Award Data

FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CURRICULUM STUDY (BSCS) HAS BEEN PRODUCING HIGH QUALITY ORIGINAL ARTWORK AND PHOTOGRAPHS AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF ITS MANY EXEMPLAR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. THIS BIOLOGICAL VISUAL LIBRARY MOST LIKELY CONTAINS THE GREATEST COLLECTION OF BIOLOGICAL ARTWORK ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. ITS VALUE IS IN THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. LASER VIDEODISC TECHNOLOGY MAK ...

OUR MODERN WORLD IS INCREASINGLY PERVADED BY COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY. STUDENTS NOT BUILDING AT LEAST SOME FOUNDATION IN THESE DISCIPLINES MAY FIND THEMSELVES TO BE DISADVANTAGED IN TOMORROW'S JOB MARKET. THIS IS TRUE FOR HANDICAPPED AND NON-HANDICAPPED STUDENTS. THE HANDICAPPED POPULATION HAS, IN ADDITION, ANOTHER NEED THAT CAN LARGELY BE MET BY COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY. THAT IS ...

This project develops and tests a multimedia software application to provide an independently usable format for improving knowledge of voting and election processes for persons with intellectual disabilities. During Phase I, a prototype is developed and evaluated to determine the feasibility of the approach for providing an independent, self-paced, self-directed format allowing students with intel ...

This project develops a cloud-based system for managing and delivering “on demand” activity prompts to individuals with intellectual disabilities along with a comprehensive, automated reporting system to enable reliable remote notifications to facilitate monitoring of task compliance. Pictures, audio, and video prompts can be delivered anywhere via the cloud to a Visual Impact cognitively acce ...