Workshop: Engaging Persons with Disabilities - Research Efforts and Opportunities (Part 2)

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Date/Time:Tuesday, 27 Oct 2015 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Location:Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
URL:http://bit.ly/1hH8PeJ
Contact:
Phone:515-294-5357
Channel:Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Categories:Training, development
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Persons with disabilities are severely underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields of study. This group consists of an entire population of lifelong problem solvers. Engaging them in the STEM educational pipeline and the STEM workforce can be a very rewarding endeavor. Engagement can occur via the research enterprise as well as through outreach and other educational programs.

Join us to learn about funding programs, research efforts and best practices in education and outreach from our panel of invited speakers.

Introduction and Overview
== Alexander Leonessa, Program Manager, General & Age Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE), National Science Foundation

== Ted Conway, Head, Biomedical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology

Research, Outreach, and Workforce Development Panel

== Enhanced braille for the blind
Cris Schwartz, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University

== Sensorimotor rehabilitation/Human computer interaction
Cara Stepp, Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University

== Collaborative efforts
Anat Caspi, Director of the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, University of Washington

== REU student recruitment and engagement
Christopher Andersen, Director of the Project to Support Grants for Research Outreach (Project GRO), Ohio State University

== Educational services
Sara Larkin, Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Upcoming sessions in the series:
Part 3: Best Practices in UDL early November.

This panel will be recorded, and available following the presentation.

This program is jointly sponsored by The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Information Technology Systems, Iowa NFS-EPSCoR, Student Disability Resources, and Office of University Counsel.