Dr. Lucia Leone, a faculty member in the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior, UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, is seeking to fill multiple research assistant positions for the Spring and Summer 2020 semesters. Research assistants will be responsible for working on studies related to increasing access to healthy food in lower-income and underserved communities, and will contribute to the current Veggie Van study, in which evidence-based strategies are being used to help partners start or expand mobile market programs. Opportunities include: participant recruitment, data collection/management (experience with REDCap a plus), quantitative/qualitative data analysis, literature reviews, administrative/project coordination tasks, community outreach activities, and website/social media communication management. Preferred Qualifications: Organized and detail oriented, highly motivated, strong GPA, good communication skills, ability to interact with diverse populations, and the ability to solve problems independently. Seeking undergrad interested in research experience and able to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekend hours. To apply: please send your resume and cover letter to leahverm@buffalo.edu. Please add your last name to the file names of these documents. We will interview students on a first come, first served basis.
Explore Buffalo is seeking a full-time Development Coordinator with an engaging and enthusiastic personality to join our energetic and professional team in support of the organization’s mission of promoting Buffalo and Western New York history, architecture, and neighborhoods through quality education to learners of all ages.
Responsibilities:
Corporate Support
Cultivate increased corporate support for Explore Buffalo:
• Recruit and retain corporate sponsors for events and programs, including the Winter Gala and Doors Open Buffalo, working with the Board of Directors and Fundraising Committee
• Coordinate networking events and annual Partners Breakfast
• Manage benefits for corporate sponsors, where applicable, such as event tickets
• Recruit advertisers for annual guidebook and other publications, ensure their satisfaction, and facilitate the placement and layout of their ad designs
• Coordinate private group tours for businesses:
o Promote private group tours to businesses for recruitment, teambuilding, etc.
o Help groups plan their tours and provide information for docent scheduling
Individual Support
Cultivate increased support for Explore Buffalo’s Annual Campaign & Education Fund Campaign:
• Coordinate mail, phone, and in-person donor outreach efforts, working with the Board of Directors and Fundraising Committee
• Maintain donor records and send donor acknowledgements
• Research and propose additional forms of giving, such as planned gifts
Fundraising Events
Primary staff support for Explore Buffalo’s major fundraising events:
• Coordinate logistical details for Winter Gala and Tours of Homes
• Work with event committees and coordinate volunteers to develop and execute event plans
Grant Support
Work with the Executive Director to increase grant revenue:
• Research grant opportunities and support grant application processes
• Potentially write some grant applications or grant application sections
Other
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with other cultural, business, and community organizations in WNY.
• Represent Explore Buffalo in a professional, personable manner through tabling, speaking engagements, attendance at community partner events and Explore Buffalo events, etc.
• Assist with general office tasks and major events as needed, and other duties as they may develop.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Two or more years of relevant work experience – non-profit experience is encouraged, particularly with a cultural organization
• Enthusiastic and energetic personality
• Flexibility and adaptability in a fast-paced work environment
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and with a team, depending on the task
• Attention to detail; ability to coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable speaking in front of groups at all age levels (youth, adult, senior)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs
• Primarily regular office hours, with various evenings and weekends required
• Must have reliable transportation
Explore Buffalo provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Application: To apply, please email a cover letter and resume to hiring@explorebuffalo.org by Friday, January 24, 2020. Please include Development Coordinator in the subject line.
Start Up Your Spring
’20 Semester:
You have a product or an idea that
could ignite. What if you just start selling? When can you stop listening and
just build? Surely your customers are just like you and they’ll buy the first
time… but what if they don’t?
Learn to avoid the mistakes that
stop so many founders short, and ask for help in a way that gets you the access
you need. Validate your riskiest hidden assumptions!
Apply Now! Winter 2020 Boot Camp
is January 23rd and 24th. Seats are limited – students accepted on a rolling
basis. Click here to apply.
How Does it Work?
Join us for 2 full days before the
fall or spring semester begins. We’ll provide food and any necessary off-campus
transportation for program related activities. If you live on campus, early
dorm check-in is available.
Volunteers needed for running programs at Maple West. The ask is to have volunteers 16 and older (male or female) that would be available two days a week from 7:15-8:45am. The potential program would run in the fall and spring for 9 weeks during each season concluding with a 5K. The volunteers could count this work as credits if needed. Please let me know if this is of any interest to anyone in your program.
For more information, please contact
Jennifer Weinstein
716-445-4679
jweinstein0523@icloud.com
DOE Scholars
Program, Dept of Energy; app deadline Jan 3, 2020
History of
Diversity in the Physical Sciences Intern, American
Institute of Physics (for physics undergraduates), app deadline Jan 15, 2020
REU in Increasing
Statistical Preparation in Research Education for Underrepresented
Undergraduates, Spelman College; app deadline Jan 15, 2020
Summer
Undergraduate Research Program, Human-Computer Interaction
Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; app deadline Jan 15, 2020
REU,
Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington;
app deadline Jan 15, 2020
Richard Macksey
National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium, Johns
Hopkins University, Apr 3-4, 2020; abstract deadline Jan 24, 2020
REU in
Evolutionary Science, University of Iowa; app deadline Feb
1, 2020
REU,
SETI Institute (for students interested in astronomy, astrobiology, or
planetary science); app deadline Feb 1, 2020
REU in Raptor
Research, Boise State University; app deadline Feb 3, 2020
Summer Student
Fellowships, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (for
rising fourth-year students interested in ocean sciences, oceanographic
engineering, mathematics, or marine policy); app deadline Feb 5, 2020
Analytic Studies
Internships, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute (for
students in art history, anthropology, archaeology, biochemistry, biology,
chemistry, ecology, earth sciences, chemical and materials science engineering,
museum studies, or paleontology); app dline Feb 10, 2020
History and Heritage
Internship, Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern
Jewish Life; app dline Feb 10, 2020
REU in Materials
Research Science and Engineering, Northwestern University;
app deadline Feb 14, 2020
Seventh Annual
Environmental Science and Design Symposium, Kent State
University; app deadline Feb 15, 2020
Travel grant
to attend 2020 International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in Seattle (for
underrepresented students in plant sciences); app deadline Feb 29, 2020
A peer mentor is an
experienced first-gen upper-class student at UB who will mentor a small group
(up to 10) new to UB first-gen freshmen. Mentors are committed to supporting
the holistic development of our first-gen students and preparing them to make a
successful transition to college. Mentors will contribute to the success of
their mentees by building community and as sense of belonging. Mentors will
also challenge the student to think more critically and have an increased level
of self- awareness and reflection. Mentors will serve as a buddy, a coach, an
advocate and a role model for their mentee.
Peer Mentor Primary Responsibilities
- Participate in required mentor training sessions
(approx. 2 hours in person, there may be more training opportunities online; times
TBD)
- Attend fall “Welcome (Back) Bulls Social” in September to welcome all incoming
first generation students
- Reach out to your assigned mentees at the start of
classes and each month; be available to your mentee via text, email, phone, or
in person
- Attend First Gen Connect monthly events with your
mentee(s)
- Participate in mentor workshops offered on a variety
of leadership, wellness, and personal/professional development topics
- Estimated time commitment of the program:
- approximately 2 hours in mentor training (times TBD)
- Additional online training modules will be required as
ongoing training
- approximately 4 hours a week working with
mentee(s), which includes related activities–workshops, mentor journal,
required survey/assessments)
Peer Mentor Required Qualifications
- Enrolled in Spring 2020 and will have sophomore,
junior, or senior status in Fall 2020
- Must be in good academic, financial, and
disciplinary standing
- First-generation college student (neither parent
received a four-year degree in the United States)
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Genuine desire to help their first-generation peers
succeed
- Self-motivated with a positive attitude
- Willing to learn and share information about the
University at Buffalo community, student life and campus resources
- First gen students at UB come from across the globe
and represent a wide variety of ethnic, cultural, linguistic, socio-economic,
geographical, and political perspectives–prospective mentors should embrace and
celebrate this diversity
- Interest in developing leadership and mentoring
experience
Benefits for Peer Mentors
- Workshops and training on a wide variety of UB
resources that support student success–including career, professional, wellness,
and leadership topics
- Enhance your skills in coaching and guiding others
- Opportunities to connect with a wide network of
faculty and staff dedicated to the success of our first gen Bulls community
- Stay up to date on new events and resources on campus
- Make a difference and positively impact a first-year
student’s UB experience!
- $ 13 an hour
How to apply?
Please submit to Vivian Jimenez @
vjimenez@buffalo.edu by February 3, 2020
- Letter of interest
- Resume
- Contact information for 2 professional references
The Impossible Project: Discrimination
Friday, December 6, 2019
5:00-7:00 p.m. in the Center for the Arts
Catering by Dapper Goose
Thirty two scholars, seven peer mentors, six faculty advisors, five film students and one impossible project.
Impossible Project: Discrimination, a daring pedagogical experiment developed in the Honors College where first year students are tasked with solving a world problem.
In Collaboration with UB’s Arts Collaboratory, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, University Honors College and Office of Inclusive Excellence.
Project description
The UB North Campus consists
of a massive platform-megastructure surrounded by turf-grass, parking lots, and
roads. Could UB do better? The UB Faculty Senate and Professional Staff Senate
have established committees to find ways of improving our campus environment.
The committee’s objective
this year is afforestation: the establishment of vital forest ecosystems on the
campus. We are searching for:
· precedents
· investigating practical feasibility
· considering alternative forestry plans
· educating the UB community about our
effort with articles or artworks
· seeking funding by which UB can start
· examining alternatives to surface parking
· researching other related options
Would you like to join us?
Junior and senior undergrads (END 488) and grad students (END 588/URP 588) are
eligible with permission of the instructor – https://forms.gle/fSpB5g8hrnPtYpHbA.
END 488/END 588/URP 588 – MAKING A CAMPUS
FOREST is a three-credit seminar/practicum, with heavy emphasis on individual
or group work. During some weeks, students will hear from specialist
guests, undertake individual research or creative projects, and present results
to each other and to members of the Faculty Senate and Professional Staff
committees. (This year we will not actually be planting trees, sorry.) Some
weeks we will not meet in class but rather have one-on-one of small-group
meetings on your projects. Students may be required to upload their
projects onto their UB ePortfolio and to strive to earn digital badges
where possible.
Project outcome
Through ongoing consultation
with the instructor, you will prepare an intellectual product in service of
campus afforestation planning. Generally, you will be expected to submit
successive versions of your product, leading to ever higher quality. The product
may be:
· research paper on methods of forest
restoration
· an essay on forest literature and
symbolism
· a study of other college campus policies
· a review of charitable foundations that
support forestry
· a study of SUNY-wide policies
· a series of articles meant for newspaper
or online publication
· outcomes in the form of performance or
public speaking
· landscape-related art or
architecture relying heavily on living vegetation
· curation of an exhibit
If your proposed project is
very much outside the instructor’s area of knowledge, he may accept it upon on
the condition that you and he can identify and involve an additional mentor.
Project details
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Timing, eligibility and other details
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Length of commitment
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Spring 2020
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Start time
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Spring (with start of classes in Spring 2020)
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Level of collaboration
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Individual projects and/or group projects of 2-3 students
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Benefits
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Academic credit
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Who is eligible
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Juniors and Seniors
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Support
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Funding is available after the completion of the preparation
badge. See below.
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Core partners
· Faculty Senate Committee on Campus
Environment
· Professional Staff Senate Sustainability
Committee
Preparation
To engage with this project, you will work
through a series of Project-Based Collaboration digital badges to
guide your experience. These badges will:
1.
Guide you in setting your
goals and intentions as well as gaining additional context,
2.
Enhance your collaboration
with your mentor/partner,
3.
Support your reflection and
help you integrate your learning with your academic and professional goals.
All students who wish to participate in a project on the Project
Portal must first complete the Project Preparation Digital Badge. First, contact the project mentor to
discuss availability – https://forms.gle/fSpB5g8hrnPtYpHbA – and after you’ve received approval, you can start
the Project Preparation Digital Badge.
The Child Health and Behavior Lab (HABLAB) at the
University of Buffalo is looking for undergraduate students to assist
with research studies during Spring, Summer, and/or Fall
2020. These research experiences would be under the leadership of Dr.
Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, who conducts laboratory- and community-based
studies in the area of children’s eating behavior and obesity
prevention. More information about Dr. Anzman-Frasca’s
work is available here:
https://medicine.buffalo.edu/faculty/profile.html?ubit=safrasca, and more information about HABLAB is available at
http://ubhablab.weebly.com.
Responsibilities of student research assistants include:
assisting with materials preparation, entering data, and helping staff
in the implementation of the study design.
It is anticipated that students will have the opportunity to work
directly with study participants, including parents and children, in
laboratory and/or community studies. All incoming research assistants
must be able to commit to at least 135 hours of research
over the semester (equates to about 10 hours per week), with preference
given to students who can commit to at least two semesters. Students
may be asked to commit to evenings or weekends to work with
participants. For students who spend multiple semesters
on the team, independent research projects, conference presentations,
and/or thesis projects are possible.
Interested students can apply by submitting an
application and a resume to
ubhablab@gmail.com, using “Student research assistant application 2020” as the subject of the email. Applications may be downloaded at
http://ubhablab.weebly.com/students.
We are currently filling positions for Spring and Summer on a rolling basis.
The LGBTQ+ Support Services Committee will be holding a focus group to hear from students about the current state of campus support services and what ideas they would like to see moving forward.
The focus groups will be held on:
Thursday, November 21, 2019
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Student Union – Room 250
Thursday, December 5, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Capen Hall – Jeanette Martin Room 567
