Michael Spogli, TIAA’s financial consultant, will be on campus to meet with Buffalo State faculty and staff members today (March 7), March 8, and March 10 between 9:00 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. in Butler Library 210B. Appointments are required.

This is your opportunity to review your financial situation and be sure you are on the path to reach your retirement goals. Do you have a plan? Have you reviewed it lately? Speak with a professional regarding your personal financial situation.

To schedule your appointment, visit the TIAA website. It’s never too early or too late to plan for your retirement. Schedule your appointment today.

Please join us for the panel discussion "Conflict Resolution around the World: Global to Local" on Wednesday, March 15, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. in the Ethel Lockman Newman Lecture Hall (Bulger Communication Center North).

The program will provide a forum in which diverse community members discuss inter- and intra-racial and ethnic conflicts and resolutions with Buffalo State College faculties, professionals, and students. Panelists will share their insights and experiences with conflicts and resolutions concerning ethnic, gender, and religious issues—from global to local.

Panelists
Chipamong Chowdhury, monastic social activist and dharma teacher
Gamileh Jamil, executive director of ACCESS WNY
Kyi Tha Tun, Fulbright scholarship recipient at the University of Pittsburgh
Leonce Byimana, program director for the WNY Center for Survivors of Torture at Jewish Family Service of Buffalo and Erie County

Moderated by Sam Magavern, co-director of the Partnership for the Public Good.

This event is open to the public. Please contact Win Min Thant, education coordinator with the Community Academic Center, 878-3289 with questions.

The Small Business Development Center presents “Survive and Thrive: Essentials for Starting Your Own Business,” a workshop covering all the essential information needed to start a business, on Tuesday, March 7, from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Burchfield Penney Art Center (second floor). Specific topics include creating a business plan; competition analysis; and tax, legal, and insurance issues. The workshop is free for Buffalo State College faculty, staff, students, and alumni as well as U.S. military veterans and $20 for all others.

Registration will take place immediately before the workshop, from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. To register in advance, please call the SBDC at 878-4030.

All members of the Teacher Education Unit (TEU) are invited to attend the Teacher Education Council (TEC) meeting on Friday, March 10, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in the Carmine A. Grande Conference Room, Cleveland Hall 418. Current issues of teacher education and the vote on revision of the TEC bylaws will be discussed.  

If you have not yet voted, please do so using the "Teacher Education Unit (TEU) By-Laws Vote" form. Voting is open through Wednesday, March 8.

Please join Beyond Boundaries: Dare to Be Diverse for "Women, Social Justice, and Documentary"  March 9–11 in celebration of Women's History Month. Please visit our Facebook page for updates, filmmaker bios, and full event descriptions.

Thursday, March 9
7:00 p.m. screening: Burchfield Penney Art Center
5:30 p.m., reception with the filmmaker: Metcalf Room, Rockwell Hall
Yoruba Richen, in person, with her award-winning documentary The New Black (2013). The film tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights.
Please join us Thursday at 5:30 p.m. for a reception welcoming Ms. Richen in Rockwell Hall’s Metcalf Room.
Watch the trailer.

Friday, March 10, 7:00 p.m.
Filmmakers' Panel
Filmmakers Yoruba Richen, Paulette Moore, Dorothea Braemer, and Grace Andriette will screen clips from their work and discuss the “Women, Documentary, and Social Justice” theme.

Saturday, March 11, 1:00 p.m.
Short films by Dorothea Braemer and Paulette Moore, with filmmakers in person:

• The Spirit of Standing Rock (2016), with Director Paulette Moore
  This documentary is a collection of soulful narratives from Standing Rock Water Protectors articulating what they believe are the defining world views, actions, and stories of our day.
• Searching for Paradise (2013), with Director Dorothea Braemer
  This documentary is about three pioneering art initiatives in rural Brandenburg, Germany. Sometimes named “space pioneers” for their innovative use of neglected land, the people who are part of these initiatives are, the film argues, important catalysts for cultural innovation and social change.

Beyond Boundaries is curated by Ruth Goldman, assistant professor; Meg Knowles, associate professor; and Michael Niman, professor, of the Communication Department and Jason Parker, diversity program coordinator in the Equity and Campus Diversity Office. The series is sponsored by the Communication Department, the Equity and Campus Diversity Office, the Women and Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Unit, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

Banner Preview begins Wednesday, March 8. Summer and fall 2017 registration begins Wednesday, April 5. All registration time tickets begin at 6:00 a.m. on the assigned date and then are continuous. More information is available on the Registrar's Office website.

Time tickets are determined by total credit hours earned. Credits are earned only when a student has received a passing grade. No credits in progress or being attempted are counted as earned credits.

Helpful PDFs to bookmark or print for reference:

Summer/Fall 2017 Web Registration Schedule, (PDF, 75 KB)

Summer 2017 Registration and Deadline Calendar, (PDF, 151 KB)

Fall 2017 Registration and Deadline Calendar, (PDF, 75 KB)

Banner Student Registration Guide, (PDF, 304 KB)

All students are encouraged to use Schedule Planner. Schedule Planner is an online planning tool to make registration easier. Schedule Planner simplifies and decreases the amount of time involved in planning a desired schedule.

It is important to know how to resolve Registration Add Errors promptly.

Take Back the Night, a yearly spring event that empowers survivors of sexual assault, will be held again this year on the new date of Monday, April 10, in the Campbell Student Union Social Hall. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Featuring student performances, songs, poetry, and dancing, this powerful and moving event usually draws more than 200 members of the Buffalo State campus and community. Campus and community organizations will also be present to support the cause, provide resources, and help raise awareness of sexual assault. Light refreshments will be served after the event, and a banner will be displayed for participants and attendees to sign.

Examples of previous performances can be seen on our YouTube channel. Volunteers are likewise needed to help direct, organize, and oversee the event. Interested students, both volunteers and performers, should fill out this form.

Also, please save the date for our Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraising event on Sunday, April 30, at Crisis Services. More information will be coming soon.

Please contact Paula Madrigal, assistant director of prevention and health promotions, 878-4719, for more information, to be involved in planning this event, or if you have any students who are interested in a current or future leadership role with the event through volunteering, internship, independent study, or capstone (event planning, dance, choreography, stage management, other).

The Small Business Development Center presents “Survive and Thrive: Essentials for Starting Your Own Business,” a workshop covering all the essential information needed to start a business, on Tuesday, March 7, from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Burchfield Penney Art Center (second floor). Specific topics include creating a business plan; competition analysis; and tax, legal, and insurance issues. The workshop is free for Buffalo State College faculty, staff, students, and alumni as well as U.S. military veterans and $20 for all others.

Registration will take place immediately before the workshop, from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. To register in advance, please call the SBDC at 878-4030.

Please join the Chemistry and Physics departments as Ozlem Dilek, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, presents "Synthesis of Bioorthogonal Fluorescent Probes: Turn-on Targeting and Imaging of Proteins in Live Cells" on Thursday, March 9, at 12:30 p.m. in Science and Mathematics Complex 173. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome.

Abstract
Bioorthogonal site-specific chemical reaction to label biomolecules in vitro and in living cells is one of the most powerful tools in chemical biology. In bioorthogonal chemistry, aldehyde or ketone functional groups can be attached to peptides and proteins. Reactive pairs frequently used for chemical conjugation are aldehydes/ketones with hydrazine/amine derivatives. The specific site of a protein can also be monitored by novel fluorophores using click chemistry at physiological conditions and temperature. In this research, we have synthesized a library of fluorophores that can react with the model compound of aldehyde on protein at or near physiological conditions to form a stable conjugated product. The final product shows a significant increase in fluorescence quantum yield upon covalent bond formation. Although the reaction is generally specific for the two components, even in a cellular environment, the reaction is very slow under physiological conditions. We have also found that adding an ortho-phosphate group to an aromatic aldehyde increases the reaction rate by an order of magnitude. An added benefit is that phosphate enhances the aqueous solubility of the reagent and its hydrazone product. This rapid bioorthogonal reaction with suitable probes should therefore be potentially a very useful strategy for site-specific chemical ligations to study and image complex cellular processes in biological systems.

The Fostering Innovation in Teaching with Technology (FITT) Spring Symposium, a signature event of the FITT Academy, is a series of final presentations by the academy's group of inaugural faculty participants. All presentations will take place in Technology Building 160 from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. are open to faculty, staff, students, and guests.

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Tuesday, April 4
Kathleen O’Brien, Lecturer and Campus House Director
Project: Utilize Blackboard Achievements to develop and design a digital credentialing system to recognize student competency of specific skills.

Seth Oyer, Assistant Professor of Communication
Project: Explore online scavenger hunts to enhance interactive experiences for students.

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Thursday, April 6
Amy McMillan, Associate Professor of Biology
Project: Use Camtasia to create instructional videos for BIO 303 and identify additional supplemental media.

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Tuesday, April 11
David Abbott, Instructional Support Specialist, Physics
Project: Digitize homework assignments and identify OERs to enhance student comprehension.

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Tuesday, April 25
Timothy Bryant, Assistant Professor of English
Project: Transform written assignments to incorporate digital and multimedia components in a way that can be reviewed by other students and published online.

Eric Dolph, Assistant Professor of Interior Design
Project: Investigate 3-D modeling software in a virtual reality environment to enhance spatial understanding using Google Cardboard.

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Thursday, April 27
Maria Pacheco, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Project: Develop faculty guide for OER adoption in their courses and apply creative commons license to share with the Buffalo State community.

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The FITT Academy is an intensive hands-on project-specific faculty development event sponsored by Resources for Information, Technology, and Education (RITE). This unique opportunity, held on campus for a full week in the summer, is designed to launch a faculty community of practice focused on advancing teaching with technology.

For more information please see the FITT Academy website.