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Use of ‘digital badges’ in schools would motivate students, research shows
2/9/15
The blend of digital technology and traditional merit badges, such as those earned by Boy and Girl Scouts, would provide an opportunity to both motivate and measure learning, according to new research by University at Buffalo education professor Sam Abramovich.

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March 2024: Homeland security grant supports bystander intervention training
3/21/24
A grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will assist the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention in continuing to build youth resiliency and implement bystander intervention training.
UB scholar secures ALISE research grant to investigate career services in LIS graduate programs
3/12/24
Africa S. Hands won the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Research Grant Program Competition, allowing her to continue her research on how library and information science graduate programs prepare students for the job market.
GSE establishes computer science education program
3/5/24
GSE recognized that school districts across the state were seeking support implementing K-12 computer science coursework and in finding certified teachers, in response to public desire to see these skills formally taught, as well as a state mandate that schools offer computer science. New York State has also begun to mandate that teachers of computer science courses be certified in New York’s K-12 Computer Science.
GSE alum establishes digital archive documenting violence in Jim Crow South
2/27/24
The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, a database documenting racially motivated violence targeting African Americans in the Jim Crow South, was recently established thanks in part to University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education alumna Gina Nortonsmith’s expertise, guidance and leadership.
February 2024: UB professor examines hardships of student-mothers during COVID
2/22/24
Margaret Sallee conducts pioneering research focusing on how the culture of universities influences lives and how identities operate within higher education.

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