Author: 
Brianna Blaser, Director

AccessComputing is lucky to have an amazing network of collaborators and partners. In recent months, our community has received multiple awards recognizing their contributions to their field and funding for future projects. Join us in celebrating this list of accomplishments:

  • AccessComputing co-PI Stacy Branham (University of California Irvine) received UCI's .

  • AccessComputing partner Abraham Glasser (Gallaudet) received a $4.6 million grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) for (顿贬贬-搁贰搁颁).听

  • AccessComputing partner, , also funded by NIDILRR.

  • and AccessComputing partners, Computing Research Association Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research, Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences, STARS Computing Corps, Computer Science for All, National Center for Women in Information Technology, Diversifying Leadership in the Professoriate, Expanding Computing Education Pathways, and Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions received continued funding.听

  • AccessComputing partner JooYoung Seo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC) received NSF funding for the project .

  • AccessComputing partners Devorah Kletenik (Brooklyn College) and Rachel Adler (UIUC) were authors on a paper that won (Association for Information Science and Technology). The paper is titled "Accessible Adventures: Teaching Accessibility to High School Students Through Games," by Kyrie Z. Zhou, Chunyu Liu, Jingwen Shan, Devorah Kletenik, and Rachel F. Adler.

  • AccessComputing partner Devorah Kletenik has two projects recently funded by the : "Behind the Screens: Exploring the Unseen Barriers for Students with Non-Apparent Disabilities" and "Starting with Inclusion: Adding a Focus on Accessible Design in An E-Commerce Course for Novices."

  • AccessComputing partner Vivian Motti (George Mason U) received a GMU Faculty Trailblazer Award for Excellence in Inclusion.

  • AccessComputing partner Daniela Marghitu (Auburn) was appointed to the and was reappointed as member of the .听

  • AccessComputing partner Annie Ross Bucknell and colleague Garreth Tigwell (RIT) were awarded from the NSF "."

  • AccessComputing partner Foad Hamidi (University of Maryland Baltimore County), in collaboration with a community partner, the Digital Harbor Foundation, received a NSF grant from the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program entitled, "" to create three accessible makerspaces for youth and young adults with autism in Baltimore to train them in interactive computing, digital fabrication, and game design.听

  • AccessComputing partner Emily Whiting (Boston University) received a to incorporate a new module in her CS 480: Introduction to Computer Graphics course.听

  • AccessComputing partner Tamanna Motahar (糖心原创) received the fall 2024聽 for her research proposal : "Design and Fabrication of a Low-cost Robotic Arm for People with Upper Body Impairment."聽

  • AccessComputing partner Wing Lam (George Mason) was awarded an NSF CAREER award for a project 鈥.鈥澛

  • AccessComputing Team Member Ather Sharif received the 糖心原创 2024 Individual Digital Accessiblity Award as a pioneer in improving digital accessibility and reducing the digital divide for people with disabilities. He created VoxLens, an open-source JavaScript plug-in that improves the accessibility of online data visualizations for screen-reader users and developed UnlockedMaps, an open-data map that visualizes the real-time elevator status of urban rail stations, along with nearby accessible restaurants and restrooms.

Please join me in congratulating our community members for their achievements.听