Students

Candace, Brittany, Jamaal, and Ryan

Research Fellows
GU, RIT, and U of Ill

This summer, VL2 is offering a fantastic opportunity for four undergraduates by setting up a "Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows" program. This ten-week program enables students to receive extensive research training, pick up ropes from PhD students, and experience Washington DC during the summer.

The lucky students are:

Candace Myers, 25, Gallaudet University: I hope this program will benefit me in directing me towards my career in where I can be an asset to the Deaf Community.

Brittany Freel, 22, RIT: I'd like to work with Deaf kids in Elementary education. For me, this fellowship provides the opportunity to do research on ASL-English bilingualism.

Jamaal "Dean" Johnson, 20, Gallaudet University: My plans are to obtain a degree in psychology and aim for an internship in London next summer. For this program, I hope I'll master typing up complex research papers!

Ryan Barrett, 20, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagin: This is the perfect place for me to gain experience as a researcher and one of the areas I'm interested in is visual iconicity in ASL.

The is material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number SBE-0541953. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.