Graduate Student Association

Office Closed
2018-03-23 | Buffalo, United States
Spring Recess: GSA Office open Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 4:00pm, closed on Friday, March 23rd.

March For Our Lives Day of Action
2018-03-24 | Buffalo, United States
Across New York State, the “March For Our Lives Day of Action” will occur on March 24th. Students have organized this day of action nationally to demand stricter gun regulations in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
We are asking that SUNY students march together in solidarity with this effort, at the location closest to your respective campus. Here is a comprehensive list of all marches and logistical details. Please do all you can to advertise these events and encourage student participation: hang up the poster around campus, organize carpooling, send this out via your campus listserv, share on social media, etc.
Campus safety ought not be a partisan issue, but rather one that brings people of all political persuasions together in the spirit of community.
Sincerely,
Marc Cohen
Marc J. Cohen
President, Student Assembly of the State University of New York
Trustee, The State University of New York
State University Plaza N501, Albany, NY 12246
Tel: 518.320.1288 Fax 518.320.1557 Twitter @MarcCohenNY
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Atelier Week
2018-03-26 - 2018-03-30 | South Campus, Buffalo, 14214, United States
Atelier Week is the annual open-house celebration of work produced by UB’s School of Architecture and Planning. Each day of the week is a different event that serves to showcase student and faculty work. These events increase camaraderie between students and faculty, as well as between the School and the community at large.
Monday: Opening Ceremony/ Ice Cream Social in Hayes Hall
Tuesday: Pecha Kucha Event (slide presentations from students and faculty) in Hayes Hall
Wednesday: Department Speaker Series (event supports scheduled school lecture) in Hayes Hall
Thursday: Dodgeball Tournament (open and free team registration) in Clark Hall
Friday: Beaux Arts Ball (School formal and mixer event) location TBD

DifCon ~ Wakanda Forever: Can Art Save Us?
2018-03-27 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | 210 Student Union, 210 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
https://www.buffalo.edu/inclusion/DIFCON/wakanda.html

Finance Committee Meeting
2018-03-28 19:00 - 21:00 | GSA Conference Room, 310A Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
This will be the final Finance Committee meeting of the year to review all group funding requests for events taking place between April and July.

GSA Office Closed
2018-03-30 | Buffalo, United States
The GSA office will be closed on Friday, March 30th. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Focus Group on Library Spaces
2018-03-30 15:00 - 16:00 | 435 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Here are the links to sign up:
Libraries Facilities Focus Group – Undergraduate Students
https://booking.lib.buffalo.edu/event/4063836
Libraries Facilities Focus Group – Graduate Students
https://booking.lib.buffalo.edu/event/4063887
At the focus group, we will present you with ideas for the types of library spaces that can support the evolving research, learning, teaching, and service missions of the University. Your input and feedback on that vision will help establish our priorities for creating a long-term plan for library spaces on campus, one that reflects the changing landscape of academic research libraries and aligns with University goals.
We are working with Pfeiffer Partners, an architectural, planning and design firm with extensive experience collaborating with academic libraries on master planning projects. The team at Pfeiffer will be leading the focus group.
Seating is limited to 10 people. Snacks will be available.

Discount AMC Movie Tickets Available
2018-04-02 | Buffalo, United States
GSA will have discount AMC Movie Tickets available for sale on September 5th at the SBI Ticket Offices (221 Student Union and 135 Diefendorf Hall) for $6 each. 1 per UB ID. Tickets can be used for all movies at AMC theatre locations. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.

Computational Sciences Club ~ Statistical pitfalls and lessons from a model of human decision making at chess
2018-04-02 14:00 - 16:00 | 338A Davis Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Hello CSC folks!
We have a very interesting event lined up on Monday, April 2nd :
Title : Statistical pitfalls and lessons from a model of human decision making at chess.
Speaker : Professor Kenneth W. Regan
Date : April 2nd, 2018
Time : 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location : Davis 338A
For more details, go to http://gsa.buffalo.edu/csc/

GSA South Campus Office Closed
2018-04-03 | Buffalo, United States
The GSA South Campus Office will be closed on Tuesday, April 3rd. We apologize for any inconvenience.

April Senate Meeting
2018-04-04 18:30 - 21:30 | 330 Student Union, 330 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
GSA Senate meetings are open to the public, but only designated representatives from Departmental and International clubs may vote. Sign-in begins at 6:00pm so that the meeting can begin promptly at 6:30pm.
*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.

Java Junction
2018-04-06 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.

Plant Nite with GSA
2018-04-07 18:30 - 21:30 | Pearl Street Grill & Brewery, 76 Pearl St., Buffalo, NY, 14202, United States
Tickets on sale now at the SBI Ticket Offices (221 Student Union and 135 Diefendorf Hall) for $25 each. 2 per UB ID. Tickets include terrarium plants and supplies, instruction, food and one drink. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.

Greek Easter BBQ
2018-04-08 13:00 - 17:00 | Ellicott Creek Park, Shelter 10A/B, Buffalo, NY, United States
We announce our sixth Greek Easter BBQ! Easter is celebrated in Greece with grand festivities, great music, and above all, delicious food. It is the most celebrated cultural event in our country bringing people together. Last year we successfully organized the same event on April 12th, and had a turnout of 80 people. Even though Easter is earlier this year and even if we have been through one of the heaviest winters, we the members of the Hellenic association, promise great fun, sport activities, music, dancing, and tons of delicious Greek specialties.

UB Yard Sale
2018-04-12 - 2018-04-13 | Student Union Lobby, Buffalo, NY, United States
Student Engagement is once again hosting a “UB Yard Sale” in the Student Union lobby on April 12th and 13th. All proceeds raised at this sale will be donated to the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital.
If you have some gently used items that you want to donate to our sale, we would love to take them off your hands! We will have volunteers available to receive and sort your donations in Student Union room 145 on April 9th, 10th and 11th between 9am and 4pm.
Can’t make it down to the Union? We have volunteers willing to pick up your donations from your office. Just email Rachel at racheld@buffalo.edu ahead of time and we can schedule a pick up for you during business hours on the 9th-11th.
We are looking for household items, kid’s toys and books, clean clothing, small appliances and electronics, school supplies, un-opened toiletries and cleaning supplies.
This year we will also be accepting non-perishable food and toiletries to donate to the Food Bank of WNY.
We will not accept opened food, bedding or broken items.
Don’t forget to come shop at the sale as well! We will be set up in the Student Union Lobby on April 12th and 13th. We are only able to accept cash at the sale.
If you have any questions, please contact Rachel DiDomizio at racheld@buffalo.edu.

Distinguished Speaker Series ~ James Balog
2018-04-12 19:30 - 23:00 | Buffalo, United States
James Balog | Apr. 12, 2018

Global Expert on Climate Change and Founder of the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)

More About James Balog

For decades, photographer James Balog has broken new conceptual and artistic ground on one of the most important issues of our era: human modification of our planet’s natural systems. An avid mountaineer with a graduate degree in geography and geomorphology, Balog is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a whitewater river, the African savannah or polar icecaps. Balog has become a global spokesman on the subject of climate change and human impact on the environment. In 2007, he founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), the most wide-ranging, ground-based, photographic study of glaciers ever conducted; it integrates art and science giving a “visual voice” to the planet’s changing ecosystems. As a consequence of this historic work, in 2009, he served as a U.S./NASA representative at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) in Copenhagen. In 2015, at COP 21 in Paris, he made numerous presentations on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), The United Nations Foundation and Solutions COP 21 at the Grand Palais.
Balog and the EIS team were featured in the 2012 internationally acclaimed, award–winning documentary “Chasing Ice” and in the 2009 PBS “NOVA” special “Extreme Ice.” “Chasing Ice” won an Emmy Award in 2014 and was short-listed for an Oscar. It has been screened at the White House, in the U.S. Congress, in the U.K. House of Commons and at the United Nations. It has been the subject of features on “NBC Nightly News,” “ABC Nightline,” “The Late Show with David Letterman,” PBS’s “Moyers & Company,” and “Real Time with Bill Maher.” National Geographic showcased the Extreme Ice Survey in 2007, 2010 and 2013.
Balog has given multimedia presentations about the project at TED and at dozens of major institutions including the White House, the U.S. Congress, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, Apple, Swarovski, the 2010 Winter Olympics, North Face, Qualcomm, the Bloomberg New Energy Financial Summit, Cornell University and Duke University. Balog was a keynote speaker at an environmental philosophy conference in Istanbul sponsored by the Ecumenical Patriarch of the 300 million-member Orthodox Church.
Balog has been honored with many awards. In recent years these include the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal, the Heinz Award, the Duke University LEAF Award, the Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism at Dickinson College, an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of Alberta, the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) League Award and the American Geophysical Union Presidential Citation for Science and Society.
The most recent of Balog’s eight books is “ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers,” published by Rizzoli in 2012. Among his other titles are “Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest” (2004) and “Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife” (1990), hailed as a major conceptual breakthrough in environmental photography. His work is in dozens of public and private art collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Corcoran Gallery, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Gilman Paper Company.

For source or more information, please visit:

http://jamesbalog.com/about-james/

http://earthvisioninstitute.org/

http://extremeicesurvey.org/

Lecture Sponsor(s)

UB College of Arts & Sciences

Annual Symposium on Job and Career Perspectives for Students in Computational Sciences
2018-04-13 10:30 - 16:00 | 330 Student Union, 330 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
This is an ‘Annual Symposium on Job and Career Perspectives for Students in the Computational Sciences’, in which we are inviting five people from the industry to give us an insight into their careers, describe the state of the art technology and computational tools they use in the industry today and how they achieved success in their fields. These speakers will describe the computational work they did in graduate school and how they searched for jobs after it. They will discuss their transition from academia and provide a firsthand account of the computational R&D landscape. This symposium will encourage and inspire students working in computational groups from different departments at UB and will improve their job perspectives.

South Campus Siesta
2018-04-13 13:30 - 15:30 | 105 Harriman Hall, 105 Harriman Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Free food and beverages for graduate students at South Campus.

UB Dental Run for Smiles 5K
2018-04-14 09:00 - 14:00 | UB South Campus, Buffalo, 14214, United States
This annual 5k raises money for our BOCA organization (Buffalo Outreach and Community Assistance). BOCA sends dentists and students to under-served areas in the US and abroad to do free dental work.

Buffalo Untapped
2018-04-15 14:00 - 18:00 | LaSalle Lot and Alumni Arena, UB North Campus, Buffalo, 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*

Deadline for May Conference Funding Applications
2018-04-16 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
All applications for Conference Funding for conferences during the month of May are due in the GSA office (310 Student Union) by the close of business.

GSE Research Symposium
2018-04-19 08:00 - 16:00 | Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY, United States

Gender Institute presents Amber Jamilla Musser
2018-04-19 15:30 - 17:30 | 120 Clemens Hall, 120 Clemens Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
The UB Gender Institute and the HI Queer Studies Research Workshop are pleased to announce Amber Jamilla Musser
“Working Around the Incommensurate: Brown Jouissance and Kara Walker’s A Subtlety”
Thursday April 19.
3:30pm
120 Clemens Hall, UB North campus
http://www.buffalo.edu/genderin/news-and-events/upcoming_events/featured-events.html
About Amber Jamilla Musser:
Amber Jamilla Musser is an Associate Professor or Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research is at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality studies. Her monograph, Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) uses masochism as a lens to theorize different felt relationships to power. The book beings together debates on masochism within feminism, discussions of masochism from psychoanalysis and critiques of colonialism, literary presentations of masochism, and performance and visual art that draws on masochism’s repertoire in order to make an argument about the relationship between sensation and knowledge production and the racialization of our current episteme of sexuality. Her current research project, “Brown Jouissance: Feminine Imaginings” uses women of color’s aesthetic labors to re-imagine epistemologies of sexuality so that they center brown femininity.
Dr. Musser has also published widely on race and critical theory, queer femininities and race, race and sexuality, and queer of color critique. She has an MSt in Women’s Studies from Oxford University and received her PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. She has previously taught gender studies at New York University and Brown University. At Washington University she teaches “Sexuality and the State,” “Advanced Queer Theory: Intimacies of Precarity,” “The Politics of Pleasure,” “Queer of Color Critique: Sense and Sexuality,” and “Feminist Theory.”

Earthquake Engineering Symposium
2018-04-20 09:00 - 15:00 | Ketter Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
UB EERI is organizing the 2nd Annual Earthquake Engineering Symposium. The keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Laura N. Lowes, Civil Engineering Department Chair at the University of Washington, on developing tools for modeling the non-linear response of structural systems subjected to severe loading. There will also be a student research competition where students are welcome to present research topics on earthquake engineering or any other experience/topics related to earthquakes in general. Other activities include a tour of the UB Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL). Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Students from universities across Northeastern US and Canada are also invited.

Restorative Justice Day
2018-04-21 09:00 - 17:00 | Diefendorf Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States
Restorative Justice Day is an annual event co-sponsored by the School of Social Work, the Graduate School of Education, and several community organizations. The day focuses on restorative practices, which are a set of approaches to education and the criminal justice system. The restorative approach emphasizes restoring the relationships that are broken when harm has occurred, as opposed to simply punishing the offender. RJ Day brings together both local and national voices in the restorative movement, and gives students, faculty, and community members a chance to discuss issues such as the role of police, issues of youth, building stronger, more diverse communities, and zero-tolerance policies in schools.

Collegiate Village Grad Student Open House
2018-04-24 16:00 - 20:00 | Collegiate Village, 6 Affinity Lane, Buffalo, NY, 14215, United States
Come see why Collegiate Village is the preferred choice among grad students for off-campus living. Tours of the property are available until 8pm, complimentary wine and beer available after tour.

DifCon ~ The University & The City: Segregation, Gentrification & Representation in Buffalo
2018-04-24 18:00 - 19:30 | 301 Crosby Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States

MDRF Grant Application Workshop
2018-04-25 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-04-26 15:00 - 16:00 | GSA Conference Room, 310A Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
The Summer deadline for Mark Diamond Research Fund (MDRF) applications is Friday, May 25, 2018. Grant applications are for research to be conducted July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. The MDRF Director will be holding grant writing workshops on the dates below to go over the application, instructions, the review process and to answer any questions:
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 3:00pm in 310 Student Union
Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 3:00pm in 310 Student Union
Friday, April 27, 2018 at 12:00pm in 310 Student Union
Monday, April 30, 2018 at 2:00pm in 310 Student Union
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 11:00am in 310 Student Union
If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer at gsa-mdrf@buffalo.edu.
*PLEASE NOTE* The last day to submit your application for review by the MDRF Director before submission is Wednesday, May 16, 2018 (by 4:30pm).

RLL Graduate Symposium
2018-04-27 - 2018-04-28 | Buffalo, United States
