Research Centers, Institutes and Projects

CLaRI, the Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction has been providing reading services to Western New York since 1963. We are a community resource for the assessment of children’s literacy development and individualized reading instruction, as well as literacy research center.

The Early Childhood Research Center conducts cutting edge research exploring the development of cognition, language, social/emotional connections, physical skills, and perception in the first few years of life.

The mission of GMP is to challenge able students in the same way that standard school curricula challenge average and above average students. The emphasis is not on the development of professional mathematicians, but rather on providing strong mathematical background for students who may pursue future university work in mathematics, other sciences, or the humanities.

The City Voices, City Visions project, a partnership between UB and the Buffalo Public Schools, provides teachers in grades 6-12 with innovative approaches to integrating digital video arts and communication technologies into the curriculum to better enable students to achieve challenging academic standards. Thus far, more than 100 teachers have received professional development, and their students are producing videos on a wide range of subjects, from social studies and science concepts to book trailers for novels. This unique project, sponsored by the John R. Oishei Foundation, aims to increase student achievement.

Musical sounds surround a child, even before the moment of birth. Whether a child is listening to music, singing a song, or moving creatively to the sounds around them, music is a vital part of a child’s life. Young children often create music as a part of their play experiences, thus sustaining imagination and creativity. Furthermore, music enables children to express feelings and release energies and emotions in new and novel ways.

The mission of NLG is the advancement of knowledge about and innovative uses of multimodal literacies in the context of an increasingly diverse society.

The UB Summer Math Program is a free math camp open to girls in and around the Buffalo area who are entering grades 4 to 10. Through project-based learning (PBL), our program provides opportunities for students to explore and question mathematics, and to develop problem-solving skills and conceptual understandings — all while having fun.