Projects
Our long list of active projects share at least one thing in common: a commitment to lifting the lives of others. Whether easing long-standing inequalities in classroom or career, rethinking ways to share information or ensuring our youngest learners get off to a good start, we are doing the work that delivers change.
Active Projects and Grants
Brainy Bulls Tutoring Program
- PI: Suzanne Rosenblith
- Sponsor: The Cullen Foundation
Project Total: $15,000
Behavioral Health Workforce: Interprofessional Education and Training in Underserved Integrated Care Settings
- PI: Yu-Ping Chang
- GSE Co-PI: Scott Sabella
- Sponsor: Health Resources and Services Admin
Project Total: $1,920,000
PREPaRE School Crisis Program Evaluation
- PI: Amanda Nickerson
- Sponsor: National Association of School Psychologists
Project Total: $25,000
SPROUTS - Children Ages 6 and 7 Assessments and Close-Out
- PI: Myles Faith
- Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Project Total: $83,919
Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program
- PI: Amanda Nickerson
- Co-PI: Stephanie Fredrick
- Sponsor: US Department of Homeland Security
Project Total: $243,955
C19: The Impact of Federal COVID-19 Relief Policy on Low-Income Student-Mothers' Educational Choices and Experiences
- PI: Margaret Sallee
- Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Project Total: $50,000
New Generation Activists: Black Millennial Caregivers' Experiences with & Resistance Against Neoliberalism & AntiBlackness in Education
- PI: Gwen Baxley
- Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Project Total: $50,000
The Role of Institutional Support in Shaping Student-Mothers' Success in Higher Education
- PI: Margaret Sallee
- Sponsor: Jewish Foundation for Education of Women
Project Total: $126,306
Recently Graduated Undocumented Collegians (Re)Imagining Together
- PI: Stephen Santa-Ramirez
- Sponsor: American College Personnel Association
Project Total: $3,000
So, What Happens Now?: The Post-Graduation Transitional Experiences of Undocu/DACAmented Collegians
- PI: Stephen Santa-Ramirez
- Sponsor: National Academy of Education
Project Total: $70,000
LIS First-Generation Professionals: Workplace Barriers and Cultural Assets
- PI: Africa Hands
- Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Project Total: $493,910
Identifying Opportunities for Retention of BIPOC Librarians Using Survival Analysis
- PI: Amy Vanscoy
- Co-PI: Sunha Kim
- Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Project Total: $478,044
Precarity and Information Marginalization: Exploring How Academic Casualization Complicates Workplace Information Practices
- PI: Heidi Julien
- Sponsor: McGill University
Project Total: $15,875
Positioning LIS Students for Career Success
- PI: Africa Hands
- Sponsor: Association for Library and Information Science Education
Project Total: $5,000
Public Library Support of College Literacy in Appalachia
- PI: Africa Hands
- Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Project Total: $172,108
- PI: Venugopal Govindaraju
- GSE Co-PI: X. Christine Wang
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $20,000,000
BPC-DP: Building Ecosystems of Belonging for Neurodiverse Computer Science Students
- PI: Samuel Abramovich
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $293,110
CAREER: Facilitating Autonomy of Robots Through Learning-Based Control
- PI: Minghui Zheng
- GSE Co-PI: Sunha Kim
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $57,108
- PI: X. Christine Wang
- Co-PI's: Christopher Hoadley, Jaekyung Lee, John Strong
- Sponsor: US Department of Education
Project Total: $10,000,000
Citizen Science Teachers: Noyce Residency Scholars Program for Western New York
- PI: Amanda Winkelsas
- Co-PIs: Beth Etopio, Tiffany Karalis Noel, Sunha Kim, Ryan Rish
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $1,199,545
Collaborative Research: Research: Investigating Jonassen's Design Theory of Problem Solving in Support of Pedagogical Change in Introductory Aerospace Engineering
- PI: Andrew Olewnik
- GSE Co-PI: Sameer Honwad
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $250,198
Culturelessness as a Conceptual Framework: Cultural Capital and Racialization in Novice Language Teacher Pedagogies
- PI: Tasha Austin
- Sponsor: National Academy of Education
Project Total: $70,000
Designing a Residency-Based CS Teacher Preparation Program with a High School Community
- PI: Christopher Proctor
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $277,284
Dialogic Gesture in Collaborative Sense Making in Physics
- PI: Virginia Flood
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $497,798
Elementary Teacher Professional Learning of Equitable Engineering Pedagogies for Multilingual Students
- PI: Mary McVee
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $374,969
Excavating the Oral Histories of Black World Language Teachers
- PI: Tasha Austin
- Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Project Total: $47,124
Institute in Developing Research and Educational Excellence in Multilingual Education (I-DREEME)
- PI: Erin Kearney
- Sponsor: US Department of Education
Project Total: $50,4297
Language Wonders of the World: University at Buffalo 2024 STARTALK Chinese Program
- PI: Chuan Lin
- GSE Co-PI: Erin Kearney
- Sponsor: National Security Agency
Project Total: $137,295
MBK TOC II UB Teacher Residency Scholars
- PI: Amanda Winkelsas
- Sponsor: NYS Education Department
Project Total: $55,100
NYSED Clinically Rich Intensive Teacher Institute - Bilingual Ed & ESOL
- PI: Erin Kearney
- Co-PI: Timothy Monreal
- Sponsor: NYS Education Department
Project Total: $81,700
Participating in Literacies and Computer Science: A research-practice partnership to explore new computational literacies
- PI: Christopher Hoadley
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $999,998
Professional Learning for NY DOL Residency Pathway
- PI: Elisabeth Etopio
- Sponsor: Erie 1 BOCES
Project Total: $19,500
RAPID: Co-Developing a Community-Based Science Education Curriculum Framework for Disaster Justice and Resilience: A Response to the 2022 Bufflo Blizzard
- PI: Noemi Waight
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $100,000
RAPID: Exploring an AI Literacies Framework for Young Children: A Delphi Study
- PI: X. Christine Wang
- Co-PI: Christopher Proctor
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $199,920
Read STOP Write: Development of a Multicomponent Intervention in Grades 4-5
- PI: John Strong
- Co-PI: Blythe Anderson
- Sponsor: Advanced Education Research and Development Fund
Project Total: $302,955
"Somos El Sur": Mapping the collective experiences and dreams and of Latinx/Ã teachers across the U.S. South
- PI: Timothy Monrreal
- Sponsor: National Academy of Education
Project Total: $70,000
STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming STEM via Bikes
- PI: Noemi Waight
- Co-PIs: Ryan Rish, Sarah Robert
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Total: $1,982,790
"The Impossible is the Least We Can Demand:" Computing and Social Justice
- PI: Dalia Antonia Muller
- GSE Co-PI: Christopher Proctor
- Sponsor: Mozilla Foundation
Project Total: $150,000
UBTR SEED: Tiered Professional Learning for Inclusive & Equitable Educator Practice
- PI: Amanda Winkelsas
- CO-PIs: Beth Etopio, Erin Kearney, Suzanne Rosenblith
- Sponsor: US Department of Education
Project Total: $3,955,337
University at Buffalo Teacher Residency Program
- PI: Amanda Winkelsas
- Sponsor: US Department of Education
Project Total: $4,073,691
Learning Sciences Initiative
Focused on integrative learning sciences scholarship, the initiative has an assembled group of prominent faculty in the disciplines of learning sciences, human-computer partnerships, cognitive science and psychology, design and learning environments.
Mandarin Language and Chinese Culture Immersion Project
This initiative offers teachers, students and faculty the chance to study abroad, enhancing their Mandarin language skills and cultural knowledge. By implementing a research-based, integrated culture and language immersion model, participants boost their Mandarin proficiency and deepen their understanding of Chinese culture.
