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Posters and PowerPoints helped showcase some of the most cutting-edge work happening on campus at two recent events.

HumanitiesDC has awarded the National Deaf Life Museum a Visions-Projects and Events grant to produce a two-year exhibition led by Indigenous deaf curators. The exhibition will become the focal point of the Museum in Chapel Hall, merging the stories of Indigenous cultures that were the...

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.

“Fall Prevention in ASL-Using Deaf Older Adults,” a study proposed by a group of Gallaudet faculty, has just received an R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health for $397,076. The project, supported by the National Institute of Aging under award number R15AG087454-01, is led by Dr. Chizuko Tamaki, AuD program director in the School of Human Services and Sciences, Dr. Carol Cutler Riddick, a professor in Physical Education and Recreation (PER) with extensive credentials and experience working with older adults, and Dr. Janis Cole, a Deaf researcher/translator with a background in social work, Deaf/Cultural Studies, and linguistics. The team also includes Vanessa Arp, a Deaf member of the PER who among other responsibilities teaches an Adapted PER course.

Gallaudet University has been awarded a one-year grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support full access at an upcoming international conference. The project title is “Conference: Creating an accessible conference to support inclusive research in Mathematical Cognition and Learning.” Dr. Ilaria Berteletti of the Ph.D. Program in Educational Neuroscience Program is principal investigator, and Dr. Rachel Pizzie, also of the PEN program, is co-principal investigator.

Gallaudet University’s Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Planning Program (DEP) culminates with a Summer Institute hosted in collaboration with deaf community partners in a disaster-impacted setting in a U.S. territory or other country. This summer, the institute will be based in Japan, collaborating with six deaf-led organizations who have been at the forefront of disaster response and innovation following the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Klijah Mitchell stares at his laptop like a detective trying to crack a case. The senior in the Interpretation and Translation program is watching a video of Evon J. Black, '87 & G-'96, Associate Director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies (CBDS), introducing an interview. His job is to turn her signs into a written English transcript that will be archived along with the video at the D.C. Public Library.