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What do you get when you put four Deaf scholars from around the world together in a historic house for a year? The Deaf Studies Incubator.  The Incubator, which launched last year, provides financial and academic support to emerging scholars to work on interdisciplinary projects...

The Center for Democracy in Deaf America (CDDA) has won the 2025 Activating Equity Award from the National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA), the nation’s largest debate organization and home to alumni such as Pope Leo XIV, Stacey Abrams, and Justice Samuel Alito. The award...

More than 500 researchers from around the world — including dozens of deaf and signing scientists — will converge at Gallaudet Sept. 12-14 for the 2025 Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) Conference. SNL’s annual meeting is an opportunity for scientists with a variety...

When Hiruni Hewapathiranage-Mayadunne joined Kendall Demonstration Elementary School’s (KDES) Parent Infant Program as a baby in October 2007, no one knew it was the beginning of her star-studded career on Gallaudet’s campus. “I’ve been here ever since,” she says. Now kicking off her sophomore year,...

Gallaudet is pleased to announce a gift from Alan M. Fisch that establishes the university’s first-ever endowed and named professorship: the Alan M. Fisch Professorship in Mathematics. The gift is intended to assist Gallaudet in attracting and retaining a faculty member in the Mathematics Program,...

Rising senior Ciara Luttrell wanted to learn about health literacy this summer. So Dr. Lorne Farovitch, ’14, the founder and director of the Global Deaf Research Institute (GDRI), crafted an internship tailored to her interests that included a trip to a United Nations conference on...

Dr. Caroline Solomon, Gallaudet University’s current Dean of the Faculty, has been named the next President of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) and Vice President of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She begins her new role on August 18. Gallaudet offers...