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My name is Tiana Dixon, and I’m a third-year Doctor of Audiology student at Gallaudet University, with an expected graduation date of May 2026. I’m originally from Wisconsin, but I’ve moved to several different states throughout the U.S. for school, internships, and work opportunities. I earned my master’s...

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Dr. Joseph C. Hill, G-’04 & PhD ’11, has been named the second director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies, following the retirement of founding director Dr. Carolyn D. McCaskill, ’77, G-’79, & PhD ’05.   Dr. Hill was previously an Associate Professor in the...

California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) will award honorary doctorates to three individuals this year. One of the three is Gallaudet University President Emeritus Robert R. Davila, ’53 & H-’88. He will receive the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa during the commencement...

Directed by Assistant Professor Dr. Geoffrey Whitebread, Gallaudet's Master of Public Administration Program has thrived, and now serves 50 students. About 60 percent of them are already professionals working in the field, while the other 40 percent are recent college graduates looking to launch their careers. This mix has made it important to build in flexibility, Whitebread notes, which is why the program offers both on-campus and fully online options and holds classes in the evenings, allowing students to balance the course work with jobs and family responsibilities. “It’s growing and growing fast because it meets students where they are,” says Lecturer Sean Maiwald, ’16.

On February 29, Hillel@Gallaudet, with the support of the university’s Division of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusive Excellence, held a program on campus, “Ask Me Anything,” with Yehoshua Soudakoff, a deaf rabbi who lives in Israel.  The event was open to the entire Gallaudet campus community....

To explain the environmental impact of climate change on migratory sea birds, Dr. Cara Gormally could write a lengthy paper filled with technical jargon and statistics. But the Biology professor, who specializes in science literacy and diversifying the STEM fields, has instead been drawing comics featuring adorable baby puffins. “I think it connects to the audience better, and you can make the animals talk,” says Gormally, who uses the pronouns they/them. Their passion for creating science-based comics has blossomed in the decade they have been at Gallaudet and teaching in American Sign Language.