Effective immediately, Central Stores will no long provide the following items:

100082 – Nonprofit envelopes 10"x 13"

100088 – Messenger envelopes 4 3/4"x 11"

Central Stores has a limited number of the following items that will soon be discontinued:

100089 – Messenger envelopes 10"x 15", 100/box

100228 – Referral slip pads

Messenger envelopes can be ordered from Office Max or the vendor of your choice, and referral slip pads can be ordered through the campus Copy Center.

Please remember that we accept all used messenger envelopes. Please forward them to Central Receiving, CCTR 116, or give them to George Dubois at any time.

Be sure to look for updates to prices and items offered at www.buffalostate.edu/campusservices/x525.xml.

Attention, faculty and staff members: all textbook requests are due Monday, March 11. You may submit requests by e-mail to Amy Young, textbook manager at Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State. Please be sure to include the course name and the author, title, edition, and ISBN of the book(s) you will be using. The more information you can provide the better.

You may also place your book requests online through the bookstore website.

If you have any questions regarding your book requests, please contact Young.

American Heart Association CPR/AED classes are offered at Weigel Health Center free of charge for faculty, staff, and students. During the class, you will learn how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), use an automated external defibrillator (AED), and provide relief to a choking victim. Skills are taught for use with adults, children, and infants. The class is completed in two and a half hours.

Classes are scheduled on the following dates:

Wednesday, March 13
1:00–3:30 p.m.                                                                                                                 

Wednesday, March 27
1:00–3:30 p.m.

Reserve a spot in one of these classes or obtain additional information at lifesupport@buffalostate.edu. R.S.V.P. at least two days in advance of the class date. Classes can also be scheduled to meet your group needs.

Enrique "Kiko" Galvez, Charles A. Dana Professor of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Division of Natural Science and Mathematics at Colgate University, will present "The Photon: A Quantum Enigma" at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in Science Building 272. Many phenomena are easily understood via light’s wave nature. A few of the classic effects, such as line spectra of atoms, can be understood with the alternative view: the photon. However, there is more to the photon than its quantized energy, and quantum mechanics has a lot to say about it: being in two places at once, and not having an identity until we actually measure it. Moreover, we can use photons to learn more about what quantum mechanics has to say about anything (or everything, photons included). This use of photons includes undergraduate labs and a new way to look at physical systems in terms of information.

This seminar is partially sponsored by funds from Robert and Dorothy Sweet.

The March 10 performance of A Musical Feast at the Burchfield Penney includes Charles Castleman on violin, Jonathan Golove on cello, Wildy Zumwalt and Diane Hunger on saxophone, Claudia Hoca on piano, Tom Kolor on percussion, and Moshe Shulman on bandoneon this Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

The program will include Frigate by J. T. Rinker and Konzertstück für Zwei Altsaxophone by Paul Hindemit. A Garland by David Felder pays tribute to scholar Bruce Jackson, whose Being There exhibition is currently on view at the gallery. Castleman joins the group for Minstrels by Claude Debussy and Poème élégiaque by Eugène Ysaÿe. Other selections include Suite Italienne by Igor Stravinsky and Three Dances by Astor Piazzolla.

Special guest Charles Castleman is a professor of violin at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. He has been a soloist with the orchestras of Philadelphia, Boston, Brisbane, Chicago, Hong Kong, Moscow, Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, and Shanghai. A medalist at the Tchaikovsky and Brussels competitions, he is founder and director of the Quartet Program, now in its 40th season as an intensive workshop in solo and chamber performance.

Tickets: $20 for "not yet" members; $10 for Burchfield Penney members and students. Join today. Buy tickets online or call ext. 6011 during gallery hours. For more information, visit www.burchfieldpenney.org.

Flash sale today! Take an additional 50 percent off clearance apparel. Stop in the campus bookstore today.

TIAA-CREF representative Richard Thompson will be on campus for individual consultations with Buffalo State faculty and staff members on the following days:

Wednesday, March 20, Cleveland Hall 416
Thursday, April 4, E. H. Butler Library 210B
Wednesday, April 17, E. H. Butler Library 210B
Thursday, May 2, Cleveland Hall 418
Wednesday, May 15, E. H. Butler Library 210B
Tuesday, June 4, E. H. Butler Library 210B
Wednesday, June 19, E. H. Butler Library 210B
Thursday, July 11, E. H. Butler Library 210B
Wednesday, July 24, E. H. Butler Library 210B

Sessions are by appointment only; all appointments are between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Gain a greater level of confidence in your retirement portfolio. Visit www.tiaa-cref.org/moc or call (800) 732-8353 Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. to schedule an appointment.

How does gender influence the world of video games and the experiences of gamers? Jennifer Jenson will address these questions in a campus presentation titled "Precarious Relations: Gender, Games, and Cultural Hegemony" on Monday, March 11, at 4:00 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center South. A reception will follow. Jenson is a professor of education at York University who has conducted extensive research on gender and gaming and coedited a book about digital gaming research called Worlds in Play.
 
The talk is free and open to all members of the campus community. Please encourage students to attend, especially since many of them are involved with gaming.

This event is presented by the women and gender studies program as part of its Women's History Month program, with support from Intellectual Foundations, the School of Natural and Social Sciences, and the Research Foundation.

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.

Deadline for student input: Midnight Tuesday, April 2
Deadline for faculty input and application submission: Midnight Thursday, April 4

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

Information sessions about this program will be held in E. H. Butler Library 210B on the following dates:

• Thursday, March 21: 12:15–1:30 p.m.
• Friday, March 22: 2:00–3:30 p.m.

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

The deadlines for two programs that support student research are approaching. Only applications completed by the deadlines can be considered.

The 15th annual Student Research and Creativity Celebration (SRCC) is open to both undergraduates and graduate students. Access to the online application will remain open for students until midnight Tuesday, March 19. Faculty mentors have until midnight Thursday, March 21, to review, edit, and approve application(s) submitted by their student(s). SRCC applications are completed online: visit www.buffalostate.edu/undergraduateresearch/x503.xml or scan the QR code on the event posters.

The Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship Program is open to undergraduates with a graduation date of December 2013 or later. Applications are completed entirely online (both the student and mentor portions). The deadline for students to complete their part of the application and forward it to their faculty mentors is midnight Tuesday, April 2. Mentors have until midnight Thursday, April 4, to complete and submit the full application. A detailed description for conducting the research, scholarly, or creative activity is necessary and prepared by the student. Faculty mentors are required to provide a detailed mentoring plan. To view and complete an online application, go to www.buffalostate.edu/undergraduateresearch/x504.xml. To learn more about this program, attend an information session, scheduled for Thursday, March 21 (12:15–1:30 p.m.), and Friday, March 22 (2:00–3:30 p.m.) in E. H. Butler Library 210B.