Matthew Podgorsak, chief physicist in the Department of Radiation Medicine at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, will give a lecture on radiation therapy on Thursday, February 27, at 12:30 p.m. in Science Building 272. Approximately half of all cancer patients will receive radiation therapy at some point during their treatment course. This talk will focus on the physical and biological principles involved in the delivery of radiation therapy. Historical perspectives and state-of-the-art technologies will be discussed.

"Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary," part of the International Center for Watercolor at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, will be held Sunday, March 2, from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Creativity lives in every one of us, so relax and let your creative spirit blossom. This hands-on workshop will have examples that the instructor, Michael Killelea, painted at home and on the road, and he will help you bring your experiences and visual impressions to life on paper.

Experienced artists and skilled beginners are welcome.

Killelea is a Western New York resident and world traveler who looks for and finds the extraordinary in the ordinary world all around us. His greatest frustration as an artist is his inability to quickly capture all the paintings he can see every time he turns his head. He is active in multiple national arts and watercolor organizations, and his work can be found at www.killeleart.com and on Facebook.

To register for this workshop, please contact Kathy Gaye Shiroki, ext. 3549, or download the registration form.

Cost: $35 for members, $45 for not-yet members.

My Appreciation of Watercolor: A Personal View – Roaming the Landscape by Thomas Aquinas Daly, will be held Friday, February 28, from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney Art Center as part of the International Center for Watercolor.
 
Thomas Aquinas Daly, a landscape and still-life painter, paints what he knows, and the result is a collection of poetic landscapes and still-life paintings that embody the theme of land and nature. His watercolor paintings reflect the light and atmosphere of his natural world.

Enjoy lunch at the Burchfield Café before the lecture. Watercolor presentations will be held Fridays from February 7 to March 14 in the conference room. Free with gallery admission.

More information is available at www.burchfieldpenney.org.

Now is the time to begin preparing for your midterms. Let us show you how with our first Bengal Basics workshop of the spring term:

Midterm Madness: Top Five Midterm Exam Prep Tips
Friday, February 28
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Bacon Hall 217

The Buffalo State Pride Alliance and the Counseling Center will present a display of Mending of the Hearts Quilt Memorial panels to honor those lost to HIV/AIDS on Monday, April 7, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union Assembly Hall. Hearts Quilt Memorial panels were provided by Evergreen Health Services.

Two screenings of United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, an inspiring documentary by Jim Hubbard about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement, will be shown in the Assembly Hall at noon and 4:00 p.m. Using oral histories of ACT UP members as well as rare archival footage, the film depicts the movement's efforts from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic, as they battle corporate greed, social indifference, and government neglect.

HIV testing by Evergreen Health Services.

Mending of the Hearts: Honor our past; protect our future.

Funding provided by a grant from the Faculty-Student Association Founders Fund. Sponsored by Buffalo State Pride Alliance and the Counseling Center.

The Career Development Center is proud to host Job Fair 2014 on Thursday, March 13, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union Social Hall. This event is open to all students from all majors and year levels, as well as alumni. Employers from local, regional, and national organizations will be in attendance to recruit for full-time jobs and internships.

Please remind students to dress in professional attire, bring multiple copies of their résumés, and research attending employers before the fair. For more assistance, refer students to the CDC’s guide “How to Make the Most of a Job Fair” and workshops on how to impress employers with a good introduction, proper attire, and protocol for follow-up.

For more information, please contact the Career Development Center.

The Graduate School will host an information session to showcase Buffalo State's distinctive graduate programs on Thursday, March 13, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210. For a complete list of participating programs or to register, visit the Graduate School website.

The Center for Development of Human Services/Institute for Community Health Promotion (CDHS/ICHP) College Partnership Development Office is accepting graduate and undergraduate student applications for its Public School Mentoring Program for the spring 2014 semester. Applicants must be enrolled full time at Buffalo State, have excellent written and verbal skills, and have previous experience tutoring or working with groups of children in an educational setting. Undergraduate students must be at least second-semester sophomores with a minimum GPA of 2.5. Positions are available immediately; interested students should pick up an information packet as soon as possible from Bacon Hall 114, between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. daily, and complete and return the application as soon as possible.

Please join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary American Promise (2013) on Thursday, February 27, at 6:00 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center South 2. The film will be followed by a discussion led by Teresa Miller, law professor and vice provost for equity and inclusion at the University at Buffalo, and Jason Parker, program coordinator in the Equity and Campus Diversity Office at Buffalo State. 

"American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African American parents in Brooklyn, New York, turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country, Manhattan’s Dalton School. Chronicling the boys’ divergent paths from kindergarten through high school graduation, this provocative, intimate documentary presents complicated truths about America’s struggle to come of age on issues of race, class, and opportunity."(PBS.org)

More information is available on Facebook.

The "Crisis!" film series continues Thursday, February 27, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Burchfield Penney Art Center with the Frontline documentary Money, Power and Wall Street: Parts I and II. First broadcast in 2012, this PBS documentary features interviews with dozens of the major decision-makers in and out of government about the lead-up to the 2007 housing bubble, the rapid unfolding of the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse, the devastating consequences to global financial markets in the fall of 2008, and the actions of both the Bush and Obama administrations in late 2008 and early 2009. Each film is preceded by a panel discussion and followed with a question-and-answer session moderated by Bruce Fisher, visiting professor of economics and finance and director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies.