Free Tim Hortons Gift Cards Available
2020-11-16, 2020-12-14
This year, grab Tim Hortons to go! Pick up a free $5 Tim Hortons gift card at the UB Ticket Office (purchase online and pick up at 221 Student Union) and enjoy a coffee and donut at your convenience.
Gift cards are available until they are sold out and will be released 4 times a semester. 1 gift card per UB ID, per month

December Group Funding Applications Deadline
2020-11-18 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
Application materials are due for Special Activities, Interdepartmental Activities, Symposium, Community Outreach and Scholarly Publication funding for events occurring after the December Board of Directors meeting. All application materials due by the close of business at 4:30pm.

UB AI in Medicine Datathon
2020-11-20 - 2020-11-22
November 20-22, 2020
Deadline: November 18, 2020 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Zone
For more information and to apply today click here!

Apply to Participate
Submit to Sponsor / Partner
Apply to Mentor

We are less than 1 week away from the 2-day event, AI in Medicine: Virtual Datathon. We would like to invite you to participate in the event scheduled for November 20-22, 2020.
As a datathon participant, here is what you can expect:

Apply to participate as an individual or as a team. If you’re not in a team, we will match you with a diverse team – no coding required.
Top Prizes will be awarded to the following categories:

Teams that develop meaningful findings from the dataset from Roswell Park DataBank & BioRepository Shared Resource.
Teams that present the Best Cancer Use-Case Application.

Present your solution to judges, sponsors & compete for prizes on Sunday.
Network with fellow problem-solvers in the virtual UB ecosystem.
Be mentored by leading experts in the field.
Be discovered by the sponsors.

We will provide prizes to the top entries and free swag to all our attendees. Faculty, students, alumni and anyone with a passion for healthcare, are welcome to join!
We hope to see you (virtually) at the event!
Best,
UB AIM Datathon Team

Apply as a Speaker
Apply to facilitate a Fireside Chat Session
Apply to Judge

Apply to facilitate a Sponsor / Partner Workshop
Apply as Musician / Fitness Instructor

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Club Recognition Application Deadline
2020-11-24 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
According to the mandate of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) Board of Directors, Special Interest and International Clubs must apply for annual recognition. Recognition must take place at one of the FALL GSA Board Meetings (September 9, October 7, November 4, or December 2).
All application materials are due by the close of business at 4:30pm to have your club’s recognition considered at the December 2nd Board Meeting.

Finance Committee Meeting
2020-11-24 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Online via Zoom
Finance Committee meeting to review group funding requests for events to take place in December or later.

Fall Recess
2020-11-25 - 2020-11-28

Office Closed
2020-11-25 - 2020-11-28 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
The GSA office will be closed for Fall Recess.

Free $10 Chipotle Gift Cards Available
2020-11-30
This year, grab Chipotle to go! Pick up a free $10 Chipotle gift card (reserve online through the UB Ticket Office) and enjoy a meal at your convenience. Gift card will be emailed out by the vendor directly once all gift cards have been claimed.
*PLEASE NOTE* Gift cards will only be available to graduate students who did not claim a free gift card in the first giveaway!
Limited quantity available. First come, first served. 1 per UB ID.

December Board of Directors Meeting
2020-12-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Online via Zoom
The December 2nd Board of Directors meeting will be held online via Zoom starting at 6:30pm. Sign-in begins at 6:00pm so that the meeting can begin promptly at 6:30pm. Once the meeting begins no one else will be admitted for attendance purposes.
PLEASE NOTE: Every club will need to email Stephanie at slfrank@buffalo.edu no later than 12:00pm on Wednesday, December 2nd with who will be attending the meeting on the club’s behalf so that eligible representatives can be verified in advance. Once representatives are verified they will be sent the Zoom meeting link and password directly, along with some instructions on how the meeting will be managed, in order to be able to participate and vote. Only previously verified representatives will be admitted to participate in the Zoom meeting.
For attendance purposes each Special Interest Club may have one representative participate directly in the Zoom meeting, but they will not have voting privileges.
The meeting will also be live streamed via YouTube for anyone else that is interested in attending/watching the meeting without voting privileges, as meetings are open to the public.

Last Day of Fall Classes
2020-12-11

Deadline for January Conference Funding Applications
2020-12-15 | 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 January are due by the close of business at 4:30pm.

Office Closed
2020-12-15 - 2021-01-01 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
The GSA will be closed for Winter Recess from Tuesday, December 15th until Monday, January 4th.
The office will be open for Summer Hours (Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 4:00pm) from January 4th – 29th.
Regular business hours will resume with the start of classes on February 1st.

GSA on Summer Hours
2021-01-04 - 2021-01-07 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
The GSA will be open for Summer Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 4:00pm, closed on Friday, January 8th.

Office Closed
2021-01-08 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States

GSA on Summer Hours
2021-01-11 - 2021-01-14 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
The GSA will be open for Summer Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 4:00pm, closed on Friday, January 15th.

Office Closed
2021-01-15 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States

Office Closed
2021-01-18 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
The GSA will be closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance.

Deadline for February Conference Funding Applications
2021-01-19 | 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 February are due by the close of business at 4:00pm.

GSA on Summer Hours
2021-01-19 - 2021-01-21 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
The GSA office will be open for Summer Hours: Tuesday to Thursday 8:30am – 4:00pm, closed on Friday, January 22nd.

February Group Funding Applications Deadline
2021-01-20 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
Application materials are due for Special Activities, Interdepartmental Activities, Symposium and Community Outreach funding for events occurring after the February Board of Directors meeting. All application materials due by the close of business at 4:00pm.

Office Closed
2021-01-22 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States

GSA on Summer Hours
2021-01-25 - 2021-01-28
The GSA office will be open for Summer Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 4:00pm, closed on Friday, January 29th.

Finance Committee Meeting
2021-01-27 19:00 - 21:00 | TBA, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
Finance Committee meeting to review group funding requests for events to take place in February or later.

Office Closed
2021-01-29

Spring Classes Begin
2021-02-01

February Board of Directors Meeting
2021-02-03 18:00 - 21:00 | TBA, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
GSA Board of Directors 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: Every club will need to email Stephanie at slfrank@buffalo.edu no later than 12:00pm on Wednesday, February 3rd with who will be attending the meeting on the club’s behalf so that eligible representatives can be verified in advance. Once representatives are verified they will be sent the Zoom meeting link and password directly, along with some instructions on how the meeting will be managed, in order to be able to participate and vote. Only previously verified representatives will be admitted to participate in the Zoom meeting.
For attendance purposes each Special Interest Club may have one representative participate directly in the Zoom meeting, but they will not have voting privileges.
The meeting will also be live streamed via YouTube for anyone else that is interested in attending/watching the meeting without voting privileges, as meetings are open to the public.

Free Tim Hortons Gift Cards Available
2021-02-08
This year, grab Tim Hortons to go! Pick up a free $5 Tim Hortons gift card at the UB Ticket Office (purchase online and pick up at 221 Student Union) and enjoy a coffee and donut at your convenience.
Gift cards are available until they are sold out and will be released 4 times a semester. 1 gift card per UB ID, per month.

Distinguished Speaker Series presents Patrisse Cullors
2021-02-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Online via Zoom
Patrisse Cullors

Social Activist; Best-selling Author of “When They Call You A Terrorist” & Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement, #BlackLivesMatter

UB’S 45TH ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMEMORATION KETNOTE SPEAKER

Virtual Seating Information

Wed., Feb. 10, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
Virtual via Zoom

More About Patrisse Cullors

Artist, activist, educator, public speaker and Los Angeles-native Patrisse Cullors is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and founder of the Los Angeles-based grassroots organization Dignity and Power Now. For the last 20 years, Cullors has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform and led Reform LA Jails’ “Yes on R” campaign, a ballot initiative that passed by a 71% landslide victory in March 2020.
Cullors co-founded the global Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after sparking the viral Twitter hashtag. The movement has since expanded into an international organization with dozens of chapters around the world campaigning against anti-black racism. In January 2016, Cullors published her memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” which became an instant New York Times bestseller. A young adult edition of the memoir is set to be published in September 2020. Cullors’ work for Black Lives Matter recently received recognition in TIME magazine’s 2020 100 Women of the Year project.
From 2016 to 2018 Cullors worked as a senior fellow at MomsRising where she worked on ground breaking federal legislation that will change the outcomes of maternal mortality for women, especially Black women. She also executive produced two podcasts with Rewire and developed a booklet labeled “c-section chronicles.”
As an artist, Cullors has directed and produced world renowned theater, performance pieces and docu-series. Her work has been on networks like BET and Blackpills as well as theaters and galleries across the world. Most recently she conducted her first solo show titled: “Respite, Reprieve and Healing: An Evening of Cleansing.” Her work focuses on trauma, healing and resilience.
Cullors developed and is currently the faculty director of a new Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program at Arizona’s Prescott College. The program is the first of its kind in the nation to focus a curriculum on the intersection of art, social justice and community organizing.
Cullors is the recipient of the Stanton Fellowship from the Durfee Foundation. She has held residencies at The 24th Street Theater and Kalamazoo College. Cullors has exhibited widely across Los Angeles and the United States, from traditional arts institutions to public spaces. Her work has been shown at Art Basel Miami, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the California African American Museum, the San Diego Art Institute, Kalamazoo College, Pieter Performance Space, Highways Performance Space, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute and more.
Cullors has been honored with various awards including: The 2020 Durfee Stanton Fellowship, The 2019 Champion for Peace and Justice from the Trayvon Martin Foundation, The Next Generation Award (2018) from ACLU National, The Sydney Peace Prize Award (2017), Black Woman of the Year Award (2015) from The National Congress of Black Women, Civil Rights Leader for the 21st Century Award (2015) from the Los Angeles Times, Community Change Agent Award (2016) from BLACK GIRLS ROCK!, Inc., Women of the Year Award for the Justice Seekers Award (2016) from Glamour, and ESSENCE’s first-ever Woke Award.
Cullors holds her MFA from USC Roski School of Art and Design.

MDRF Spring Application Deadline
2021-02-12 | GSA Office, 310 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2100, United States
Deadline for MDRF grant applications for research to be conducted between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022.
Electronic application materials must be submitted online to ubmdrf@gmail.com by 3:00pm on Friday, February 12, 2021.
The last date that applicants may submit their grant to the MDRF Director (gsa-mdrf@buffalo.edu) for review prior to the deadline is Wednesday, January 27th at 4:30pm.
