Lab Updates


Benedikt Harrer presents at the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting 2024 in Boston!


Ter Booth is accepted to UC Berkeley’s Learning Sciences and Human Development PhD Program – congrats!


Ter Booth is selected to present her project at the 2024 UB Student Academic Excellence Showcase and wins LAI Department Graduate Student Research Award!


Challa Zirek presents a paper at the Spring ’24 GSE Research Symposium!


EISLab paper and two posters presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Summer Meeting 2023 and the Physics Education Research Conference (PERC) 2023

Characterizing representational gestures in collaborative sense-making of vectors in introductory physics


Virginia Flood presents a DiGEST Physics study at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2023 in Montreal!


Stacy Scheuneman presents at Spring ’23 GSE Research Symposium!


We won the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) Best Paper Award 2022!

ICLS Best Paper Award 2022

nonverbal communication

Can nonverbal gestures impact group success in STEM education?

We were featured in UBNow!


University at Buffalo researchers to investigate an understudied aspect of group learning

DiGEST Physics featured in Learn – the UB GSE Magazine


An interdisciplinary project to study gesture in physics learning

DiGEST Physics featured in Interactions, the Newsletter of the Department of Physics