Want a meal for only $5? Then stop in the Campbell Student Union Food Court for a WOW Deal! WOW Deals are offered every day from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. and are available at every platform.

April WOW Deals
Bluw: chicken pad thai and a fountain beverage
Roots: one piece of crispy chicken, hand-cut fries, and a fountain beverage
Chop'd: crisp garden salad and a fountain beverage
Salsarita's: two soft- or hard-shell tacos and a fountain beverage
2.mato: fresh baked stromboli and a fountain beverage
Train Grill: turkey burger, hand-cut fries, and a fountain beverage

WOW Deals change every month, so check our website often to view them. WOW Deals can be found at www.dineoncampus.com/bsc under the coupons tab.

Provost’s Incentive Grants for Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creativity are offered through the Academic Affairs Office to provide tenured and tenure-track faculty members with funds to assist with travel, purchase of materials, conference fees, and other support for scholarly, research, or creative activities.

Selection Criteria
A selection committee composed of representatives from the faculties of the four schools will read and evaluate all properly completed applications. Applications will be rated on the three criteria listed below; applicants should be sure to specifically address each of the following three criteria:

1. Specific ways the applicant’s professional development will benefit from the ability to do this research or creative activity. Likelihood that the project will result in refereed publications, juried exhibits, or invitational solo showings, or presentations at professional conferences. Likelihood that the scholarship will develop new perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to subsequent professional development and scholarship (60 percent).
    
2. Potential the experience has for enhancing the applicant’s teaching (20 percent).
    
3. Potential contribution of the applicant’s project to his or her service to department, school, or college (20 percent).

Eligibility
All full-time Buffalo State tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible.

Deadline
The application deadline is 4:00 p.m. Thursday, May 2. Awards will be made in late May.

Questions
Please contact Cara Angie, ext. 3841.

Campuses of the State University of New York adhere to schedules for records retention and disposition to ensure that records are retained appropriately and, once their retention periods have lapsed, disposed of routinely. The campus website for records retention and disposition provides links to the schedules, the accompanying SUNY policy, and information about how to comply.

All campus offices and departments should document their records destruction activities during the 2012–2013 academic year using the certificate of records destruction and forward the completed certificate to the campus records management officer, Cleveland Hall 508, or via e-mail to Jill Powell, by Monday, July 15.

Once a certificate of records destruction has been submitted, Business Services staff members will be available to help offices dispose of large quantities of records.

If you are new to the records retention and disposition process, or if you would like a refresher for 2013, you are invited to attend a one-hour informational session on one of these dates. All sessions will take place in Cleveland Hall 418:

Thursday, April 18, 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, May 21, 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 5, 10:00 a.m.

Please register by e-mail, indicating the date of the session you plan to attend. You may also send an e-mail to request a presentation tailored for your office or department.

Thank you.

Buffalo State faculty members and students are cordially invited to attend the 2013 annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) St. Lawrence Section on Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, in E. H. Butler Library.

A poster session will be held on Friday from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., and a tour of the Smart Grid will take place from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Upton Hall 219. Saturday begins at 9:00 a.m. with a series of workshops, paper presentations, and poster sessions. Buffalo State’s faculty representative is Ilya Grinberg, professor of technology.

The Buffalo State College Foundation will celebrate its annual All College Honors Scholarship Gala on Saturday, April 20, at the Statler. Festivities begin with cocktails at 6:00 p.m. and dinner at 7:00 p.m., followed by a live auction and dancing. Creative orange tie is optional, and valet parking is provided. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the gala help fund scholarships for deserving student scholars in the honors program.

For more information, visit giving.buffalostate.edu/gala or call ext. 4895.

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 the temporary authorized signatory until his or her return, or if a department has a temporary chair for Summer Session only.

The form can be found on the Procurement Services website. You can also call the office to request the Record of Authorized Signatures form. Complete the form and send it to Procurement Services, Cleveland Hall 406, as soon as possible.

Effective immediately, it is no longer necessary to enter the domain name (bsclogon) before your user name when logging in to Outlook Web Access. Although the log-in will continue to work if the domain name is included, the requirement is being dropped for ease of use.

Please contact the Computing Help Desk, ext. 4357, with questions.

The Alternative Break Student Leadership Team and the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center will host “Hurricane Sandy: Six Months of Recovery” on Thursday, April 11, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bacon Hall 115. This event will feature a short film that was captured while Buffalo State Alternative Break students contributed to cleanup efforts in Brooklyn with New York Cares, as well as a panel of participants to further discuss the experience. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

http://www.buffalostate.edu/offices/cdc/vslc/index.html

The Volunteer and Service-Learning Center will host an Alternative Break this summer to Bear Mountain, New York, for students to be part of a volunteer-driven trail restoration and relocation project, the Bear Mountain Trails Project. Participating students will have the opportunity to gain trail-building skills, learn about the social and ecological impact of hiking trails, and be part of a large-scale volunteer project on the Appalachian Trail. Students will depart Sunday, May 26, from campus and return on Saturday, June 1.

An information session will be held on Thursday, April 4, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Bacon Hall 115. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, April 9. Applications can be found under the "Announcements" column on the VSLC website.

Students are encouraged to contact the VSLC with questions: vslc@buffalostate.edu, ext. 5811, or Cleveland Hall 306.

Michelle Kuhl, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, will present a talk on how perceptions of Native Americans as a defeated race informed the leadership strategies of the African American activists Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Henry McNeal Turner on Friday, April 5, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. in Bacon Hall 117.  

This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Equity and Campus Diversity Office, the  History and Social Studies Education Department, and the African and African American Studies Interdisciplinary Unit.