National Student Day is Thursday, October 4. To celebrate our students, the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore will hold a flash sale on Thursday and Friday, October 4 and 5 (in store only). All clearance clothing items will be an additional 50 percent off! 

Stop by the bookstore. You won't want to miss this!

The Criminal Justice Honor Society, the Criminal Justice Club, and VIVA will sponsor a presentation about date rape on Tuesday, October 9, at 12:15 p.m. in Classroom Building A303. 

Brandi Sutherland, training specialist from Crisis Services’ Advocate Program, will speak. University Police officers will also talk about RAD, a self-defense program they are offering on campus. Please consider offering extra credit for your students to attend this program.

For more information, contact Liz McGough, ext. 4029.

Any student, faculty, or staff member interested in the multiple possibilities offered by the Fulbright program is welcome to attend the fall seminar of the Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Fulbright Association, which will be held at Nazareth College, in Rochester, New York, on Friday, October 5, from noon to 3:30 p.m.

The guest speaker will be Sylvia Crowder, acting deputy assistant secretary for international and foreign language education with the U.S. Department of Education.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jean F. Gounard, director of international student affairs and vice president for advocacy of the WNY/NWPA Fulbright Association Chapter, ext. 5331.

In celebration of the conclusion of Siena Week, a film screening about the medieval horserace of Siena, the Palio, will be featured today in Bacon Hall 117 from 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. Faculty and staff members, students, parents, and alumni are welcome to join us. Italian fare and refreshments will be served.

Students can learn how to spend a semester studying in Siena, Italy, during this information session tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Bacon Hall 117. Students will witness the Siena experience via a PowerPoint presentation; hear from former program participants; find out about financial aid, scholarships, and how courses taken in Siena fulfill requirements at Buffalo State; and sample authentic Italian refreshments. Family members and friends are also welcome to learn more about how their students can partake in an experience that has been transforming students' lives since 1961. A more abbreviated information session on Siena will also be offered today at 12:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center East 2.

Students of the Art Conservation Department, under the supervision of faculty members Jonathan Thornton and Aaron Shugar, will conduct an experimental iron smelt using technology appropriate to the Iron Age of ancient Rome and barbarian Europe on October 5 and 6. An iron smelting furnace will be built with clay, straw, and sand on the lawn between Campus House and Lot Y. Iron ore from Virginia will be smelted to produce an iron "bloom" using charcoal as the fuel. The furnace will be built on Friday, October 5, and the smelt will be conducted on Saturday, October 6, with extraction of the bloom (if the operation is successful) near the end of the day. At the same time, other early metalworking technologies will be explored including the smithing of iron and casting of bronze. We will also be making lime from seashell and limestone in a lime kiln. Please feel free to drop by to experience this ancient practice! For more information, call the Art Conservation Department at ext. 5025.

Learn to use the fundamental tools of Promethean ActivInspire software and to create basic flipchart lessons for Promethean interactive whiteboards. Presenter Andrew Ziemba, from Logical Choice Technologies, will also demonstrate how to access the Promethean Planet whiteboard community and how to use its free teaching resources to influence student engagement and learning. Throughout the presentation, effective strategies that will increase student achievement will be discussed. Join us on Friday, October 26, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in Upton Hall 404.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2981.

A one-day conference designed to help faculty members and researchers understand and safeguard intellectual property rights in producing and consuming information will be held at the College at Brockport on Friday, October 26, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The conference, titled "Giving and Getting Access to Scholarly and Instructional Materials," will include discussion of copyright and licensing environments in general, and alternatives to current models including the open access movement. The May 2012 federal court decision in the closely watched Georgia State case makes the conversation especially timely. The conference will address questions such as "How do new publishing alternatives affect my scholarship, instructional design, and teaching?" and "What should I tell students producing new projects about protecting their intellectual property?" Participants will come away with an awareness of key issues, trends, and best practices in the use of scholarly and instructional materials.

The Faculty Development Office will sponsor up to 10 faculty members to attend the conference. Participants will be sponsored on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are sponsored by Buffalo State, you must agree to participate in a presentation to share this information with other Buffalo State faculty members.

To register, contact Cara Angie, ext. 3841.

The Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore will feature local author Mason Winfield and his newest book, The Paranormal Almanac of Western New York. Please join us for a book signing and refreshments on Thursday, October 18, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the campus bookstore.

Siena Week continues as Siena program alumni discuss the profound impact of study-abroad on their personal and professional careers today in Bacon Hall 115 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Faculty and staff members, students, parents, and alumni are welcome to join us.