News Brief Archive

A career unfolds across continents
12/14/21
Before he earned his master’s degree in teaching English as a second language from GSE, Rob Martin, EdM ’01, discovered his vocation and love of the profession three decades ago as a young college graduate, volunteering to teach English at a school in rural Kenya.
Disparities discovered; Seeking policy change in disability education
12/7/21
Kathleen Reeb-Reascos, a GSE educational culture, policy and society doctoral student with visual impairment, has experience navigating the education system for people with disabilities. She took her curiosity about the supports in schools, crafted a dissertation study—“Constructing the Realities of (Dis)ability: How Institutional Arrangements and School Typologies Undergird the CSE Process”—and won a national award.
Hands-on experience: Reimagining STEM in Nigeria. And beyond.
11/30/21
When Adetola Salau, GSE PhD student and education aide to Nigerian Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, drives through Lagos, she is inspired to persevere. She gets energy for her own sometimes exhausting daily work, as a graduate student and government official, when she sees young people hanging out on the streets with nothing to do.
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.

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