News and Outreach

  • Signing In: UA Research Aims to Improve Interactive Technologies for Deaf Community

    Smart devices activated with voice commands are a growing segment of consumer technology, but they can be challenging to access by those who use American…

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  • CI4R PhD Student Mahbub Rahman Earns 3rd Place in 2021 IEEE Radar Conference Student Paper Competition

    Congratulations to M. Mahbubur Rahman for earning 3rd place in the Best Student Paper competition held at the 2021 IEEE Radar Conference!! The award was…

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  • ​UA Student Explains COVID Challenges to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People

    UA student Caroline Yuk lead a team of students in creating a video explaining the challenges of mask-wearing during COVID-19 from the perspective of deaf…

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  • AIDB STEM Bus Visit to UA Campus

    We were honored to have our community partners, AIDB, bring the NTID STEM Bus to UA campus, where we were able to see all of…

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  • Seminar by Dr. Caroline Kobek-Pezzarossi, Gallaudet University

    The Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at The University of Alabama will host a Zoom based webinar presentation by Dr. Caroline Kobek Pezzarossi, Professor…

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  • Pandemic Parenting

    As faculty scrambled to adjust their classes from in-person to online this spring, they also had to deal with learning technology they hadn’t used before…

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  • CI4R Paper one of Top-5 Most Popular Papers in IEEE Trans. AES

    A 2018 paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems that was co-authored by Dr. Sevgi Z Gurbuz, her recently graduated M.S….

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  • ​RF Sensing Demo to Middle School Students at MATHCOUNTS

    MATHCOUNTS is a prestigious nationwide middle school mathematics competition.  Each year, the MATHCOUNTS Tuscaloosa Competition is hosted by the University of Alabama, along with STEM…

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  • ECE Assistant Professor Named a SPIE DCS Rising Researcher

    The International Society for Optics and Photonics, or SPIE, has recognized a member of The University of Alabama’s engineering faculty as one of the 13…

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  • Dr. Gurbuz Receives First NSF Award

    Dr. Sevgi Z. Gurbuz received her first NSF award from the Cyber-Physical System program, entitled “CPS: Small: Collaborative Research: RF Sensing for Sign Language Driven…

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