Students can learn how to spend a semester studying at the School of Economics and Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, during this information session today at 12:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center East 2. Students will learn how courses taken there fulfill requirements here, how financial aid applies, about scholarships that are available, and about other creative ways that students can fund their overseas experiences. Please encourage them not to miss out on this life-changing and career-enhancing opportunity!

The McNair Scholars Program at Buffalo State is seeking high-achieving undergraduate students from all majors and especially from the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). The McNair program prepares students for graduate study through a variety of scholarly and research activities. Please inform any students who you feel qualify for this program and refer them to the McNair Office, Science Building 253. For more information, call ext. 3411 or e-mail Jennifer Johnson. Applications are now available in the McNair Office. Review of applications will begin Friday, December 7, and continue until all available positions are filled.

When the Walls Come Down—Truth! is the product of an international collaboration between the Buffalo State Theater Department, the Anne Frank Project, and the Mashirika Theater Company (Rwanda). This devised production culminated in a cultural, humanitarian, and artistic two-week visit to Rwanda in January, when 10 university students experienced the power of theater as a tool for social justice firsthand. The play uses multicultural storytelling traditions to explore non-Western approaches to performance. All storytelling elements of dialogue, poetry, song, shadow play, and dance were created by the student artists from Buffalo and Rwanda. This production brings the theory of storytelling as a cultural bridge and tool for conflict resolution to action. This is the essence of what we are training our student artists to do in the world.

Follow the Gacaca process of the village griot (Gacaca, meaning "justice on the grass," is the village judicial system that surfaced in postgenocide Rwanda). The griot is on trial for creating great pain and suffering to the village. She has damaged their beloved Tree of Life. As the griot attempts to explain her actions, she must take the audience back to the stages of her life to reenact her deeds for all to see so that she may be judged with an open heart. Through blended storytelling traditions, the play uses fable, proverb, shadow play, dance, and song to include the audience as part of the village. Has the world built too many Walls to find her Truth? Is the griot guilty? Innocent? It is for the audience, the village, to decide. 

September 19–22 and 26–29 at 8:00 p.m.
September 22 and 29 at 2:00 p.m.
Flexible Theatre, Donald Savage Theater and Communication Building

Tickets available at the Rockwell Hall Box Office: ext. 3005.

Dejan Stojkovic, associate professor of physics at the University at Buffalo, will present the seminar “The Standard Model of Cosmology” on Thursday, September 20, from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Science Building 272.

The study of the origin, structure, and evolution of the universe is one of the most exciting research fields in modern science. In the last 20 years, a huge amount of observational data has allowed us for the first time to formulate the "standard model of cosmology." While the evidence supporting it is enormous, the model is not without problems. The most important puzzle is that 96 percent of the content of our universe seems to be missing. This missing content is often labeled as dark matter (the missing mass) and dark energy (a mysterious ingredient that drives the accelerated expansion of the universe). The history of modern cosmology will be given as well as very recent developments, with possible directions in which the solutions to the puzzles we are facing may be found.

The Campbell Student Union entrance facing E. H. Butler Library will be closed on Thursday, September 20, and Friday, September 21, in order to install the inner sets of doors to the vestibule. This entrance is scheduled to reopen by 5:00 p.m. Friday, September 21. You will be able to access Residential Dining, the basement level, and the fourth floor by the wooden ramp to the left of the main entrance. You can access Retail Dining through the door to the right of the entrance. Directional signage will be in place to guide you. Thank you for your patience as we finish this important work.

The Burchfield Café at the Burchfield Penney Art Center reopens today under new management. Stop in for homemade soups, sandwiches, salads, desserts, coffee, and more delicious treats!

The Burchfield Cafe is open during gallery hours. For more information as well as the new Burchfield Café menu, visit www.burchfieldpenney.org.

Buffalo State Dining's Balanced U program is a holistic approach to food and nutrition. It’s based on one concept—we eat food. To help our guests understand how food plays into health, Balanced U consists of monthly subjects to help educate our customers.

September's Balanced U subject is "Energy and Power." To feel great all day, you need a constant source of fuel. Make every meal count by choosing foods that burn slowly and provide your body with a slow, steady stream of energy instead of a massive overload at one time. You'll feel more energetic and well-fed all day long.

Learn what foods you should eat more of to stay energized all day long today at Buffalo State Dining's Energy and Power promo in Resident Dining from 11:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. 

Enter with a lunch meal swipe or lunch door price of $8.79.

For more information on Buffalo State Dining, please visit our website.

Did you know that there are ways to prepare for multiple-choice exams to reduce your stress and improve your score? There are! And students can learn these simple strategies in this next session of the Workshops to Success series conducted by Marie Ferraro and sponsored by the Academic Skills Center of University College. The workshop is offered free to Buffalo State students. These tips on test-taking preparation will help all students develop confidence when going into a quiz or exam.

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 that we will forward to you. Please call the ASC at ext. 4041 to make arrangements.

Date: Thursday, September 27
Time: 12:15–1:30 p.m. (Bengal Pause)
Place: South Wing 320
Presenter: Marie Ferraro

Did you know that there are ways to prepare for multiple-choice exams to reduce your stress and improve your score? There are! And students can learn these simple strategies in this next session of the Workshops to Success series conducted by Marie Ferraro and sponsored by the Academic Skills Center of University College. The workshop is offered free to Buffalo State students. These tips on test-taking preparation will help all students develop confidence when going into a quiz or exam.

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 that we will forward to you. Please call the ASC at ext. 4041 to make arrangements.

Date: Thursday, September 27
Time: 12:15–1:30 p.m. (Bengal Pause)
Place: South Wing 320
Presenter: Marie Ferraro

Dejan Stojkovic, associate professor of physics from the University at Buffalo, will give a lecture on cosmology at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, September 20, in Science Building 272. The study of the origin, structure, and evolution of the universe is one of the most exciting research fields in modern science. In the last 20 years, a huge amount of observational data has allowed us for the first time to formulate the "standard model of cosmology." While the evidence supporting it is enormous, the model is not without problems. The most important puzzle is that 96 percent of the content of our universe seems to be missing. This missing content is often labeled as dark matter (the missing mass) and dark energy (a mysterious ingredient that drives the accelerated expansion of the universe). The history of modern cosmology will be given as well as very recent developments, with possible directions in which the solutions to the puzzles we are facing may be found.