Among Ourselves | | Graduate School Dean Carol Erting (left), and Educational Foundations and Research Department Chair Barbara Gerner De Garcia (right) congratulate Educational Foundations and Research professor Donna Mertens on the publication of three of her books in the past year. Dr. Mertens authored Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2010, now in its third edition), and Transformative Research and Evaluation (Guilford Press, 2009). She is co-editor of The Handbook of Social Research Ethics (co-edited by Pauline Ginsberg, Sage, 2009). |
Purple Communications, Inc. honored Dr. MJ Bienvenu, a professor in the Department of ASL and Deaf Studies, on September 12 at the Sheraton Columbia (Md.) Town Center Hotel as one of 10 finalists in the Dream Bigger campaign, which recognizes trailblazers in the deaf and hard of hearing community and celebrates the advances they have made. Each finalist was awarded a $1,000 cash prize from Purple Communications to be donated to a non-profit organization of their choice and in their name as a way of paving the road for the next generation of trailblazers in the deaf and hard of hearing community. Bienvenu chose the Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services as the recipient. “We are delighted to honor Dr. Bienvenu as one of our 2009 Trailblazers,” said Brandon Arthur, vice president of marketing communications for Purple Communications, a provider of onsite interpreting services, video relay and text relay services, and video remote interpreting. “Her work at Gallaudet University promoting the advancement of ASL is just the beginning of the trailblazing work she has accomplished.”
Dr. Stephen Chaikind, a professor in the Department of Business, presented a paper at the third annual American Association of Wine Economists conference in June in Reims, France. The paper, “About Wine Economics: A Selected Roadmap and Review,” documented the capacity for wine economics to cut across a wide swath of economic thinking, showing that the literature in wine economics is growing and becoming more robust and diversified. The goal of the paper is to provide a framework for further up-close theoretical and empirical observations on the economics of wine in areas as diverse as the agricultural basis of wine, the determination of the price of wine, the market structure of the wine industry, the rate of return to wine as an investment good, international trade issues related to wine, the role of wine in the history of economic thought, and the human capital implications of wine consumption, among other aspects.
Several faculty members presented at the Deaf History International conference held August 6 to 8 in Stockholm, Sweden. They included Melissa Malzkuhn, coordinator of community engagement with VL2; Dr. Edna Sayers, professor in the English Department (who could not attend but instead had colleagues deliver her two papers); Dr. Joseph Murray, assistant professor in the Department of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies; and Ulf Hedberg, director of the Deaf Collection and Archives in the Library (who delivered a paper on behalf of both himself and Deaf Collection Librarian Diana Gates).
 Sarah Houge, a second year student in the international development master’s program, presents a gift of thanks to David Morrissey, executive director of the United States International Council on Disability (USICD), for speaking to students about USICD’s work in advocating for the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Morrissey also spoke to the students about the importance of working, writing, and volunteering during their graduate studies in areas that build their portfolio and moves them in the direction of their desired careers. Andrea Shettle, a recent graduate of the international development program, worked with USICD in creating their website, where information can be found about the CRPD. More information on his organization is available at www.usicd.org.
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 Richard Goodrow, an academic web programmer in Academic Technology, was featured in the October issue of the magazine University Business, in an article about captioning technology. A sidebar entitled “Captioning: What You Must Know” (right) quotes Goodrow and describes three software programs he recommends for making lectures accessible. |
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