Please join the Rooftop Poetry Club, on Wednesday, April 23, at 4:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210 for a presentation featuring the multimedia work of Alan Bigelow.

College Senate elections for four at-large and one University Faculty Senate position continue through Friday, April 25. Please vote! Eligible voters can vote electronically by going to the election site (logon required), directions on how to logon have now been added to the College Senate home and news pages. Paper ballots are available by request from the College Senate Office, Cleveland Hall 211. Thank you for supporting college governance!

Coyer Field and its surrounding track will be closed beginning Monday, April 21, and will remain closed for the entire summer for major repairs.

The School of Natural and Social Sciences, Dean Lawrence Flood, and the Science Building Advocacy Committee cordially invite you to a reception to celebrate the unveiling of current design concepts for the new Science and Mathematics Complex. The reception will be today, April 18, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the Science Building lobby immediately following the School of Natural and Social Sciences faculty meeting. Refreshments will be provided in Science Building 250.

Susan Leist, director of the College Writing Program, will be conducting two five-day-long writing across the curriculum workshops. These workshops are faculty development for people who are using or who want to use writing as a teaching tool in W course instruction or in any other teaching context. Workshop I will be held May 26–30; Workshop II will take place June 2–6. Workshops will be held from noon to 5:00 p.m. each day. A location will be announced. Please e-mail Jean Salisbury to register for a workshop.

Buffalo State and SUNY Geneseo's Applied Math programs are sponsoring a national undergraduate research meeting focused on biomathematics today, April 18, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. and Saturday, April 19, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Crown Plaza in Niagara Falls. For further info, please visit the U-BioMath-Day information page, or contact Joaquin Carbonara or Saziye Bayram.

"Are we there yet? Teachers and Learners in a Digital World" is the theme of the SUNY CIT 2008 Conference on Instructional Technologies.

The African and African American Studies Interdisciplinary Unit (School of Natural and Social Sciences) invites students, faculty, and staff to a lecture by Naomi Mandel, author of Against the Unspeakable, Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America (series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture) (University of Virginia Press, 2006) and coeditor with Alain-Philippe Durand of Novels of the Contemporary Extreme (Continuum, 2006).

The African and African American Studies Interdisciplinary Unit (School of Natural and Social Sciences) invites students, faculty, and staff to a lecture by Jennifer Rossi, assistant professor, American Studies Department, St. John Fisher College. Some of Dr. Rossi’s work has appeared in Obsidian, a literary journal that focuses on literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora. Rossi will give her lecture, “'Let the Words Bring Wings to our Feet': Negotiating Exile and Trauma through Narrative in Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory," on Tuesday, April 22, at 12:15 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 315.

Do you or your students have questions about how to manage money and credit? If so, the Ultimate Money Skills workshop may be of help. The presentation is scheduled for Thursday, April 24, during Bengal Pause (12:15–1:30 p.m.) in Bulger Communication Center East. All attendees will receive a workbook on money management. The event is co-sponsored by Auxiliary Services Grant and by Monster.com.