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SUNY launches new website
SUNY central administration has launched a redesigned home page, the goal of which is to enhance access to information about the system and its 64 campuses.
SUNY also has introduced a new hub for social media that connects visitors to the Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts for all 64 campuses, as well as features content created by Generation SUNY.
The new Web design comes as SUNY completes a re-branding of its logo and print materials.
“With the new design, we have completely embraced our new brand in a way that will make SUNY.edu more engaging and hopefully will continue to nurture a sense of pride in SUNY and the bright future we have ahead of us,” says Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher.
The new SUNY brand guidelines with images and templates for PowerPoints, memos, announcements and agendas are available for use by campus communication specialists when appropriate. They can be downloaded from the Office of Communications page on the SUNY website.
Zimpher asks that anyone with comments, questions and concerns about the new website send them to David Belsky, director of new media, at david.belsky@suny.edu. Questions about the new brand guidelines should be sent to branding@suny.edu.
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Disaster expert to give Clarkson lecture
In a timely twist of fate, given the recent earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, Philip Berke, noted specialist in planning for earthquakes and author of major books on urban planning and natural-hazard mitigation, will present UB’s 2011 Clarkson Chair in Planning Lecture at 5:30 p.m. March 23 in 301 Crosby Hall, South Campus.
Berke, the 2011 Clarkson Chair in Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning, is professor of city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he is deputy director of the Institute for Environment and director of the Center for Sustainable Community Design.
“The central focus of my work is to develop a deeper understanding of the connections between human settlements and the natural environment,” he says. “My research explores the causes of land-use decisions and their consequences on the environmental, social and economic systems of human settlements.”
Berke currently is a Collaborative Research Scholar of the International Global Change Institute in New Zealand. His research has been supported by the United Nations Division of Humanitarian Affairs, the National Science Foundation, New Zealand Foundation for Research Science and Technology, Federal Emergency Management Agency, North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
He is a former member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Disaster Research and the Social Sciences, a former Faculty Fellow of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and a 1993 Senior Fulbright Scholar in the Centre for Environmental and Resource Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
He also has served as a consultant on land use and environmental planning to state and local governments, served as a hazard-mitigation specialist for the Federal Emergency Management, and a consultant on disaster recovery to international disaster relief organizations.
The Clarkson Visiting Chair is an endowed visiting position awarded to distinguished scholars or professionals in the disciplines of architecture and urban planning. It recognizes excellence in the pursuit of scholarship and professional application within these disciplines and is made possible by the generous support of Will and Nan Clarkson.
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PSS to meet
The Professional Staff Senate will hold a general membership meeting at 3 p.m. March 24 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
Guest speakers will be Ryan McPherson, associate vice president for government and community relations, who will provide an update on governmental affairs in Albany, and Peter Bush, director of the South Campus Instrumentation Center in the School of Dental Medicine, who will talk about the instrument center and the services it provides.
The meeting is open to all members of the UB professional staff.
For more information, call the PSS office at 645-2003.
Workplace expert to speak
Erin Kelly, associate professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota and an expert on changes in U.S. workplaces and their effects on employees, families and organizations, will speak at a Sociology Colloquium being held from 12:30-1:45 p.m. March 24 in 509 O’Brian Hall, North Campus.
Kelly’s topic will be “Corporate Family Leave Policies, the Family & Medical Leave Act, and Women’s Occupational Standing in U.S. Firms.”
She has studied flexibility initiatives, non-compliance with the Family and Medical Leave Act, sexual-harassment policies and employer-sponsored child care benefits, as well as the effects of some of these policies on the representation of women and African Americans in managerial positions.
The colloquium is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and co-sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the UB Law School.
The workshop is free and open to all faculty, graduate and law students, Lunch will be served at noon. RSVP for lunch to BaldyRSVP@buffalo.edu or call 645-2101.
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