Date and Time Time Location Description
Saturday, September 9, 2023 8:30am-12:00pm Buffalo State Alumni Center
Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:30am-12:00pm Buffalo State Burchfield Penny Art Center Ethan Siegal will be joining us as a guest speaker. Ethan Siegel is a Ph.D. astrophysicist and author of "Starts with a Bang!" He is a science communicator, who professes physics and astronomy at various colleges. He has won numerous awards for science writing since 2008 for his blog, including the award for best science blog by the Institute of Physics. Ethan will be speaking about science literacy and getting us excited about the upcoming April 8, 2024 total eclipse.
Saturday, October 28, 2023 8:00am-11:30am Buffalo State Alumni Center Gliset Colón, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor with the Exceptional Education Department at SUNY Buffalo State and an associate investigator with the CUNY Initiative on Immigration and Education. She is also the Coordinator for the Teaching Bilingual Exceptional Individuals Graduate Certificate Program. Dr. Colón has research interests and expertise in literacy and language outcomes for multilingual students with and without disabilities, multi-tiered systems of support, disproportionality, and intersectionality. Dr. Colón is actively involved in several professional organizations at the local, state, and national levels.
Saturday, December 9, 2023 8:30am-1:00pm Tewksbury Lodge
Saturday, January 20, 2024 8:30am-12:00pm Buffalo State SAMC Atrium
Saturday, March 2, 2024 8:30am-12:00pm Buffalo State SAMC Atrium Participate in workshops relevant to the upcoming solar eclipse, including DIY pinhole viewers, sessions in the planetarium, safe observation of the corona, and connections to mythologies of various cultures.
Saturday, April 13, 2024 8:30am-12:00pm Buffalo State Student Union Social Hall Join Dr. Stephen Bird as he leads a day of professional learning. Dr. Stephen Bird is Professor of Political Science at Clarkson University, jointly appointed with Humanities and Social Science and the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and also Director of the Adirondack Semester. He is Research Faculty Affiliate with the Positive Energy Project at the University of Ottawa where he was also the Fulbright Scholar Visiting Research Chair in Governance and Public Administration in fall 2016. His current and past research focuses on energy conflict, split incentives and smart housing, microgrid governance, factors in energy acceptance (fracking, solar, wind), green data centers, energy poverty, policy learning and activism, and social influence.
Saturday, May 11, 2024 9:00am-12:30pm Niagara-Wheatfield High School
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 5:00pm-8:00pm TBA