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Check out some of the great events GSA has to offer this month!

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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/

Check out some of the great events GSA has to offer this month!

*Paid for by your Mandatory Student Activity Fee.*

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

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

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month. Don’t get hooked! Learn how to identify phishing scams and protect your personal info.

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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.

Check out some of the great events GSA has to offer this month!

*Paid for by your Mandatory Student Activity Fee.*

We have set up vaccine clinics for students, faculty and staff.  The pharmacists and students we have working at these sites (below) are prepared to give COVID (for those students that need second shots) and the flu vaccine.  It is vitally important to receive the flu vaccine as well,  since the CDC is predicting a bad year for that.  Students should bring their ID and any insurance card so the vaccines will be FREE!

The schedules are:

• North Campus: Tuesdays, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 10 Talbert Hall.

• South Campus: Wednesdays, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 7 Diefendorf Hall.

• Downtown Campus: Thursdays, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Room 2211 Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Karl D. Fiebelkorn, RPh, MBA | Senior Associate Dean | Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice & Administration |

|University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences | Room 282 Pharmacy Building | Buffalo, NY 14214 |

| Office: 716 645 2824 | Fax: 716-829-6568 |Web: www.pharmacylaw.buffalo.edu  | Email:  kdf@buffalo.edu