The first virtual IAGD General Meeting was held last Friday, December 14th, hosted by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). The agenda for this meeting is included below, along with links to the presentation slides, the audio recording, and the transcript for the recording. Finally, highlights of the meeting are...
Live Webinar: Annual General Meeting of the IAGD, December 14th, 2pm Eastern
Dear members and friends of the International Advisory for Geoscience Diversity: We are less than 24 hours from our first official General Annual Meeting. This email contains important information for tomorrow’s meeting. Please note, the log in information for the meeting has changed. Please review the new log in...
Pushing Science’s Limits in Sign Language Lexicon
By Douglas Quenqua The New York Times: Science Imagine trying to learn biology without ever using the word “organism.” Or studying to become a botanist when the only way of referring to photosynthesis is to spell the word out, letter by painstaking letter. For deaf students, this game of...
US President Proclaims International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2012
Presidential Proclamation — International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2012 Please see below for a proclamation from President Obama on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Americans have always understood that each of us is entitled to...
New Study Released on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Participation among College Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
A new SRI-led study finds that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are significantly more likely to choose STEM majors, if they attend college. The study also paints the first picture of college enrollment and participation in STEM majors for young adults with ASDs, compared with their peers in...
Making Astronomy Accessible for Blind and Partially Sighted People
Excerpt by Emily Davison at Goldsmiths University, UK In the UK alone Astronomy has grown into becoming a popular sub culture. Professor Brian Cox is now recognised among the mass audiences as being the “peoples’ person” of Astronomy. For a sighted person it is extremely easy to become addicted...
Recent IAGD events at the 2012 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
The IAGD network continued to build at GSA 2012 in Charlotte NC. Before the conference, a short course titled Instructional Approaches to Access, Accommodation, and Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the Geosciences was presented by IAGD members Chris Atchison, Brett Gilley and Gina Ceylan. In the course participants...
Provost’s Postdoctoral Research Scientist/Scholar Program
Palisades, NY – Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University invites applications for the Provost’s Postdoctoral Research Scientist/Scholar Program. The goal of this program is to enhance the recruitment of outstanding postdoctoral scholars from underrepresented groups to more closely reflect the composition of the national pool of qualified candidates. The...
Tactile sculpture unveiled at Mammoth Cave National Park Visitor Center
Mammoth Cave, KY – As part of the new visitor center exhibits at Mammoth Cave National Park, artist Matthew Gray Palmer has created a tactile representation of a selection of passages in the vicinity of the Historic Tour route at the cave. “The goal of the piece is to...
Short course on creating access to the geosciences for students with disabilities to be held at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC.
Course #508. Instructional Approaches to Access, Accommodation, and Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the Geosciences. Sat., 3 Nov., 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Room 501. UNC Charlotte Center City, 320 East 9th Street. Map & Directions Cost: US$35; includes lunch. Participants will be reimbursed for the expense of the short...
