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Year in Review NOVEMBER The Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State presented its annual Gala and Art Auction on November 5 at Kleinhans Music Hall. The gala, which featured an evening of elegant dining, entertainment, and live and silent auctions, marked the two-year anniversary of the museum. Bill Nye the Science Guy appeared before a capacity crowd in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall on November 8. Nye has garnered 19 Emmy awards for his PBS/syndicated series Disney Presents Bill Nye the Science Guy. The event was sponsored by United Students Government and Campus Life, with funding support from M&T Bank. Chasing Chinese Folk Art, an exhibition of cultural artifacts and photos gathered by Richard Ross, associate professor of design, and Lin Xia Jiang, professor of fine arts, during their 2009 travels to four Chinese provinces (Xinjiang, Tibet, Sichuan, and Henan) was on view in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery in Upton Hall. The exhibition documented a research project sponsored by the Research Foundation, University College, and the Center for China Studies. Buffalo State welcomed more than 150 science and physics students from local middle and high schools to the seventh annual Physics Olympics on November 20. The annual event is sponsored by the Western New York Physics Teachers Association (WNYPTA) and Buffalo State’s Physics Department. Six Buffalo State philosophy majors competed in the 2010 Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl on November 20 at Dartmouth College. Matthew Guminiak, Ryan Harvey, Tom Hulbutta, Jason Offerman, Grant Tepper, and Tom Vrabel prepared for the competition by creating and refining arguments for 15 real-life ethical case studies. The United States Environmental Protection Agency awarded a grant of $111,264 to fund a research project, “Evaluating Ponto-Caspian Fishes for Risk of Great Lakes Invasion.” Randal Snyder, associate professor of biology and a fish physiologist, is the principal investigator. DECEMBER Preparing Special Education Doctoral Leadership Personnel for the Digital Age, a doctoral special education program offered jointly by the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State, received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs. Sharon L. Raimondi, program director and professor of exceptional education, and Kevin Miller, chair and associate professor of exceptional education, are the program’s co-principal investigators. Researchers from Buffalo State’s Great Lakes Center successfully deployed the first equipment to monitor Lake Erie’s ice cover from beneath it, with assistance from the Buffalo Police Underwater Recovery Unit and the Buffalo Fire Department’s fireboat, the Edward M. Cotter. Charlotte Roehm, research scientist with the Great Lakes Center and assistant professor in the Geography and Planning Department, is the principal investigator of the project Observing Systems and Monitoring Nearshore Lake Erie. It is funded by a $972,583 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes National Program Office. The Buffalo State Ice Arena served as a practice site for several countries that participated in the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Hockey Championships, played December 26–January 5 in Western New York. Lighting designed by Shannon Schweitzer, assistant professor of theater, was featured in “Olmsted Nights Winter Lights,” a walk-through holiday display in Delaware Park in December and January. J A N U A RY The Buffalo State College Foundation was awarded a $388,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to benefit Buffalo State’s Art Conservation program. The grant supports a three-year pilot program aimed at enhancing the university’s current offering in the important conservation specialties required by libraries and archives. 14 Bill Nye Chasing Chinese Folk Art B U F FA L O S TAT E C O L L E G E 

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