A $293,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help a UB team of investigators lead an effort to create more inclusive college classrooms that recognize the neurodiversity of students by building micro-credential training courses for computer science faculty.
UB’s Graduate School of Education was recently awarded a $478,000 grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to study how to improve the retention of underrepresented librarians.
Jessica Jones chatted in the hallway reception with a fellow teacher resident and pondered the consequences of disjointed lessons about how to make an argument. Different disciplines take different approaches. This could confuse students. How could teaching be improved? That was a message from Okhee Lee, a visiting NYU scholar who came to campus last month to give the penultimate talk in the Dean’s Lecture Series.
Heidi Julien, professor from the Department of Information Science, and other colleagues from universities in Canada have been awarded a Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The grant will help fund a project exploring public library approaches to digital literacy.
GSE Associate Professor Noemi Waight recently established STEMcyclists Summer Camp, a new summer cycling program for 9th and 10th-grade students of color living in Buffalo.
The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education held its annual Student Research Symposium on April 28 and 29, 2023, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the event.
Students in the graduate seminar “Black Writers and the Archive” have curated the exhibit through their independent research on Black literature and archival studies in the UB Poetry Collection.
Graduating doctoral student Dina Skeffrey recently published an article, “From the Lens of a Light-Skinned ‘Jamerican’ Woman,” in the Teachers College Record.
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