WASHINGTON – It’s a chilly December day on the campus of Gallaudet University and JC Smith – a Black deaf man and undergraduate student – is hanging out inside the new Center for Black Deaf Studies.

The project’s goal is to create an American Sign Language (ASL) data resource that focuses on documenting visual prosody, which includes, for example, non-manual markers that convey meaning and ...

“Hands on Shakespeare: ASL Translation, Dramaturgy, and Deaf Theater,” Gallaudet University Students translate poetry with their hands in this semesterlong course, rendering Shakespearean iambic ...

As stars Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan belted out the national anthem at the Super Bowl, a trailblazing Gallaudet University graduate communicated the emotion, lyrics and rhythm to viewers in ...

AT&T has joined forces with Gallaudet University to unveil football helmets designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing quarterbacks who communicate with American Sign Language (ASL). Unveiled on Oct. 5, ...

New Coca-Cola Sign Name Debuts with Reimagined Iconic 1971 "Hilltop" Ad, This Time in American Sign Language and Featuring Gallaudet Students Filmed on Campus WASHINGTON, May 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

A WWE SmackDown star reveals how and why they learned American Sign Language (ASL). Speaking to host Mike Brindisi on a ...

At a teaching symposium earlier this month, the world's only liberal arts university for deaf students explored the potential for remote learning by testing out a life-size holoportation device called ...

One year after student-led protests forced Gallaudet University to rescind a presidential appointment, some measure of calm is returning to the Washington campus of the nation’s only liberal-arts ...

The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created. By Alan Burdick, Emily Anthes and Ruru Kuo The documentary ...