Are you and a student planning to submit an application to the Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (USRF) program? The Undergraduate Research Office is offering a workshop (same workshop offered on two dates) to help you learn more about the program, offer tips for preparing proposals, and answer your questions about the USRF program. Both workshops will be held in Butler Library 210B. The first workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, from noon to 1:00 p.m., and the second workshop will be on Thursday, March 15, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided. Note: Applications for this program are completed online and can be found at www.buffalostate.edu/undergraduateresearch.

Are you interested in sharing your research or experience regarding the gap between high school and college? Then this conference for professional staff, faculty, and students is for you! Plenary session featuring educators and administrators from the University at Buffalo, the Buffalo Public Schools, and Buffalo State College will discuss the issues facing the academy. Luncheon keynote address by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu.

Fr. Pat, director of Campus Ministry at the Buffalo State Newman Center, will celebrate the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick communally within the 11:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, March 4, at the Newman Center Chapel, 1219 Elmwood Avenue. Catholic men, women, and children who are anticipating surgery or who suffer from chronic illnesses of the body, mind, or spirit, or those who are of advanced age, may be anointed. If possible, please call Beth at 882-1080 or e-mail gardinem@buffalostate.edu to register your name. Health-care professionals and caregivers will also receive a blessing at this Mass.

Faculty and staff are invited to the “brown bag” presentation Student Development Theory in Film on Tuesday, March 6, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Butler Library 210.

Training Science Faculty to Support Scholarly Work and Undergraduate Research with High Performance Computing Tools

The College Writing Program is sponsoring a second Publishers’ Book Fair in Twin Rise 104 on Thursday, March 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Come and meet publishers’ representatives and preview new books available to you. Enjoy complimentary refreshments! The following publishers will be represented: Allyn & Bacon/Longman, Bedford/St. Martin’s, Houghton Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, and WW Norton. Representatives are eager to meet with and serve professors from all disciplines. For further information, contact the College Writing Program at ext. 5451 or hardinll@buffalostate.edu.

A new set of ANGEL trainings have been developed to assist instructors in using ANGEL. These trainings are for new instructors and also for instructors who wish to have a review of the ANGEL features. The following trainings are now being offered:

The African and African American Studies Interdisciplinary Unit (Aimable Twagilimana, Ph.D., Coordinator), the Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Unit

Please join us for networking time at Campus House on Wednesday, February 28, any time between 3:00 and 5:00 p.m.

Mark your calendars for next Friday! Join the Art Conservation Department for a night of “Assessing Authenticity” at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. From 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., conservation students and faculty will demonstrate some of the tricks of the trade for detecting a forged work of art. At 7:00 p.m., Paul Messier (’90) will present “Too Good to Be True: The Man Ray and Lewis Hine Authenticity Scandals,” discussing his research on fraud in the twentieth-century vintage-photography market and the forensic analysis of photographs. Messier will talk about investigations involving Man Ray and Lewis Hine photographs, and the tools and techniques he is developing to help distinguish the genuine from the fake.