Graduate Student Association

The GSA Senate passed the 2019 Election Code and Code of Conduct at the November 7th Senate meeting.  Please note that interested candidates for 2019-2020 GSA E-board positions will need to have attended at least two Senate meetings within the last twelve months prior to becoming a candidate.  That means that students interested in running who have not yet attended any Senate meetings will need to be present at the two remaining Senate meetings prior to the elections (February 6, 2019 and March 6, 2019).

Official petition packets will be available starting on January 28th in the GSA office at 310 Student Union.

Dear University Community:

On behalf of the School of Management, I am pleased to announce that our IRS-certified accounting students will again offer free tax preparation services to individuals and families with an annual income below $54,000. UB employees* are encouraged to take advantage of this service and to invite their families and neighbors to do the same.

The service will be offered at the North and South campuses. Dates, times, locations, maps and other important details can be found at the link below:

http://mgt.buffalo.edu/freetaxprep

Sincerely,

Paul Tesluk
Dean and Professor
School of Management

* Please note that tax preparation for nonresident aliens requires special processing that is beyond the scope of the services provided by Beta Alpha Psi volunteers. UB employees who are nonresident aliens can visit this website to find out if you are eligible to use Sprintax for income tax filing.

February 11-15, 2019, the UB Libraries will be celebrating Love Data Week (lovedataweek.org) – a global event raising awareness of critical issues related to data management, use, and preservation. We have three workshops on North Campus next week, all held in 310 Silverman Library:

• Data Organization in Spreadsheets (Monday 2/11, 1-2pm)
  • Ever wondered if you’re formatting your spreadsheets efficiently? In this workshop we share some best practices for organizing spreadsheet data!

• Play with Data (& Play-doh™)! (Wednesday 2/13, 1-2pm)
  • If you’re curious about n-grams, corpus analysis, or social network analysis – or what those terms even mean! – we cover the very basics of playing with different types of textual data in this hands-on introductory workshop.

• Wikidata Workshop and Edit-a-thon (Friday 2/15, 12-1pm workshop & 1-4pm edit-a-thon)
  • Join us to learn about how the open database that powers Wikipedia is structured, and help improve its accuracy by playing games! (The Distributed Game is an interactive way to update and correct Wikidata entries – no prior experience needed.)

In addition, a workshop is being offered on South Campus on Research Data Management Essentials (Thursday 2/14, 10:30am-12pm, 130 Abbott Hall), which covers some best practices for creating, sharing, and preserving research data in the health sciences and sciences.

This is a reminder that all Club room applications will be available on UBLinked starting on Friday, February 1, 2019. Club room assignments are given by the Student Unions.  Room assignments are allocated for officially recognized organizations only.  The term of use is June 18, 2019 – May 15, 2020.

We will evaluate the organization’s application based on the criteria set below. The application is due March 15, 2019.

 Criteria

Student Unions will consider the following:

1. Organization is recognized by the university, via UBLinked

• If your group is not currently registered, email Jude Butch, Senior Associate Director for Student Engagement, at jcbutch@buffalo.edu

2. Abides by the Guidelines and Polices of the Student Union
3. Nature and size of your organization
4. Previous use of space
5. Only permanent clubs may apply.  Clubs with temporary status are not eligible to apply for space

As stated in the Student Unions Club room Guidelines Agreement, space allocated to a given organization shall be subject to termination or modification.  The Club room Guidelines Agreement is available in the Student Unions Office.

The UB Center for Geohazards Studies is pleased to announce a research grant opportunity for graduate students to support research in any discipline that is related to natural hazards.

All applications materials must be received by  March 1, 2019 at 5:00 PM EST. Funds are available for projects to start on July 1, 2019

Eligible individuals must be enrolled in a graduate degree program at the University at Buffalo and be a member of the Center for GeoHazards Studies

For more info visit: https://geohazards.buffalo.edu/event/2019-natural-hazards-student-research-grant/

The GSA is currently hiring a Webmaster for the Spring and Summer semesters.  A description of the position is attached.  If you are interested in the posting, please email the required materials listed to the GSA Vice President, Connor Walters, at gsa-vicepresident@buffalo.edu by Friday, February 8th in order to be considered.  Applicants must be currently enrolled graduate students who have paid their mandatory student activity fee and must be able to serve for the full term of the position.

Please see the attached Call for Applications for UB Curriculum Capstone Instructors.

To apply for a Capstone Instructor position, please submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae (CV) or resume to Dr. Jeffrey Kohler, Capstone Clinical Instructor, at jkohler2@buffalo.edu. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis through July 31, 2019.

Program: The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship.

Who Should Apply: Anyone who has already obtained a masters or PhD degree or who is within one year of graduating with a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students are welcome. Everyone else is encouraged to sign-up for a future session.

Locations: In addition to the below in-person locations, we will have a remote online session:

• New York City
• San Francisco Bay Area
• Boston
• Washington, DC.

Dates: All sections will be from 2019-04-01 to 2019-05-24.

Application Link: https://www.thedataincubator.com/fellowship.html#apply?ref=wc3BjaGVhaEBidWZmYWxvLmVkdQo=

Early Deadline: 2019-01-14.
Regular Deadline: 2019-01-21.
We are assessing and interviewing candidates who apply for the Early Deadline first and then based on remaining availability, will take candidates who applied for the Regular Deadline on a first-come first-serve basis.

Data Science in 30 minutes: Learn how to build a data-science project in our upcoming free Data Science in 30-minutes webcast. Signup soon as space is limited.

Learn More: You can learn about our fellows at The New York Times, LinkedIn, Amazon, Capital One, or Palantir. To read about our latest fellow alumni, check out our blog. To learn more about The Data Incubator, check us out on Venture Beat, The Next Web, or Harvard Business Review.