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To honor its 125th anniversary, the Smithsonian National Zoo welcomed two new female American bison in August 2014. Because Gallaudet and Howard universities share the bison as their mascots, the zoo invited students at both schools to name the new animals. Gallaudet students selected the...

Five years:Nena Theoharis, Associate Professor and MA Program Director, Education; Christen Smith, Assistant Professor, Physical Education and Recreation; Brenda Seal, Professor; Hearing, Speech and Language Science; Wanda Riddle, Instructor, American Sign Language (ASL) & Deaf Studies Program; Anna Ramach, Teacher, Office of KDES Principal; Caroline...

Gallaudet University and the National Science Foundation's Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) are pleased to announce the release of a new bilingual storybook reading app for the iPad, The Blue Lobster. The Blue Lobster storybook app is designed for...

For the fourth consecutive year, Gallaudet University participated in the H Street Festival. Held along 10 blocks of nearby H Street, NE, the festival provides residents, merchants, and restaurants with the opportunity to celebrate the unique culture of the neighborhood with an outdoor block party....

Gallaudet University has established a collaborative agreement with Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in Charlotte, North Carolina, to enhance educational opportunities for future sign language interpreters. The partnership allows students in the two-year Associate in Applied Science degree in Interpretation Education program at CPCC to...

Click here for an American Sign Language (ASL) version of the summary of the winter 2015 meeting of the Board of Trustees. For captions, click "cc" in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Dear Campus Community, It's my pleasure to provide the community with...

On February 10, Dr. Christian Vogler was appointed to serve as a Representative Member on the Federal Communication Commission's Disability Advisory Committee (DAC). The DAC is the Commission's inaugural advisory committee established to advise the agency on communications access issues for individuals with disabilities. In...

The words "living laboratory" may conjure up images of Petri dishes and beakers filled with mysterious chemicals, but at Gallaudet University, a living laboratory is the intersection of human behavior and design. This concept was put into action during the fall 2014 semester when the...

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced on June 30 the appointment of Kelby Brick, '94, as the new director of the Governor's Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ODHH), an office that Brick helped to establish in 2001. As director, Brick's primary responsibility will...

The Gallaudet University Board of Trustees has announced the three finalists vying to replace outgoing university president T. Alan Hurwitz, who will step down from the post at the end of this year. The finalists, all of whom are deaf and women, were selected at...