TNS GSA ~ Bad Feminist Book Club
2017-04-03 12:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | 1030 Clemens Hall, 1030 Clemens Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
We are excited to announce TNS GSA will be hosting a Bad Feminist Book Club to celebrate Roxane Gay’s work before she speaks at UB. We will be reading Bad Feminist so I hope you all get a chance to read it over the break! We will be providing refreshments as well. Please see the attached flyer for details.**
**We have not yet confirmed the room so I will let you know if anything changes.

GSA South Campus Office Closed
2017-04-04 | GSA South Campus Satellite Office, 302 Abbott Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, 14260
The GSA South Campus Office will be closed on Tuesday, April 4th due to the rescheduled Senate meeting. We apologize for any inconvenience.

April Senate Meeting and Candidate Debate
2017-04-04 18:30 - 22:30 | Student Union Theater, 201 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
*PLEASE NOTE THE DATE AND LOCATION CHANGES FOR THIS MEETING!*
GSA Senate meetings are open to the public, but only designated representatives from Departmental and International clubs may vote. Sign-in begins at 6:00 pm so that the meeting can begin promptly at 6:30 pm.
*PLEASE NOTE* The official GSA Officer Candidate Debate will take place at this meeting. Moderated by the GSA Election Committee, students will have the opportunity to interact with and ask questions of the candidates for each office.

RLL Symposium ~ Intersections: Collage of Urban Networks
2017-04-07 - 2017-04-08 | Clemens Hall (9th Floor), Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
The City provides with a unique opportunity to create and be created in many different ways. Identities and cultures become an indentifying marker against a backdrop of individuality. Against the backdrop of skyscrapers, new opportunities are born. In these intersections paintings, literature, architecture, and performance, amongst many other mediums we find a complex, multi-faceted and often fragmented collage of cultures forming a snapshot of human existence. Intersections serve as a reminder of where humanity becomes a cosmopolitan endeavor. At our conference we will discuss these connections.

Java Junction
2017-04-07 11:00 - 13:00, 2017-05-05 11:00 - 13:00 | GSA Conference Room, 310A Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Free Tim Horton’s coffee and doughnuts for graduate students in the GSA office.

Paint Nite with GSA
2017-04-07 18:30 - 21:00 | Pearl Street Grill & Brewery, 76 Pearl St., Buffalo, NY, 14202, United States
Tickets on sale October 19th at the SBI Ticket Offices (221 Student Union and 350 Harriman Hall) for $25 each. 2 per UB ID. Tickets include painting canvas, supplies, instruction, food and one drink. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.

Buffalo Untapped
2017-04-09 14:00 - 18:00 | Ed Wright Practice Facility, UB North Campus, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Live Music, Wineries, Breweries, Food Trucks and Local Vendors!
$5 food vouchers and a bracelet allowing for 5 beer and/or wine tastings will be given out for FREE to the first 300 graduate students in attendance.
*PLEASE BRING PHOTO ID SHOWING PROOF OF AGE FOR TASTING BRACELETS*

GSA Officer Elections and Referendum Vote
2017-04-10 - 2017-04-13 | Buffalo, United States
GSA Officer Elections and the Referendum Vote

The vote will take place via a link on the GSA website. Polls will be open at 12:00am on Monday, April 10th until 11:59pm on Thursday, April 13th. Results will be announced on Friday, April 14th.
For more information about the candidates for office, please visit our Election Page.

Media Study GSA ~ Philo-Fiction: On Integrative Objects Workshop
2017-04-10 - 2017-04-12 | Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY, United States
Times: Monday, April 10 6:30pm – 8:30pm (keynote speakers); Tuesday, April 11, workshop lead by Anne-Francoise Schmid/grad symposium presentations from 10:00am – 5:00pm; Wednesday, April 12, grad student participants’ roundtable and wrap up 12:00 – 6:00pm, research exhibits of participants’ work on display in Department of Media Study (room 271) from April 14-27
We invite graduate students to participate in a practice-based research/workshop symposium ‘Philo-Fiction: On Integrative Objects’ led by philosopher Anne-Francoise Schmid on Tuesday, April 11. This all-day event is connected to a special edition of the PLASMA speaker series at the Department of Media Study, with world renown philosophers Francois Laruelle and Anne-Francoise Schmid. Laruelle and Schmid will both give talks on April 10th at 6:30pm in the Department of Media Study as an opening to our practice-research symposium and collaborative workshop.
Philo-Fiction: On Integrative Objects is an interdisciplinary event that will explore and question the status of our knowledge, looking across knowledges that are philosophical, scientific and/or artistic. The event brings together Schmid’s work on ‘Integrative Objects’ as an emerging method for research and practice, and allows for grad students to experiment with the method in a collaborative setting. Schmid will guide us in thinking through the method of integrative objects, with a focus on how fiction can be used as an operator mobilizes knowledge. This event is open for all grad students to apply but will be of interest to those working in art and artistic research, epistemology, performance studies, design/speculative design, critical theory, continental philosophy, science studies, and for those who work with interdisciplinary methods or have interest in practice-based methods of research. Participants will also be part of the subsequent exhibition ‘On Integrative Objects’ that will showcase the work of participants presented and created during the workshop/symposium at the Department of Media Study SUNY Buffalo from April 14-27 in the Center for the Arts.

South Campus Siesta
2017-04-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 105 Harriman Hall, 105 Harriman Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Free food and beverages for graduate students at South Campus.

Informal Session with Roxane Gay
2017-04-13 16:30 - 17:30 | 210 Student Union, 210 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
RESCHEDULED DATE AND LOCATION!
Meet Roxane Gay in an intimate setting and ask her all the questions you might have for this bad feminist, Marvel comic writer, academic, author, and public intellectual!
The informal session will be held Wednesday, April 5 Thursday, April 13 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm in Baird 250 210 Student Union.
Please use the following link to register: https://www.ubevents.org/event/RoxaneInformal

Roxane Gay ~ Distinguished Speaker Series
2017-04-13 20:00 - 22:30 | Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY, United States
RESCHEDULED DATE AND LOCATION!
Roxane Gay | April 5, 2017 April 13, 2017 in CFA

Best-Selling Author, Cultural Critic and Professor
Graduate Student Choice Speaker
Free tickets available now for graduate students at the SBI Ticket Offices (221 Student Union and 350 Harriman Hall). 1 per UB ID.

More About Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely revered. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. With a deft eye on modern culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity.
Words like “courage,” “humor,” and “smart” are frequently deployed when describing Gay. Her collection of essays, “Bad Feminist,” was a New York Times best-seller and is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. NPR named it one of the best books of the year and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, “An Untamed State,” was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. She has two upcoming releases–“Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body” is a painstaking examination of body image, and “Difficult Women” is a collection of stories.
Gay is a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times. She was a founding editor of PANK and non-fiction editor at The Rumpus. Her writing has also appeared in McSweeney’s, The Nation and many other publications.
Gay is an associate professor of English at Purdue University.

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Job and Career Perspectives for Students in the Computational Sciences
2017-04-14 09:30 - 17:00 | 330 Student Union, 330 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Computational Science Club is hosting an Annual Symposium on ‘Job and Career Perspectives for Students in the Computational Sciences’, in which we are inviting speakers from industries including Dow Chemical Co., Pfizer, NASA, Schlumberger and HGST. These speakers who did computational work during grad school will talk about their experience of finding jobs in the industry, their transition from academia, and their insights into computational R&D landscape. This workshop will benefit and enhance the job perspectives for students who work in the computational groups here at UB.
Please check our club’s website for our list of events, and please feel free sign-up to become a club member.

Hellenic GSA ~ Greek Easter BBQ
2017-04-16 13:00 - 17:00 | Ellicott Creek Park, Shelter 10A/B, Buffalo, NY, United States
We announce our 2017 Greek Easter BBQ! Easter is celebrated in Greece with grand festivities, great music, dancing, fun on site events and above all delicious Greek food. It is the most celebrated cultural event in our country, bringing people together. Last year we successfully organized the same event on May 1st (which was the 6th consecutive year) and had a turnout of more than 100 people. The members of the Hellenic association promise great fun, sport activities, music, dancing and tons of delicious Greek “specialties”

Deadline for May Conference Funding Applications
2017-04-17 | NY
All applications for Conference Funding for conferences during the month of May are due in the GSA office by the close of business.

Media Study GSA ~ Phillip Hoffman Screening
2017-04-18 19:00 - 23:00 | 112 Center for the Arts, 112 Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States

Stats Lab Workshop
2017-04-19 14:00 - 16:00 | 330 Student Union, 330 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
*Workshop location moved to 330 Student Union*

GSE Research Symposium
2017-04-20 08:00 - 16:30 | Diefendorf Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States
Our theme for this year’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) Research Symposium reflects an effort to create and foster conversations across and within the multitude of disciplines representative of GSE. We provide a scholarly forum for GSE students to engage in dialogue with their colleagues and professors through presentation of their current research through multiple platforms (e.g. paper sessions, roundtable workshops, poster presentations). We offer an opportunity for graduate students to broaden their perspectives and inspire new ways of thinking across theory, method and practice.
Please see the attached Call for Proposals Application, which are due by March 19th.

Healthy Options Cooking Class
2017-04-21 18:00 - 20:00 | D’Avolio, 535 Main St., Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
Private cooking class at D’Avolio (535 Main St. in Downtown Buffalo) including appetizer, entree, side and dessert. Tickets on sale March 27th at the SBI Ticket Offices (221 Student Union and 350 Harriman Hall) for $15 each. 2 per UB ID. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.
Menu
Appetizer: Black Bean and Couscous Salad
Entree: Chicken Marsala
Vegetarian Entree: Sweet Potato Gnocchi
Side: Roasted Vegetables
Dessert: Frozen Yogurt with Raspberry Sundae Sauce
*Paid for by your Mandatory Student Activity Fee*

Social Work GSA ~ Restorative Justice Day
2017-04-24 09:00 - 17:00 | Diefendorf Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States
This seminar will be open to all interested graduate students and community members, and will focus on training in the techniques and principles of restorative justice. Restorative Justice Practices help to build healthy communities, increase social capital, reduce the impact of crime, decrease antisocial behavior, repair harm, and restore relationships. Restorative justice serves as an alternative to retributive systems, with a focus on engaging all stakeholders to repair harm through accountability, safety, and competency. Restorative Justice Practices in schools and in the juvenile justice system have been known to produce a higher success rate in the areas of victim and offender satisfaction, restitution compliance, and reduced recidivism compared to our typical system of retributive justice. As a result, Restorative Practices are increasingly being used throughout the country. This seminar would engage students across multiple disciplines to learn about and practice using this extremely beneficial, evidence based approach.

5th Annual Animal Behavior & Morphology Symposium
2017-04-26 18:30 - 22:00 | 155 Spaulding Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States

CSEP GSA ~ Motivational Interviewing Seminar
2017-04-27 08:00 - 16:00 | Research Institute on Addiction, 1021 Main St., Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
The seminar will be open to all interested graduate students and community members, and will focus on training in the techniques and principles of motivational interviewing. Motivational interviewing is a counseling approach that focuses on facilitating and engaging intrinsic motivation within the client in order to change behavior. It has been very successful in helping individuals overcome addiction problems, and can be used across many different domains, including private practice, school, and hospitals settings. Although graduate students often hear about motivational interviewing in class, we are not given any specific training in this technique. This seminar would engage students across multiple disciplines to learn about and practice using this extremely beneficial, evidence based approach.

Oozefest
2017-04-29 | Buffalo, United States
Team registration link:
https://Imleagues.com/ub
Volunteer registration link:
https://buffalo.collegiatelink.new/form/start/118429

Brandon Stanton ~ Distinguished Speaker Series
2017-04-29 20:00 - 22:30 | Alumni Arena, Alumni Arena, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, 14260
Brandon Stanton | April 29, 2017
Free tickets available for graduate students April 20th at the SBI Ticket Offices (221 Student Union and 350 Harriman Hall). 1 per UB ID.

Photographer, Author and Creator of Humans of New York (HONY)
Undergraduate Student Choice Speaker

More About Brandon Stanton

As the founder of the street portrait blog, Humans of New York (HONY), Brandon Stanton is referred to as a worldwide Internet phenomenon and one of today’s most influential storytellers. HONY has amassed over 17.7 million followers on Facebook and 6.8 million followers on Instagram, numbers which illustrate the power of the Internet, the value of storytelling, and our desire to remain connected with real people in a tech-driven world.
Stanton’s gift for storytelling has also resulted in two best-selling books, “Humans of New York” (2013), which spent 45 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, and “Humans of New York: Stories,” which shot to number one on the Time’s bestseller list within two weeks of its October 2015 release. On stage, he candidly shares his own personal story, and the perspective he has gained since embarking on his journey to help others tell theirs. He inspires his audiences with a renewed appreciation for the power of one person and one idea to inspire millions, and motivates them to contribute something meaningful to the world.
After graduating with a degree in history, Stanton traded bonds in Chicago until he lost his job, which led him to move to New York. In 2010, he started Humans of New York.
“The initial goal was to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers on the street, and create an exhaustive catalogue of the city’s inhabitants. Somewhere along the way, I began to interview my subjects in addition to photographing them. And alongside their portraits, I’d include quotes and short stories from their lives.”
Taken together, these portraits and captions became the subject of a vibrant blog which now provides a worldwide audience with daily glimpses into the lives of strangers on the streets of New York City. Over the past five years, it has also expanded to feature stories from over twenty different countries.

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Pharmaceutical Sciences GSA ~ 13th Annual Pharmaceutical Sciences Distinguished Alumni Symposium
2017-05-02 | Kapoor Hall, Buffalo, NY, United States
The “13th Annual Pharmaceutical Sciences Distinguished Alumni Symposium” is an all-day event in which graduate students have the opportunity to meet with a prominent alumna/alumnus from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. This year we are pleased to announce Dr. Holly Kimko as the distinguished alumna. Dr. Kimko is a Scientific Director and Janssen Fellow at Janssen Research and Development of Johnson & Johnson from the Global Clinical Pharmacology Department. During this all-day event, graduate students will be invited to engage in a career development lunch with the keynote speaker, as well as have the opportunity to meet Dr. Kimko one-on-one to discuss research, network, and learn about opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry. The day-long event will conclude with a keynote speech from Dr. Kimko entitled “How Does Modeling & Simulation Support Totality of Evidence for Regulatory Decisions?’ The keynote speech will be of interest to a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to Biological Sciences, Pharmacy, RPCI, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. We firmly believe that providing graduate students with the opportunity to meet a distinguished alumna will enhance their graduate student experience and inspire them to strive for similar success. A detailed description of the event will be advertised appropriately such that any interested person at the university might benefit from the event. The GSA will be visibly acknowledged as a cosponsor of the event.

Anthropology GSA's Convergence Symposium
2017-05-05 10:00 - 14:00 | UB Commons, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States

UB-EERI ~ UB Regional Earthquake Engineering Symposium
2017-05-05 10:00 - 15:00 | 140 Ketter Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
The Annual Spring UB Regional Earthquake Engineering Symposium will allow graduate students in any department at UB, as well as students from invited regional schools, to present their current earthquake-related projects to an audience of students, faculty and researchers. Boris Jeremic, from UC Davis, is our invited keynote speaker who specializes in the field of earthquake engineering and he will present a seminar on his current research, followed by a question and answer session. After a provided lunch, a schedule of students and faculty will be able to present brief descriptions of their current projects or research topics about earthquake engineering. As a final event, tours of the University at Buffalo Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) will be held to showcase current research projects for interested students and faculty. Additionally, there will be a paper competition in which students can enter a short paper detailing new developments in earthquake and structural engineering (paper topic and prize amounts TBD). Prizes will be awarded based on the ruling of faculty judges.

Discount Buffalo Zoo Tickets Available
2017-05-08 | Buffalo Zoo, 300 Parkside Ave., Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States
Bring your family out for a day at the Buffalo Zoo!
Tickets can be used anytime between May 15th and December 31st. Tickets on sale at the SBI Ticket Offices (221 Student Union and 350 Harriman Hall) starting May 8th until July 31st (or until sold out) for $10 each. 2 per UB ID. Limited quantity available. First come, first served. *Tickets include $10 food voucher.* All sales are non-refundable.
SBI Ticket Office Summer Office Hours (starting Tuesday, May 30th)
North Campus (221 Student Union): Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 11:00am – 3:00pm
South Campus (350 Harriman Hall): Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 11:00am – 3:00pm

Last Day of Spring Classes
2017-05-12 | NY
