katherine Conway-Turner, president of Buffalo State College
• Representative of the Honorable Byron Brown, mayor of Buffalo
• Drew Kahn, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and founding director of AFP
• Buffalo State alumni and AFP Rwanda delegate reflections

Please plan to attend the entire event out of respect for the victims and survivors. For more information, please visit the Kwibuka25 website.

Questions? Please contact Drew Kahn or Eve Everette, AFP assistant director.

Gender Expressions is the final exhibition in this semester’s series featuring the Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive, sponsored by Butler Library's Archives and Special Collections and the LGBTQ+ Resource Center.

This exhibit, featuring gender expression groups such as the Radical Faeries and the African American Ball Culture, will be on display through Friday, May 10, in the Student Union third-floor exhibit case. The photographs were generously donated to the Buffalo State Archives and Special Collections’ Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York and are available to faculty, students, and researchers. A full inventory of the collection can be found online.

Gender Identity vs. Gender Expression
Gender identity is internal. It is, quite simply, the gender with which a person identifies. It’s the word (or words) that people use to define themselves that simply make sense to them.

Gender expression, on the other hand, is the way in which a person expresses their gender. It is what everyone around us can see. A person may identify as a woman and dress in a traditionally feminine way. A person may identify as a woman and dress in a traditionally masculine way. The point is that the two are not necessarily related.

For more information about the LGBTQ+ Resource Center please visit our website.

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About the Madeline Davis LGBTQ+ Archive of Western New York
In 2001, noted gay rights activist Madeline Davis founded the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Archives of Western New York as a way to collect, safeguard, and provide access to materials that document the LGBTQ+ communities of Western New York and Southern Ontario.

In 2009, the archives were transferred to Buffalo State’s E. H. Butler Library. Housed in the Archives and Special Collections, the archives have expanded to more than 300 linear feet of items and have become the region’s largest LGBTQ+ collection. More than 80 individuals, groups, and diverse organizations are represented in the tens of thousands of documents and items that include photographs, local organizational records, multimedia materials, pamphlets, posters, clippings, awards, signs, banners, plaques, and published materials as well as an array of ephemeral items and other pieces that date back to the 1920s.

Please join the Chemistry and Physics departments for the seminar "Advancing In Situ Dynamic Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction," presented by Gage Bateman, Ph.D. candidate in the University at Buffalo's Department of Chemistry, on Thursday, April 25, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Science and Mathematics Complex 173.

In situ x-ray diffraction techniques provide the ability to monitor the change in the structure of crystals, such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), in response to changes in the local chemical environment surrounding the material. These methods reveal the location and concentration of guest species as well as the reorganization of the host framework as the contents of the void spaces are exchanged. Previous work in our group examined the dehydration of a flexible cobalt-based framework in the single crystalline phase using dry nitrogen gas as well as the exchange of the lattice waters with ethanol. Further in situ single crystal x-ray diffraction measurements performed on this cobalt-based framework reveal intriguing results for solvent exchange that show distinct differences with previous results seen ex situ. These results reveal a more complex, intricate system than previously believed.

The spring 2019 Conversations in and out of the Disciplines series concludes Friday, May 3, as Patrick McGovern, associate professor of political science, presents “Crossing the Postmodern Divide: Trump, Truth, and Undergraduate Political Education.” The talk, followed by a “Q&A,” will begin at 3:00 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 320. A short wine and cheese reception will follow. Everyone is welcome.

The Conversations series was started 10 years ago by Ann Colley, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, to “celebrate and draw attention to the research being done in various departments at Buffalo State College.” Over the years, colleagues from anthropology, art conservation, art history, biology, English, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, and secondary education among others have shared their work with the Buffalo State and Buffalo communities. The series will continue in the fall. Stay tuned for more information.

The Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program will celebrate the exemplary academic performance of its students at the annual EOP Honors Convocation on Thursday, May 9, at 3:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall. This year's theme is "We the People: Believe, Inspire, Achieve." Highlights of the program include the high points of EOP during the year, as well as the presentation of special awards to students, staff, and faculty.

This year, two individuals will be recognized as distinguished alumnae: Crystal Rodriguez, '05, assistant professor in the Social Sciences Department at Bronx Community College, and Cassandra St. Vil, '05, CEO of Amateka College Preparatory Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. The EOP Honors Convocation ceremony recognizes students who have obtained a 3.0 semester or cumulative GPA during the 2018 calendar year. The campus community is invited to attend. A catered reception will immediately follow. RSVP to 878-4224, 878-4426, or mccoycm@buffalostate.edu by Saturday, April 27.