SEAS Undergraduate Student Overview

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Alright, Good morning everyone. I think we'll get started. Uh, thank you very much for joining us today and thank you for your interest in the UV School of engineering and Applied Sciences. I'm Jeff Arrington and with me today is Professor Christine Human.

And Shannon Phillips, an Dellin Aylward.

First of all, I just want to say I hope everyone is doing well and that you and your families are remaining safe and healthy, are sincere sympathies, go to those of you that have experienced losses as a result of this very difficult situation that we're going through together as a society.

Just want to say that were sad that we're not able to meet with perspective students and families and in person this year the sort of traditional events that we hold in the spring to meet people. There are some of the things that we very much look forward to every year. We enjoy showcasing our laboratories or classrooms all our different maker spaces and all the wonderful things that make you be. And this will of Engineering Applied Sciences such a wonderful place.

But we understand that given the current code 19 pandemic that were just not able to do that this year, and so we're going to do everything that we can to showcase the you be School of engineering and Applied Sciences from a distance.

And one of the primary tools that we're using our these webinars.

And one of the things I'd like to draw your attention to is our web and our website. So the URL is at the bottom of this slide, but you can also get to it by doing a Google search for UBES webinars.

Uh, and that will take you to the page that you see here and the way that this is structure does it. You can look at the different webinars that we're having a we are hosting webinars that are at the school level like the one that we're having today. There are also different departmental level program level webinars, so if you want to learn more, for example about the chemical engineering program or the civil engineering program, there are webinars available for you to do that as well.

Uhm, sorry. Typical structure of a web and R is a professor of human and I will present for maybe about 30 minutes today and then we have the opportunity afterwards for a question and answer session. And so these provide a way that to interact with the faculty and many of the Department TLE level webinars. You'll also be meeting some of our current students that can give you a little bit more about the student level perspective of what it's like to be a student here at the University at Buffalo.

Alright, so with that overview now, let me introduce myself. Like I said, I'm Jeff Arrington. I serve as our associate Dean for undergraduate education and basically what that means is that I get to work on a wide range of different problems without really broad range of people, almost all of which are focused on improving the undergraduate experience. So it's a really nice thing to be involved in.

In terms of my background, I obtain my bachelors degree from in chemical engineering from the University at Buffalo. So I do know a little bit about what it's like to be a student here at QB.

I also grew up in the Buffalo area, so I know a little bit about, uh, you know just how much the University of Buffalo means to the local community.

Wanted to take a moment to thank our our corporate partners as a group of organizations that helps our school in many ways. Many of them have representatives that sit on our advisory boards and those representatives help us to shape our curriculum to make sure that we're meeting the workforce. Demands that lie ahead.

Those representatives also help us in terms of securing internships for students. Many of them also help out with our senior design projects and other projects that our students get involved in.

Right, So what I would like to do is to provide you a little bit of information about how the school of engineering and Applied Sciences is structured, and some of the academic opportunities that are available to students. I'll be focusing much of my attention on sort of what happens inside of the classroom, and then I'm going to turn it over to Professor Human and she's going to tell you a bit more about all the wonderful opportunities that we have for students outside of the classroom.

So in terms of how we're structured, were organized in nine department's the Department of engineering education is our most recent one. Starting in the fall of 2018, and we're already seeing the wonderful benefits from having that Department about four or five years ago. We started the Department of materials, design and innovation. That's a joint venture with the College of Arts and Sciences.

And as I mentioned in a minute, they just recently launched their undergraduate program.

About 10 years ago we started the Department of biomedical engineering. That's a joint venture with the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. And then we have our traditional programs that have been with us for many years. So, for example, chemical and biological engineering, civil structural, environmental engineering, computer science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial and systems engineering, and mechanical and aerospace engineer.

Collectively, those departments over offer a 15 degree programs at the undergraduate level, we now have 10 programs focused on engineering. Those include aerospace, biomedical, chemical, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial and mechanical engineering, and all of those programs that I just mentioned are accredited by a bit. A bit is an organization with with international scope and they ensure that engineering and Applied Sciences programs meet high levels of.

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Our most recent engineering program is material science and engineering. We just obtained approval to be able to launch that program in the fall of 2020 and will be pursuing a bat and accreditation in the years to come for that program. One of the things to note about a bad accreditation is that you need you do need graduates from the program in order to see if that so that will be a couple years before were able to do that.

We also have a number of programs in the Applied Sciences area are most popular by far is our computer science program and this is a program that is also accredited by abet.

Let me just share a little bit of information with you about our numbers so this current academic year we have just over 4200 students at the undergraduate level and in the last academic year we conford well over 1000 bachelors level degrees and so together with the breath of the degree programs that we offer, it makes the UB School of engineering and Applied Science is the largest and the most comprehensive school of engineering and Applied Sciences.

In the state of New York, this is something that we're proud of in the sense that this size and the scope allows us to provide tremendous opportunities to. Students were also cognizant and appreciative of this sort of factors and complexities that come along with being a large school and as a result of that we put in place a number of different programs to help students personalize their educational experience and sort of to make a large school feel small.

I mentioned just a minute ago, the degree programs that we offer at the undergraduate level. There are also a number of different ways for students to sort of layer on or add in to their degree options. Help them to differentiate what they're doing relative to their peers, and so some of those options are listed here. We have a really nice five year combined degree program in which students earn a bachelors level degree in either engineering or computer science and combine that with a Masters of Business Administration.

A number of our students end up double majoring a very common option is the double major in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and a good number of our students also pursue minor programs and and this is really where we see the diverse interests of our students. We have a number of students that go on and they they pursue minor options that are more, maybe liberal arts focused pursuing something and music or art history, maybe economics. Other of our students stick with something more technical and maybe pursue a minor and in math or chemistry or physics.

And some other students pursue minor options that we have available within the school of engineering and applied Sciences. So for some time we've had a minor in computer science, and more recently we've offered a number of interesting minors in things like robotics and manufacturing and human factors.

A good number of our students also go on to Graduate School in order to differentiate their education, and that's something that I'll pick up on a little bit later.

Alright, maybe one of the most common questions. If you get from students at Hey, you know what kind of courses I'm going to be taking? What does the group degree program look like?

And of course the details there are very from one program to another, but but there are certainly common elements across all the different programs within the school of engineering and Applied Sciences that are worth mentioning.

Hello Hi everybody so it's just said my name is Christine Human an I am the associate Dean for student affairs. So what that means is every day I get to work with students so I do things from working with our student club presidents to manage in the scholarship system and also organizing a lot of school wide events. So at this time of year I would usually be deep.

In organizing commencement. Um, little bit of my background I'm I'm from England, uh, being in the US along time now so I accents disappearing. But I am originally from England. I did my BS in civil engineering from the University of Manchester and I came to the US to do my masters and PhD which I got from the University of California at Berkeley.

I have a slightly different career path. Uhm, I worked both before getting my PhD and afterwards, but I have been at you be now for the last 17 years. I'm also the director of undergraduate studies for the Civil Engineering program.

So is Jeff indicated what I'm going to do is tell you a little bit about some of the things you can do outside of the classroom so you be has phenomenal academics, but also it's important for us to provide you opportunities to apply some of the things that you learn in the classroom, and so you can do that through experiential learning. So talk a little bit about research.

About our experiential learning program internship student clubs study abroad and then outreach.

So obviously one of the really uhm advantageous things of being at an all wanna research intensive University is that you are tored by faculty that are doing cutting edge research. So not only do they bring that research into the classroom, but you have the opportunity to work in the labs and do undergraduate research.

Many of our undergrad students doing research are, um, contributing to Peer Review Journal Papers. Other students are competitive. Four prestigious national scholarship, so the picture there is of Anna. Anna Rism was a chemical engineer, but she was actually doing some research crossing between chemical and electrical and based upon her research, she wanna Goldwater Scholarship. And then she went on to Graduate School at Carnegie Mellon.

Faculty often have funding to help undergraduates doing research, but also we have you be wide office called experiential learning network and they also offer support funding to help students not only do research, but also attend conferences.

So the experiential learning program within the school mismanaged or it was envisioned by its director, professor Andrew Clinic, who's also faculty in our new Department of Engineering Education. So it's built on the premise that students can start engineering from day one. So yeah, think about experiential learning as developing skills and also being able to apply what you're learning in the classroom.

Two different projects and internships, so tinkering is really a series of self directed modules. So as a freshman you can come in. Let's say you've never sought it before, so we have a great electronics tinkering lab. You can go into the lab staffed by graduate students, have a lot of different modules where you can go in, learn disorder and put together simple circuits. We have a great 3D printing lab, so if you want to learn to 3D print, you can.

Teach yourself CAD software. There is instructions and different activities you can complete and you can take part in a 3D printing Workshop. Maybe you want to learn to be more proficient in the machine shop you want to learn to Weld, or to use a different machines so you can certify to go into the machine shop. We have a class or one credit class where you can learn some of the different skills that you need to be competent in the machine shop and we also have certain activities that are student clubs do to sort of expose students to.

Or to allow him to get more comfortable in machine shop.

So those are things that you can do as a freshman. That sort of starts developing skills that are going to be useful to you in your subsequent degree.

Inter murals are project based, so think about going from learning simple skills to starting to apply concepts you're learning in class. So I'm intermural is a project it can come from industry, so our engineering partners might come up with a.

The project it can come from faculty. It can come from students themselves and so you work in teams.

And sometimes there's several teams working on the same project, so it's almost like a little competition. Examples could be, um, intramural, where students created an app for M&T, so they could collect student information during career fairs.

There was another into another example would be for civil engineering students where they actually worked with our day care center on campus and they designed a floating classroom in the Lake on campus.

Uhm, I think another example would be a group of students that worked with NASA Goddard um to develop a control system for a cubesat which is a little miniature satellite. So lots of different types of projects. Some of them are more disciplined, specific, some of them across disciplines. What's really wonderful about working on the Inter murals? You just start developing those kind of teamwork, time management skills that you need to be successful at industry and summer students that have participated in the Inter murals have then gone on to get internships.

With those companies that they worked with during the Inter mural projects. So with those skills that you develop during intramurals, you can then, as I said, apply those skills and internships. Senior year is Jeff mentioned, we programs have a capstone design sequence, so a lot of the skills and project management skills that you've learned you can apply them into your capstone design sequence.

So in terms of clubs you be or the school of engineering, you be has hundreds of clubs. The School of engineering has over 30 clubs and organizations, so there are clubs for every discipline and also. So let's say if you're a chemical engineer, there's a student club for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. If you're a mechanical engineer, there's a student club for the American Society of mechanical engineer. So every discipline as their own student club. But there's also many clubs.

Across disciplines, so we have Society of women engineers we have.

The National Society of Black Engineers Society of Hispanic professional engineers so many, many different opportunities to get involved in clubs and organizations on campus.

Many of these clubs participate in competitions, so the picture here is the SCE Steel Bridge team and they are very successful nationally, and last year they placed fourth in the national competition. So about 250 student clubs from universities around the country participate in this competition and said they were fourth in the national competition. So we start off regionally, and if you're successful at the regional level.

Then you get to go on to Nationals.

Uh, this year are Robotics Club qualified for the World Championships we have clubs are SOC for the exploration and development of space. They design and launch rockets up to 10,000 feet and they participate in competition, spaceport America in New Mexico. Our Society of Automotive engineers designer clean snowmobile and a Baja vehicle. So there's endless opportunities to get involved.

In projects.

Again, what you're doing is you're learning to apply what you've learned in the classroom, design skills, teamwork, skills, problem solving, time management, communication. So all these things that are helping you develop during your time here at you be to be more successful when you graduate.

Students are also attending regional and national conferences, and one thing that our engineering partners do is they provide funding for the school and so that helps us send more of our students to competition and more of our students to regional and national conferences. Student clubs also participate in community service. They have really good connections with local industry and so they have Co visit San professional panels and other things like that.

So, so we have really great student clubs there well funded, the very creative. They're very successful and I hope if you join, you be you decide to join one of our student clubs.

In addition to the Student Club Women Society of Women Engineers, we also have a program called women in science and engineering. So the difference between a club in the program club is student run. A program is. It has a staff member, so this is a program that's really joint between the school of engineer.

Bring and Applied Sciences of the College of Arts and Sciences. Although it's run out of our school.

And so this is a, um, a program that provides, um programming for a women in stem. Uh, one of the sort of.

I guess the best introductions would be for students to sign up for early move in, so moving can be a little crazy. Everybody is arriving on campus at the same time. If you join women in science and engineering, you can actually move in a couple of days early and then get settled and then while everybody else is trying to fight the crowds, you're actually doing programming. You're getting to know each other, your meeting faculty, you're having lunch, and you're generally relaxing and enjoying campus. So that's one of maybe something that.

Students will think about signing up to. I would advise you to go to the Wise website and check out what they offer and there's also a wise webinar on April the 14th, but during the semester they have guest speakers. There's a whole breakfast meet up series, they do community outreach and so it's really a way to develop your network, develop your peer group and it really helps you come to campus. Establish yourself, feel comfortable.

And be more successful.

Any of you that no much about Buffalo? It's experienced a resurgence in the last 10 years or so, and so there's a lot of buzz in Buffalo. New companies, startup companies, and that kind of entrepreneurial spirit is also very present at the University, so our hub for entrepreneurs that you be is called Blackstone Launchpad.

So they offer workshops, may run competitions, innovation sprints. They have funding through a program called get seated, and so there's a real bars on campus students coming up with ideas, working together with mentors at Blackstone launchpad to develop those ideas.

Through the School of Management, there is a course entrepreneurial entrepreneurship lab called Elab. If you have an idea, you can sign up for the course. If you get accepted, it helps you develop the skills you'll need to successfully manage your venture and students that do very well in that class also gets seed funding and additional mentor ship moving forward. The picture here is a group of electrical engineering students. I believe they were actually in the electrical engineering.

Um, the five year electrical MBA program and they won First Prize in a New York State competition for a device they have that fits on a guitar. That kind of.

Works on the acoustics. It was called bit pressure.

Uh, we have a lot of study abroad opportunities. Uhm, and developing more as where we see opportunities so the pitch you'll see here is a group of students who spent the winter in Costa Rica learning about sustainability.

So it you be we have opportunities to do short term projects. Sorry short term programs like this winter session in Costa Rica. That's two weeks long or we have summer program. So one of the summer programs would be for engineering students between their freshman and sophomore year where they spend 5 six weeks in France learning statics and also learning about history of the European Union.

And they do that with a faculty member, so most of these short-term project programs are faculty land. We also have our stem communication class that Jeff talked about writing in the disciplines that was offered last summer in Wales.

So In addition to faculty LED programs within the school and also just you be wide faculty LED programs, we have partnerships with many different universities around the world, so many opportunities. If you want to be more adventurous and sent, spend a semester or even a year abroad, there are opportunities to do that. So one thing we would always suggest to anybody that's interested in study abroad is just think about it and plan ahead early so that you can organize your curriculum to make sure that you.

Can come make it work within the entering coursework.

So just in terms of outreach, many of the student clubs have their own outreach connections, but at the school we have a longstanding partnership with Westminster Community Charter School, so every month students from you be undergraduates and graduate students go to their school and they deliver hands-on experiments and work with the students. And then a couple of times a year, the students come on campus to UV and spend the whole day having learning different activities. So it's really fun way.

To get involved with young students in the community, to excite them about the opportunities of step.

I know many of you are interested in scholarships, so um, at the admissions level, you be has a variety of different merit scholarships. Presidential Provost, pride of New York. Uhm, we also have the women's empowerment scholarship, but once you're accepted into the school, we do have a variety of different donors scholarships, so we're always sending out emails. OK, these scholarships open apply now and everything is administered through the you be wide scholarship portal.

Many of our students, In addition apply for professional society scholarships. Anna very competitive and successful.

For those of you from New York State, Obviously there are two statewide scholarships, the stem initiative and the Excelsior.

One thing I just wanted to say, and this is my personal preference, but if you are eligible to vote for both, stem an Excelsior, just make sure you look into both and understand the difference. In my perspective, I really like stem.

Because it allows you to stack scholarships. On top of that and what I mean by that is if you have the stem scholarship and then you um, awarded another scholarship, you can keep them both. The difference is Excelsior is if you have an Excelsior and then you are awarded an additional scholarship that just reduces the amount of money you get through Excelsior. So stand you can stack on top of Excelsior. UConn. So I'm just saying if you're eligible to both, please look into them, understand the differences before you select one.

Or the other?

I'm so does the slide about Buffalo and I might get Jeff to chime in here. Obviously Buffalo is not my home city, I'm English, but I and I've been here 718 years. But I absolutely love living in Buffalo.

People joked when I came here, you know, yes, you 'cause I've moved around a lot. You'll be there two years and then we'll see where you're going next. and I think this is my home for life. I've actually lived here now longer than I've lived anywhere else.

Really does have New York State low cost of living. I love The Four Seasons so we have a really gorgeous long fall. The winter allows you to do winter sports. There's lots of skating and skiing and then we have a phenomenal summer. So the picture you see there is of the downtown waterfront. There's a lot of Culture, great museums of obviously were a huge sports town, so I like everybody else in the fall on a Sunday I'm watching the Bills, and even though the Sabres have been terrible for the last few years, I still support them and I still go to games.

As does Jeff. Um Buffaloes, known for great food, um variety of nightlife. Not that I know much about the nightlife, but I've told the night life is good and we're obviously located right next to the Great Lakes, so there's lots of outdoors and hiking and you like fishing or boating. Lots of things to do, and R Jeffrey. Anything else to say about Buffalo?

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Sorry, I just saw your comment from Joseph that says, hey, the Sabres haven't missed the playoffs yet. Joseph, you're correct and you have the Buffalo Spirit already, where forever optimistic.

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Absolutely so with that. Uhm, I think that's that's it for now, and, uh, we do have some time for questions.

I saw 1 one thing, um. We probably won't get all the questions now, but we will be reaching out to you later. So if you don't get your question answered during the web and our don't worry, we will get back to you with information as soon as we can. I saw a question about living and learning communities. So yes, in the dorms that are living and learning.

Community is mostly the freshman level, but there's a couple of sophomore. There's something called Leadership House. There's also an engineering interest floor, so engineers can live together on the same floor, and that's a really great way to kind of build your cohort and your friend Group an and have an opportunity to kind of build study group. So that's an opportunity.

You know there's a lot of questions about majors, double majors adding minors when I can do a combined degree and lots of lots of questions like that. I've been trying to add links to the catalogs that students can find those easily. So for any students they have questions that don't like very specific questions that don't get answered. You can definitely use Google or DuckDuckGo Ann. Just put in you be 2020 undergraduate catalog and you can find all your answers there. Mainly the themes are. Can I change my major? Can I add a double major?

The answer is yes as long as you meet the minimum requirements. We can do that with in engineering if you're adding another engineering or computer science major or changing from one to another really really easy to do it. Just a simple form on our website. I'm actually the person in the office who does it, and I check it everyday. Depending on how close you are to meeting those requirements, it could take a couple days, maybe a week or two, but normally it's done within 24 hours very, very fast.

And simple to do if you wanted to add a major outside of the school of engineering and Applied Sciences, you want to work with another Department. Then let's say you were adding history or biology or who knows anything else you want to talk to the Department to be able to meet those requirements with those prequisite classes.

And then applying at their appropriate time. So that's going to vary depending on what you're looking for. the University has well over 60 minors, so there's so much that you can do so much that you can add if you want to within the school of engineering, adding a minor is similar to adding a double major or changing a major really simple on our change. Major minor form aside of Engineering, same thing you want to meet with that other office and discuss with them when you can end their minor. Depending on what their requirements are, all of them are listed in the undergraduate catalog, so again, you can search and you can find it there.

I did see a lot of questions about on specific course topics. You can also use undergraduate catalog to do a course topic search or of course title search. So if you're looking specifically for classes I saw on an AI.

You can do. You can do that topic search there and you can find those right there in the catalog and you can see how many we have and read those course descriptions and it'll show you what the prerequisites are. So you're going to see you're not going to take those freshman year. This is going to be a little bit farther along once you're there 'cause it's done, but the undergraduate catalog is a fantastic resource, so definitely use that. I did see a lot of questions also about transfer credits and AP credits, so I did I did share the link for those.

Again, you can do it. DuckDuckGo or Google search to find those links. If you didn't see them in the chat, but essentially you be accepts all credits, the question really is what's it equivalent to? What's it going to account for?

So let's say you take.

A philosophy class of some kind and we don't have an exact match for that. Well, that's OK, but philosophy is a humanities, so we can count that for your humanities general education requirements. So that's really great. If it counts for a very specific class, then we can use that for that requirement. So it's just a matter of what it's equal to and how we can use that. Same thing goes for AP credit will use it. Your advisor, when you first get accepted, and we're making your schedule, will look at all of your credit that you're bringing in. Make sure you let us know what those are. Will look at all of your credit.

And will apply as many as we possibly can, so those are things that I'm seeing a lot.

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Maybe mentioned the floating Plano daily. Talked about the undergrad catalogue but just looking at flow sheets if you want to put everything in context.

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Hey Jeff, can I add that for the students who are asking about on campus jobs at you be we have a web and are coming up on April 15th at 9:00 AM that they'll be invited to and Holly justicar liaison with career services will be able to answer their questions at that time. So more soon. For those of you who are already thinking ahead. 2 jobs for fall 2020.

Yeah I would just like to add that we have a lot of jobs in, you know dining services. RRIT group hires a lot of students, as does the library, so there are definitely are opportunities for working on campus.

Uhm, I see questions about, uhm, the atmosphere in classes at the junior and senior level, and um, Serie A versus hands-on learning. and I wonder if you wanna talk about those more broadly applicable things.

Uh, so there was a question about, um, whether the classes you would describe as more theory based or more hands on.

Yeah I would just I had so civil. It's a little. It's kind of the same, but we integrate our labs into classes so we have three classes. One of the sophomore level, one at the junior level and then sorry two at the junior level where we integrate the labs within the class. So you're learning the theory and then doing the experiments at the same time. So that's how we handle it within civil engineering. But I think it's important to know the distinction between say, a program like Buffalo. There is a lot of emphasis on theory and concepts, but then applying those theory and concepts. It's not a technology pro.

When were you just doing hands-on so that it's really important that we have that balance between learning the theory, really understanding the concepts, and then having opportunities to put that into practice?

I'm seeing a lot of questions about the capstone, a man I'm not quite sure if students are asking about the.

Uhm, you BC 399 General Education Capstone. Or if it's the capstones for the majors, but might you be able to speak to that if they're referring to the ones of the majors?

Yeah, I think they're just very different. I mean, all of them are an opportunity to take everything the whole.

The concept of a capstone is to take everything you've learned and have an opportunity to apply it to our project. But how that happens is a little different depending on the program. So in industrial engineering they actually do an internship at the same time when they work with companies and then they all have a project and that becomes their capstone project. In civil engineering we have one very large capstone project with different components for structural engineer or a transportation engineer and they work with.

Local practicing engineers who are giving them support along the way, and so that's how they handle it in civil. So one very large project with different components mechanical. They all have very separate projects. Many of them come from industry and so they're working to design to improve the prototype. Because that's a very different kind of design experience, so I don't know. Maybe Jeff can talk about chemical and some of the other capstone.

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Horses.

So I'll give you an example of one of the computer engineering project. So because I do commencement, a group of computer engineering students came to me and said they wanted to develop something that could read the names of all the students. Because it's always an issue at commencement, making sure the names are read correctly and so to come up with a system where you had a bar code that you could scan and the names will pre recorded and then it would all be announced and everything would be perfect so.

They did that and we used it a commencement and it was really fun to work very well. So uhm, you know some of the projects as they come from industry. Some of them come from students themselves. They just have this great idea and they want to pursue it and we try and find a way to make that happen. Some students take what they did in an intermural so the intermural with the cube sat with NASA. Are they actually then went on and continued after working with NASA to improve and then that became their capstone project?

I'm seeing a lot of questions about financial aid and loans and scholarships, and so I just wanted to say that we're not Privy to all the details because we just we can't see all of the information that financial aid advisor can see and what each student is student can have depends upon.

Their numbers when he felt the FAFSA. So if you have not yet, make sure you felt the Fasa for financial aid. You'll then get a report telling you how much aid you receive, whether it spell which is a federal, whether it's tab, which is New York State Excelsior, which is also New York State. There's a stem scholarship, so there's a couple different things. But whatever you qualify for, you want to make sure you're talking to a financial aid advisor. The number of their office I did put in the chat, but the number of their office is 716.

6458232 so then I'm seeing questions about like how long do I have to pay off my loans? I mean, that's going to vary depending on which longer taking, subsidized, not subsidized from a bank. what I mean there's so many different things so it's hard to answer those very detailed specific questions without having access to that information. So again, the number is 6458232 and they'd be able to give you more details about all those financial aid policies in what you qualify for.

And then I would just add for international students admission. Scholarships are administered through the office of international missions, so you would work with them directly.

Also, I'm seeing questions about living in the residence halls.

You never forced to live in the residence halls. I'm seeing that I was you be student for undergrad in for grad school I never lived in the residence halls. I live 10 minutes from campus, were a big commuter school. So we've got a lot of students living on campus and a lot of computers as well.

So it's never requirement to live on campus. You could stay on campus for all four years if you want, and you could never live on campus. It's completely up to you. It really depends on where you choose to live. If you wanted to live in an apartment or with family friends off campus stuff, that's fine too.

I would say that it's, uh, it couldn't. It's often being seen as an advantage to live on campus, at least in the first year, just so that you is often, I think, easier to adjust. You develop a peer group quicker. You develop.

Groups that you can work with when you're working on your homework, so study groups, and so sometimes if you can and not everybody can. But if you can live on campus for the first year, I think that's often an advantage.

And if you can't I simply couldn't and again. I only live 10 minutes away if you can't definitely join a student club talk to students before and after classes. That's when I started working on campus was my second semester. Freshman year and absolutely loved working on campus and made a lot of friends made a lot of connections with faculty and staff and so we still if you don't have that camaraderie or that community from living in the residence halls. You can definitely still get that it's not that you have to be on the outside or anything. Computers can definitely find that community, too, despite just by joining clubs and organizations and.

And working on campus 2.

Yeah, I think it's really been a big push. A lot of our student clubs to make that clubs very welcoming to freshmen and neutrons, mutants and develop programs to make sure that everybody can maintain engaged and develop that peer group.

I see one question on here because of covad we cannot Mail or fax our medical documents in order to register for classes how to deal with that I haven't heard about that yet and I'm definitely look into it I have not heard that you cannot Mail or fax medical documents that sounds new to me so I don't completely know if that's accurate.

So like I said I'm going to look into it but in the mean time for that student Mesa question you could definitely call our our health services office the number is 716.

8293316 that's the number for our health services in medical represent campus.

As far as the plans for orientation I'm seeing a lot of questions about when can I register which is great I'm so glad you're excited to come.

Again with with everything up in the air right now we're not exactly sure if orientation is going to be in person we certainly hope it as we love seeing you but we've always had an on line orientation for students who could not come to orientation.

It's possible depending on how everything goes we might need to expand that and we might have to have an online orientation for everybody it's definitely stay tuned and we'll find out for sure we don't we don't know yet depends on the governor and it depends on this situation.

I'm so just stay tuned in so keep an eye on your email on for announcements as far as registration for classes goes.

That's not really affected by Cove in very much at all normally we start registering new students at the end of May and June whether it's a student who's a freshman or a transfer so that's not going to change because you never have to come in person to register for classes we always do that via Phone it's always been that way so it's not going to be affected it off that's normal.

Jeff, I'm seeing some questions. I know if you can clarify several students asking if they accept the scholarship that does that mean they also have to pay the deposit are committed to coming to you be.

You need to.

Yeah.

Fix up.

April 4th.

Bye.

Everyone.