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Thank You for Your Support on Canisius Giving Day!

by | Apr 10, 2025 | Staff

Together, we did it!

Thanks to the incredible support of our faculty, staff, alumni, parents, students and friends, Canisius Giving Day 2025 was a huge success!

As of Thursday morning, a total of 1,667 gifts were made, contributing $650,104 in support of the dozens of initiatives submitted by our campus partners.

And, more than 130 current or former, faculty or staff rose to the challenge and made a gift on Giving Day unlocking the Faculty and Staff Challenge from J. Patrick Greenwald, resulting in a $5,000 donation to the Kenneth Koessler Faculty Development Fund. Thank you for coming through!

It is truly incredible to see members of the Canisius community from far and wide coming together and investing in the areas and initiatives that make a Canisius education special. Most of all, Giving Day showcases the power of thousands of Griffins coming together in support of our students – YOU make it possible!

Submitted by: Jessica Mitrovits, director, Canisius Fund

 

Chemistry/Biochemistry Host WNY ACS Undergraduate Research Symposium

by | Apr 10, 2025 | Staff

The Canisius Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry hosted the 2025 Western New York American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Symposium on Saturday April 5, with Professor Tim Gregg serving as chair of the symposium organizing committee.

The symposium began with a keynote address, “Greasing the Protein Gears:  Harnessing Lipidation for Next-Generation Biomaterials and Therapeutics” by Davoud Mozhdehi, associate professor of chemistry at Syracuse University.

Following the keynote address, undergraduate students from 12 universities in Western New York delivered six oral and 29 poster presentations describing their research projects.  Eight Canisius chemistry and biochemistry majors presented posters on their most recent research accomplishments.

Since 2008, this symposium has showcased undergraduate research in chemistry and biochemistry conducted in Western New York, an experiential learning opportunity that is frequently cited as a critical activity leading to success in careers in the sciences and the health professions.

Submitted by: Phil Sheridan, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Scheduled Panopto Maintenance this Weekend

by | Apr 10, 2025 | Staff

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Panopto will be doing scheduled maintenance this weekend, starting April 12 at 9:00 p.m. for approximately three hours. Panopto will be entirely off-line during this time. This means that you and your students will be unable to access Panopto, even to record/upload/view videos.

The full email is below:

Scheduled Maintenance Reminder

Panopto Cloud Operations Status

Title: Panopto NA Cloud Scheduled Downtime Notification

Planned Start: April 13, 2025 2:00AM UTC
Expected End: April 13, 2025 5:00AM UTC

Affected Infrastructure
Components: Website, Video playback, Search, Recording / Uploading, Processing / Encoding, Integrations
Locations: North America (NA)

Details:

On Saturday, April 12th, 2025, Panopto will take the NA cloud offline at 19:00 PDT (22:00 EDT) to perform updates to the Panopto Database. During this time the site will be inaccessible. Maintenance is scheduled to take 3 hours. This action will help improve the overall stability and capacity of Panopto NA cloud infrastructure.

Please see the Cloud Upgrade FAQ article for more information.

For any questions please contact Panopto Support online at support.panopto.com, or via email at support@panopto.com.

Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, Instructional Designer, COLI