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UB receives $293,000 to support neurodiverse students in computer science
10/19/21
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 awarded $478,000 to improve diversity among librarians
9/7/21
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.
Dean’s Lecture Series nears the end of its third year with insight, collaboration and welcomes.
2/11/20
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.
Improving digital literacy in Canadian public libraries
11/19/19
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.
Understanding information literacy at community colleges
10/15/19
Understanding the instructional practices of information literacy (IL) in community college libraries, as well as the perceptions of librarians and students regarding the IL needs of students, is a nationwide concern. Currently, community colleges account for over 50 percent of the institutions of higher education and these colleges educate nearly half of the post-secondary students.

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School News

One year later: UB Teach grads reflect on new careers
5/2/23
The inaugural cohort of students in the UB Teach program reflects on their experience in the classroom since a year ago.
The persistent problem of burnout
4/25/23
Is burnout categorically different than depression? The short answer is that even with 50 years of research, there’s still not a definitive answer, according to Graduate School of Education faculty member Scott T. Meier.
Marking one-year anniversary of Tops shooting
4/20/23
A university-wide event on May 11 will explore how to bring about racial healing after the mass shooting.
April 2023: GSE scholar leads, provides expertise on seven UB grants
4/20/23
Sunha Kim, PhD, associate professor, was recently awarded over $1.2 million in funding.
UB establishes summer program for South Korean youth
4/18/23
Fifty college-age South Koreans will visit UB this summer as part of a “youth ladder” program with Gyeonggi Province, the largest province in South Korea.

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10/23/24
The Informed: A Publication of the University at Buffalo’s Department of Information Science (IS) is developed and administered with support from the IS Advisory Board and faculty. The Informed includes news, events, faculty and staff profiles, alumni updates and more to keep you updated on the department and program graduates. To contact The Informed, please email lis-alumni@buffalo.edu.

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