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Nuestra Casa, the Center for Latine Deaf Studies, hosted three events April 4-6 with Dr. Jamila Guerrero-Cantor, G-’07, a social justice advocate who has done extensive research on Deaf undocumented Mexican immigrants navigating college in California. Guerrero-Cantor also serves as Secretary of the Dolores Huerta...

Eight Gallaudet University students and six staff and faculty members visited the Mary W. Jackson National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters on April 12. While there, they met the NASA administrator, toured the new Earth Information Center (EIC), and interacted with two deaf NASA employees.   This...

Board of Trustees member Darian Burwell Gambrell, ’97 & G-’04, Executive Director of DEAF Inc. in Watertown, Massachusetts, has been selected as one of The Boston Foundation’s six movement leaders for 2024. Each movement leader and their nonprofit organization will receive $675,000 over three years...

Jeffrey W. Panasuik, ’04, received an Outstanding Educational Leadership Award at the Education 2.0 Conference on March 19 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Panasuik was cited as being “instrumental in fostering a dynamic learning environment for adults communicating primarily through sign language.”   Panasuik...

D.E.A.F. Inc., a Watertown, Massachusetts community-based, multi-service nonprofit run by and for Deaf adults, has been awarded a $2 million gift in this year’s Yield Giving Open Call grant competition. Gallaudet University alumna and Board of Trustees member Darian Burwell Gambrell, ’97 & G-’04, the...

Megan Majocha, ’18, is nearing completion of her Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University, in the school’s Interdisciplinary Program in Tumor Biology. She also works with the National Institutes of Health through the Georgetown–National Institutes of Health Graduate Partnerships Program. She has recently been featured in...

Old, old, old-timers at Gallaudet (like this author) may remember Dr. Joseph Grigely, who taught in the Department of English from 1983 to 1996. Grigely, who is also an accomplished artist, a former professional ice hockey player, and an expert fly fisher, left to accept...