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Voter Registration

Register to Vote

There is still time to register to vote, change your address (if needed), request an absentee ballot, and/or change your party affiliation prior to the general election on November 3, 2020. For more Information:

https://www.esf.edu/students/support/voterreg.htm

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COVID-19 Self Reporting

The College has developed two reports we will need you to submit should either of these scenarios arise for you:

If you begin to shows symptoms of COVID-19 or if you have been exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, please submit this form as soon as possible

This is the mechanism for us to mobilize and reach out to identify next steps with you and options to support you. If we…

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Fall 2020 Welcome Back

Fall 2020 Welcome Back

I hope this finds you in good health and doing well.  We are living in a time of unprecedented uncertainty but want to thank you for your understanding and continued perseverance.  Whether you are 100% online this semester or have in person classes, our staff are committed to providing you the support and resources you need to be successful academically and personally.  Please be in touch and let…

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Vera House Support Remains Available

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Virtual Office Hours Mary Triano, Senior Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, will be holding virtual office hours Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays between 10am-Noon…

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White Ribbon Campaign

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WELCOME BACK

A sincere welcome to all new ESF students- first year, transfer, and graduate!  We are so excited to have you join our community!  Welcome back to all our returning undergraduate and graduate students!  With the start of all new academic years, the opportunity to engage new activities, new resources, and new strategies for success is upon you.  If you find yourself in need of any additional…

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Welcome to the ESF Student Support Blog. In the upcoming year, you'll see regular posts regarding information and resources to support your student success while here at the College!

Welcome to the ESF Student Support Blog. In the upcoming year, you’ll see regular posts regarding information and resources to support your student success while here at the College!

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The Conversation |  Scientist at work: observing termite behaviors, personalities – and souls?

For nearly 20 years, Dr. Scott Turner has been studying the termites of southern Africa.  He shares his accumulation of observations, processes, questions and enduring wonder at these tiny but remarkable creatures in a new article in The Conversation.

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U.S. News: ESF Ranks among the Best

ESF has earned a place among the top universities in America for 2016, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. The college is ranked number 89 on the Best National Universities list in U.S. News' 2016 edition of Best Colleges and number 41 on the U.S. News "Great Schools, Great Prices" list.

The US News College Rankings for 2016 are out, and ESF is once more ranked among the Best National Universities! We're also on the "Great Schools, Great Prices" list of best college values.

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We caught up to The Trailhead Café​ manager James Zappola for a few minutes during Orientation Week, and got him to give us a preview of the Trailhead's plans for 2015.  They sound exciting--and tasty!

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Robin Wall Kimmerer Biography Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Her first book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Her writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She lives in Fabius, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. More information about Dr. Kimmerer may be found here: http://www.esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer/

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After more than a century without a single baby tortoise sighting on the Galapagos island of Pinzón, a small group of the tiny, shelled youngsters have been spotted again.

The recent births are helping to pull the critically endangered animals back from the brink of extinction after they were nearly laid to waste as a result of human activity.

“I’m amazed that the tortoises gave us the opportunity to make up for our mistakes after so long,” researcher James Gibbs who was among the first to see the hatchlings in December

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Dr. James Gibbs sends us these #esfflags photos from Katon-Karagay National Park, Kazakhstan.  He and an international team of researchers are pursuing ongoing conservation work with endangered snow leopards in the Altai Mountains, which lie in this border region of Kazakhstan, Russia, China and Mongolia.  

The horses investigating him in the first photo are members of a local herd.

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Today we're highlighting one of our new alumni! 

Rachel Klein is a 2015 grad from ESF’s paper engineering​ program, and she's already settling happily into a process engineering job with Georgia-Pacific.  She says she feels 'lucky' to have such a great job in a great industry. 

We're willing to bet that it had more to do with her hard work and skill than luck (but the great program in PBE probably helped). 

Above is a photo of her, with one of the products made by Georgia Pacific.

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It's goldenrod season!  In honor of these beautiful and unjustly maligned plants (more on that in a moment), here are three of numerous goldenrods blooming on the Gateway green roof this week.

Despite their scientific names, the grass-leaved goldenrod (Euthamia graminifolia), Ohio goldenrod (Oligoneuron ohioense), and Houghton’s goldenrod (Oligoneuron houghtonii) are all goldenrods indeed, but with substantially different geographical ranges and abundances. All are “flat-topped” goldenrods, found on Great Lakes alvars, hence their inclusion on the Gateway green roof.  

The grass-leaved goldenrod is abundant throughout eastern and central North America, occurring in dry, mesic, or wet habitats in full sun. Ohio goldenrod is generally restricted to conditions that are influenced by calcium in the rock or water at a site. In NYS, Ohio goldenrod is found in open, rich (relative to minerals in the groundwater, especially calcium), sunny fens (wetlands with groundwater discharge). It is an S2 (6 to 20 state occurrences) and Threatened in NYS.

Houghton’s goldenrod (rarity ranking of S1; one to five state occurrences) is a Great Lakes endemic, occurring at only one location in NYS, in beds of saturated marl (primarily calcium carbonate). But it is typically associated with limestone bedrock in alvars of the Great Lakes region.  Because of its rarity, it is federally listed as Threatened, one of two federally-listed plants on the Gateway green roof (the other is Leedy’s roseroot, Rhodiola integrifolia ssp. leedyi, covered earlier on these pages).  Goldenrods are important nectar species for many different pollinating insects.  

Because goldenrod pollen is too heavy to be dispersed by wind, it does not cause hayfever as many people unfortunately still believe.  Goldenrod gets a bad rap because of another infamous plant: also blooming now (but not on the green roof!) are two ragweed (Ambrosia) species that are major contributors to allergy problems this time of year.  So you can enjoy these beautiful goldenrod species without fear!