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Using AI to Advance Child Development and Learning

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Can artificial intelligence-powered tools help enrich child development and learning? That question is the crux of a series of research projects led by Zhen Bai, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Rochester and the Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science at the Goergen Institute for Data Science. From tools to help parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children learn American Sign Language (ASL) to interactive games that demystify machine learning, Bai aims to help children benefit from AI and understand how it is impacting them.

Wilmot Science Training Program for Deaf High School Students Expands Across the U.S.

Monday, September 16, 2024

For four years, the Wilmot Cancer Institute has run a summer internship program to expose local Deaf high school students to cancer-related healthcare and research careers they might not otherwise consider. With support from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Wilmot will expand that program to provide science education internship opportunities to Deaf high school students at four partner sites across the U.S.

Alumnus Wyatte Hall Awarded $3.4 Million to Study Language Acquisition in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Wyatte Hall, G-’11 & PhD ’14, an assistant professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been awarded a $3.4 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). Hall, who was the first graduate of the UR Clinical Translational Science Institute-supported Rochester Postdoctoral Partnership, will track language acquisition outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children with the five-year grant.