As part of Year of the City, the Geography and Planning Department announces lectures by candidates for the position of assistant professor for the urban planning program. Dan Howard, associate planner for the Town of Amherst, will present "Sustainability in Western New York: Roles and Challenges for Local Communities" on Thursday, March 14, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Classroom Building C313.

As part of Year of the City, the Geography and Planning Department announces lectures by candidates for the position of assistant professor in the urban planning program. Stephen Buckman, Ph.D. candidate from Arizona State University, will present "Feasibility of Canal-Oriented Development in the Arid Southwest: Views of Key Stakeholders" on Tuesday, March 12, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Classroom Building C313.

Buffalo State Dining is excited to introduce Shop On Campus, the new online store. Shop On Campus allows students, faculty, and staff the ability to purchase family-style meals, party catering packs, and much more!

Rediscover the pleasures of family-style dining with the help of Buffalo State Dining. Select your dinner from a wide range of options including rotisserie style whole baked chicken, sushi, fresh salads, Subway subs, pizza and wings, and Salsarita's tacos. Our family meals serve four and allow you and your family dinner in no time. Simply place your order online and let Buffalo State Dining know what time you would like to pick it up.

Visit our website today and click the Shop Online link on the home page. Let Buffalo State Dining bring your family together with a delicious family-style meal tonight!

The Buffalo State Theater Department presents The Ladies Man, a comedy by Georges Feydeau and adapted by Charles Morey, from March 7 through March 16 in Warren Enters Theatre in Upton Hall. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 p.m. with additional matinees on Saturday, March 9 and 16, at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $6 for Buffalo State students, $10 for faculty and staff, and $15 for general admission. Tickets may be purchased in the Student Union, Rockwell Hall, or Enters Theater box office prior to performance. Call ext. 3005 for more information.

Do you need textbooks to be held in stock? In preparation for next term, the bookstore will begin returning unsold textbooks, but we know there may be titles that will not be assigned until later in the term, and we’d like to make sure we keep them in stock and available for students to buy. Please let us know by Friday, March 15, if you have any title(s) you would like to have held until later in the semester. Textbooks may be held until Friday, April 5. Please remind your students to stop in to the bookstore to purchase any textbooks that they may still need for class.

The Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT) will sponsor a brown-bag lunch meeting to discuss fire safety at work and at home on Thursday, March 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 208.

Nancy Van Voorhees of the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Office of Fire Prevention and Control Inspections and Investigations branch, will give a 20-minute presentation on various aspects of campus fire safety. There will be time for questions and answers at the end of the presentation.

If you have questions, you may e-mail them ahead of time to cert@buffalostate.edu. All are welcome, so bring your lunch, bring your questions, and come and learn about fire safety.

The spring 2013 "Assessment Matters" newsletter is now posted online. Get the news and information regarding Middle States, new campus assessment reports, upcoming workshops, and conferences.

Members of the campus community are cordially invited to the third annual Campus House Fish Fry event on Friday, March 8, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dine-in or takeout is available. The event is hosted by the student chapters of the Club Managers Association of America and the National Society of Minorities in Hospitality. Please call ext. 3300 for more details or e-mail reservations to campushouse@buffalostate.edu.

The Consider the Alternatives documentary film series returns on Friday, March 8, at 7:00 p.m. with a personal appearance by documentary filmmaker Dani Leventhal. She will show several of her short films and participate in a Q&A session afterward as part of M&T Second Fridays at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

Leventhal's moving autobiographical videos, which offer surprising contrasts between the everyday and the extraordinary, have drawn international attention at screenings in festivals and museums such as the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles Filmforum, the New York Film Festival, PS1, and Anthology Film Archives. Her work is also in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Consider the Alternatives is a documentary screening series programmed by associate professor Meg Knowles and professor Michael Niman of the Buffalo State Communication Department. This event is cosponsored by the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the Communication Department, and Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center. Free to members of the Buffalo State community.

Try something new for lunch today at Buffalo State Dining's Exhibition Action Station, located in the Campbell Student Union Resident Dining Hall. Enjoy spicy sweet and sour rice noodles, Thai coco chicken udon noodle bowl, and fresh rolled vegetable and crab spring rolls.

Lunch hours of operation are 11:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Enter with a meal swipe or lunch door price of $8.79.

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