Experiential Learning Network

The Community Service Project is designed to provide students with opportunities to meet the essential needs of an approved charitable or community service organization, applying interpersonal, organizational, or mediated communication skills while tying service and learning together

We invite UB students of all levels and majors to develop their own projects that align with individual interests, passion and sense of purpose. 

Seeking Research Assistants with backgrounds in health or life sciences for a team project designed to help pregnant women quit smoking.

Students will look at challenging topics related to decision, risk, and big data analytics.

Help develop puzzle video games to be used in engineering classrooms.

Fabricate, test, and analyze real components that are subjected to external loading to see how well they compare to finite element models.

Not all failures are best failures. If we are able to identify and explore our most powerful failures, we can gain important insights and opportunities for growth.

Work on an online cookbook to support Blue Table, UB's new food pantry for students. Build a sense of community, culture and support through celebrating food and cooking.

Global Women’s Empowerment is desperately needed. With so many challenges and obstacles related to access and equity, it is critical that we come together to highlight stories of women and women's initiatives empowering communities and making change.

Apply for a summer internship with a local Jewish organization to build professional work experience. 

The mHealth research team at UB is seeking smartphone hackers looking for research experiences and academic publications.

Help leverage the power of technology to support Chilblenders Green, a woman-led social enterprise in Nigeria, that is eliminating food wastage and promoting health and well-being 

There is no doubt that we need a new society where every child has access to education, and health becomes a right indeed for everyone; a world where disability, socio-economic background, gender or race is not a factor to becoming successful in life. Help us empower the change makers in order to be able to steward change effectively.

Help ensure that elderly community members are healthy and safe in Oyo State, Nigeria, through partnering with PriHEMAC organization. 

Students will research the properties of natural gas as a promising resource for clean energy, exploring implications for methane emissions and other limitations.

The Ocean Decade calls for new ideas, solutions, partnerships and applications. Seeking students to contribute through collaborative projects and innovation.

Seeking Research Assistants to work on a project that helps pregnant women to quit smoking, using multicomponent behavioral interventions including education, monitoring and feedback, and contingent financial incentives.

Seeking undergraduate assistants to work on an exciting research project studying effects of substrate stiffness on vascular cell function and molecular players involved in the vessel stiffening process. (Learn new techniques; 3D Bioprinting and Atomic Force Microscopy)

Share your journey as a student in STEM to spark curiosity, creativity and passion in K-12 students as they explore professional and academic pathways. You'll partner with Belouga.org, a digital platform connecting people in 98 countries, to inspire the next generation of college students.

Seeking students interested in sensors and smartphone programming to help equip next-generation smartphones for environmental sensing related to health and fitness.

South Africa + awesome youth + education + entrepreneurship; the only thing missing is you!

South Africa + awesome youth + education; the only thing missing is you!

This project pertains to the use of structures to produce electricity. In contrast to batteries, charging does not need energy input. This results in electric vehicles not having to stop to get charged, in addition to not having to rely on batteries, which are heavy and bulky.

Contribute to social entrepreneurship and women's empowerment projects developed in collaboration with UB students. Read about the first 10 years of partnering with Mara Tanzania in "On Tanzania Time."

Explore and contextualize specific challenges associated with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through profiling high-capacity NGOs working within global communities.

Learn about and volunteer at The Tool Library, an environmental and social justice not-for-profit in the University Heights neighborhood. 

Students will engage in researching magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) , helping to develop iron MRI contrast agents, making measurements, fitting data, and preparing samples for MRI studies. 

Fostering women's empowerment and sustainable design through eco-friendly fashion in Uganda.

Music is a universal language that unites and heals communities. Its role in promoting good mental health is great and essential. Benjamin Spartos is using music to change mindsets around mental health issues and support people battling these challenges

Help us create a nutrition and carb counting guidebook for Uganda and other African populations that will increase the Arican Diabetes Alliance's impact exponentially and be a stepping stone to improving people's health, quality of life and productivity.

Design materials for a creative arts and skills project to benefit orphaned  children in Uganda.

The Art of Dreaming is geared towards rediscovering, redefining who you are and setting a lasting legacy for oneself.

We are here to change the status quo in our community by first understanding what prevents our people from sharing their talent, then helping them leverage opportunities and support their journey until they can stand on their own.

Building resilience during the COVID lockdown time

SUTEDO envisions a diabetes community with reduced prevalence of the disease. We have a mission of arming all Ugandans—young and old, rich and poor—in the battle against diabetes.

Empower women, young girls and human rights defenders with skills to thwart online censorship, promote research, and mitigate threats of digital attacks and online harassment in Uganda

This project investigates the use of wood as a scale, so that people in a wood-frame building can be detected in real time (e.g., for intruder detection and energy conservation) and creating "smart" buildings.