Sign Language & Multi-Modal Communication Lab

Join us for the Dr. Andrew Foster Lecture Series: CBDS at Year 5 – Building Legacy, Empowering Future 🗓 Feb 20 | 12–2 PM | Don’t miss this powerful conversation among the Black Deaf changemakers who established the Center of Black Deaf Studies at Gallaudet!

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A professional event flyer with a purple and gold background design. The flyer reads “Dr. Andrew Foster Lecture Series: CBDS at Year 5 – Building Legacy, Empowering Future." The event date is Friday, February 20, 2026, with a panel from 12–1 PM and a reception from 1–2 PM. The panelists named are Carolyn McCaskill, Evon Black, Lindsay Dunn, and Joseph Hill as moderator. A Zoom webinar link is included for hybrid attendance.

Zoom Webinar - 🔗 https://gu.live/pqske

https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/28/team-usa-stillwater-snow-sculpture-removed/

Team USA snow sculpture in Stillwater removed over ‘ICE out’ messaging The World Snow Sculpting Championship work by Team USA included messages spelled out in American Sign Language.

Join the UM Linguistics Department tomorrow, December 10th, from 4–5 p.m. in Lorch 403 for our Undergraduate Capstone Poster Session! Sixteen of our undergraduate students will be sharing their final projects, with topics ranging from innovations in speech-language pathology curricula to whether those famously gesture-y Italians are also more expressive with their emoji use. Light refreshments will be provided.

Happening today!