The Art and Design Department Exhibition Committee is pleased to announce that a special exhibition, Artists/Educators, is on view in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery in Upton Hall through Wednesday, April 6. A reception to celebrate the artists will take place today, March 24, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Upton Hall lobby. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Buffalo State College has been dedicated to preparing teachers for 150 years. The art education program at Buffalo State is one of the oldest in the country; the first courses in art education were offered in 1871.

We are pleased to be able to exhibit the work of artists who take on the enormous task of educating our youth while still creating artwork of their own to share. These artist-educators are some of our invaluable community partners. They provide essential real-world learning opportunities to our preservice art teachers—allowing them into their schools and classrooms, acting as mentors, and working with us to ensure that the torch of visual arts continues to be passed on to new generations. This exhibition allows our college community to enjoy their artwork, but it is also meant as a gesture of gratitude for all the great work they do with their own visual art students and our Buffalo State art education students.

Czurles-Nelson Gallery spring 2022 hours:

Monday: 8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Friday: 8:00–11:00 a.m. and noon–4:00 p.m.

The exhibit can also be viewed by appointment. Please contact Marie Bogner, Czurles-Nelson Gallery coordinator, (716) 878-4390, with questions.

The Buffalo State College community is saddened by the death of Edwin Koscielniak, former facilities program coordinator (retired), who died May 9, 2019.

Mr. Koscielniak joined the college in 1995 and retired in 2007. He is survived by his wife, Joanne, and his daughter, Katherine. More information is available online.

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Applying Deliberative Polling: A Course for Students to Study and Enact Deliberative Democracy," featuring Megha Parwani, Alice Siu, and Luke Terra from Stanford University, on Thursday, April 7, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. This event is presented by Campus Compact as part of its National Webinar Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State College community.

This webinar will discuss how higher education institutions can build virtual and in-person deliberative democracy into student life. It will focus on Applying Deliberative Polling (COMM 138/238), a practicum course for students at Stanford. In this course, students study deliberative democracy and then design and implement their own deliberative poll, an experiment and educational event where participants are surveyed about their opinions on policy after moderated small-group deliberation.

In May 2021, the practicum cohort organized Shaping Our Future, a national deliberative poll that engaged more than 600 young people in a virtual discussion on policy topics spanning electoral reform to national service. This historic virtual experiment not only generated fascinating results among participants but also was a unique hands-on civic engagement opportunity for young people across the country.

Please register online for this final webinar in the National Webinar Series this 2021–2022 season.

Please join the Chemistry Department for the seminar "Industrial Applications of Adsorption," presented by Cem Celik, associate director of adsorption processes research and design (R&D) for Linde Engineering, on Thursday, March 24, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Science and Mathematics Complex 151.

The seminar will describe Linde’s business, the role of R&D within Linde Engineering, and an overview of the function of the adsorption R&D team. It also will focus on adsorption technology and its applications in Linde’s commercial offerings, as well as provide an overview of adsorbents, equilibrium and kinetic adsorption, and adsorption processes, such as pressure swing (PSA), temperature swing adsorption (TSA), and vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA). The seminar will conclude with a display of how R&D continuously works to improve commercial offerings.

For more information, please contact Sourav Biswas, assistant professor of chemistry.

The campus community is invited to hear Shomari James, ’01, deliver the talk “Expediting Change: Maximizing Positivity and Productivity in Organizations and Teams” on Tuesday, April 5, from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in the LoRusso Alumni and Visitor Center. A question-and-answer session will follow.

Mr. James, who was the keynote speaker at First-Year Convocation last fall, is the executive director of strategy deployment and business transformation at Howard University, a six sigma-certified professional, and co-founder and CEO of Equity Now Inc. and Legends Charter School. He studied industrial engineering and co-founded the Buffalo State chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

The event will includes complimentary refreshments and is sponsored by the Technology Department and the Buffalo State chapter of NSBE. 

Registration is encouraged because of space considerations.

Please contact Farhad Mustafa, major gift officer for the School of the Professions, with questions.

SUNY Online Teaching will offer a webinar to highlight the latest version of the OSCQR 4.0 rubric on Thursday, March 24, at noon. The non-evaluative OSCQR rubric can be used formatively to help guide, inform, and influence the design of online courses.

Buffalo State College and other SUNY campuses use the rubric, which has been adopted by the Online Learning Consortium. Instructional Design and Distance Learning uses the OSCQR rubric to support online and hybrid course design and development during the course design review process. Buffalo State's Online Oversight and Readiness Committee has updated OSCQR standards to meet the needs of Buffalo State.

The webinar will include updates to ensure that regular and substantive interaction (RSI) is clearly visible, articulated, and highlighted in specific standards and related support materials.

Please register for this and other upcoming free webinars on the SUNY Online Teaching website.

Anna Cooke, ’17, ’20, owner of Black Mind Meditation & Coaching LLC, continues to offer mindfulness workshops for Buffalo State College students, faculty, and staff. 

“Redefine Self-Care” will take place Wednesday, May 4, at 6:00 p.m. in Technology Building 258. Participants will learn how to create a routine that encourages stress management, boosts inner confidence, increases inner peace, and helps facilitate good energy.

“Rethink Cutting Them Off: Reassigning Relationships” was held April 14.

“Conquer Yourself Before Life Conquers You” was held March 15.

The workshops are co-sponsored by the Grant Allocation Committee and Weigel Health Promotion. Advance registration is appreciated but not required.

Our Local Farmers Market pop-up event has turned out to be an all-time favorite among Buffalo State College’s students, faculty, and staff. Due to popular demand, we’ve added another Farmers Market to the March calendar. It will be held today, March 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the mezzanine outside of Bengal Kitchen. The cost is one swipe or $10 per bag of fresh produce. Find the available produce here.

Please contact Maggie Balcerzak, Chartwells marketing manager, with questions.

The Art and Design Department Exhibition Committee is pleased to announce that a special exhibition, Artists/Educators, is on view in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery in Upton Hall Wednesday, March 23, through Wednesday, April 6. A reception to celebrate the artists will take place on Thursday, March 24, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Upton Hall lobby. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served.

Buffalo State College has been dedicated to preparing teachers for 150 years. The art education program at Buffalo State is one of the oldest in the country; the first courses in art education were offered in 1871.

We are pleased to be able to exhibit the work of artists who take on the enormous task of educating our youth while still creating artwork of their own to share. These artist-educators are some of our invaluable community partners. They provide essential real-world learning opportunities to our preservice art teachers—allowing them into their schools and classrooms, acting as mentors, and working with us to ensure that the torch of visual arts continues to be passed on to new generations. This exhibition allows our college community to enjoy their artwork, but it is also meant as a gesture of gratitude for all the great work they do with their own visual art students and our Buffalo State art education students.

Czurles-Nelson Gallery spring 2022 hours:

Monday: 8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Tuesday: 9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Wednesday: 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Thursday: 9:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Friday: 8:00–11:00 a.m. and noon–4:00 p.m.

The exhibit can also be viewed by appointment. Please contact Marie Bogner, Czurles-Nelson Gallery coordinator, (716) 878-4390, with questions.

The General Education Ad Hoc Task Force on Curriculum (GEATFC) will host two ideation sessions with the campus community via Microsoft Teams. In light of the new General Education Framework (SUNY GE) approved by the SUNY Board of Trustees, we are requesting campuswide input on a framework consistent with the campus?mission and?informed by the 2018 provost proposal, ILOs, SJLI recommendations, IPAC, and MSCHE.

These sessions will use Google Jamboard to collect campus feedback on general education (GE)–related considerations for Buffalo State College. We invite you to attend one of the two sessions listed below. We will continue to hold campuswide feedback and listening sessions throughout the GE process.

Thank you for your participation.

Sessions
Thursday, March 24, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. – Teams Link
Tuesday, April 5, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. – Teams Link