What is Neuroscience?
- How does the brain work to control our everyday interactions with our environment? And what happens when things go wrong?
- UB’s interdisciplinary neuroscience program utilizes a molecules-to-behavior approach to answer these questions.
- Examine neuroscience at the level of individual genes, cells, organs, neural circuits and animal/human behavior.
Any students interested in more information on the new neuroscience major or how to pursue it should plan to attend our informational session.
Tuesday, November 19th from 3:00-4:00pm in Capen 107.
This
is a great opportunity to learn more about the curriculum and
opportunities available with this exciting new degree program.
If you are unable to attend please email Shannon Brown
smbrown3@buffalo.edu
Addiction research lab is seeking an undergraduate research assistant to help in behavioral studies of addiction. We use a variety of molecular techniques, including viral vectors and chemogenetics to probe neural circuits involved in addiction. You will get the opportunity to learn surgical techniques including brain infusions, and jugular catheters, as applied to cocaine self-administration models in rats. You will also have the potential to assist in other experiments in the lab. Please check our website at http://www.thebasslaboratory.com for more information about our lab and the type of studies we do. To apply please send a brief description of your career goals, a copy of your transcripts, your schedule, and a resume. We are specifically looking for help in the morning hours, and require 10 hours per week. If your schedule doesn’t fit this semester we may be able to accommodate until next semester. Please note we are in the downtown campus, and are able to provide a subway pass, but you must plan sufficient time for transportation.
The position details are below, and students can apply through handshake ID #3221960. They are accepting it as an assistant position or a work study position.
This work study student employee will be an assistant to the Outreach Coordinator, Michelle Bowen, in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Office of Strategic Initiatives. We are looking for a Marketing, Graphic Design, Visual Studies and/or Communications student. The Office of Strategic Initiatives supports and manages the day-to-day operations, communications, and education missions of
- Shared Instrumentation Laboratories
- SMART Community of Excellence
- Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics (SSISTL)
- Institute of Bridge Engineering (IBE)
- Institute of Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS)
OSI also supports many events within the School of Engineering.
Responsibilities Include:
- Assist in website edits and management on the UB CMS
- Assist in content creation for websites, social media and various print materials
- Assist in graphic design of various marketing materials, such as flyers, posters, brochures, powerpoint presentations, websites, programs, event collateral, etc.
- Assist in organizational tasks, such as creating excel spreadsheets, documents, or calendar appointments to keep information organized
- Assist in marketing meetings from time to time
- Assist in event coordination from time to time
- Any other assistance needed with various projects that our office must support
Requirements:
- Graphic design knowledge and experience (must provided samples of your work)
- Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, Powerpoint
- Knowledge and experience with Google applications: Docs, Sheets, Slides
- Knowledge and experience with the Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom
Compensation:
$13-15 / hr
Required Documentation:
- Resume
- Course Schedule
- Graphic design portfolio / samples
The Student Success Strategies Series and Peer Coaching Network opportunities are now open to NEW FRESHMAN (whether or not they were marked “at-risk” in a UB Seminar or ENG105 class).
- Deal effectively with any potential barriers or challenges to making a smooth transition to college
- Develop and strengthen behaviors, skills and strategies that will help you move confidently toward academic success
- Connect with experienced UB students* who can share how they learned to be successful
- Ensure yourself a greater chance for success and achievement of your personal and academic goals
Weekly workshops will be held in the Greiner Hall B Wing classrooms:
Week 2: Time Management
Tues. 10/22 6:00-7:30 pm
Wed. 10/23 7:00-8:30 pm
Week 3: Self-Care
Tues. 10/29 6:00-7:30 pm
Wed. 10/30 7:00-8:30 pm
Week 4: Class & Course Skills
Tues. 11/5 6:00-7:30 pm
Wed. 11/6 7:00-8:30 pm
Week 5: Study Smart
Tues. 11/12 6:00-7:30 pm
Wed. 11/13 7:00-8:30 pm
*Attend one or all of the workshop series and connect
with a Peer Success Coach. To sign up for a Coach go
to https://forms.gle/znLYWKkhtvY57Xkb9.
*For the workshops just show up! Light food will be served.
*Questions?: email studentsuccess@buffalo.edu
Posted by Tim on October 23, 2019 in Internships
UB Linguistics Department internship (LIN 496):
Would you like to earn UB credit, gain valuable teaching experience, and make a contribution to your community at the same time? The Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo is offering a Teaching Internship for the Spring 2020 semester, which places UB undergraduate students in the Buffalo Public Schools as a teacher’s aide or tutor, to work with children on developing their language and literacy skills. This internship is open to students from any major and grade level who are native or near-native speakers of English and have at least a 2.0 GPA. For three credits, interns work 112 hours over the course of the semester (about 8-10 hours per week), in a classroom or tutoring room in one of the public schools. Interns can be placed in an early childhood school, an elementary school, a middle school, or a high school; the children in the schools include Spanish-English bilinguals, international students, and English-speaking urban students. There are also sometimes a very small number of slots for interns to work with school psychologists, guidance counselors, or social workers. (CDS majors interested in working with an SLP should contact their own department first to inquire about their internship program.)
To find out more about the Linguistics Department internship, or to request an application, please stop by Dr. David Fertig’s office, 638 Baldy Hall (Fall office hours: Monday 2:00–3:00 p.m. and Friday, 11:30 a.m. –12:30 p.m.) or e-mail him at: fertig@buffalo.edu, with a cc to Graduate Teaching Assistant Thaddeus Okon <tjokon@buffalo.edu>. (Please include “LIN 496 Internship” in the subject line of your e-mail.)
Do you want to make a real difference in the world? If so, consider participating in our Aging Innovation Challenge, taking place on Nov. 1, 2019 from 1 to 5 p.m. in 210 Student Union.
At the Aging Innovation Challenge, you and other students and faculty from all different disciplines will team up to develop a prototype to assist aging New Yorkers. Your innovation could make the difference to someone fighting to maintain independence in their home or to a stressed caregiver providing daily assistance to a loved one while holding down a full-time job. Participants do not need any prior skills or experience — you will be able to use your unique background to contribute to your team’s idea for the chance to win $ prizes.
Register to participate: https://tinyurl.com/UBAgingInnovation19
The School of Social Work is offering a new minor in Community Organizing and Development.
The School of Social Work is also offering several spring Social Work undergraduate-level electives, open to all majors and non-degree students. Register as normal, but if you have questions about a course, please email them at swinfo@buffalo.edu.
SW 140 Organizing and Advocacy
#21843,
Monday, Wednesday 10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m., Location TDB
This
course focuses on the nuts and bolts of organizing and the strategies
that inform advocacy with an emphasis on the roles social capital has on
networking effectively across groups and
systems. Because the skills and tasks of organizing and advocacy are
predominately to catalyze and agitate for change, students will examine
relevant policies and learn how to identify and map the distribution of
power they promote particularly as they influence
access to services and support in neighborhoods and communities. With
an understanding of power and its impact on community capacity building,
students will explore and engage in opportunities to apply
cross-cultural communication in traditional media and
public speaking. (3 cr. hr.)
SW 150 Social Media in Social Change, #21844,
Tuesday, Thursday 6:00 p.m. to 7:20 p.m., Location TBD
The
purpose of this course is to familiarize students with social media and
social networking as they influence community change. Specifically,
students will be introduced to the fundamental
terms and concepts of social media and networking, including various
interfaces, tools, and platforms that may be leveraged to promote
community change and development. Students will also explore existing
scholarship and best practices, as well as issues of
social justice, burdens of adversity, social disadvantage, and human
rights as they apply to the democratization of technology. Students will
examine the challenges, opportunities, and future applications of
social media and networking related to community
change. (3 cr. hr.)
SW 230 Theories and Policies of Community Organizing and Development (Hybrid), #23952, Tuesday, Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 11:20
a.m., Fillmore 325, North Campus
This
course provides students with an understanding of the ways in which the
history of community organizing and development informs community
theory and policy across urban and rural settings.
With an emphasis on group development theory, students will be
introduced to the major theories and policies that impact
neighborhood/community capacity, including but not limited to theories
of poverty, inequality, human rights, urban and rural community
organizing and development, and neighborhood organizing. A particular
focus is the intersection of these theories and policies within this
framework that can create social capital and foster entrepreneurship,
social innovation, and cross-sector collaboration.
(3 cr. hr.)
SW 235 Responses to Child Maltreatment, #21841, Monday, Wednesday 10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m, Clemen 106 North Campus
This
course focuses on interdisciplinary system responses to child
maltreatment, including trauma-informed and human rights-based
approaches. The course explores responses across multiple
community systems, including child welfare agencies, health care
systems, law enforcement, and schools. This course is designed for, but
not limited to, students who are interested in public health, social
work, human services, nursing and other health professions,
sociology, psychology, law, and education. (3 cr. hr.)
SW 245 Global Child Advocacy Issues, #21842, Tuesday, Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.,
351 Millard Fillmore Academic Center (MFAC), North Campus
This
course is designed to increase student understanding of the adverse
experiences of children growing up in various countries. The purpose of
this course is to expose students to considerations
of socioeconomics, health, culture, religion, and politics and how
these affect the welfare and well-being of children across the world.
This course examines advocacy efforts using a trauma-informed, human
rights framework.
(3 cr. hr.)
SW309LEC Developing Leadership in Communities, #
23953, Monday/Wednesday 6pm-7:20pm, Talbot 106, North Campus
Description:
This course focuses on development of leadership skills and strategies
that foster community engagement and strengthen the natural leadership
of residents within neighborhoods and
communities. Students will examine theories of leadership and the ways
in which they influence organizational structures that promote community
well-being. Central to this course is the acquisition and application
of strategies that can be used to enhance
the development of skills as well as the exercise of leadership by
neighborhood and community resident. (3 cr. hr.)
SW 401 Black Masculinities (Undergraduate and Graduate)
# 23572 (UNG), #24048 (GRAD) Wed, 9-11:50am Obrien 210, North Campus
This
course concerns the exploration of Black masculinity and the various
policies that shape how Black male identity is viewed in America and how
those policies shape the gendered perspectives/behaviors
of the Black male. Consistent with an interdisciplinary approach the
course will focus on a number of domains that impact Black men such as
the prison industrial complex, poverty, violence, education and draw
from a number of disciplines such as social work,
history and sociology. We start our consideration of this topic with an
examination of the institution of slavery in America between the
17th century and the beginning of the 20th century
which set the
foundation for Black masculinity in America. Theories that aim to
explain Black male outcomes will be incorporated throughout the course. (3 cr. hr.)
SW101 Human Biology,
online, #22209
This course will
provide a foundational understanding of human biology with emphasis on
the biological bases of behaviors and issues of concern to social
workers. This course is designed to meet the human
biology prerequisites for Masters in Social Work students, and will
cover the basics of human biology including anatomical systems and
structures, development from conception through aging and death;
genetics, evolution, and biological and environmental interactions.
The focus of the course is not only on biology but also on the critical
analysis of the interplay between human biology and social issues.
Discussions will cover the biological bases of phenomena including but
not limited to addictions, mental illness, sexuality,
and aggression. Emphasis throughout the course also will be placed on
biological processes related to trauma and stress.
