The Buffalo State College community is invited to attend the 22nd annual Buffalo Niagara Ambassador Awards event on Wednesday, April 20, at 5:30 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney Art Center's Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium. The Buffalo State Hospitality and Tourism Department will honor three local industry professionals and present awards to outstanding students in the program. On this special night, hospitality students, supported by department faculty and staff, demonstrate their knowledge and talents as they present a menu of international cuisine and attractive wine pairings to all our guests.

This year's Ambassador Award recipients are community leaders who uphold the highest level of service standards and provide strong examples for our hospitality student managers. This year’s honorees are David Anastasi, partner at Lake Effect Sales and Marketing; Therese Forton-Barnes, owner of Events to a Tee; and Joseph Heary, executive director of Friends of Night People Inc.

Following the awards ceremony, enjoy a reception of haute cuisine–inspired stations with paired wines at Campus House.

Reservations are required. Please call Krista Constantino, Campus House guest service manager, at 878-3300, for more information.

Are you looking for solutions to a problem your department is facing, and hoping to craft an action plan? Service-learning students from Buffalo State’s creative studies program are able to help. As part of their Creative Problem Solving Process and Facilitation course, students use their skills to help organizations with new ideas for marketing their programs, new services to offer, ways to recruit volunteers, development of new programs for particular populations, personal and professional development programs, and more. This project is a kind of final exam for them. Students are looking to help your department and guide you through the creative problem solving process on Saturday, April 16 or 23. If you are interested in participating or have questions, please contact Jo Yudess, lecturer of creative studies.

Join us on Friday, April 8, for M&T Second Friday at the Burchfield Penney. On the second Friday of every month, the Burchfield Penney hosts something great, thanks to the support of M&T Bank. With openings and happy hours, programs, concerts, screenings, and other special events, visitors experience the best of the Burchfield Penney every Second Friday.

5:30–7:30 p.m. Music by Nikki Hicks

5:30–7:30 p.m. Opening Celebration for A Community of Artists, Object as Energy Point, and Collected Memories: Docents as Curators.

5:30–7:30 p.m. Drop-in Art-Making Workshop

5:30–7:30 p.m. Face Painting with Theater Design Students from Buffalo State

7:00 p.m. Ashley Powell: Understanding Our Compliance

More information is available on the Burchfield Penney website.

RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends.

The Higher Education Administration Department is pleased to announce the summer internship placements of five graduate students who have been selected for national internships through the Association for College and University Housing Officers - International (ACUHO-I).  Each year students in the higher education and student affairs administration (HESAA) program are able to apply for these highly competitive summer internships located at colleges and universities across the country.

This year's students and their respective placements are

• Erica Chaviano, resident education intern at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia;
• Sarah Hammill, resident education intern at Johnson and Wales University, Charlotte, North Carolina;
• Kaicherise McRae, residence life and housing intern, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, California;
• Christina Papaleo, residential coordinator for summer program, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York;
• Danielle Walker, resident director, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, California.

Please join us for a multidisciplinary conference, Data Analytics across Disciplines, sponsored by the National Professional Science Master's Association and the SUNY PSM consortium, May 18 and 19 at the Niagara Falls Conference Center in Niagara Falls, New York. The registration fee for SUNY students, faculty, and staff is subsidized (50 percent off the general registration fee) by a SUNY High Needs grant and includes breakfast and lunch for both days.

Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner Research, said, "Information is the oil of the twenty-first century, and analytics is the combustion engine." This conference is a timely opportunity for people across academia, private industry, government agencies, and nonprofits to get together to survey the current landscape of data analytics and to discuss reshaping the education—at the undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D. levels—of the next generation of professionals who will function in a data-intensive world.

For more information, please download the flier (PDF, 1.3 MB).

An updated version (March 18, 2016) of the R-25 Building and Room File (PDF, 390 KB) can be found on the Registrar's Office Forms and Services web page. Please be sure to bookmark the page, as updated versions will be posted there.

Please join Provost Melanie Perreault for an Affordable Learning Materials Initiative (ALMI) meeting on Friday, April 22, at 3:00 p.m. in Butler Library 210. In a recent survey, 76 percent of Buffalo State students indicated that they have not purchased a textbook at some point because of cost. The mission of ALMI is to increase access to high-quality, low-cost, or no-cost learning materials for all students at Buffalo State. Please join us in helping our students succeed.

RSVP through the online Workshop Registration System.

Please join Provost Melanie Perreault for an Affordable Learning Materials Initiative (ALMI) meeting on Friday, April 22, at 3:00 p.m. in Butler Library 210. In a recent survey, 76 percent of Buffalo State students indicated that they have not purchased a textbook because of cost at some point. The mission of ALMI is to increase access to high-quality, low-cost, or no-cost learning materials for all students at Buffalo State. Please join us in helping our students succeed.

RSVP through the online Workshop Registration System.

The annual Design Foundations Exhibition opens today, April 5, at 9:00 a.m., in the Dr. Margaret E. Bacon Student Gallery on the ground floor of Upton Hall.

On display are two- and three-dimensional works created by students in DES 101, DES 102, DES 103, and DES 307 courses, selected by foundations faculty members Missy Crowell, Jerry Mead, Colleen Toledano, Carol Townsend, and Robert Wood.

Show hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. This exhibition will also be open Thursday, April 7, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., concurrent with the reception for the annual Student Design Exhibition in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery. The Design Foundations Exhibition closes Friday, April 15.

Courses in the foundations program prepare visual arts students for study in their major programs and involve in-depth assignments stressing composition and form, idea development, design process, problem-solving, and color dynamics while strengthening skills and control.

Textbook adoption orders for fall and summer 2016 were due last month. Saving students money on their course materials and supporting their academic success is a priority for all of us. Submitting your book requests in a timely manner allows us to find the best available cost-saving options while providing students with information on the correct course materials.

Textbook rentals continue to be students' most popular choice, followed by used books. When you submit your textbook orders on time, it allows us to guarantee the largest selection of rental and used titles available.

Faculty Enlight is your best source to research materials for your course or simply submit your order. To get started, please visit the Faculty Enlight website. Faculty members should have received an e-mail with their account log-on information.