The campus community is invited to attend the WellNYS Everyday monthly webinar “Discover Fun Ways to Drink More Water!” on Wednesday, August 3, from noon to 12:30 p.m.

The August Monthly Challenge is to stay hydrated throughout the day. Join us as we share delicious fruit-infused water recipes and a water challenge you can participate in with your co-workers. Find out which municipality has the best drinking water in New York State and what is the most important time of the day to drink water. (Hint: it’s early.) Have a glass of water or your water bottle with you to drink during the webinar. This seminar will be presented by Linda Carignan-Everts, EAP wellness coordinator, NYS Work-Life Services and the Employee Assistance Program.

Please register through the WebEx meeting registration page. You will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the seminar.

Please make sure you are signed up to receive messages from the Buff State Alert system. This is the best way to be notified if there is an emergency on campus or if classes are canceled due to weather.

Bengals Dare to Care Day?will be held Saturday, October 1, and we need your help! The Civic and Community Engagement Office is seeking 80 site coordinators and 20 event assistants to volunteer. 

There will be several community service projects throughout the city of Buffalo, and each project needs a site coordinator to assist with logistics. Please consider signing up for this important but very simple job. Your responsibilities will include signing students in to your project, greeting and communicating with your community partner on the day of the event, keeping your volunteers motivated and safe, facilitating a reflection discussion after the project is complete, and being a point of contact with the CCE throughout the morning. Site coordinators are needed from 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

We are also in need of event assistants to assist with check-in, support crowd control, assist with getting students on buses, and other general support. Event assistants are needed from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. 

Volunteers will have the opportunity to get to know a great group of community-minded students, meet incredible community members doing great work throughout our city, receive a free T-shirt, and enjoy a delicious lunch when they return.

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Site coordinators?must be available for one of the following mandatory trainings: 

• Tuesday, September 27, 12:30–1:30 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center 214 
• Wednesday, September 28, 6:00–7:00 p.m. in Buckham Hall A202 

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Event assistants?must be available for one of the following mandatory trainings: 

• Tuesday, September 27, 12:30–1:00 p.m. Buckham Hall A214 
• Wednesday, September 28, 1:00–1:30 p.m. Buckham Hall A214 

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Please complete the site coordinator and event assistant registration form?to let us know your interest. 

Thank you for your consideration. Please?contact the CCE, 878-3919, with questions.

The Professional Development Center is interested in creating a support group for individuals who currently use or are interested in using Qualtrics to produce forms and surveys. This group will be hosted in Microsoft Office 365 and will provide training resources and guides to support current or new users with questions about survey design, features, or capabilities within Qualtrics and ensure that they are producing quality surveys and forms for their intended audiences. 

If you are interested in joining this group, please complete this short interest form. 

Please contact Rebecca Eggleston, professional development assistant, with questions.

SUNY’s new Mental Health Repository is a free resource that provides campus information on mental health and well-being services available to all members of the SUNY community. Sortable by campus, the repository includes county mental health supports, a map feature, and a search function by service type. Please bookmark the site for quick access to this helpful resource, and please share this information with students.

Six campus buildings will experience a temporary interruption to electrical service on Monday, July 25. The planned service interruption will occur between 12:01 and 1:00 a.m. and will last about 15 minutes. The following buildings will be affected:

• Central Heating Plant
• Clinton Center
• Elms Hall (Classroom Building)
• Technology Building
• Twin Rise
• Weigel Wellness Center

The shutdown will interrupt power to the campus data center. Staff members in the IT Department will do their best to restore network connections for the workday.

Building occupants need not take any special action with computers, refrigerators, or similar equipment because the planned interruptions will be brief.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as the campus conducts preventive maintenance in the main electrical substation. Questions about this work may be addressed to vpfm@buffalostate.edu.

If you are interested in serving on one or more of the eight College Senate standing committees for the 2022–2023 academic year, please complete and submit the College Senate Standing Committee Member Interest Form by Friday, July 29.

Committee functions and charges are available on the College Senate website.

Please note that not all committees may need members. Standing committee chairs for the 2022–2023 academic year are listed below. Please contact them for further information.

Academic Plan Committee - Jason Grinnell
Budget and Staff Allocations Committee - M. Scott Goodman
Bylaws and Elections Committee - Julian Cole
Curriculum Committee - Dianne McCarthy
Faculty and Staff Welfare Committee - Kelly Boos
Instruction and Research Committee - Gregory Wadsworth
Standards for Students Committee - Ken Fujiuchi
Student Welfare Committee (Vice Chair) - Raquel Schmidt

Faculty and staff parking permit stickers for the 2022–2023 academic year are available to purchase online. Please log in to the parking permit system using your campus username and password to pay with MasterCard or Visa.

In an effort to reduce congestion at Moot Hall and allow time for the mailing of permits, faculty and staff members are strongly encouraged to purchase their parking permits online before the beginning of the semester.

Questions about this process can be emailed to parkingservices@buffalostate.edu.

The data science and analytics graduate program is pleased to announce the first talk in its fall 2022 Seminar Series, “The Value of Mentorships for Data Analytics Professionals,” presented by Alexandra Phillips, vice president of strategic partnerships for Sidetime, on Monday, September 12, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. via Zoom. All are invited to attend.

Talking Points

• Disruptive technology for data analytic mentorship.
• The value in mentorship for both the expert and the seeker.
• When we connect, we grow.

The Data Science and Analytics Seminar Series invites industry experts to give presentations on cutting-edge topics in analytics. For more information, please call the DSA program coordinator at (716) 878-5295. To obtain the link to attend virtually, please contact Heather Campbell, professional science master’s coordinator.

The Buffalo State College Art and Design Department is pleased to present LEAP: Graduate Student Art Exhibition, on view in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery through Wednesday, August 10. A reception will be held Thursday, July 28, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

This exhibition, the first ever of its kind, features artwork and research posters from art education students in the M.S.Ed. and creative studies programs, as well as students from the multidisciplinary graduate program. Students worked in a variety of media and explored content, context, process, and form. Art education candidates stretched their thinking to find deeper connections between their studio work and classroom pedagogy, making creative LEAPs toward greater depths in their ideas and technical facilities within their art-making and teaching practices. This exhibition proudly shows the results of their artistic growth during their graduate school experiences and individual creative journeys.