The Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Unit will be sponsoring an exhibit of women's creative work in E. H. Butler Library's display cases during the month of March, Women's History Month. We are looking for work by Buffalo State students, faculty, staff, and alumni. If you have work that you would like to loan for display in our case, please contact  Jennifer Ryan, assistant professor of English and women's studies coordinator, at ext. 5415, or Barb Vaughan, associate librarian, E. H. Butler Library, at ext. 6317.

Spring 2008 registration ends in Banner at 11:59 p.m. tonight, January 29. Please check your class rosters for accuracy and remind students that they must be officially registered to remain in your class and receive a grade for their work. If a student needs to register for your course after the Banner deadline, the Registrar’s Office will accept the Request to Register Late form (pink) from Wednesday, January 30, through Friday, February 1. After that time, the form will be invalid and requests to register late must be made via academic appeal with documentation of the extenuating circumstances that prevented registration during the regular and late registration time periods. Without a documented extenuating circumstance, the late registration request will be denied. Request to Register Late forms will be available at the Registrar’s Office starting Wednesday, January 30. Old forms from prior semesters should be discarded.

For a look at the next week's Scripture readings, join Jeff Nowak, campus minister and music director, Newman Center, each Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m., at 1219 Elmwood Avenue. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to take a little time to read the Bible. Invite a friend to join you.

The Advisory Committee of Buffalo State's Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) and Academic Affairs announce two sequenced workshops to support applicants for three one-year, $3,000 faculty development fellowships promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning on campus. Session one, “Translating a PedagogicalInterest or Issue into a SOTL Study,” will be offered Wednesday, February 6 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, February 7, at 12:15 p.m. Session two, “Designing a SOTL Study that Meets the Fellowship Criteria,” will be offered Wednesday, February 13, at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, February 14 at 12:15 p.m. All sessions will be held in Cleveland Hall 418. Light refreshments will be served. Please register with Susan Labiak at ext. 3093. All tenured and tenure-track Buffalo State faculty members are eligible to apply. Full application guidelines and selection criteria are available online.

Father Pat, director, Catholic Campus Ministry at the Newman Center, and the Newman Center staff ask you to remind students that they are invited to the Newman Center, 1219 Elmwood Ave., every Thursday evening for a free homemade dinner. The Newman Center's non-student community prepares and serves this meal each week beginning at 6:30 p.m. All Buffalo State students are welcome!

The Teaching Learning Technology Roundtable presents Robin Green from eInstruction to demonstrate student response systems—also know as "Clickers"—and their benefits in a higher education classroom. Robin will showcase response systems from Interwrite and eInstruction on Thursday, January 31, during Bengal Pause (12:15–1:30 p.m.) in Science Building 103. All campus faculty and staff are invited. Light refreshments will be available.

Please join the Rooftop Poetry Club for "Welcome Back Open Mic" on Wednesday, August 27, at 4:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library's Rooftop Garden. In case of rain, reading will be held in the International Students Reading Area on the third floor of the library.

Father Pat, director, Catholic Campus Ministry at the Newman Center, invites the entire campus community to join him for weekly Mass beginning this Friday, February 1, in E. H. Butler Library 208 at 12:05 p.m. To commemorate the Feast of St. Blaise, February 3, Father Pat will be blessing throats at this Mass. All are welcome!

Join the campus community online at our newly redesigned Buffalo State Forums. You can now log in using your NT username and password—that's one less password for you to remember! Log in, and start talking with your colleagues and the community. The redesigned forums complement new and enhanced community features. Add friends, create profiles, and leave comments for your friends (or enemies!).

If you are looking for the most up-to-date information related to spring 2008 and later, look in Banner. Academic history for fall 2007 and earlier is still available in STARS. This will continue to be the case until all student academic history can be migrated from STARS to Banner and validated for accuracy. After that, Banner will be the only place to find student information. The earliest possible window for making Banner the official system of record is late March. The Banner project team is working to that end and will keep the campus informed of its schedule. Please see the Banner project Web site for the latest information on project status.