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Earn a PhD in Counseling Psychology at UB—scientist-practitioner training with research, clinical practice, social justice focus & NY licensure prep.: Counseling Psychology and School Psychology, PhD

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Earn your PhD in Curriculum, Instruction & the Science of Learning (CISL) at UB—100% in‑person, multidisciplinary program focused on design research & equity.: Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning, PhD

Earn your EdD in Educational Administration at UB—cohort-based, in-person doctorate developing strategic K–12 leaders through equity, policy, & practical research.: Educational Administration, PhD

Explore UB’s EdD in Educational Culture, Policy & Society—on-campus doctoral program emphasizing equity, cultural responsiveness, research, and policy impact.: Educational Culture, Policy and Society, PhD

Advance your career in education with a PhD in Educational Data and Analysis from UB. Gain expertise in data science, equity, and learning systems research.: Educational Data Science, PhD

Earn your EdD in Educational Leadership at UB—on-campus, cohort-based program developing strategic school leaders through policy, equity, research & clinical practice.: Educational Leadership, EdD

A 72‑credit, interdisciplinary on‑campus program that develops academic leaders, policy scholars & researchers in 4–5 yrs. Apply by Jan 1.: Higher Education, PhD

UB PhD in Information Science—72‑credit hybrid/online program with residency. Advanced research in digital behavior, HCI, big data & equity. Apply Jan 1.: Information Science, PhD

UB PhD in Language Education & Multilingualism—72 credits, equity-driven, research-practice focus in multilingual pedagogy & policy. Apply Jan 1.: Language Education and Multilingualism, PhD

UB EdD in Learning & Teaching in Social Contexts—equity-focused, online doctorate for educators tackling systemic challenges in schools, communities & policy. Apply by Apr 15.: Learning and Teaching in Social Contexts, EdD

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Pursue your EdM in Educational Studies at UB – a flexible, in-person master’s program empowering you with research, leadership, curriculum & equity tools.: Education Studies, EdM

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February 2023: GSE Researcher to lead education and workforce development efforts on $20 million NSF grant award

March 2023: GSE alum secures $10 million gift for nonprofit from Mackenzie Scott

April 2023: GSE scholar leads, provides expertise on seven UB grants

May 2023: Dina Skeffrey, PhD, affirms Black women through research, mentorship

June 2023: Celebrating 30 years of innovative student research at the GSE Student Research Symposium

July 2023: Setting the wheels in motion: New STEMcyclists Summer Camp transforms STEM learning

August 2023: UB Graduate School of Education PhD students earn Prosperity Fellowships

September 2023: GSE scholar tapped by UN Women to review report on gender equality, climate justice

October 2023: Transforming EdD education: GSE researcher’s new book empowers scholar-practitioners

2023 Unwrapped: GSE takes center stage through media, research and events

February 2024: UB professor examines hardships of student-mothers during COVID

March 2024: Homeland security grant supports bystander intervention training

April 2024: UB researcher receives grant to study oral histories of Black world language teachers

May 2024: From law to leadership: The journey of an aspiring lawyer who found their place in educational leadership instead

June 2024: GSE scholar receives over $370,000 in grant funding to help teachers educate multilingual students in engineering

August 2024: UB scholar secures prestigious grant to study workplace experiences of first-generation BIPOC LIS professionals

September 2024: Schomburg fellow authors book on ‘healing while studying’

October 2024: Unlocking the mysteries of language learning

2024 Unwrapped: GSE leads the way in media, research and community engagement

February 2025: GSE scholar's anti-racism research draws national acclaim

March 2025: A model for mentorship

April 2025: Rethinking STEM identity: GSE scholar explores how students see themselves in STEM

May 2025: GSE student awarded fellowship on ethnic identities and mental health

June 2025: Prepare, not scare: UB faculty publish book on helping children navigate digital media

July 2025: Where education meets innovation: UB marks first year of Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI

August 2025: UB faculty member helps shape future of computer science education with new open resource book

September 2025: GSE scholar receives NSF CAREER Award

GSE scholar's new book explores transformative models for feeding students: October 2025: Rethinking school food systems: GSE scholar's new book explores transformative models for feeding students

2025 Unwrapped: How GSE shaped conversations about education this year

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Teaching religion in public schools: UB education dean weighs in on controversial debate

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Study examines educational and career disparities among minoritized students

University at Buffalo associate professor co-edits book on transforming school food politics worldwide

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Turning Ideas into Ideals: Innovations in Teaching and Leadership Education

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Summer Math Program addresses achievement and gender gaps

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Alumnus Leads High School Trip to Costa Rica

Fall 2020, Issue 1

Pandemics 2020: COVID-19 and Racism Collide

On the front lines: Shifting the mood from tension and mask hoarding to peace and sharing

Raven the Science Maven takes off: GSE PhD candidate's science education efforts get rave reviews

Math as a coping skill

The resilience of children and ECRC’s pandemic adjustments

Pandemic illuminates the power of student-teacher classroom collaboration

School desegregation: An emeritus faculty member and lessons from the 1970s and 80s

Chazz Robinson: A journey to graduate school and an ambition to create more supportive environments for working-class students

Shaping leaders outside academia with unique, hands-on, in-school residency experience and pandemic-era lessons

Founding a school at 28: How GSE helped change a would-be accountant into a charter school leader

The anatomy of a scholarship

A fifth grade teacher who redefined what was possible for Kerri Lehmbeck

LeAdelle Phelps

Lillie P.W. Stephens

The pencil, in American style: A quiet icon’s evolution

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New Faculty and Staff

New student orientation, reoriented

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Commencement 2020

Galapagos-to-Buffalo and pandemic workarounds

On the Map Research Highlights

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Office Hours Faculty Profile: Meet me in my (ad-hoc) office with Sameer Honwad

Coping on the front line: Everyone is on it

Visiting scholar: Terri N. Watson

During the pandemic, people flocked to birding—with help from UB GSE professor emeritus

A stay-healthy checklist for body and mind

Inspired action: Conrad Toepfer’s Zoom memorial

Those who can do, teach

Spring 2021, Issue 2

Lessons in Community

Ground-breaking collaboration with teens from across Western New York sparks new ideas for school reform

UB Homework Help tutors come to the aid of high school students

In-person literacy program morphs into a unique summer tutoring camp for Buffalo students

GSE’s community supports new student as he starts grad school on rocky virtual ground

Coalition addresses food inequity: GSE professor’s research resonates in the food crisis of the pandemic

Creating inclusive curricula and awareness

GSE symposium explores MLK’s vision of just and equitable schools

Message from the Dean

GSE in the News

The composition notebook: A centuries-old design and its modern work

The story behind the story: “Brilliant Brown Babies”

On the Map Research Highlights

Office Hours Faculty Profile: Meet me in my (ad-hoc) office with Tiffany Karalis Noel

Q&A: New urgency of digital literacy and the fight against misinformation

Advocating for students: GSE alumna’s career journey enhanced by lessons from off-road racing

Forging resilience: GSE alumni reflect on navigating teaching careers in uncertain times

Taking the Match.com approach to finding a therapist

Students around the world come together to create COVID-themed comics with UB program

The anatomy of a scholarship

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Bulletin Board: On the Move

Nancy B. Broderick

Herbert L. Foster

Mike M. Milstein

Fall 2021, Issue 3

Fellowships and Scholarships

New Faculty and Staff

The evolution of teacher preparation: Teacher education reinvented

Hutch Tech: A teaching incubator

Legal advocate and Marine find new careers in the classroom

Sharing a new approach: A template for other institutions

Leadership pilot takes off

Intensity pays off: The residency year packs in experience and learning

A historic community school turns around and embraces the residency approach

Putting the old pieces together in a new way

A career unfolds across continents

Teaching at the Playhouse

Virtual skills lead to classroom savvy

Hands-on experience: Reimagining STEM in Nigeria. And beyond.

Inspiring a student in Japan to move to Buffalo to study foreign language education at GSE

Teacher Residents

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GSE in the News

Ed Artifact: Calculating change

On the Map Research Highlights

Office Hours Faculty Profile: Meet me in my office with Myles Faith

The new schoolyard: Understanding and preventing cyberbullying

Disparities discovered: Seeking policy change in (dis)ability education

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Bulletin Board: On the Move

Spring 2022, Issue 4

Breaking the mold: LaGarrett King ignites racial literacy and Black historical consciousness at UB

GSE alumni and husband-and-wife team recognized in new UB competition

It’s a match: UB speed-networking event facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration

Critical race theory panel

Cycling to transform teaching and learning in teacher education

To help Black students feel safer, schools must embrace their cultural identity

Message from the Dean

GSE in the News

Ed Artifact — Brightening the school year: The history of the highlighter

Office Hours Faculty Profile: Meet me in my office with Chris Proctor

Q&A — Paying it forward: Supporting first-generation undocu/DACAmented students

Reimagining higher education: GSE doctoral student Allen Williams aspires to improve institutional equity

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Fall 2022, Issue 5

Going beyond the mission statement: GSE’s new faculty signal a transformational era

Carl Lam recognized for contributions to Buffalo community and higher education profession

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GSE in the News

Ed Artifact — Keeping it all together: The history of the stapler

Office Hours Faculty Profile: Meet me in my office with Melinda Lemke

Q&A — Making it Work: Parenting/School/Life

Solving the equity equation: GSE doctoral student Melodie Baker

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Fellowships and Scholarships

Teacher Residents

UB Teacher Residency Program awarded $3.5 million

University at Buffalo researchers to investigate the understudied aspect of group learning: Can nonverbal gestures impact group success in STEM education?

The Gift of Giving

New leadership for UB’s teacher education programs

Introducing Katheryn Ross-Winnie and Lauren Turner

Doctoral student promotes research on podcast

A celebration of Dr. James Banks

Exploring Mother Africa

GSE faculty research informs new computer science teacher preparation program: Rebooting computer science education

GSE researcher examines minoritized STEM postdocs’ experiences with faculty mentors: The science of mentorship

Spring 2023, Issue 6

LIFTS turns 30: Celebrating the past, present and future of GSE’s innovative school leadership programming

Ed Artifact — Teachers can COUNT on the abacus

Message from the Dean

GSE in the News

Office Hours Faculty Profile: Meet me in my office with Amy VanScoy

Q&A — A sound mind for school safety: Expert insights from Amanda Nickerson

Empowering educators: Dawnavyn James transcends academia to share Black history teaching expertise

Heather Jenkins secures $10 million gift for nonprofit from Mackenzie Scott

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Coming full circle: Retirement: Elizabeth Lesswing

Introducing Wil Green

A Call for Transformation: GSE researcher illustrates need for change in counseling psychology

Remembering Gerald R. Rising

My first semester in the information and library science online master’s program: A student perspective

Culturally responsive instruction: The impact of belief on student success

GSE researcher to lead education and workforce development efforts on $20 million NSF grant awarded to UB: $20M Artificial Intelligenct NSF Grant

UB announces new master’s program in educational culture, policy and society: New master’s program in educational culture, policy and society

Fall 2023, Issue 7

Redefining and Unleashing Doctoral Excellence: GSE's New PhD Scholars

Ed Artifact — The overhead projector aims to help students shine bright

Message from the Dean

GSE in the News

Office Hours Faculty Profile: Meet me in my office with John Strong

Q&A — Go beyond finding your mini-me: Expert insights from Africa Hands

Roaming the Halls with Nicholas Emmanuele

Trajectory: GSE alumna establishes digital archive documenting violence in Jim Crow South

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Censorship hinders critical thinking and infringes on readers’ rights

GSE student earns mental health counseling scholarship

Six GSE faculty recently awarded prestigious NSF grants

Making Change that Matters

Robert tapped by UN Women to review report on gender equality, climate justice

GSE launches new combined degree programs in English, information science

Fellowships and Scholarships

Teacher Residents

New beginnings: Commencement Recap

The gift of librarianship: New fellowship honors UB alumna’s legacy and love story

Spring 2024, Issue 8

Unraveling the Complexities of Literacy Education

CLaRI: A 60-year legacy

Collectable, functional and adaptive, the bookmark keeps readers on the right page : Leaving a mark

Message from the Dean

GSE in the News

Office Hours Faculty Profile: Raechele Pope

Q&A — Tackling teacher shortage requires multifaceted approach

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Trajectory: UB couple offers gluten-free options to county fair foodies

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Bicycles provide pathways to STEM careers

Claribel González explores bilingual students’ linguistic and semiotic repertoires

School Safety Advice for Parents: Let’s Prepare and Not Scare Our Children

Homeland security grant supports bystander intervention training

GSE establishes computer science education program

The gift of giving: A bequest to end bullying

Student Symposium Photo Gallery

Fall 2024, Issue 9

A formula for transformation: New GSE labs drive the future of educational research

Ed Artifact — Anything but a flop: Before the Cloud, there was the floppy disk

Message from the Dean

GSE in the News

Office Hours Faculty Profile: Meet me in my office with Amanda Nickerson

For therapists (and the rest of us): flexibility is a superpower: Q&A

Roaming the Halls with Courtney Copeland

GSE alum empowers Black communities through literacy: Bringing bookshelves to barbershops: GSE alum empowers Black communities through literacy

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Continuing the mission: Gregory J. Dimitriadis ’ legacy lives on through endowed professorship

Honoring the memory of Chandra R. Murphy

New Beginnings: Commencement Recap

Teacher Residents

Beyond the Game: My Path from Collegiate Athlete to Aspiring Sports Psychologist: A student perspective

GSE faculty recently awarded prestigious grants

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Teaching a passion for UB Fulbright recipient

GSE’s Alexa Schindel works to integrate climate education for all students across New York State: Advancing climate education

Dorothy Woodson

Spring 2025, Issue 10

Anything but artificial: Christine Wang is making AI personal at UB

Ed Artifact — The writing’s on the wall: The history of the whiteboard

Message from the Dean

GSE in the News

Office Hours Faculty Profile: Meet me in my office with Sam Abramovich

Roaming the Halls With Kayla Burt

Taking off the uniform: GSE alum Emily Knitter’s mission to support veterans

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A student perspective: Lessons from an international student-parent journey

NSF funding supports community education for blizzard preparedness

GSE launches three new online micro-credential programs

GSE scholar’s journey to Pakistan bridges cultures, advances scholarship: The global language of research

The real issue is the extinction of the public commons: Banning cellphones in schools is a red herring

Fall 2025, Issue 11

UB and BPS launch Buffalo’s first university-assisted high school. : Where promise meets partnership

GSE in the News

Examining the dynamic interplay of leadership and educational change: Office Hours Faculty Profile: Corrie Stone-Johnson

UB researcher explores how picture books can help children learn Black history: Q&A

GSE faculty secure funding for groundbreaking research

Rewriting the future: UB, AI and the next chapter in literacy

Carrying a dream across borders: A journey of motherhood, scholarship and advocacy: A student perspective

Fellowships and Scholarships

Meet the Residents

Roaming the Halls With Nick Kennedy

Trajectory: UB GSE Alumni Profile

Commencement 2025

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Caught in a Landslide: Moral Injury and the Collapse of Teaching

GSE launches fully online school leadership program

UB faculty publish book on helping children navigate digital media: Prepare, not scare

‘Accountabilibuddies’: How a chance meeting turned into a life-long friendship at UB and beyond

GSE scholar shapes future of computer science education with new book

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