They worked with major manufacturing corporations, universities, and banking, financial and sales operations throughout the United States, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indonesia. In the College of Education, Buffer developed the Office for Research and Development Services, with an outreach program to provide training and development services to the private sector.
They pioneered the study of brain development to understand how we learn.
Always innovative, he developed several graduate degree programs, including a neurosciences program and research lab that involved faculty in medicine, engineering and education. Jim Buffer had an illustrious career at four universities, serving longest at Ohio State for 22 years starting in 1967.
