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Photos Needed for New Marketing Campaign

The Marketing & Communication Department is in need of new photography for the upcoming marketing campaign. If there is something special going on in your department that may be considered photo worthy, we’d like to know. We’re interested in events and activities that represent learning excellence at Canisius, especially those that show our students engaged in hands-on or active learning both in and out of the classroom. We’ll be looking for photo opportunities happening throughout the fall semester. There will also be a photographer on campus this week in the event you have something going on that we should try and capture while he is here.

Please email YOUCAN@canisius.edu with the date and time of the event along with a brief description and someone will be in touch.

Submitted by Matthew Wojick, associate vice president, Marketing & Communication

Buffalo Humanities Festival is This Week

Tickets for the second annual Buffalo Humanities Festival are now on sale!

Are we bound by gender? In a day and a half of presentations, performances and conversations, the 2015 Buffalo Humanities Festival will attempt to answer that question by going beyond the simple oppositions of male/female and gay/straight. Some experts claim that we live in a “post-gender” era, with stay-at-home dads, female CEOs and transgendered characters on TV. Yet history, literature, music and the arts suggest that the story of gender is more complicated – and more interesting – than that.

Canisius is cooperating with other local institutions to sponsor the event, which will feature presentations by Jonathan Lawrence, PhD, associate professor, religious studies and theology and Janet McNally, assistant professor, English/creative writing.

See the program here for full details and other highlights, including Friday’s keynote speaker featuring Jill Lepore. Please spread the word among colleagues, students, and friends – like the Festival Facebook page!

Submitted by: Julie Gibert, associate professor, History

Burrito Project Date Correction

Correction from last week: Faculty and staff are invited to join Canisius students and serve with Campus Ministry and the Buffalo Burrito Project tomorrow, September 22.

Father Patrick Lynch, S.J., and Joshua Russell, PhD, animal behavior, conservation and ecology, work together preparing snacks during a recent Burrito Project.

The Burrito Project is a ministry of hospitality and provides home-made burritos to the poor and homeless population in downtown Buffalo. The project is a ministry to some of the most vulnerable and forgotten of our society.

On the fourth Tuesday of each month volunteers prepare burritos in the kitchen in the Undercroft of Christ the King Chapel from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. The group then walks a four-mile route in downtown Buffalo from 7:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

A support vehicle follows us as we walk. Transportation is provided.

For further questions, or to sign up, contact Joe Van Volkenburg, in Campus Ministry, at Ext. 2875 or at vanvolkj@canisius.edu. Space is limited.

Submitted by: Joe Van Volkenburg, assistant to the director, campus ministry

Board of Regents Lunch and Learn is October 21

The next Board of Regents Lunch and Learn will be held on Wednesday, October 21 with Bonnie Cywinski, director, Toca Travel. The topic will be “Managing and Maximizing Your Virtual Identity.” Students can register today through their Handshake account.

Also a thank you to Rocco Lucente, chair of our Board of Regents, for hosting our first Lunch and Learn of the year! We had sixteen students in attendance and topics included the legal profession, career development and living the Magis!

For more information, contact the Griff Center for Academic Engagement at 888-2170.

Submitted by: Julie Zulewski, associate director, Griff Center