Please consider making a donation of household items for the children and families from Puerto Rico who have been displaced as a result of Hurricane Maria. A total of 120 children are currently enrolled locally at Herman Badillo Bilingual Academy and Buffalo Public Schools 3 and 33. They are in need of basic household necessities such as bed linens, bath towels, shower curtains, rugs, pots, pans, utensils, plates, or anything considered practical in a home.

Items may be dropped off at the Campbell Student Union Donation Station, located across from the Information Desk, from February 19 through March 5.

For more information, please contact Kim Meissner from Herman Badillo or Evelyn Rosario, senior academic adviser in Buffalo State's Educational Opportunity Program, 878-4426 or 878-4224.

Thank you for helping to make a difference!

Please consider making a donation of household items for the children and families from Puerto Rico who have been displaced as a result of Hurricane Maria. A total of 120 children are currently enrolled locally at Herman Badillo Bilingual Academy and Buffalo Public Schools 3 and 33. They are in need of basic household necessities such as bed linens, bath towels, shower curtains, rugs, pots, pans, utensils, plates, or anything considered practical in a home.

Items may be dropped off at the Campbell Student Union Donation Station, located across from the Information Desk, from February 19 through March 5.

For more information, please contact Kim Meissner from Herman Badillo or Evelyn Rosario, senior academic adviser in Buffalo State's Educational Opportunity Program, 878-4426 or 878-4224.

Thank you for helping to make a difference!

We invite you to visit the new Student Conduct and Community Standards website for information about the student conduct process, to nominate a student to be chosen for our Student Spotlight section, or to apply to become a board member. Please tell students about our new site and feel free to follow up with our office with any questions you may have regarding student conduct and community standards at Buffalo State.

All departmental service requests to use EvaluationKIT for spring 2018 course evaluations must be made no later than Thursday, March 15, to guarantee successful deployment. Request a departmental course evaluation deployment through the RITE Self-Service Portal before the deadline.

RITE offers the EvaluationKIT electronic course evaluation platform for the creation of department-level course surveys. This system is an alternative to the use of Scantrons and Blackboard Enterprise Surveys for electronic course evaluations and provides greater efficiency for the deployment, collection, and analysis of course evaluations across the institution.

EvaluationKIT offers a fully hosted online course evaluation and survey system designed to streamline the entire student feedback process for our campus. 

Register for a session through the Workshop Registration System to learn more about EvaluationKIT and participate in a question-and-answer session.

Please join the Physics Department for the lecture "The Amazing Constants of the Universe" on Thursday, February 22, at 12:30 p.m. in Science and Mathematics Complex 169. The universe is unlikely. Very unlikely. Martin Rees, Britain’s royal astronomer, says that if any of a handful of fundamental constants of the universe were different, “even to the tiniest degree, there would be no stars, no complex elements, no life.” David Ettestad, associate professor of physics, will present these constants and explain why they must be so fine-tuned for life to exist.

The following Blackboard professional development workshops will be offered in March:

• Grade Center
• Collaboration Tools
• Utilizing Rubrics
• Student Performance and Retention Center
• Gamifying Using Achievement Badges

Detailed descriptions of each workshop session are available on the RITE website. All sessions will be held in Bulger Communication Center 122. Workshops can be taken independently or as a part of the Blackboard Specialization Certificate Series. All workshops are suitable for instructors teaching face-to-face, hybrid, or online courses. 

Please register online through the Workshop Registration system.

Please join us for the VOYA financial planning workshop "What's Your Game Plan? The Offense, Defense, and Special Teams of Financial Life Planning," on Tuesday, March 20, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Caudell Hall 110.

What do winning the Super Bowl and preparing a financial package have in common? Come to this workshop and find out. Common questions that will be answered include How long can my money last? Should I rebalance my portfolio? Should I temporarily move to the sidelines? and Am I comfortable with a high-risk offense, or do I need to be more conservative?

Lunch will be provided. To register, please contact Molly Pecoraro at VOYA, (716) 626-3928.

Robert Mueller III’s indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in the 2016 U.S. election is a perfect example of real manifestations of identity theft, fraud, and manipulation. This is social engineering (identity theft, fraud, manipulation) at its finest through the use of technology (networks, servers, social media platforms). It’s not a long document. Share it with your students, your friends, your family. Be aware. Check sources. Don’t get your news from social media. Don’t click on links (of any kind) in social media.

In June 2017, the online playlist service known as 8Tracks suffered a data breach that compromised 18 million accounts. Buffalo State received information from haveibeenpwned that at least 52 account holders used their Buffalo State e-mail addresses as their usernames to activate 8Tracks accounts. If you have an account with 8Tracks, please change your password. Never use the same password for multiple accounts. Each account you create should have a unique password. 

Check your accounts at https://haveibeenpwned.com/.

Anyone interested in discovering the Spirit of Chautauqua is welcome to attend the lecture "The Buffalo-Chautauqua Idea: Imagine Infusing One City (Buffalo) with the Spirit of Chautauqua," by Dennis Galucki, founder and coordinator of the Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History, and Nature, on Tuesday, February 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Butler Library 210. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Jean F. Gounard, director of special international programs, 878-6917.