If you open a window, please remember to close it. Open windows are a direct cause of freezing and rupturing pipes. The resulting water damage can be extensive and expensive. Again, please close all windows before you leave for the night and especially before you leave for a weekend.

Please join the Great Lakes Center for the seminar "The Modern Invasive Species Problem: A World Darwin Envisioned?" presented by Jason D. Fridley, associate professor of biology at Syracuse University, on Friday, November 22, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Science Building 272.

Students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

Please join the Great Lakes Center for the seminar "Predator Avoidance Behavior? Patterns in Clam Excurrent Siphon Velocity according to External Environmental Cues," presented by Sarah Delavan, assistant professor of civil, structural, and environmental engineering at the University at Buffalo, on Thursday, November 14, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Classroom Building B332. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

From the Associate Vice President for Assessment and Curriculum
SUNY Buffalo State has renewed its membership in the American Association of University Women (AAUW) for fiscal year 2014 (July 1, 2013–June 30, 2014). Here are the top four ways to take advantage of our college partner membership:

1. Apply for funding. AAUW will provide more than $3.7 million to outstanding women and nonprofit organizations, including colleges and universities, this academic year. You and your students can apply for publication grants, dissertation fellowships, and project funding now. Deadlines vary for each grant, with the first on November 15. You can view a list of past recipients, including any from your institution or alma mater.

   Collaborate with your local AAUW branch and apply at any time for an AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund grant of up to $750 to host an event on sex discrimination issues.
    

2. Build your career. You and your colleagues can enhance your CVs by serving on an AAUW fellowship and grant review panel in your field. You can also use our online resources to design effective meetings, develop your professional brand, or incorporate gender issues into the classroom. Or host a workshop at the next National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Requests for workshop proposals will come out next semester.
    
3. Give free membership. All undergraduate students on your campus can join AAUW for free as e-student affiliates and become a part of the AAUW community. Students have access to all member benefits and are first in line when applying for leadership programs like Elect Her–Campus Women Win and the National Student Advisory Council. Send an e-mail to student leaders, both women and men, to make sure they take advantage of this free benefit.
    
4. Engage with your AAUW community. Join us for an office-hours-style phone call this semester. On November 13, college and university representatives, students, and other AAUW members are invited to join a call about student organizations and university branches. Then, on December 3, learn more about the 2014 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Can’t attend? Missed a conference call this semester? You can still download presentations, minutes, and audio at your convenience after the event. Don’t forget to share your topic ideas for spring calls.

   You can also use our Member Services Database to reach out to other college and university representatives and to monitor how many of your students join AAUW as e-student affiliates. Contact us at (800) 326-2289 or connect@aauw.org to get started. Stay connected with the AAUW community online through our blog, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr.

Sincerely,

Roz Lindner,
Campus Contact for the American Association of University Women

E. H. Butler Library 316 is no longer a CyberQuad computer lab. It is a generally scheduled classroom designed for active learning. This room can be scheduled for use for the semester by the Registrar's Office as part of our regular scheduling system. For additional information about Butler Library 316, please view details online.

For detailed information about smart classrooms, including lists, photos, and the equipment available in each room, please bookmark this Instructional Resources web page.

The Registrar's Office has posted a J-Term flier on its website. This flier will also be distributed to all students in the residence halls and available as a quick reference handout in the lobby of Moot Hall 210. Additional J-Term 2014 information can also be viewed on the course offerings page.

The campus community is warmly invited to attend the lecture “Social Identities and Their Effect on Your Leadership” with Jo Yudess, lecturer in the Creative Studies Department, on Tuesday, October 29, from 12:10 to 1:30 p.m. in Technology Building 160.

Everyone has a great number of social identities—ways in which we are distinct from and similar to others. Each of these identities has an effect on how we act as leaders. In this session, you will determine some of your identities and explore how they affect the style, manner, and thinking processes you use when leading yourself or others.

This lecture is an integral part of a lecture series sponsored by the International Student Advisory Council.

An introductory workshop on the Institutional Review Board (IRB) review process and the ethics training requirement will be held Tuesday, November 5, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bishop Hall 18.
 
Before the review process, researchers must be sure their project is, in fact, research with human participants as defined by the federal government. In order for a project to qualify as research with human participants, the following must be true: (1) The participants must be living; thus, oral history projects fall under the guidelines, but research involving diaries kept in the 1800s does not. (2) The project is a systematic investigation; that is, it is designed to be a study. For example, instances in classrooms where teachers ask students’ opinions on the material to gauge progress are not research; however, if that same teacher designs a study to evaluate two different methods of teaching the material to see which is more effective, this would be research if the third criterion is met. (3) The project is designed to contribute to the generalized knowledge. To qualify as research, the person conducting the project must intend for it to be disseminated at some level. On our campus, we also review student projects that may not be disseminated but that meet the first two criteria so that our students will learn the process of research with human participants and because we have contracted with the federal government to do so.

If you plan to attend this workshop, please e-mail Gina Game by Friday, November 1.

Computing and Technology Services is implementing a new log-in server for the SUNY Secure Sign On (for faculty and staff) on Thursday, October 24. This will affect access to the SUNY portal, confluence, time and attendance, and other SUNY-provided services. When you access the SUNY Secure Sign On page and select Buffalo State as the campus, the user name and password boxes will no longer appear on that page. Instead you will be redirected to a separate Buffalo State authentication services page. There will be no change to the log-in credentials: you will still use your Buffalo State user name and password to log in to SUNY services. 

You may notice a change in post-log-out behavior in certain browsers (you may not be required to enter your log-in credentials when re-entering the site after logging out). For security reasons, please be sure to log out and exit your web browser when you have finished accessing SUNY services.

Please contact the Computing Help Desk, ext. 4357, if you have any problems accessing SUNY services through this page.