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Jul 1, 2024 | 
gallaudet.edu | Kaitlin Luna |Anthony Di Giovanni
The 20th anniversary of the annual Sutcliffe Business Bowl held at Gallaudet on April 11, 2024 was a family affair for the benefactor behind the event. Dr. Ronald E. Sutcliffe, ’59, former dean of Gallaudet’s School of Management, attended the event with all five of his children – Glen, Jane, Herb, Bert, and Dale. The matriarch of the family, Agnes Dunn Sutcliffe, ’59, passed away in 2020 at age 86.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
gallaudet.edu | Kaitlin Luna |Anthony Di Giovanni
Evon J. Black, ’87 & G-’96, associate director of Gallaudet University’s Center for Black Deaf Studies, will give a presentation entitled, “Unveiling Untold Black Deaf Stories” at the NAD 57th Biennial Conference in Chicago. Her presentation will elevate awareness of Mrs. Louise B. Miller, an overlooked hero of educational and racial justice in America. This largely untold story is of the power of a mother’s love and how Mrs.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
gallaudet.edu | Kaitlin Luna |Anthony Di Giovanni
Gallaudet University’s Office of Institutional Advancement held two events in May 2024 to spread awareness about the Necessity of Now (NOW) fundraising campaign. Gallaudet’s annual President’s Circle Commencement Celebration held on May 9 at Ole Jim was an opportunity for President Roberta J. Cordano, Institutional Advancement Executive Director Nicholas Kiego, ’09, and IA staff to celebrate the donors who gave $1,000 or more to the University this year and to share more details about NOW.
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May 3, 2024 | 
gallaudet.edu | Amanda Mueller |Anthony Di Giovanni
The Gallaudet in Nigeria-Africa-led Strengthening Deaf Education, Empowerment, and Employment (Deaf-E³) activity, a three-year grant that aims to advance K-12 bilingual deaf education for employment and life opportunities toward the empowerment of deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind children and youth in Nigeria, has been extended to September 30, 2024.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
gallaudet.edu | Natalie Castro |Anthony Di Giovanni
Nuestra Casa, the Center for Latine Deaf Studies, hosted three events April 4-6 with Dr. Jamila Guerrero-Cantor, G-’07, a social justice advocate who has done extensive research on Deaf undocumented Mexican immigrants navigating college in California. Guerrero-Cantor also serves as Secretary of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, working alongside the legendary co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW).
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
gallaudet.edu | Anthony Di Giovanni
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. Students, staff, alumni and local community members attended. By most accounts, it was an engaging program that touched on a wide range of topics and was conducted civilly and safely.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
gallaudet.edu | Anthony Di Giovanni
Addis Ababa University is pleased to host the 15th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 15) for the first time on the African continent. It will take place from January 14 – 17, 2025. The abstract submission link: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6945/submitterThe guideline for the Call for Abstract link https://tislrethiopia.org/call-for-papers/Please register!TISLR 15 brings sign language specialists across the world to the political capital of the continent, Addis Ababa.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
gallaudet.edu | Sam Atkinson |Robert J. Weinstock |Anthony Di Giovanni
Twenty-five years ago, the Gallaudet University women’s basketball team (24-6) won the Capital Athletic Conference championship and advanced to the third round – the Sweet Sixteen – of the NCAA Division III tournament at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
gallaudet.edu | Anthony Di Giovanni |Marie Maslanova
On December 21, 2023, a student at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic shot and killed 14 people and injured 25. The gunman also died, and was subsequently implicated in several other shootings days earlier. This was by far the worst mass shooting in the country’s history. Eight of the dead students and many of the injured students were enrolled in the school’s Deaf Studies program.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
gallaudet.edu | Amelia Oliver |Anthony Di Giovanni
To explain his research, Dr. Octavian Robinson, ’02 & G-’04, signs ‘Crip’ as in the world being thrown upside down. The associate professor of Deaf Studies and his collaborator, the late Dr. Jon Henner, E-’05, both began writing about ableist systems and attitudes toward language over the past decade. This led them to develop what they dubbed “Crip Linguistics,” a framework that recognizes that people have different ways of using language, and all of those ways are valid.
