The Burchfield Penney Book Club is back for fall, and this season the theme is Buffalo.

The first meeting of the club is on Sunday, October 2, at 3:00 p.m. to discuss either (or both) of Mark Goldman's books: City on the Lake or City on the Edge.

On Sunday, November 6, at 3:00 p.m., City of Light by Lauren Belfer will be the topic, and on Sunday, December 4, at 3:00 p.m., the group will discuss The Last Fine Time by Verlyn Klinkenborg.

For information or to R.S.V.P., please e-mail Mary Kozub.

Join Burchfield Penney head of collections and Charles Cary Rumsey curator Nancy Weekly for a Curator's Tour of three exhibitions: Nancy Jurs: World Peace; 3-D Wit; and The Fateful Trip: Burchfield, Lankes & Schwanekamp on Sunday, September 18, at 2:00 p.m.

The tour is free with museum admission (general admission to the Burchfield Penney is always free to Buffalo State faculty, staff, and students).

All faculty members who have taught Intellectual Foundations courses are invited to attend a meeting with the external evaluators on Thursday, September 22, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney Collection Study Room (first floor) as part of the IF five-year program review. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for the external evaluators to gather information about the IF program from the perspective of faculty teaching IF courses. Space is limited. R.S.V.P. to Linda Schultz, ext. 5906, by Monday, September 19.

The external evaluators are Sally Parry, associate dean for academic programs and students affairs and director of general education at Illinois State University, and Stephane Booth, associate provost for quality initiatives and curriculum at Kent State University. In addition to meeting with IF faculty, the evaluators will also meet with the associate vice president for assessment and curriculum, deans, department chairs, advisers, students, SIFOC, the College Senate Curriculum Committee, and the assistant dean for intellectual foundations.

Please join us for a discussion and open forum concerning the U.S. Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the meaning of Brown v. Board of Education on Tuesday, September 20, at 12:15 p.m. in Upton Hall 230.

The forum will be led by Peter Yacobucci, assistant professor of political science, and members of the Student Political Society.

Qualitative research utilizes nonnumeric information to explore individual or group characteristics, producing findings not evident through statistical analysis or other quantitative means. This workshop will offer an overview of qualitative research approaches, theories, and models. It is designed for those who are new or relatively new to qualitative research. Presented by Bill Wieczorek. Join us on Tuesday, September 27, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bacon Hall 115. A light lunch will be provided.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2578.

You can now reserve any space in the Campbell Student Union online. This includes room reservations, lobby advertising tables, and display cases. You can see space availability based on the calendar at the top of the reservation form, and you will receive an e-mail confirmation once your reservation is approved.

www.buffalostate.edu/studentlife/CampbellStudentUnion.xml. Happy reserving!

Want to improve your learning style so you can understand more and retain more of what you’re studying? Learning may not come naturally to all of us, but here’s the thing—we can learn how to learn. “Study Skills to Apply in the First Few Weeks of School” is the next session in the Workshops to Success series, sponsored by the Academic Skills Center of University College and offered free to Buffalo State students. Instructor-tutor Lauren Copeland will help you maximize your learning experience by showing you the most effective approaches to these all-important tools for organizing information and making it easier to remember what you've studied.

Date: Tuesday, September 13
Location: Classroom Building B118
Time: 12:15–1:30 p.m. (Bengal Pause)
Presenter: Lauren Copeland

To reserve a seat in the workshop, or if you have any questions, please call the Academic Skills Center at ext. 4041.

Learn about Elluminate Live, web collaboration software designed for education, on Friday, September 23, from 10:00 to 11:15 a.m. in Bulger Communication Center 120. Learn about Elluminate Live possibilities, such as live instruction, classroom collaboration, meetings, virtual office hours, and more. Many of Elluminate Live’s features— including interactive chat, group webcam communication, live voice communication, virtual whiteboard presentation, media distribution, application sharing, and recording—will be demonstrated. Presented by Instructional Resources.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2574.

Do you wish your students took clearer and more complete notes? Would you like them to be more independent note-takers? Is there technology that would help? Have you ever used note-taking pairs as an active learning strategy? Join colleagues from across campus on Thursday, September 22, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in the Professional Development Center (E. H. Butler Library 181B) to discuss concerns, strategies, and possibilities for moving all students toward better and more independent note-taking skills. There will also be a short demonstration of a Livescribe Smartpen, which can record and play back a student’s notes. A light lunch will be provided.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2593.

The Anne Frank Project is proud to present Gary Wolfe's exhibition Vulnerability and the Child Within. The opening reception will be held this evening, September 13, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery in Upton Hall. Wolfe will speak about his moving collection at 6:00 p.m. This exhibition will be open to the public from September 12 to 16 as part of the Anne Frank Project. This is an exceptional collection of thought-provoking, poignant, and beautiful paintings and mixed media not to be missed.

For the complete AFP2011 schedule, visit www.theannefrankproject.com/2011.html.

More about Gary Wolfe:

Gary Wolfe earned undergraduate degrees in Christian ministries from Houghton College and in psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). While working for local government in planning, developing, and delivering health and human services to people in need, Wolfe began producing and publicly showing his artwork. This led to the completion of a master’s degree in painting and art history from UB. His varied life experiences and career have influenced his art. The elderly, children with disabilities, the disenfranchised, and the poor, and even more abstractly, the problems of pain, suffering, and alienation have consistently informed his work. Wolfe's work has been shown in Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Ann Arbor, Buffalo, Rochester, and other cities in the Northeast. Wolfe is a past president of the Buffalo Society of Artists (established in 1891), and he continues to live and work in Western New York.