The Buffalo State?University Sustainability Committee invites the campus community to attend the annual Earth Day and Arbor Day Environmental Fair on Thursday, April 20, from noon to 2:00 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union or outside in the Student Union Plaza, weather permitting. 

Come and celebrate Buffalo State University’s Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum, as it has earned 2022 Tree Campus Higher Education designation from the Arbor Day Foundation.

See what the campus and the Grant-Amherst neighborhoods are doing to make our campus and the surrounding area more environmentally sustainable. Learn how the campus trees in the Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum and throughout the city of Buffalo are instrumental in the health of the local ecology, storm water management, and the aesthetics of our campus and surrounding neighborhoods.

Explore what you can do as an individual to help with this great cause. There will be plenty of information tables to visit, giveaways, and fun activities. 

Please contact campus arborist?Steven Sypniewski?for more information. This is one of a?series of April events?sponsored by the Buffalo State University Sustainability Committee in celebration of Earth Day and Arbor Day.

Have you heard? We are fully stocked with all your favorites at the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore Café! To express our apologizes for our delayed replenishment of product, we are offering a "Sweet" Deal in our café. Come in Monday, April 17, through Friday, April 21, to enjoy $2 iced coffees, cold brew iced coffees, and iced teas—all sizes included!*

We look forward to seeing you.

*Offer valid while supplies last. Add-ons will incur an additional charge.

Please join the Teaching and Learning Center for the scholarly discussion "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism," presented by Berg Miller, assistant professor of social work, on Friday, April 21, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. in Butler Library 318. For this session, please read the remaining chapters of the book.

Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served.

Please register to attend through the Workshop Registration System.

Please remind students this is their final weekend to apply for fall 2023 scholarships in in the Campus Application Portal for Scholarships (CAPS). Fall 2023 scholarship applications are scheduled to close Monday, April 17.

Please join Associate Provost Amitra Wall for an overview of the new general education program (GE23) on Thursday, April 20, during Bengal Pause (12:15–1:30 p.m.) in Bulger Communication Center 216. Her presentation will include advising tips and sample Degree Works audit sheets.

Please join the Chemistry Department for the seminar "Linking Atom Positions to Materials Structure-Chemistry for Advanced Material Design and Development," presented by Baishakhi Mazumder, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Design and Innovation at the University at Buffalo, on Thursday, April 13, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Science and Mathematics Complex 176. 

Abstract
Improving performance and efficiency in a wide range of applications including consumer appliances, all-electric and hybrid-electric vehicles, and extraction and conversion in cost-effective renewable energy sources can save energy, significantly reducing costs, benefiting both the economy and environment. Key to revolutionizing device components for technologies rely on the material architecture and chemistry that controls the crucial properties and performance. One of the ultimate goals of material design and development is to link the complex behavior that occurs at the materials constituent’s level and the desired properties, and ultimately generate know-how about what really happens at the scale of charge carriers and microstructures within the material systems. To achieve this information, Dr. Mazumder and her team employ an advanced microscopy tool, atom probe tomography that can obtain rich atomistic data on the structure and chemistry of these materials systems. Atom probe tomography (APT) is an advanced characterization tool that offers three-dimensional chemical imaging of material structures at the sub-nanometer scale. This lensless point-projection microscopy technique resolves individual atoms from a nano-dimensional tip with magnifications up to 106 generating structure-chemistry information. This information will be crucial to building connections with the material properties and guide the pathways for material design and development.

With only 11 more days left in Ramadan, this message is a reminder to all faculty and staff members to be mindful and aware that the vast majority of Muslim students on campus are fasting (no food or drink from before sunrise till sunset). Students might be tired, so kindly allow them some consideration or leeway, as needed, with their coursework, submissions, tests, quizzes, and so on. Kindly mention your awareness in class, as many Muslim students do not have "obvious" Muslim-sounding names, and to know that they have the help and support of their teachers would mean a lot to them.

Please visit the Equity and Campus Diversity website to read the Policy on Discrimination Based on Religion.

Thank you.

Saquib Ahmed, Ph.D.
MSA Faculty Adviser

From the Chair of the Buffalo State Senate
An additional Future Forward Forum (faculty and staff focused) has been scheduled for Thursday, April 13, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union Assembly Hall.

Please consider attending the forum to engage in important discussions regarding future pathways, opportunities, and possibilities for Buffalo State University. The themes that emerge from the campus forums will suggest opportunities that the campus might explore in the next decade or so. A facilitator, Morgan Williams-Bryant, will work with graduate students from the Higher Education Administration Department to gather feedback during these sessions and will turn the information over to the Future Forward Committee, which will develop a white paper delineating opportunities to be available to the campus community.

Please register online for the April 13 forum.

The Social Justice Book Club will host "Choice Words: A Conversation with Contributors" online on Wednesday, April 19, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. We will be joined by several contributors to Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, which the book club has been reading this past year. The contributors will read their work and discuss their motivations for writing and sharing it. All members of the campus community are invited to join us for this illuminating panel. RSVP online.

The Social Justice Book Club provides a space for Buffalo State University community members to have meaningful conversations about challenging topics. The specific focus of the book club changes every year.

This program was made possible with the support of E. H. Butler Library, Equity and Campus Diversity, Student Leadership and Engagement, the Muriel A. Howard Honors Program, the Women and Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Unit, the Grant Allocation Committee, and Haymarket Books.

For more information, please email Julie Setele, senior assistant librarian, or visit the Social Justice Book Club website.

From the Chair of the Buffalo State Senate
An additional Future Forward Forum (faculty and staff focused) has been scheduled for Thursday, April 13, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union Assembly Hall.

Please consider attending the forum to engage in important discussions regarding future pathways, opportunities, and possibilities for Buffalo State University. The themes that emerge from the campus forums will suggest opportunities that the campus might explore in the next decade or so. A facilitator, Morgan Williams-Bryant, will work with graduate students from the Higher Education Administration Department to gather feedback during these sessions and will turn the information over to the Future Forward Committee, which will develop a white paper delineating opportunities to be available to the campus community.

Please register for the April 13 forum.