An Electronic Recycling Drop-Off Day was hosted by Buffalo State on January 22. Many items were recycled for Erie County residents including computers, monitors, terminals, network equipment, keyboards, mice, other accessories, printers, cell phones, PDAs, IPODs, fax machines, VCR/DVD players, video game systems, televisions, universal power supplies, scanners, and rechargeable batteries.

The total weight of recyclables came to 27,949 pounds! Thanks to everyone who participated.

Join your colleagues for lunch and a discussion about teaching online. The purpose of this informal discussion is for faculty to share questions, challenges, and suggestions with each other. The discussion will also be used as an impetus for future faculty development offerings. Bring your questions and suggestions, Wednesday, February 16, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Professional Development Center, E. H. Butler Library 181B.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2411

All Buffalo State faculty and staff are eligible to apply for minigrants offered by the College and Community Partnerships Office. The awards are in the range of $1, 500 to $2,000. The grants will be awarded in March 2011. Interested faculty and staff should focus on partnerships that offer the greatest chance for meaningful community change, are mutually beneficial, and result in possible publishable scholarly research or future application for larger grants. Priority will be given to projects that contribute to the vitality of the region, especially the West Side of Buffalo.

The deadline for submission of proposals is 4:00 p.m. on Friday, February 25. A panel of reviewers will evaluate the proposals and announce the awards by March 11.

Funds must be encumbered by the end of June 2011. Full application, guidelines, and selection criteria, are available at www.buffalostate.edu/partnerships.

For questions, please contact Marian Deutschman, ext. 4132 or Michele Graves, ext. 5444, or e-mail partnerships@buffalostate.edu.

Are your files out of control? Do you know what to back up, and how? What about that information you received last year, where are you keeping it? Are you in computer information overload? This session will give you the advice you’ve been waiting for. Find the answers and get your computer organized today with these tips!

When: Wednesday, March 16; noon; E. H. Butler Library 316.

R.S.V.P. to CyberQuad by March 11; Lunch provided.

The deadline for Provost’s Incentive Grant applications will approach sooner than you think! Apply now for a Provost’s Incentive Grant to help fund your research or creative activity. Applications are available for all tenured and tenure-track faculty members and must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. on February 24.

Awards of up to $1,500 can assist with travel, purchase of materials, conference fees, and other support for scholarly, research, and creative activities. Research and creative activities should be accomplished from March 15, 2011, to March 15, 2012.

A selection committee of representatives from the faculties of the four schools will review all applications and recommend awards based on the criteria of benefit to the faculty member’s professional development, benefit to teaching, and service to the academic department.

Selection criteria and application instructions can be obtained from the Academic Affairs Office, Cleveland Hall 519, or online (under “faculty development,” then “funding options”). For questions, please call Janet Ramsey, ext. 4554.

Have a pint with the Buffalo State Alumni Association as we crack open the Buffalo State Alumni Beer Club. The Flying Bison Brewing Company will host the inaugural event, Wednesday, February 16, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Alumnus Tim Herzog will educate us on beer and fare that will enhance our pallets. The club meets bimonthly opposite the Buffalo State Wine Club. Cost is $25 per person and includes tasting of five hand-selected brews, various breads from Farmers and Artisans, a cheese spread from Premier Gourmet, and an exclusive tour of the brewery.

An R.S.V.P. is required. Hop to it and register today! Space is limited.

The Burchfield Penney's spring art class schedule is now available. Classes are available for toddlers, kids, teens, and adults. This year, the museum is offering spring break camp for the week of April 25-29, as well as five weeks of summer camp for kids ages 6-12.

For more info, e-mail Katie Kelly.

Are you working with numbers and looking for a way to include them in your written report? Making a table in Microsoft Word can help, but it won’t add up those long columns of numbers for you! If you have enough numbers, it’s worth your time to join us for this quick one-hour session on basic features in Excel. 

Using an example problem, we’ll organize data, perform calculations, and develop graphs. This workshop is for students who have never used Excel as well as those who need a quick review or some new skills. 

Note to Buffalo State instructors: Please encourage students to attend, perhaps by giving them extra credit for participating. Students can sign an attendance sheet which we will forward to you. Workshops to Success are sponsored by the Academic Skills Center (ASC) of University College and offered free to Buffalo State students.

If you have any questions, or if you wish to register for the workshop (not required but it enables us to anticipate attendance), call the ASC at ext. 4041.

Instructor: Monica Heavey
Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Date: Tuesday, March 15
Location: South Wing 320

As part of Women's History Month, the Women's Studies program is hosting the third annual Women's Studies Research Symposium, Friday, March 11, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Bacon Hall 215. Come hear presentations about scholarship related to women, gender, and sexuality by Buffalo State faculty, staff, and students. 

Topics include gender in advertising, maternal mental health, representations of women in art and literature, and the effects of gendered images on girls and boys. The complete schedule is available atwww.buffalostate.edu/womensstudies.

If you’re like most people, you probably wish you had a larger vocabulary. The reason you don’t? It’s too difficult to memorize the meaning of every unfamiliar word. What if there were some shortcuts that made it easier to expand a limited vocabulary and turn yourself into a veritable walking dictionary? Such tricks do exist, as you’ll discover if you attend the highly informative presentation Vocabulary Building: Demystifying the Mystery of Words, the next session in the Workshops to Success series sponsored by the Academic Skills Center (ASC) of University College and offered free to Buffalo State students. 

Instructor-tutor Anne Marie Golaszewski will show you how to crack meanings out of arcane and recondite words so you can impress your friends and complete the most difficult crossword puzzles.

Note to Buffalo State instructors: Please encourage your students to attend, perhaps by giving them extra credit for participating. Students can sign an attendance sheet which we will forward to you. If you have any questions, call the ASC at ext. 4041.

Date: Tuesday, March 15. Time: noon to 1:00 p.m.
Place: Classroom Building B118