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"Deaf Returned Peace Corps Volunteers with former Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams. The group photo, along with the original story written by the Gallaudet University Museum, can be found here: http://www.gallaudet.edu/museum/exhibits/deaf-peace-corps-exhibit. Photo courtesy of Doug Slaunwhite. Gallaudet University and the Peace Corps have signed a...

As the 19th century gave way to the 20th century, deaf people seeking to buy life insurance, including death and accident benefits, were charged exorbitantly high fees or denied coverage due to the mistaken notion that deafness posed a high risk to one's life. On...

The Center for Democracy in Deaf America (CDDA) has announced its 2022-2023 debate team roster and schedule. Entering the third season of the debate program with Head Coach Dr. Brendan Stern, ’06; Willam Burgess and Moonhoon Choi as assistant coaches; and Adam Bartley as interpreter...

This news release was written by Francis Duffy. Three of our current Master of Public Administration (MPA) students, who will graduate in May 2018, have been hired to fill some really interesting and important positions. Kayla Dufrene, was hired as a legislative research analyst trainee...

Story photo courtesy of Streetcar 82 Brewing Co. The inaugural Gallaudet Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (GIEI) business pitch competition, held June 10, 2016, brought eight teams made up of deaf entrepreneurs together. Among them was a team made up by Jonathan Cetrano, '07, Development Office...

A cooperative agreement involving Wesley University (Ondo City, Nigeria), the Nigerian National Association of the Deaf (NNAD), and Gallaudet University was signed on November 5, 2018, at the National Deaf Life Museum at Gallaudet University. The historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing, part of a...

The current museum exhibit is shown. Photo by Zhee Chatmon. When the first museum was established 2,500 years ago, at the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, it displayed antiquities from earlier Mesopotamian civilizations; its founder, Princess Ennigaldi, could not have imagined the "cabinets of curiosities"...