The Newman Center has canceled this week's Thursday Night Dinner and Thursday and First Friday Masses because of the weather.

From the Dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences and Special Adviser to the Provost for Academic Research Initiatives

Please note: Two required qualifications for the following position description have been revised to read “demonstrated extensive” experience. The changes appear below in BOLDFACE CAPITAL LETTERS.

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The Institute for Community Health Promotion (ICHP) operates as a collaborative of professional teams focused on research, program development, program implementation, and training across the entire spectrum of prevention, health promotion, and related services. The two major programmatic focuses of ICHP are the Center for Health and Social Research (CHSR), encompassing health research and program development; and Learning, Engagement, and Development Services (LEADS), comprising research, program development, and training related to temporary and disability services, human services leadership, and other human services.

Responsibilities of the ICHP director include providing oversight of existing ICHP projects and contracts, overseeing and facilitating the development of new grants and contracts, and supporting and providing leadership to the institute’s teams with regard to the following:

• Conducting, analyzing, and reporting on research
• Developing and implementing evidence-based programs relevant to enhanced health outcomes
• Collaborating with service organizations, various government agencies, health professionals, and academics at other institutions
• Acting as the main liaison with Buffalo State administration for ICHP issues
• Conducting ICHP community-outreach efforts (on campus and off campus) to raise the recognition of ICHP and to provide a network to support ICHP projects
• Managing fiscal, human resources, administrative, and programmatic policies for ICHP
• Continuing support for the development of health promotion courses and curriculum for the Health, Nutrition, and Dietetics Department
• Supervising and mentoring key ICHP staff

Required Qualifications

• Earned doctorate in a discipline related to health promotion
• DEMONSTRATED EXTENSIVE experience as a principal investigator or co-investigator on externally funded projects
• DEMONSTRATED EXTENSIVE formal research or similar project management experience beyond the predoctoral level
• Established skills related to research techniques, scientific methodology, and project administration
• Demonstrated involvement in scholarly activities, such as teaching, making presentations, writing project reports, and publishing in scientific journals
• Proven ability to build and maintain professional relationships on and off campus, including with various government stakeholders
• Success in leading collaborations that have secured and maintained grants and contracts
• Ability to manage multiple projects and make executive-level decisions
• Expertise in working with community, county, and state agencies on program evaluation
• Experience conducting longitudinal projects on substance abuse, mental health, and health promotion topics
• Experience implementing organizational processes, policies, and procedures including fiscal, human resources, administrative, and programmatic policies
• Demonstrated expertise in supervising and mentoring professional program staff
• Experience conducting needs assessments with sponsors and target audiences and participating in the development, maintenance, and monitoring of evaluation results

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of building successful long-term research and program management teams
• Extensive experience with SPSS or similar data-analysis software
• Expertise in leading complex data-collection efforts including the development and implementation of telephone, online, and community-based surveys

Qualified candidates are invited to submit a current résumé and a cover letter addressing the required and preferred qualifications to the search committee chair, Karl Wende, population health scientist in CHSR. Review of applications will begin Thursday, February 14, and continue until the position is filled.

The Writing Center is pleased to offer several initiatives this semester to support the faculty:

• Faculty members who wish to encourage their students to visit the Writing Center may schedule a “commercial”—a 10-minute in-class presentation by a tutor who will explain the services offered by the center and how students can best use them to their advantage.
• Faculty members can now use the center for feedback on their own work. Maggie Herb, director of the Writing Center and assistant professor of English, will be available this semester to meet with faculty members who would like feedback on academic or professional writing projects, as well as to consult on the design and development of student writing assignments.

To schedule either a tutor visit or a faculty writing consultation, please contact Dr. Herb.

E. H. Butler Library's Archives and Special Collections and the LGBTQ+ Resource Center are collaborating on a series of exhibitions this semester that feature collections from the Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive. The first exhibition is a series of newspapers from the Fifth Freedom periodical. Visit the collection in the display cases on the third floor of the Campbell Student Union, on view through February 18, or access the digital archive through the Digital Commons. Stop by anytime the Student Union is open.

Upcoming Exhibitions

• February 18–March 25: LGBTQ Pins
• March 25–April 22: Pride/Political Posters/Gay Rights T-shirt Collection
• April 22–May 10: Gender Expressions: Charles Gustina Prints, Tangarra, Radical Faeries Photographs

The Fifth Freedom
The Fifth Freedom was a periodic free newspaper of the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, Western New York's most prominent early gay rights organization. As the official written mouthpiece of the region's first systematic gay rights organization, the Fifth Freedom expressed the earliest codified and widely distributed literature of the gay community within the region. Covering the time frame 1970–1983, the Fifth Freedom necessarily comments not only on the self-expression of a largely "invisible" self-identified group in the years that followed the Stonewall riots and preceded the onset of the more well-known AIDS epidemic, but also on Western New York and American culture overall. The newspaper content and editorial direction chronicle and critique a unique time in both American and worldwide history, as seen and expressed by an active though under-documented population.

Scholars now have universal online access to this seminal civil rights–centric material through the Digital Commons.

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.

The Buffalo State Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive is actively soliciting donations of materials and further support. As Madeline Davis herself has said, “Our community has a past, but no history.” The presence and continued growth of the many collections in the archives help to ensure that our shared history will only grow in scope and importance. Any contributions to the collections will help fill in historical gaps, ensuring that we have a past, a history, and a future.

With the prediction of severe winter weather, the campus's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) would like to share this document from FEMA, "Being Prepared for a Winter Storm" (PDF, 861 KB).

Also, please sign up for the college's emergency notification system, Buff State Alert, if you have not done so already.

Semester-long passes to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery for Buffalo State students are on sale now at the Rockwell Hall Box Office. The pass allows for unlimited visits to the gallery for the entire semester for only $10. The Rockwell Hall Box Office is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

With the first week of the term in full swing, please remember that academic advisers are available on a drop-in basis in South Wing 220 to assist any student at the times listed below. Although students are generally encouraged to meet with their assigned advisers regarding course selection, drop-in advisers are well equipped to offer general guidance, triage academic and personal issues, and assist students with administrative and technical processes (e.g., guiding students through using Banner or Degree Works, facilitating connections to campus resources for immediate concerns). 

Drop-in Advising Hours, Spring 2019

Monday–Thursday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 
Friday, 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. (open until 5:00 p.m. the Friday of Drop/Add)

The Academic Advisement Center is part of the Academic Commons.
(716) 878-5478 (South Wing 220, Drop-in Advising)
(716) 878-5223 (South Wing 100, Academic Commons General Reception) 

Come and celebrate the First Friday of each month at 8:00 a.m. at the Newman Center. We will gather for Mass and start the month with a renewed perspective. Stay for a cup of coffee afterward or take a cup to go. Our next celebration will take place this week, February 1.

The Newman Center at Buffalo State is located at 1219 Elmwood Avenue, across from the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Everyone is welcome.

Waitlists for the spring 2019 semester will be turned off at 11:59 p.m. today, January 29, the second day of classes. When waitlists are turned off, students are no longer able to add themselves to a waitlist; however, students who are already on a waitlist may still register for the class if a seat becomes available before the end of the drop/add deadline, which is 11:59 p.m. Sunday, February 3. Additional information on waitlisting can be found on the Registrar's Office website.

Please join Weigel Health Promotions and the Counseling Center on the first Tuesday of every month from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. in Caudell Hall 127 to learn healthful ways to predict and cope with stress and manage anxiety.

For more Weigel Wellness programs, please visit our website, check out our newsletter, follow us on social media, like us on Facebook, find us on Instagram, follow us on Twitter, watch us on YouTube, and follow us on Pinterest. You can also follow our Snapchat @bschealthpromo.