Openings

Doctoral students

Dr. Proctor advises doctoral students in the Graduate School of Education's Curriculum, Instruction, and the Science of Learning PhD program Learning Sciences track. Applications for fall 2025 admission are due January 1. If you are potentially interested in beginning a PhD with Dr. Proctor in a future year, please email Dr. Proctor. We would love to invite you to join a lab meeting, or to chat with a current student.

Undergraduate research assistants

Dr. Proctor often has funding available to hire undergraduate research assistants. If you are currently a UB undergraduate and are interested in joining our lab, please email Dr. Proctor.

High school computer science teacher

UB and BPS are working together to design a university-assisted community school; Dr. Chris Proctor is UB's project lead. At the new Research Lab High School, all students will take an introductory computer science (CS) course in tenth grade, and CS will serve as an interdisciplinary nexus connecting the other subjects together. CS will also be a catalyst high school-university collaboration: UB faculty and students will enrich the school, and high school students will spend time on UB's campus--during orientation, during internships, and through the opportunity to enroll in university courses.

We will be looking to fill a key role starting summer 2025: approximately 50% teaching high school computer science, and 50% supporting CS as an interdisciplinary nexus-- integrating CS into other subjects and coordinating high-school/university partnerships, working closely with Dr. Proctor. This is an opportunity to help shape what K12 CS ought to be, with substantial scope and istitutional support.

The position has not yet been posted, but anyone potentially interested in encouraged to contact Dr. Proctor.