PEN Distinguished Lecture Series
The PEN Distinguished Lecture Series in Educational Neuroscience was created in association with the Foundations Proseminar course for graduate students in the Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) program. Since its inception, the series has grown!
The lecture series focuses on the intersection of the Science of Learning (learning across the lifespan) and Educational Neuroscience (learning across early life). Scientists and researchers who are pioneers in the fields of Cognitive-Educational Neuroscience, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and Child Development come to Gallaudet University's campus to talk about their research.
Register for Upcoming Lectures
All lectures are open to the public and are video recorded for online distribution.
PEN DLS brochure for 2024-2025
To Be Announced
Dr. Rain Bosworth
Associate Professor in Liberal Studies, RIT /NTID
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*Present both in-person (JSAC 1011) and Webinar
Dr. Rain Bosworth is an associate professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at
RIT /NTID. She is a deaf experimental psychologist studying the development of perception and language in infants and children in her Perception, Language, and Attention in Youth (PLAY) Lab. For her doctoral degree at the University of California, San Diego, she studied visual motion processing and attention in deaf adults to understand better how deafness and sign language experience impact perceptual abilities. She is currently investigating visual and tactile exploratory behaviors in infants, children, and adults to address questions about how we learn and process sign language. She has also studied how easily visual abilities are recovered in children treated for congenital eye disorders. Together, these lines of research reveal how early sensory input shapes perception, cognition, and language processing.
The PEN Distinguished Lecture Series in Educational Neuroscience honors researchers who have changed the landscape of science. We invite them to share their discoveries as we forge new links across research communities within Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., and the world.
To view this year's and all previous presentations, please visit VL2's PEN Distinguished Lectures webpage.