The grading window for spring “E7” session will open on Wednesday, March 12th at 9:00am and close on Friday, March 21st at 9:00pm.  Faculty will enter their spring “E7” grades using Banner. 

In preparation, please login to Banner to make sure all your courses are listed under your account.  Detailed documentation for entering grades can be found on the Registrar’s Office website.  Additional assistance is available by calling the IT Help Desk (M-F 8:30am-4:00pm) at ext. 4357. 

To assist you in successful grading, we have provided a Grading Tip Sheet and other resources at https://registrar.buffalostate.edu/faculty-grading-and-resources.  If you have questions about grading, please call the Registrar's Office at ext. 4811. 

A Panel Discussion with Local policymakers about the importance of civic engagement at the local level and explore ways you can get involved.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Bulger 215

Confirmed Panelists include:

• Welcoming remarks by President Durand
• Erie County Executive, Mark C. Poloncarz
• Majority Leader & Ellicott District Council Woman, Leah M. Halton-Pope
• BSU Alum and Fillmore District Council Member Mitch Nowakowski
• Buffalo Public School West District Board Member, Hon. Jennifer Mecozzi, and
• Buffalo Public School Board VP of Student Achievement and Board Member At Large, Hon. Lawrence Scott
• With a pre-recorded video from Senator April Baskin, NYS Senate District 63

Sponsored by the Department of Social Work, Department of Government, Planning, and Philosophy, Bengals Vote Coalition, & Student Political Society Club

You can find more information on CCE Bengal Connect. Questions, contact the Bengals Vote Coalition at cce@buffalostate.edu or call 716-878-3919

Open screening of "RevolutionaryOptimism," an 80-minute documentary created by filmmaker Stephen Rosenthal and actor Stephen McKinley Henderson, providing a "brief history of racism in America and how it affects us today." Discussion to follow. Everyone is welcome. The makers are seeking feedback from audiences before finalizing this film. 

When: Thursday, March 13, 6 pm 

Where: 230 Upton 

The Office of Mental Health offers NYS employees an opportunity to practice various coping skills and strengthen their resilience through OMH Wellness Groups, which aligns with the vision of supporting a healthy workplace environment. The groups include deep breathing and simulation exercises to allow employees to practice rather than have group discussions. Group sessions offer a warm, inviting space that fosters relaxation virtually and provides examples of calming techniques and basic coping skills. Remember that the mind and body are one, and psychological health is just as important as physical health to your overall well-being.

The group sessions are free, confidential, anonymous, and virtual employees can call in from any phone. Group sessions include Monday Meditation, Mindful Mondays, Taking Care of Mind & Body, and Tending to Self.  Please see the attached calendar for group session details and how to join.

Questions? Feel free to reach out to omh.wellnessgroups@omh.ny.gov.

Monday, March 17, 2025

Program: 5:30 - 6:45 PM EST

Location: Technology Building 160

Speaker: Dr. Meredith Weiss, Professor and Director, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany, SUNY, and SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium

Alongside environmental, public-health, and economic crises in recent years has been a political one, of democratic decline or autocratic consolidation across much of Southeast Asia. Increasingly, concerned actors and organizations from civil society have acted as firewalls against democratic decline or autocratization, even as fellow civil society organizations (CSOs) have exerted countervailing, anti-democratic pressure. Indeed, CSOs may be no more progressive than the state, nor fully autonomous from it, and may be debilitatingly fragmented or polarized. And yet across the region, CSOs still disrupt regimes’ would-be panoptic scrutiny and authority, by presenting alternative spaces and premises for mobilization and voice, through a range of modalities. Regardless of their ideological stance, CSOs’ political engagement represents the promise or exercise of diagonal accountability. This check interacts with vertical and horizontal dimensions and retains the potential for meaningful intervention—but need not pull in a liberal direction.

*Sponsors and Partners: Small Business Development Center, SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium, Global Studies Institute, Department of Geosciences, Department of Government, Planning and Philosophy; Department of Economics and Finance, School of Arts and Sciences, Institutional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Please join the Biology Department and the Great Lakes Center for the seminar “Medicinal Plants: Biosynthesis and Ecology of Plant Natural Products.”, presented by Dr. Zhen Wang today at 3:00 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center 214. Attendees are welcome to arrive at 2:30 p.m. to enjoy coffee and cookies leading up to the seminar.

Research Seminar Abstract: Plants synthesize a myriad of specialized metabolites to cope with stresses and improve fitness. Some of these metabolites are widely used as medicines. Digoxin produced in foxglove plants essential for treating heart failure and atrial arrhythmia. It belongs to a family of compounds called cardenolides with diverse therapeutic applications. Cardenolides are also found in monarch butterflies which migrate from US to central Mexico each year. Despite the prominence of cardenolides in medicine and ecology, how they are synthesized in plants remains unknown. My lab has uncovered key genes responsible for cardenolide biosynthesis in foxglove plants, which paved the way for metabolic engineering to reconstitute digoxin biosynthesis in heterologous hosts.

Coach Mike Berkun will be hosting two weeks of summer basketball camp for boys between the ages of 5 and 14.  The first session will be July 21st through 25th, and the second session will be July 28th through August 1st.  The camp goes from 9 AM to 4 PM each day and will be held on campus.  Buffalo State employees will receive a special discount ($75 off per week), when registering.  The registration link ca be found at mikeberkunbasketball.com.

From the Chair of the Buffalo State Senate
The next meeting of the 2024-2025 Buffalo State Senate will be held Friday, March 14, at 3:00 p.m. in Newman Lecture Hall, Bulger Communication Center 215. Ken Fujiuchi, head of information commons in Butler Library, serves as chair of the Senate for the 2024-2025 academic year.

We encourage everyone to visit the Senate website to catch up on Senate news, find podcasts and minutes of past meetings, review reports and resolutions, and more. Documents for the upcoming meeting can be found on the SharePoint site.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Program: 12:00-1:00 p.m. (EST)

Location: Virtual

Advanced registration required

Speakers:

Dr. Michitake Aso, Associate Professor, Department of History, University at Albany, SUNY

Dr. Peter J. Marcotullio, Professor and Director, Department of Geography and Environmental Science

       and CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College, CUNY

Dr. Vida Vanchan, Professor and Director, Department of Geosciences and Global Studies Institute, Buffalo State University, SUNY

This information session aims to provide information on the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) upcoming online course and field school including eligibility, application process and timeline.

Sponsors and Partners: SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium; Small Business Development Center; Global Studies Institute; Department of Geosciences; Department of Government; Planning and Philosophy; Department of Economics and Finance; School of Arts and Sciences; Institutional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

The 27th Annual Student Research and Creativity Conference (SRCC) is scheduled for Friday, May 2, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Science and Mathematics Complex atrium. Please note that this year there will not be a separate Graduate Research Fair. Instead, the SRCC will be co-sponsored by Undergraduate Research and the Graduate Student Association (GSA).  For more details, please visit the SRCC website.

Proposals for research poster sessions, oral presentations, and displays of creative work from any academic field are welcome. Students must submit their abstracts in the online portal by 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 19. Faculty mentors will have until 10:00 p.m. Friday, March 21, to review and approve applications submitted by their students.