The Campus Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) will accept applications for three one-year, $3,000 faculty development fellowships until Friday, March 30. Learn more by contacting John Draeger or by visiting www.buffalostate.edu/orgs/castl. A growing community of scholars is interested in your contribution to a conversation about teaching and learning on campus.

The Orientation Office will begin acclimating fall 2012 students to our campus on Monday, March 26, via the website.

Transfer students can view advisement and registration information for their specific department; sign up for Orientation, happening on Friday, August 24; and learn about the requirements needed for a successful transition to Buffalo State College.

First-year students can sign up for Orientation, happening Monday, August 20–Thursday, August 23, and will provide our faculty and staff with essential information needed to register them in first-semester classes.

Madina Kozhakanova, scholar-in-residence in the History and Social Studies Education Department, specializes in translation theory. She will present "Translating the Poetry and Prose of Abai Kunanbaev (1845–1909)" on Monday, March 5, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Harold F. Peterson Conference Room, Classroom Building C214.

Buffalo State Dining is now offering a WOW Deal of the Day every Wednesday at a select location in the Campbell Student Union Food Court from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Today's WOW Deal will be offered at Smashed Burger. Enjoy a fresh grilled chicken sandwich and a fountain beverage for only $4.99!

For more information on WOW Deals and Buffalo State Dining, visit our website.

EVERGREEN will be collecting eyeglasses and sunglasses during the month of March. There are drop boxes located at the information desks in the Campbell Student Union and E. H. Butler Library. Glasses can also be sent through campus mail to EVERGREEN, Moore Hall 124. By donating your glasses, you are helping people with eyesight difficulties worldwide. With the price of glasses exceeding three months' average salary in some African countries, donated eyeglasses are the only feasible way to bring sight to many visually impaired people.

Thank you for your help!

The Buffalo State Employee Assistance Program is continually hosting a Weight Watchers at Work program on Thursdays at noon in E. H. Butler Library 208. We will continue until May unless we do not have a group of 20.

As of January 2012, program participants must register for a monthly pass costing $39.99 each, payable by credit card, debit card, or PayPal. All interested Weight Watchers participants must register through the website.

Remember, if you are not interested in attending the At Work program but still want to participate in Weight Watchers, please register through this site so Buffalo State College gets the head count!

Buffalo State's Company ID is 56184; the Company Passcode is WW56184.

Please visit the EAP website for more information; if you have questions, please contact Melissa Slisz.

Project Clean Plate is a Chartwells program that provides awareness of international hunger and helps students focus globally and act locally to combat hunger, reduce waste, save energy, and initiate real change. Clean Plate is designed to reduce overall food waste in Buffalo State's all-you-can-eat dining operation Bengal Hall.

Project Clean Plate began during the fall semester by monitoring plates at the tray disposal area during select meal periods. Results were gathered, and as a result of Project Clean Plate, Buffalo State Dining was able to cut their food waste in half with the help of our customers. We feel that this is a grass-roots effort to reduce food waste at the consumer level in order to negate global food shortages.

Join Buffalo State Dining today in Bengal Hall, resident dining located in the Campbell Student Union, from noon to 2:00 p.m. for the first Clean Plate party of the semester. Take part in a movement that will help fight hunger and reduce waste. 

Enter with a meal swipe or door price of $8.39.

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

Planning has begun for the 2012 JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge! The race will be held on Thursday, June 7, at 6:45 p.m. in Delaware Park. The Buffalo State team needs campus faculty and staff to be part of our coordination efforts. All are welcome!

You don't have to be a race participant to be part of the party! More than 10,000 participants from the Western New York area come together each year to support a fun and charitable cause in our community.

Join us for our first Corporate Challenge meeting on Thursday, March 8, at 2:30 p.m. in the Admissions Conference Room, Moot Hall 110.

Runner and walker race registration will be available online shortly. Stay tuned to the Daily Bulletin for future announcements.

Questions? Contact co-chair Jessica Eagan or Mary Finger.

This is a great time to recruit an undergraduate student and apply to the Undergraduate Research Office's Summer Research Fellowship Program. This program supports eight weeks of full-time summer research, scholarly, and creative activities. The summer research program is open to undergraduates in all academic disciplines. In this round of the program, we anticipate awarding 24 fellowships. Each fellowship provides a student stipend of $2,750, a faculty stipend of $1,000, and $500 for travel, supplies, and/or equipment to support the project. Students are required to spend a minimum of eight weeks full time conducting their project.

Deadline for student input: Midnight Tuesday, March 27
Deadline for faculty input and approval: Midnight Thursday, March 29

Applications are available online or by scanning the QR code on the program poster.

An information session about this program will be held tomorrow, March 6, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210B. Students and mentors are encouraged to attend together. Light refreshments will be served.

An information session about the Undergraduate Research Office's Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (USRF) program will be held in E. H. Butler Library 210B today, March 6, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m.

Students and mentors are encouraged to attend the session together. Light refreshments will be served.

This is a great time to recruit an undergraduate student and apply to this program. The USRF program supports eight weeks of full-time summer research, scholarly, and creative activities. This program is open to undergraduates in all academic disciplines. For the summer 2012 round of the program, we anticipate awarding 24 fellowships. Each fellowship provides a student stipend of $2,750, a faculty stipend of $1,000, and $500 for travel, supplies, and/or equipment to support the project. Students are required to spend a minimum of eight weeks full time conducting their project.

Deadline for student input: Midnight Tuesday, March 27
Deadline for faculty input and approval: Midnight Thursday, March 29

Applications are available online or by scanning the QR code on the program poster.