The Buffalo State Senate is accepting nominations for UFS Senator.

The UFS Senator also holds a seat in the Buffalo State Senate. As such, a current senator should not run in this election.

Please find information about UFS and an FAQ below:

https://www.sunyufs.us/

https://www.sunyufs.us/faqs.html

Please send nominations to Slade Gellin (gellins@buffalostate.edu) by Friday, May 16, at 5:00 p.m.

You can address any questions to Justin Crossfox (crossfja@buffalostate.edu).

Please help the Dr. Katherine S. Conway-Turner Office of Civic and Community Engagement congratulate our 2024–2025 Celebration of Community Engagement Award recipients!

We are pleased to honor the students, faculty, staff, and community partners who make a difference through civic and community engagement initiatives. View the entire list of award recipients on the recognition section of the CCE website.

We also wish to thank the members of this year’s award committee. 

The results of the election for the two At-Large Senate seats are as follows:

Holly Quicksey, Ph.D. Director of Transfer Advising

Kevin Williams, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director of the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium

Their terms are both three years.

The Spring 2025 “Conversations in and out of the Disciplines” concludes this afternoon as Mehwish Sarwari and Patrick McGovern, from Government, Planning, and Philosophy, present "Blue Helmets as Political Regime Influencers: The Impact of Democratic Peacekeeping Personnel on Democratization in Conflict-affected States." The talk will be held at 3:00 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 320.

ELJ's Endurance Edition has been released, featuring emerging and national and international award-winning authors: Sarah Freligh, Anne Panning, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Amy Day Wilkinson, Tetman Callis, Ted Pelton, Ralph Pennel, Vanessa Blakeslee, Nancy McCabe, Avital Gad-Cykman, Sally Anderson Bostrom, Lydia Copeland Gwyn, Justin Karcher, Brian Druckenmiller, Theresa Wyatt, Peter Johnson, Ken Sparling, Susan Henderson, Jean Thompson, Tammy Sherwood, Amy C Murphy, Joan Wilking, Carol Townsend, and Girija Tropp. 

ELJ is a literary journal in existence at Buffalo State University since 1948. It is edited by Professor Kim Chinquee and students in her ELJ editing class. In 2013, after a brief hiatus, Elm Leaves Journal was re-imagined as ELJ, a cutting edge, international literary journal. The 2013 edition was the first that published writers outside of the Buffalo State community and to be printed by a professional publisher. 

ELJ is published through the cooperation of the Writing Major and the School of Arts and Sciences.

Submissions for the next issue, the Karma Edition are now open. Students enrolling in Chinquee's ENG 327 course in Fall 2025 will be part of the process of reading and editing submissions, layout, publication, promotion, and website design.

More info can be found at ELJ's website at www.elm-leaves-journal.com.

Please join the Great Lakes Center for a seminar titled "Genetic tools to inform conservation of freshwater mussels", presented by Dr. Manuel Lopes-Lima, on Tuesday, May 20, from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. in SAMC 175.  Dr. Lopes-Lima is Group Leader of the Freshwater Conservation, Diversity and Evolution Group at CIBIO/InBIO - Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources at the University of Porto, Portugal.  Students, staff, faculty and community members are welcome.  Please contact GreatLakes@buffalostate.edu in advance if you require a parking pass.

About the presenter: Dr. Lopes-Lima’s research interests are in global conservation of freshwater spe-cies, including evolution, phylogeny, phylogeography, genetic diversity and ecophysiology. More recently, he has been involved in developing novel molecular tools for assessing freshwater biodiversity. Dr. Lopes-Lima is the current IUCN/SSC Coordinator of the Freshwater Bivalve Red List Authority within the Molluscs Specialist Group.

E. H. Butler Library is ending its subscription to the tutorial software Niche Academy at the end of May. Niche Academy hosted tutorials on APA citation and formatting, peer-review, search strategies, and other library research concepts. The decision was made due to several factors, including the platforms’ inability to interact with other campus software. As an alternative, these tutorials are now available as Brightspace library research modules that can be embedded into your course shells or through badging. Video content from the tutorials is available on the library tutorials page and the citation help site. Current Brightspace library research modules are available for the following topics: 

• APA Citations & Formatting
• MS Word & APA Formatting
• Using Butler Library’s ALL-Search
• Scholarly vs Popular Resources 
• What is a Literature Review

Please visit our Brightspace library research modules website for more information. Questions can be directed to Chris Hulsman, electronic & educational resources librarian. 

Registration will close today, Tuesday, May 13. Runner, walkers, trotters needed for the Buffalo State Team for the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge, which will be held on Thursday, June 12, in Delaware Park. The 3.5-mile race will start at 6:25 p.m. The registration fee is $43 per person.

We encourage you to invite and motivate your colleagues to register. The Corporate Challenge is a fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues and community partners. Your registration fee includes access to the hospitality tent, a team T-shirt, a Corporate Challenge T-shirt, and much more.

A special thank you to Interim President Dr. Bonita Durand for her support, and to United University Professions and the Professional Staff Caucus for their annual assistance.

To register for the Buffalo State University team, please use this link: https://registration.jpmorgancc.com/profile/login for the Buffalo State University team.

For more details, visit the official J.P. Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge website.

Supporting a Great Cause:

The 2025 J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge Buffalo will benefit FeedMore WNY, a hunger-relief nonprofit formed by the merger of the Food Bank of WNY and Meals on Wheels for Western New York. FeedMore WNY's mission is to provide nutritious food, friendship, and skills training to neighbors in need across Western New York.

For more information, feel free to contact Jude Jayatilleke at 716-878-6028.

The spring grading window is now open and will close on Wednesday, May 21, at 9:00 p.m. 

Faculty will enter their grades using Banner. Detailed documentation for entering grades can be found here.  Additional assistance is available by calling the IT Help Desk at ext. 4357 (M-F 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.).

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 any questions, please contact the Registrar’s Office at regofc@buffalostate.edu or (716) 878-4811.

As part of the ongoing heating plant upgrade project and to help facilitate campus-wide steam repairs, steam service to most campus buildings will be shut down from noon on Sunday, June 1, until roughly noon on Friday, June 20. Steam service to the LoRusso Alumni and Visitor Center, Student Apartment Complex, and Burchfield Penney Art Center will be unaffected.

During this time, affected buildings will have no heat, no steam for cooking or dish washing, and no hot water, including for showering in the Sports Arena, Houston Gymnasium, and residence halls. Staff members affected by the interruption have been notified and necessary mitigation plans have been put into place.

In buildings with cooling, members of the campus community may experience lower than usual building temperatures because systems will not be able to reheat the cooling air, and occupants are asked to dress accordingly. Employees who would like to seek an alternative work location should consult with their supervisors first, and supervisors should contact Human Resource Management. Employees are asked to report any sightings of dripping condensate from ceilings to Facilities at (716) 878-6111. Questions about this project may be addressed to facilities@buffalostate.edu. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we make these necessary repairs to the steam service.