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Awards

Jinting Wu, ECPS assistant professor, received a 2020 Early Career Fellowship from the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Program in China Studies for her project “Disability Segregation in an Age of Inclusion: Navigating Educational Pathways through Special Education Schools in Contemporary China.”

Seong Won Han received the 2018 University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholars Young Investigator Award. Introduced in 2002, the award celebrates the recent superior achievement of a scholar in his/her field of study. The achievement will have distinguished the recipient as an up-and-coming scholar, as well as earned the individual acclaim for his/her work, which could be a published work or other scholastic or artistic endeavor.

Seong Won Han (second from right) with other recipients of the 2018 UB Exceptional Scholars Young Investigator Award.

Jinting Wu received the 2018 AERA Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG (Special Interest Group) Early Career Award at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York City, April 2018.

Jinting Wu received the 2017 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Recognition Award and the Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award for her book "Fabricating an Educational Miracle." SUNY Press featured her work at a book signing during the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Antonio, TX, April 2017.

Grants Awarded

Lois Weis as PI (SUNY Distinguished Professor) and Seong Won Han as Co-PI (Assistant Professor) received a grant from the core research program in the Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR), National Science Foundation. This award totals $1,607,010. This project, "Effects of State Policy on High School Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Opportunities and Outcomes for Low-Income Underrepresented Minorities," starts August 1 , 2017 and ends July 31, 2021.

Lois Weis and Kristin Cipollone (PhD '12, Social Foundations; currently an assistant professor at Ball State University) recently received a grant from the Spencer Foundation “Does the Class Warfare Continue? Race, Class, Postsecondary Institutions and Positioning Practices.”

Keynote Address

Lois Weis delivered a keynote address, “Class Advantage or the Public Good? Durable Tensions in Higher Education," at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Columbus, OH, November 2016.  

Invited Talk

Seong Won Han delivered an invited talk “Gender and Teaching Career Expectations of High School Students” at the OECD Symposium, held at the OECD headquarters, Paris, France, June 16-17, 2016. The OECD symposium is organized by the OECD Education and Skills Directorate in collaboration with other directorates and projects working on inclusion and equity, particularly the OECD Inclusive Growth initiative, the OECD New Approaches to Economic Challenges initiative, and the OECD Centre for Opportunity and Equality. The purpose of the OECD symposium is to open a dialogue between researchers, different OECD initiatives and policymakers from OECD member countries, notably participants of the PISA Governing Board.

Jinting Wu presented her paper “Mothering Special Children: Negotiating Gender, Disability and Special Education in Contemporary China” as part of UB’s Asia@Noon lecture series on November 30, 2018.

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