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Department News

UB, partners awarded $300,000 to expand high-speed internet in Fruit Belt
4/8/21
Additional partners include The John R. Oishei Foundation, Kaleida Health, Community Tech NY.
UB PhD students lead #BlackInSciComm, #BlackInNano movements
2/18/21
The movements, born during months of protests in 2020, celebrate Black voices in STEM.
Younger students, those with disabilities likely to struggle most with remote learning, UB expert says
12/17/20
Claire Cameron discusses the effects on students being away from the classroom during the pandemic.
Lattman, Liu, Morrow and Ruhl elected AAAS fellows
11/24/20
Four UB professors have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
Going viral with virus safety
4/3/20
Raven Baxter, a.k.a. “Raven the Science Maven,” is a 26-year-old UB GSE PhD science education student who took on the coronavirus and went viral herself. Her rap music video “Wipe it Down” about keeping clean and keeping safe went on YouTube last week, got her a story on local Spectrum News and CNN’s “must-watch” list.

School News

Suicide among Black girls is a mental health crisis hiding in plain sight
5/11/21
Time Magazine quoted Amanda Nickerson about the increase in suicides among Black girls, characterizing it as a mental health crisis hiding in plain sight.
Proposed certification program aims to expand computer science teaching in K-12
4/27/21
To expand access to computer science courses in K-12 schools, GSE is developing a professional certification in computer science that aims to introduce more teachers to the discipline.
UB GSE PhD student leads #BlackInSciComm movement
4/20/21
Powerful online efforts emerged to celebrate and elevate the voices of Black scientists as the pandemic took hold in 2020.
GSE faculty receives Fulbright award and will travel to South Korea
4/13/21
GSE faculty member Jaekyung Lee won a 2020-21 Fulbright Global Scholar Award, one of the most competitive research awards from the prestigious, world renown Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.
UB, partners awarded $300,000 to expand high-speed internet in Fruit Belt
4/8/21
Additional partners include The John R. Oishei Foundation, Kaleida Health, Community Tech NY.