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Sarah A. Robert, associate professor from the Department of Learning and Instruction, is examining how addressing the double burden of malnutrition is impacting the workload of teachers in Dominican Republic classrooms. “Feeding students at school may address the double burden of malnutrition and, more often than not, create a double burden of teaching work,” said Robert.

Richard Lamb, associate professor from the Department of Learning and Instruction, wants to measure the potential causal relationships between violent/aggressive behavior and video game play because these relationships are still under debate and not clearly understood. Lamb and his research team in the UB Neurocognition Science Laboratory are developing computational models to identify the underlying social health factors related to playing video games.

Buffalo, NY is well-known for their chicken wings and the geological wonder of Niagara Falls, but what else is there to learn about in the community? To answer this question, Noemi Waight and Sarah Robert, associate professors from the Department of Learning and Instruction are collaborating on a project, “Preservice Teachers Biking to 'uncover' Science and Social Studies in their Buffalo Communities.”

Paris Wicker studies Black and Indigenous student success and well-being; her COVID-19 research was recently published in Education Sciences.

The University at Buffalo community gathered in Slee Hall on Oct. 24 to recognize the outstanding achievements of faculty and staff at the 21st annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence.

This fall, cutting-edge research from the University at Buffalo will take center stage at one of the most prestigious global conferences in information science. Students, faculty and alumni from the Graduate School of Education’s Department of Information Science will have a strong presence at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), held in Calgary from Oct. 25-29. The conference, themed “Putting People First: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Care in Information Research and Practice,” highlights groundbreaking research in the field.