Please join us for the first lecture in our eighth annual Spring Colloquia, "Women and Philosophy," presented by Sarah Caputi, Carissa Handiman, Rachael Saathoff, and Samantha Wezowicz, on Thursday, April 25, at 12:15 p.m. in Bishop Hall 242.

Happy Earth Day from Buffalo State Dining! Celebrate by treating yourself to a delicious dirt Oreo, pudding, and gummy worm mason jar or cookie mason jar from Spot Coffee in the Campbell Student Union Food Court. Need a fix for your sweet tooth? Then pick up an Earth Day sugar cookie for only $1 in the Campbell Student Union Food Court.

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

Buffalo State is seeking the next leader of the general education program and the first-year experience for our campus. The assistant dean of intellectual foundations and first-year programs will provide administrative leadership and manage operations of Intellectual Foundations, Learning Communities, and UNC 100 for Buffalo State.

The responsibilities of the assistant dean of intellectual foundations and first-year programs include

• leadership and administrative management of the general education program at Buffalo State;
• leadership and administrative management of the first-year experience at Buffalo State;
• organization of course blocks for the first-year registration process;
• faculty development related to intellectual foundations and the first-year experience;
• program assessment;
• instruction of one course per academic year in Intellectual Foundations or the First-Year Experience.

Applicants may submit materials through the Human Resource Management website. The deadline for applications is Friday, May 3.

Stop in the Starbucks café in the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 22, through Saturday, April 27, and receive $1 off any dessert bar with the purchase of a café beverage. Our assortment of dessert bars includes cookies, scones, muffins, brownies, rice crispy squares, and cheesecakes. As a reminder, our cheesecakes are from the Cheesecake Factory. Yummy!

Stop in the Starbucks café in the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore on Tuesdays, April 23 and 30, and receive a free bag of blue corn tortilla chips with the purchase of our delicious cheesy chicken tortilla soup.

The Peace Education Fund in collaboration with the Burchfield Penney Art Center presents A Fierce Green Fire at the Burchfield Penney on Monday, April 22, at 7:00 p.m.

Inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and informed by advisers such as E. O. Wilson and Tom Lovejoy, A Fierce Green Fire chronicles the largest movement of the twentieth century and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It brings together all the major parts of environmentalism and connects them. It focuses on activism, people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future—and succeeding against all odds.

"The five main stories—David Brower and the Sierra Club halting dams in the Grand Canyon, Lois Gibbs and the people of Love Canal battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste, Paul Watson and Greenpeace saving the whales, Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers saving the Amazon forest, and (what else could we end on?) the 20-year struggle to deal with climate change—are emblematic of strands and eras of environmentalism. So we built the acts into an hourglass shape. Each begins wide, with origins and context. Next we narrow in on the main story. Then they open up again, to explore ramifications and evolution." — Mark Kitchell, director

This screening is free and open to the public.

If your department has new employees who will be authorized to sign purchase requisitions, you must complete a new Record of Authorized Signatures form for each department account. You will also need a new Record of Authorized Signatures form if an authorized signatory is on sabbatical and someone else will be in charge while he or she is away, or if an academic department has a temporary chair for the summer session only.

The form can be found on the Procurement Services website. Please complete the form and submit it to Procurement Services, Cleveland Hall 406, as soon as possible.

The Volunteer and Service-Learning Center (VSLC) is once again looking for students for the AmeriCorps Community Service Peer Leader Program. This program allows students to serve at a local nonprofit organization while gaining quality skills for the world after graduation. In return for the commitment and competition of 300 hours of service during the 2013–2014 academic year, students are awarded a $1,175 Education Award from AmeriCorps. Applications are due Friday, April 26, to the VSLC, Cleveland Hall 306, and can be found on our website or by e-mailing vslc@buffalostate.edu.

Students can become a peer leader in one of the focus areas below:

1. Education Corps — Provide in-class assistance and mentoring in West Side schools and with after-school programs while additionally recruiting and supporting volunteer and service-learning connections.
    
2. Health Corps — Provide health, wellness, and nutrition education to youth and families in the Buffalo community through a partnership with a nonprofit organization. This could include continuing health programming at community sites, creating new programming, or conducting outreach to the community.
    
3. Capacity Building Corps — Assist and collaborate with a nonprofit organization to meet an identified need, such as volunteer recruitment, community outreach, evaluation and needs assessment, or institutionalizing new technologies.

We will again have a Buffalo State Ride for Roswell team this year. The ride will take place on Saturday, June 22. There are 10 routes to choose from, ranging from the 3-mile family fun ride to the 100-mile Century for the serious rider! Please come and be part of our team this year and help us raise critical funds for cancer research. Contact Jennifer Jackson, instructional support associate in the Biology Department, ext. 4628, for more information or visit our website to register.

The Volunteer and Service-Learning Center (VSLC) is once again looking for students for the AmeriCorps Community Service Peer Leader Program. This program allows students to serve at a local nonprofit organization while gaining quality skills for the world after graduation. In return for the commitment and competition of 300 hours of service during the 2013–2014 academic year, students are awarded a $1,175 Education Award from AmeriCorps. Applications are due Friday, April 26, to the VSLC, Cleveland Hall 306, and can be found on our website or by e-mailing vslc@buffalostate.edu.

Students can become a peer leader in one of the focus areas below:

1. Education Corps — Provide in-class assistance and mentoring in West Side schools and with after-school programs while additionally recruiting and supporting volunteer and service-learning connections.
    
2. Health Corps — Provide health, wellness, and nutrition education to youth and families in the Buffalo community through a partnership with a nonprofit organization. This could include continuing health programming at community sites, creating new programming, or conducting outreach to the community.
    
3. Capacity Building Corps — Assist and collaborate with a nonprofit organization to meet an identified need, such as volunteer recruitment, community outreach, evaluation and needs assessment, or institutionalizing new technologies.