Please join the Great Lakes Center for its annual open house today, November 13, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Science Building 250.

We will present the center’s 2014–2015 annual report, report on the progress of our ecosystem science graduate program, discuss current and potential projects and ideas, and usher in our 50th anniversary.

The discussion will be informal, with spoken and visual presentations. Refreshments will be served. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome.

Please join the Great Lakes Center for its annual open house on Friday, November 13, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Science Building 250.

We will present the center’s 2014–2015 annual report, report on the progress of our ecosystem science graduate program, discuss current and potential projects and ideas, and usher in our 50th anniversary.

The discussion will be informal; presentations will be spoken and visual. Refreshments will be served. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome.

As part of an IITG SUNY grant, the popular Buffalo State massive open online course (MOOC), Ignite Your Everyday Creativity, will be back and available on demand. Join Creative Studies faculty members Cyndi Burnett and John Cabra as they take you through the four P's of creativity: person, process, press (environment), and product.

Earlier this year, the team wrapped up its first course offering with astounding numbers: over 43,000 participants from 172 countries. Now, thanks to positive student feedback, the “Ignite Team,” and the IITG SUNY grant, an on-demand version of Ignite Your Everyday Creativity is available to the public.

The newest version of this popular MOOC includes updated content, extra resources, and more flexible scheduling. Thanks to the open-ended nature of the course, students will be able to learn about creativity at their own pace.

For more information on Ignite Your Everyday Creativity or to sign up for the course, please visit the Coursera website.

The deadline to remove incomplete (I) grades from spring and summer 2015 terms is Friday, November 6. From the Undergraduate Catalog:

Incomplete Grades
An incomplete grade is a temporary grade issued for medical emergencies or life crises. Students must request an incomplete grade directly from the instructor. An incomplete grade is converted to a letter grade by the 10th week of the following spring or fall semester. If the work is not completed by that time, the instructor will submit a grade based upon the amount of work completed. If the instructor who granted the incomplete is not able to evaluate the student’s fulfillment of course requirements during the stipulated period, the chair or program coordinator is responsible for changing the grade. Anyone not completing the course requirements within this time will automatically have a grade of E recorded.

As of summer 2015, courses designated as writing infused for the Intellectual Foundations 2014 Intellectual Skills and Competencies category count as writing intensive (W) courses for students in the original Intellectual Foundations program (enrolled 2006–spring 2014). Lists of courses in all infused categories can be found on the Intellectual Foundations website. For more information, please contact Amitra Wall, assistant dean of intellectual foundations.

Buffalo State is pleased to present After the Fire: A True Story of Heroes and Cowards, a documentary based on two survivors of the infamous residence hall fire at Seton Hall University, on Friday, October 23, at 4:00 p.m. in Rockwell Hall. This event will feature a screening of the film with special guest speakers Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, survivors of the fire. Please visit the film's website for more information about this amazing true story. This event is free and open to the campus community. Doors will open at 3:15 p.m.

The Student Success and Student Life offices will present the webinar "Project CEO: Building Career Competencies into Student Leadership Programs" on Monday, November 9, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Campbell Student Union Assembly Hall 2.

The webinar will provide evidence of student learning outside the classroom and help participants learn to tell their own student learning story to others.

Please contact the Student Life Office, 878-4631, with questions.

The Student Success and Student Life offices will present the webinar "Student Activities Programming by the Numbers" on Wednesday, October 28, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Campbell Student Union Assembly Hall 2.

The webinar will offer information to help student affairs professionals measure student activities (social programming), examine methods, and set programming goals and standards that align with their school.

Please contact the Student Life Office, 878-4631, with questions.

The Fall 2015 Critique and Evaluation Period (CEP) Schedule with Block Exam Detail is now available online. Hard copies are available in the lobby of Moot Hall, outside the Registrar's Office in Moot Hall 210.

Please join the Biology Department for the seminar "Is Resistance to Biological Invasion Futile in the World's Anthropogenic Ecosystems?" presented by Andrew MacDougall, associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph, on Monday, October 26, at 3:00 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center West.

All faculty, staff, and students are welcome.

Seminar Abstract
Biotic resistance involves antagonistic species interactions regulating the establishment and spread of new species. Given that species invasions are increasingly recognized as a major threat to the resident diversity and ecosystem functioning of many of the world’s biological systems, biotic resistance has been predicted to play a potentially large role in regulating these changes. A fundamental challenge with resistance, however, is the difficulty in consistently demonstrating its importance. It is common to observe resistance in fine-scale experimentally constructed communities, but supporting evidence from field-based studies, at a range of spatial resolutions, vary widely, sometimes within the same system. These uncertainties illustrate a wider debate on the functional significance of resident diversity and invasive species in contemporary landscapes. This talk will explore these issues, reviewing recent research on diversity maintenance and species invasions in an attempt to reframe the question from "Why does resistance often fail?" to "What are the environmental situations, especially in human-influenced landscapes, where biotic resistance is most likely to be important?"