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

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
  • Type: Training

Community-Based Approach to Multi-Level Mental Health Promotion Among Elementary School Students in Buffalo, NY: A Pilot Study

  • GSE PI: Jacoby Loury
  • Sponsor: Buffalo Center For Health Equity
  • Project Total: $27,346
  • Type: Research

PREPaRE School Crisis Program Evaluation 

  • PI: Amanda Nickerson
  • Sponsor: National Association of School Psychologists
  • Project Total: $25,000
  • Type: Research

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
Recently Graduated Undocumented Collegians (Re)Imagining Together 
  • PI: Stephen Santa-Ramirez
  • Sponsor: American College Personnel Association
  • Project Total: $3,000
  • Type: Research
School-to-Work Transitions for Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • 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

Public Library Support of College Literacy in Appalachia 

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

Citizen Science Teachers: Noyce Residency Scholars Program for Western New York 

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

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

Participating in Literacies and Computer Science: A research-practice partnership to explore new computational literacies

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

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 

Hayes Hall on UB's South Campus.

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.

Learn About the Initiative  in Learning Sciences

Towards a quantitative critical social network analysis (QuantCritSNA) approach on college student success and well-being. Relational trends from 2007-2023

  • PI: Paris Wicker
  • Sponsor: NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Project Total: $70,000

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.  

See More About the Project  in Mandarin Language and Chinese Culture Immersion
Chinese dragon.

Past Project Highlights

The Anatomy of Achievement Gaps
Mixed Methods Working Group