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Welcome to the first monthly e-newsletter, "On The Green," as part of an effort to update our on- and off-campus community, donors and stakeholders about recent news and events happening at Gallaudet. The name "On The Green" is a reference to the Gallaudet campus, affectionately...

On Thursday, August 2, Gallaudet University hosted about 50 people to commemorate its new on-campus Capital Bikeshare station. Located just inside the university's main entrance at 8th Street and Florida Avenue, NE, it is the first station to be situated on a college campus in...

Gallaudet hosted Carroll "C.R." Gibbs, a noted Washington, D.C. historian, who presented "Triumph of Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Civil War in the District of Columbia" in Elstad Auditorium on September 18.Gibbs' lecture was one of the events Gallaudet has planned in collaboration with the...

Gallaudet University is pleased to announce its Professional Education Programs (PEP) unit has received accreditation by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) at the initial teacher preparation and advanced preparation levels. The NCATE accreditation means that Gallaudet's PEP meets rigorous standards which...

"There is no topic in the history of the human race that is more shameful or repugnant than slavery. Why then, should slavery be discussed today? Shouldn't it be treated as a taboo subject that is better buried and forgotten? Tim Wise, a noted anti-racism...

Gallaudet University has announced its plans to mark the 25th anniversary of its historic Deaf President Now (DPN) movement which ushered in the first deaf president of the world only liberal arts university for deaf and hard of hearing students. Since then, DPN has become...

Civil rights activist Julian Bond drew parallels between African Americans and the deaf community in their respective struggles for equality in his February 21, 2013 campus lecture, "From Civil Rights to Human Rights." Bond's visit was one of the events held in celebration of the...

Gallaudet University will air a new nationwide television commercial on Monday, March 4 during the hit ABC Family show, Switched at Birth. The show follows the lives of two teenage girls who discovered they were switched at birth; one is deaf and one is hearing....

Gallaudet University is pleased to announce it has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with The Republic of Panama Instituto para la Formación y Aprovechamiento de Recursos Humanos (IFARHU) in Panama City to facilitate the opportunity for Panamanian professionals to pursue graduate studies at Gallaudet. IFARHU...

Three MSSD alumni and a staff member shared their experiences in witnessing the Deaf President Now (DPN) movement of 1988 with members of the MSSD community at a March 15 presentation in Theatre Malz. The event, which was held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of...