Projects

Initiative for Maximizing Student Development at University at Buffalo

• PI: Margarita L Subocovich
• GSE Co-PI: Xiufeng Liu, Sandro M. Sodano
• Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences
• Project Total: $2,556,994

Renewing the American Dream: The Children of Immigrants in Higher Education

• PI: Phoebe Ho
• Sponsor: Russell Sage Foundation
• Project Total: $25,536

CAREER: 3D Printed Carbon-Metal Nanohybrid Aerogels for Highly Efficient Adsorptive/Catalytic Removal of PFASs

• PI: Sunha Kim
• Sponsor: Board of Regents University of Nebraska
• Project Total: $19,631

CAREER: 3D Printed Carbon-Metal Nanohybrid Aerogels for Highly Efficient Adsorptive/Catalytic Removal of PFASs

• PI: Nirupam Aich
• GSE Co-PI: Sunha Kim
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Project Total: $500,000

CAREER: Reliable Superinsulated Building Envelopes via Predictive Multiphysics Modeling

• PI: Danial Faghihi Shahrestani
• GSE Co-PI: Sunha Kim
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Project Total: $595,593

CAREER: Facilitating Autonomy of Robots Through Learning-Based Control

• PI: Minghui Zheng
• GSE Co-PI: Sunha Kim
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Project Total: $571,087

Extending Evaluation of the Effects of a Digital Citizenship Program with 6th Grade Students

• PI: Stephanie Fredrick
• Sponsor: Society for the Study of School Psychology
• Project Total: $4,000

Preparing Rehabilitation Counselors to Meet 21^st Century Agency and Client Needs

• PI: Scott Sabella
• GSE Co-PIs: Rebecca Jacob, Omayra Munoz-Lorenzo
• Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
• Project Total: $993,290
• Type: Training

The Plasticity of Well-Being: A Research Network to Define, Measure and Promote Human Flourishing

• GSE PI: Paris Wicker
• Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
• Project Total: $59,126
• Type: Research

• PI: Stephen Santa-Ramirez
  
• Sponsor: American College Personnel Association
• Project Total: $3,000
• Type: Research

• PI: Megan Iantosca
• Sponsor: Russell Sage Foundation
• Project Total: $50,000
• Type: Research

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
  
• Type: Fellowship: Post-Doctoral

LIS First-Generation Professionals: Workplace Barriers and Cultural Assets

• PI: Africa Hands
• Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Project Total: $493,910
• Type: Research

Public Library Support of College Literacy in Appalachia 

• PI: Africa Hands
• Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Project Total: $172,108
• Type: Research

AI Institute for Transforming Education for Children with Speech and Language Processing Challenges 

• PI: Venugopal Govindaraju
• GSE Co-PI: X. Christine Wang
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Project Total: $20,000,000
• Type: Research

CAREER: Embodied Responsive Teaching in Undergraduate Physics

• PI: Virginia Flood
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Project Total: $666,146
• Type: Research

Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI (CELaRAI): Innovating Beginning Reading Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners

• PI: X. Christine Wang
• Co-PI's: Christopher Hoadley, Jaekyung Lee, John Strong
  
• Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
• Project Total: $10,000,000
• Type: Research

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
• Type: Research

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
• Type: Research

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
• Type: Research

Designing a Residency-Based CS Teacher Preparation Program with a High School Community 

• PI: Christopher Proctor
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Project Total: $277,284
• Type: Research

Dialogic Gesture in Collaborative Sense Making in Physics 

• PI: Virginia Flood
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• Project Total: $497,798
• Type: Research

Excavating the Oral Histories of Black World Language Teachers

• PI: Tasha Austin
  
• Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
• Project Total: $47,124
• Type: Research

Institute in Developing Research and Educational Excellence in Multilingual Education (I-DREEME)

• PI: Erin Kearney
  
• Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
• Project Total: $50,4297
• Type: Research

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
• Type: Training

MBK TOC II UB Teacher Residency Scholars 

• PI: Amanda Winkelsas
• Sponsor: NYS Education Department
• Project Total: $55,100
• Type: Education Support

NYSED Clinically Rich Intensive Teacher Institute - Bilingual Ed & ESOL 

• PI: Erin Kearney
• Co-PI: Timothy Monreal
• Sponsor: NYS Education Department
• Project Total: $81,700
• Type: Training

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
• Type: Research

Professional Learning for NY DOL Residency Pathway

• PI: Elisabeth Etopio
  
• Sponsor: Erie 1 BOCES
• Project Total: $19,500
• Type: Service/Other

Read STOP Write: Development of a Multicomponent Intervention in Grades 4-8

• PI: John Strong
• Co-PI: Blythe Anderson
• Sponsor: Advanced Education Research and Development Fund
• Project Total: $499,010
• Type: Research

Somos El Sur: Mapping the Collective Experiences and Dreams of Latinx Teachers Across the U.S. South

• PI: Timothy Monrreal
  
• Sponsor: National Academy of Education
• Project Total: $70,000
• Type: Research

STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming STEM via Bikes 

• PI: Noemi Waight
• Co-PI: Ryan Rish
• Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
• Project Total: $22,758
• Type: Research

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
• Type: Research

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