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The 13^th annual ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State Regional Science and Technology Fair will be held this Friday, April 20, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Orvis Activities Center gymnasium on the ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ campus.

Dr. Doug Pierson, assistant professor in the Agriculture and Veterinary Technology Department at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State, will lead the April New Horizon’s Forum with an update on the impact that ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State students have had on recovery efforts of the Haiti Health Ministries from the devastation of the January 2010 earthquake. ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State students will be traveling to Haiti again in May 2012 for the third year in a row.

For the third year in a row the ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State Football and Softball teams will host a Bone Marrow Registry Drive.  The two previous drives have been larger than most in Western New York State and have averaged 130-140 registered with 40% multi-race (minority) registrants.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State’s Green Team and Sustainability Club, the ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ Sustainability Working Group, and ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ University’s Green ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ collaboratively invite the public to the following Earth Week Events during April:

Seven students at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State were recently inducted into Psi Beta honor society, an organization which promotes interest in the study of psychology at two-year colleges. Students must have earned a 3.0 (out of a possible 4.0) grade point average, including 3.0 in at least one psychology course.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State’s School of Applied Technology, Wellsville, hosted the 14^th annual New York State Postsecondary (college level) SkillsUSA competition on Saturday, March 24. Competitions took place in automotive service, carpentry, collision repair, commercial baking, culinary, diesel technology, masonry, residential wiring, technical drafting, and welding.

The ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State baseball spent their last free Saturday of the spring season to assist in the cleanup of Orebed Creek in the Wellsville/Shongo area. The Orebed Creek is a tributary to the Genesee River.

The Hinkle Memorial Library on the ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State campus will host a watercolor and oil paintings exhibit by Maria Rhone, Belfast, an art teacher, K-6, at Belfast Central School, March 28 through the month of April. All are welcome.

As part of the ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State financial planning outreach program in which students receive exposure to "real world" financial planning practitioners, four students attended the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) Northeast Symposium, held at the Hilton Newark, on March 7 and 8.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State placed fourth out of 12 teams at the 2012 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. This is a remarkable achievement given the level of competition from teams sponsored by major northeastern universities and given almost all of the other teams had graduate student members.