Technology

Gallaudet University is partnering with Scale Microgrid Solutions and Urban Ingenuity to build a world-class, clean energy microgrid. The microgrid is expected to come online in the fall of 2023. Read more about this exciting, innovative new system below! Watch this announcement in American Sign Language. Read the joint news release from Gallaudet University,Scale Microgrid...

That’s My Blue Crayon is the newest addition to the VL2 Storybook Apps collections. Developed by Tayla Newman, ’20, as part of her Honors capstone project, this app is now available for download in the Apple App Store for iPads. The Motion Lab provides an exclusive look at app creation behind the scenes at this link.

As part of its commitment to giving back to the community, Gallaudet University is partnering with Serve Your City (SYC) and the D.C. Mutual Aid Network to provide laptop and desktop computers, tablets, wifi hotspots, back-to-school supplies, and personal protective equipment for at-risk District of Columbia public and charter school students. Specifically: Gallaudet Technology Services...

Gallaudet University has launched a worldwide professional network to promote deaf-led research and innovation for the advancement of emerging technologies with sign language. This new collaborative network, Cultivating Research and Equity in Sign-related Technology (CREST), is funded by the National Science Foundation and will focus on increasing the inclusion of deaf and hard of hearing...

I am pleased to announce that Gallaudet University and Apple have begun a multifaceted collaboration to make learning more accessible and expand both academic and career opportunities for Gallaudet students. This collaboration began almost exactly one year ago. I sent our first ever ASL and English video message to Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive officer,...

Dear students, staff, and faculty: As we prepare to approach the fall semester remotely, we are extremely committed to our students and their learning. We are grateful to our students for challenging us last spring to higher standards for remote learning. We will continue to invest in our students through our commitment to educational excellence....

Gallaudet University is one of ​24 institutions nationwide to receive an exploreCSR grant from Google. The grant will support Gallaudet’s Information Technology program in offering a research-focused workshop in Spring 2019 to expand the pipeline in computing and information science research careers for deaf or hard of hearing women and men. Congratulations to Dr. Raja...

The Gallaudet University Technology Access Program has been awarded $4.625 million over a five-year project period for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for People who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH-RERC). This grant is funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research under the Administration for Community Living...

Gallaudet Technology Services received two prestigious awards during Oracle Open World, an annual conference held September 16-19 at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Earl Parks, ’99, executive director of GTS, and Daryl Frelich, ’97, director of Enterprise Information Systems, accepted the PeopleSoft Innovation Award and the Cloud Platform Innovation Award on...

Gallaudet’s second annual Information Technology Summit was held on September 13. This event was sponsored by the Career Center, PNC Bank, Procter & Gamble Company, Ernst & Young, General Dynamics Information Technology, and Microsoft Corporation. It connected over 60 information technology (IT) and business majors with over 25 employers who want to hire students with...