UB experts available to discuss issues facing schools amid return during pandemic

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Release Date: September 16, 2021

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo experts are available to discuss various concerns facing students in grades K-12, parents and educators as children across the region have returned to classrooms in the midst of the delta surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Vaccination and COVID-19 in children

  • , MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.
  • , MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.
  • , MD, associate professor chief of the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

Role of technology in pandemic and post-pandemic education

  • , PhD, associate professor of learning and instruction, and information science in the UB Graduate School of Education.
  • , PhD, assistant professor of learning and instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.
  • , PhD, associate professor of learning and instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.

The job of teaching, including challenges and labor issues

  • , PhD, chair of the Department of Learning and Instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.
  • , EdD, clinical associate professor of educational leadership and policy in the UB Graduate School of Education.
  • , PhD, associate professor of learning and instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.

Misinformation and digital literacy in schools

  • , PhD, professor of information science in the UB Graduate School of Education.
  • , PhD, assistant professor of communication in the UB College of Arts and Sciences. 

Childhood development and learning

  • , PhD, associate professor of learning and instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.
  • , PhD, director of the Fisher-Price Endowed Early Childhood Research Center at UB.

Race, gender and diversity in education

  • , PhD, assistant professor of counseling, school and educational psychology in the UB Graduate School of Education.
  • , PhD, assistant professor of learning and instruction, in the UB Graduate School of Education.
  • , PhD, assistant dean for diversity in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Child mental health and school social support

  • , PhD, assistant professor of social work in the UB School of Social Work.
  • , PhD, associate director of the UB Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention.
  • , MD, professor of psychiatry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.  
  • , MD, assistant professor of psychiatry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB. 

Pregnant mothers and their school-age children

  • , MD, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

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