GSE faculty recently awarded prestigious grants

X. Christine Wang has been awarded a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to establish the Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI. This center will focus on harnessing AI to transform early literacy instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners. GSE co-PIs are Christopher Hoadley, John Strong and Jaekyung Lee, and local partners include Buffalo Public Schools and Erie 1 BOCES.

In addition, Wang received a $34,878 grant from the National Science Foundation to support the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) 2024 Annual Meeting, specifically for the Doctoral Consortium and Early Career Workshop.

Amanda Winkelsas has secured a $4,190,612 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for the UB Teacher Residency Program.

Christopher Hoadley received a $999,998 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Participating in Literacies and Computer Science: A Research-Practice Partnership to Explore New Computational Literacies.”

Erin Kearney has been awarded a $687,495 grant from the New York State Education Department for the Clinically Rich Intensive Teacher Institute, which is focused on bilingual education and English for speakers of other languages. Tim Monreal is a co-PI.

Africa Hands has secured a $493,910 grant from the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to study the unique challenges and cultural strengths of first-generation BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) professionals in the library and information science field.

Federica Bulgarelli has been awarded a $275,000 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to explore how infants process speech from older children and how it impacts their early language development.

In addition, Bulgarelli has also received a $10,000 Language Learning Early Career Research Grant for her project, “Searching for variability: The role of listener choice on learning new words.”

Amanda Nickerson has secured a $243,955 grant from the U.S. Department of\ Homeland Security for the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program and a $26,000 grant from the National Association of School Psychologists for evaluating the PREPaRE School Crisis Program.

Stephanie Fredrick and Amanda Nickerson have been awarded a $233,955 grant from the Department of Homeland Security for their project, “NAB IT! (Norms and Bystander Intervention Training).”

Christopher Proctor received a $150,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation for his project, “The Impossible Is the Least We Can Demand: Computing and Social Justice.”

Tasha Austin has been awarded a $70,000 grant from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation for her project, “Culturelessness as a Conceptual Framework: Cultural Capital and Racialization in Novice Language Teacher Pedagogies.” In addition,

Austin has received a $47,124 grant from the Spencer Foundation for her project, “Excavating the Oral Histories of Black World Language Teachers.”

Timothy Monreal received a $70,000 grant from the National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation for his project, “Somos El Sur: Mapping the Collective Experiences and Dreams of Latinx Teachers Across the U.S. South.”