The American Marketing Association student chapter at Buffalo State proudly presents Neale Martin, resident scholar in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Kennesaw State University’s Coles College of Business, on Wednesday, April 4, at 6:30 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney Art Center's Tower Auditorium.

Martin, the author of the book Habit: The 95 Percent of Behavior That Marketers Ignore, will address the importance of unconscious processes in consumer behavior and the implications for marketing, new product development, and management. The event is free and open to the public.

Martin's talk is sponsored by the AMA student chapter, funded by a grant from the Faculty-Student Association along with the Business Department, the School of the Professions, and the Psychology Club.

Hone your cooking skills with Buffalo State Dining! Learn to make authentic tamales today in Bengal Hall. Tamales are a traditional Mexican dish made of minced meat mixed with crushed maize and seasonings, wrapped in maize husks, and steamed to perfection. Stop in for lunch and try one today!

Lunch hours of operation: 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Enter with a meal swipe or lunch door price of $8.39.

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

Professional staff members, please fill out the Evaluation of Professional Staff Development Workshops and Activities before Monday, April 16, so that we can continue offering workshops and activities that interest you in growing as a professional. Once you complete the survey, you will receive a free coffee from our campus Tim Hortons.

The third annual Mental Health Awareness Week, April 2–6, is just around the corner. There are several fun and beneficial events this year—we hope you will be interested in checking them out yourself and encouraging students to attend. Please consider offering class time or credit to attend one or several of this year's events.

Events such as "Relax and Dream the Future" in the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium, the Community Art Display, the Rally for LGBT Allies, the film America the Beautiful, "Sleep Yourself Smarter," the Open Skate Party, "Laughter Yoga," and our keynote speaker, Margaret Bertram, are all described in more detail on the Counseling Center website.

Please pass on this information; call Suzanne Johnson, senior counselor, at ext. 4436 if you have any questions or comments.

The campus community is invited to the Visual Arts Student Exhibition and Reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Monday, April 2, in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery in Upton Hall. The exhibit is currently on display and showcases unique and beautiful work from our talented majors in the Art Education, Design, Fine Arts, and Interior Design departments. We are proud to present this exhibition during the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) site team accreditation visit. Refreshments will be served. For additional information, please call the Design Department at ext. 6032.

David Ben-Merre, assistant professor of English, will share his research as part of the Emerging Scholar series on Friday, April 20, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210. This series of presentations provides early-career faculty with an opportunity to share their intellectual work with the rest of the campus.

The poet Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) liked mixing and matching letters, as though they were chemicals to be played with in the great lab of life, as though she could "feel / the meaning that words hide." But even amid her faith in the capacity of letters to find their homes, she could not shake her doubts that her wartime collection Trilogy would ever come together in a meaningful way. At issue was whether the spell of language—whatever it may be—was "there" or whether she was selfishly projecting her own desires during the destructive un-meaning of the war. Rather than answer this question, H. D. embraced the uncertainty of retroactive understanding, unapologetically subsuming the external world to the vagaries of her mind. Uneasy with his own approaches toward H. D., Ben-Merre brings the poet alongside two other great intellectual self-doubters: the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who could work honestly but mistakenly with anagrams, and Sigmund Freud, who could invent the great fiction of the "Wolf Man."

Please join us for this year's Celebration of Life service on Friday, April 20, at noon in the Burchfield Penney Art Center's Tower Auditorium. Take time out and be part of this spiritual, nondenominational program to remember and pay tribute to Buffalo State students, faculty, staff, and alumni who died this past year. The celebration will include music, poems, and lighting of candles. A short reception will follow.

Please call the Counseling Center at ext. 4436 for more information.

The Psychology Club will raffle off two tickets to the last Buffalo Bandits home game of the season—Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m.—parking included. To enter, come and participate in our research study on "Attention at the Movies." You will watch short video clips and tell us what you remember about them. It takes one hour. Please come to any one of these sessions in Classroom Building C311:

Thursday, April 19, at 12:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 19, at 1:30 p.m.
Friday, April 20, between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., every hour on the hour

Anyone is eligible to participate. Students enrolled in a psychology course may be able to earn extra credit, too. This study has been reviewed by Buffalo State's ethics board. Please direct questions to Stephani Foraker, assistant professor of psychology.

This workshop will share the process of creating content that is accessible to all learners. We will discuss specific content items such as Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, images, video, and audio. Checklists, website tutorials, and step-by-step directions will be provided. Presented by Meghan Pereira and Sumana Silverheels on Tuesday, April 24, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 181B. A light lunch will be provided.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2751.

View sample PowerPoint teaching presentations designed for maximum learning without using bulleted lists. Learn optimal slide design principles and discuss their implications for teaching with PowerPoint. Be willing to “think outside the bullets.” Presented by Sue McMillen on Thursday, April 19, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 181B. A light lunch will be provided.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2740.