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ASL Champ!, an education program being developed through Gallaudet’s Action & Brain Lab and Motion Light Lab, won the award for best demo at the XR Access Symposium, June 6-7 in New York City. The conference brings together leaders in industry, academia, and advocacy to address accessibility in virtual reality and augmented reality. “It was a great opportunity to get feedback and showcase what we’re doing at Gallaudet,” post-doctoral researcher Dr. Md Shahinur Alam says.

Explore Gallaudet University's Sutcliffe Spirit of Giving Back, celebrating generosity and community impact. Discover how you can contribute to meaningful change today!

When Dr. Alicia Wooten was in college, one of her biggest challenges was working with interpreters who weren’t familiar with scientific terms and concepts. She had to teach them signs to use. Barriers like that can make deaf people less likely to pursue careers in the STEM fields. So at an event on May 31, Wooten asked the undergraduates taking part in Accessible and Inclusive Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (AIBIDS) to think about this question: “How do we get people involved who are usually excluded from these spaces?”

Discover Dr. Carla Garcia-Fernandez's appointment as Faculty Director of Nuestra Casa, enhancing Gallaudet's commitment to Latine Deaf studies and community support.

Dr. H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Director of Gallaudet’s Deaf Studies Program, was honored to continue this tradition of transatlantic cooperation as a visiting professor in Paris this past March. He was invited by EHESS (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, or the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), the same institution where Mottez and Markowicz made history.

Discover how HumanitiesDC is empowering Indigenous Deaf communities through a groundbreaking two-year museum exhibition. Explore the intersection of culture and accessibility.

Graduate student Christina Kim is among the winners of the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards. Kim, a second year student in the Ph.D. Program in Educational Neuroscience (PEN), will use the training fellowship award to support research on language anxiety.