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On the weekends, students must use the practice rooms in groups of three or more for safety purposes. Building security cameras and random in-person checks will be completed to enforce this public safety standard.

Schedule your practice time for the basement or 124 by clicking on the booking links below and typing the 3 names of your practice group all in the same one Name field when prompted. 

Schedule weekend practice time in Kimball 124 using this 124 calendar booking link.

Schedule weekend practice time in the basement student practice room on this basement calendar booking link.

The two calendars embedded below show current availability of each space. 

The Kimball Basement practice area is open seven days a week for student use. Sign-ups are only required on the weekends. 

Students must sign up for Saturday and Sunday practice hours in groups of 3 or more by clicking on this basement calendar booking link.

The calendars embedded below shows current weekend availability. 

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A)      The student’s advisor will decide which of the following three AI policies are best for the  student’s  specific research or capstone project: use not allowed; limited use; use encouraged. This policy will be reviewed during each annual advising meeting as it relates to any aspects of a thesis, dissertation, or capstone completed by the student.  

AI Policy: Use Not Allowed

Using AI can impede your learning. The thesis, dissertation, and capstone aspects of your program challenge you to develop creativity, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills that AI does not have. Using AI technology could limit your capacity to do this type of work, and your advisor  urge you not to miss out on the educational opportunities that this process will provide. As is the case for all courses at the University at Buffalo, work submitted by you should reflect both your own ideas and your own language and you should properly cite any resources you have consulted. If you have any questions about citation or about what constitutes academic honesty in this course, please feel free to raise these questions with your advisor and/or contact your advisor to discuss your concerns.

AI Policy: Limited Use

In this course, you may use AI tools (such as Bard or ChatGPT) to help you generate ideas and to brainstorm. However, you should note that the material generated by these tools may be inaccurate, incomplete, or otherwise problematic. Beware that overuse of AI may stifle your own independent thinking and creativity, and use any tools (for generating text, code, video, audio, images, or translation) wisely and carefully.

You may not submit any work generated by an AI program as your own. If you include material—including both ideas and language—generated by an AI program, it should be cited like any other reference material. If you have any questions, please contact your advisor.

AI Policy: Use Encouraged

Learning to use AI tools is an emerging skill that will be explored during the thesis, dissertation, or capstone process. Your advisor expects you to use AI ([list which tools are relevant for your research project]) during this process.

However, you should be aware of the limits of AI:

·         AI is a tool, but one that you need to acknowledge using. Any ideas, language, or code that is produced by AI must be cited, just like any other resource. [sample suggestion: Please include a paragraph at the end of any assignment that uses AI explaining what you used the AI for and what prompts you used to get the results.]

·         Don’t trust anything AI says. If it gives you a number or fact, assume it is wrong unless you either know the answer or can check in with another source. AI works best for topics you understand.

·         If you provide minimum effort prompts, you will get low quality results. You will need to refine your prompts in order to get good outcomes. This will take work.

·         Be thoughtful about when this tool is useful. Don’t use it if it isn’t appropriate for the case or circumstance.

B)      Upon submission of a project, including theses, dissertations, and capstones, all students will complete the following declaration:

Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the thesis/dissertation/capstone preparation process:

o   I did use AI: During the preparation of this work, I used the following AI engines:

                                   _____________________________

                                     I used this AI in order to __________________

After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the published article.

o   I did not use AI

This declaration will be reviewed for in-process and future projects during annual advising meetings.  

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