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UB GSE's new magazine: Revamped, reimagined, renamed, relaunched. Learn Magazine debuts with stories about faculty, students and alums, and their contributions to education and the community. In this most unusual year, when a pandemic collided with new social justice awareness, the people of GSE adapted, taught, studied and learned how to educate in an unprecedented time.

UnexpectED

Pandemics 2020: COVID-19 and Racism Collide

At first, 2020 seemed like a straight-forward, normal year, new and full of promise.

At UB, research made news, enrollment grew.

Before spring broke, whatever we had in mind for 2020 changed.

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From the Dean

A letter from Dean Rosenblith

Accomplishments

2019–20 by the numbers

Galapagos to Buffalo

Sailing to science in a pandemic

Shaping Leaders

A leadership class adjusts to COVID-19

Office Hours

Meet Assistant Professor Sameer Honwad

Roaming the Halls

Doctoral student Chazz Robinson shares his journey

Trajectory

Alumna Joelle Formato greeting a student.

An alumna’s charter school founding

A Teacher Who

Sharon Smith (EdM ’88), as a fifth grade teacher at Amherst’s Smallwood Elementary School when Kerri Lehmbeck (EdM ’00,) was her student, circa 1987. (Photo courtesy Sharon Smith).

Mrs. Smith’s fifth grade lessons changed a life

Emeritus Faculty

Herb Foster, left, and George Singfield, right, together on Martha’s Vineyard, Edgartown, Mass., in an undated photo. They were, as Singfield liked to put it, the “Salt and Pepper Team.” (Photo courtesy Herb Foster).

School desegregation: Lessons from the 1970s and 80s

On the Map

Faculty research highlights around the world

Book Stacks

Stack of books published by GSE faculty.

New books by GSE authors

Philanthropy

The anatomy of a scholarship

Special Web-only Features

Flocking to Birding

Professor Emeritus Gerald Rising outside.

Retired professors launch guide for beginning birders

Body and Mind

Brandy Petrie's photo of Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs. Depicted: a colorful landscape with green foliage and trees, blue skies with clouds, and reddish rock formations.

Alumna Brandy Petrie offers a stay-healthy checklist

Teaching with Tech

Associate Professor Val Nesset’s course to help faculty

Inspired Action

Friends and colleagues remember Professor Emeritus Conrad Toepfer

Bulletin Board

Event Highlights

GSE in the News

Headlines from stories that featured our faculty and students

In Memoriam

Remembering Hugh Petrie, LeAdelle Phelps, Lillie Stephens and Conrad Toepfer

Coping on the Front Line
Demystifying self-care with Catherine Cook-Cottone

Ed Artifact
An educator's tool profiled:
pencil history

Scene on Social
An alumnus’s bag-piping hobby cheers in a pandemic

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