UUP discretionary increases will appear in the paychecks dated November 29. These increases are retroactive to July 1 for 12-month employees, and to September 1 for 10-month employees.
Buffalo's Everywoman Opportunity Center has extended its enthusiastic and sincere thanks for the more than 125 pieces of professional women’s clothing donated by myriad
The Buffalo-Lille Association Inc. will hold a special meeting at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 28, in Butler Library 210, following the official unveiling of the Louis Stephen Le Couteulx Way at 3:00 p.m. at the corner of Pearl and Edward Streets in Buffalo. All Francophone and Francophile organizations from the Western New York area are invited to join in this significant historical gathering to hear more about Louis Stephen Le Couteulx de Caumont, who arrived in our area in 1803. He was from a French ennobled family from Normandy who became associated with the Holland Land Company and acquired various plots of land. In 1829, Mr. Le Couteulx de Caumont showed his desire to actively participate in the development of Buffalo. At that time, there were about 800 Catholics in the area, but they had no permanent place of worship. Due to his grant of land for this purpose, St. Louis Church, the first Catholic Church was built along with other buildings. The meeting at 8:00 p.m. will see experts, including the executive director of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, make presentations on this prominent Franco-American figure.
Please join us for our Annual Customer Appreciation Holiday Sale on Thursday, November 30. Save 25 percent on all clothing, gift items, general reading books, and general merchandise. Refreshments and entertainment will be provided throughout the day. Sale will be during regular store hours, 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The Web team wants your photos! Do you have interesting classroom, lab, or student event photos you'd like Web site visitors to see? If so, we’d love to help by posting your photos on the college Web site. We accept images in any format: slides, prints, electronic files. Please forward material to Cleveland Hall 307, attn: Sue Zilliox, or call ext. 4201 to arrange for pickup.
The Buffalo State College Fitness Center will be closed starting at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 21. It will reopen on Monday, November 27, at 6:00 a.m.
Tuesday, November 21, at 12:15 p.m. in Science Building 220. Presenter: Steve Uurtamo. Gaussian Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are a flexible modeling tool that can provide data prediction and clustering information for multivariate time-series data. In this talk, Uurtamo will briefly describe Gaussian HMMs, along with a few efficient computational methods for obtaining them. I will also present experimental results from applying these models to real-world stock price data, along with an application in the hedge trading realm.
Before the review process, researchers must be sure that their project is, in fact, human subjects research as defined by the federal government. In order to qualify as human subjects research, the following must be true: (1) The participants must be living. Thus, oral history projects fall under the guidelines, but research involving diaries kept in the 1800s does not. (2) The project is a systematic investigation. That is, it is designed to be a study. For example, instances in classrooms where teachers ask students’ opinions on the material to gauge progress are not research. However, if that same teacher designs a study to evaluate two different methods of teaching the material to see which is more effective, this would be research if the third criterion is met. (3) The project is designed to contribute to the generalized knowledge. To qualify as research, the person conducting the project must intend it to be for dissemination at some level. On our campus, we also review student projects that may not be disseminated but that meet the first two criteria so that our students will learn the process of human subjects research and because we have contracted with the federal government to do so.
Please join the ANGEL Team for networking time at Campus House on Thursday, November 30 from 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Representatives from Community Blue, Independent Health, Univera, and the Empire Plan will be on campus from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 28, in E. H. Butler Library 210 to answer questions about current health insurance plans and anticipated changes in coverage for 2007. Have your cholesterol and blood pressure checked, or learn about the benefits of massage therapy. Representatives from the CSEA and UUP Benefit Trust Funds will demonstrate how to maximize dental and vision care benefits. Obtain information about the Employee Assistance Program and meet our EAP coordinators.