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Inclusive Excellence Graduate Assistant Position Available

The Office of Inclusive Excellence is hiring a graduate assistant to begin spring semester. To attract a diverse pool of applicants, we ask for your help in circulating the attached job posting. We seek a student passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion and justice, who is interested in learning about and furthering such efforts at a large public university.

Applications are due by Wednesday, January 5. Please reach out to us with any questions (vpix@buffalo.edu), and thank you for helping to spread the word!

Buffalo Science Policy Group

We are excited to schedule our next Buffalo Science Policy Group meeting of the semester! For those unfamiliar with us, we are a group of a group of graduates, medical, and postdoctoral students that are primarily interested in the advancements of policy, communication, and community outreach related to science, technology, and more. For Roswell Park and UB graduate students and postdocs who are interested in becoming an active member of our group, please do the following:

1.) Out of the available topics for our next group discussion, please mark your top favorite by Monday, November 29th. The topic with the most votes will be the main point for our next group discussion and newsletter: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPW63YxuwBAmyo8YXz6CaA04Ke1CntEyNEZkybHcKo7sDkow/viewform?usp=sf_link

2.) Fill out your preferred dates and times and attend our next meeting by Monday, November 29th: https://doodle.com/poll/frqirtzrwv6ukgyr?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

If you are having trouble with any of the links, please let us know​!

OTHER SCIENCE POLICY ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

There are many ways to become engaged and learn more about science policy! Please see the attached document for more information.

If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out. Please forward this information to any UB graduate students who we may have missed or who may be interested in our group.

Buffalo Science Policy Group
Melany Garcia, Chair
Caitlin James, Vice-Chair
sciencepolicy@roswellpark.org

GSEU Minimum Stipend Petition

Hello!

We at UB’s Graduate Students Employees Union (GSEU) are reaching out because graduate workers need your help! As you know, the College of Arts and Sciences within the University at Buffalo set a $20,000 stipend baseline for full-time funded PhD graduate workers. In June of this year, more campaigning by GSEU and LSM led to broad-based fees being covered by UB university-wide for full-time funded PhD graduate workers. However, there are still far too many exceptions to the rule – too many graduate workers at UB still make less than $20k and still pay fees. Not to mention, those of us who do receive $20k are still well short of a living wage in Erie County.

Therefore, we are currently circulating a petition to set a university-wide $22,000 minimum stipend and waive broad-based fees for ALL graduate workers at UB, without exception. While this is still short of a living wage, we want to eliminate inequities in our pay as a first unified step.

If you are a graduate worker, student, faculty, staff, alum, or community supporter at UB or any other SUNY campus, we urge you to sign this petition and share it as widely as you can before next Thursday (Nov. 18th).

Thank you,

UB GSEU leadership

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UB LIVING STIPEND MOVEMENT
https://ublivingstipend.wordpress.com/

Winston Duke Lecture Cancelled

Dear guests,

We regret to inform you that the Distinguished Speakers Series lecture featuring Winston Duke scheduled for Thursday, November 4, at 7:00 p.m. has been cancelled due to a conflict with Mr. Duke’s filming schedule.

Ticket refund information can be found below:

  • Guests who paid with a credit card will be automatically refunded within 30 days.
  • Guests who paid with cash should email ubcfatickets@buffalo.edu, or visit the Center for the Arts Box Office during office hours to initiate your refund. Office hours are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from noon – 6:00 p.m. When requesting your refund, please be prepared with your order information and ID.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions about this update, or the series overall. We look forward to seeing you at a future Distinguished Speakers Series event; please visit our website for more details about each speaker.

Thank you for your continued understanding, flexibility, and support of the series.

Office of University Events staff
University at Buffalo

(716) 645-3414
ub-speakers@buffalo.edu

Graduate and Postdoctoral Student Centers Survey

Dear Graduate Students,

We seek your input regarding UB’s plan to build Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Centers, in centrally located spaces on the North and South Campuses. We invite you to watch a brief video and participate in a survey to provide input on this initiative, by Nov. 3, 2021.

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Center Concept Video

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Center Survey

The creation of these centers seek to build community, promote interdisciplinary interactions, support professional development and enhance wellness/mental health among graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Thank you for your participation.

Graham Hammill
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Dean of the Graduate School

Three Minute Thesis—Register to Enter!

Doctoral students who are currently enrolled at UB, actively engaged in dissertation research and have completed their Application to Candidacy, are eligible to enter the 3MT competition.

The 3MT competition cycle begins with the 3MT preliminary round where registered participants will present their three-minute pitch and one static slide to a panel of judges. All participants will benefit by receiving feedback from audience reactors

The virtual 3MT preliminary rounds will take place, Nov. 15-17, 2021.

Register to Compete in UB’s 3MT Competition

Registration closes Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Winners of the preliminary round will go on to compete for cash awards in the 3MT final competition on Friday, March 4, 2022.

New 3MT Micro-Credential

Doctoral students intending to participate in the 3MT prelims are encouraged to complete the new 3MT Micro-Credential: Communicating Research to Broad Audiences. This micro-credential was designed to both prepare students to communicate their research to non-specialists and to compete in the 3MT competition, and is open to all graduate students.