E. William Clymer, associate director of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf’s Center on Access Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology, has been awarded a $95,188 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure for a “Summit to Create a Cyber-Community to Advance Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals in STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Attending the summit will be 50 leaders in the field of support service provision for postsecondary deaf and hard-of-hearing students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from across the U.S.
The three-day conference, scheduled for June 26-28, is timed to follow the 2008 International Symposium on Educational Technology and Education of the Deaf, scheduled for June 23-25 at RIT (symposium details).
