NIDRR Grantees and Staff Receive Recognition

The NCDDR congratulates each of the following NIDRR grantees or staff members. All grantees are encouraged to contact the NCDDR with information to share in future issues of The Research Exchange.

Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, Principal Investigator of the Southeastern Michigan Traumatic Brain Injury System
located at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, Wayne State University, was recognized by the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). He received the Roger Barker Research Achievement Award for career achievement in rehabilitation research at the 105th Annual Meeting of the APA held August 15-19, 1997 in Chicago. For more information, Dr. Rosenthal may be reached at (313) 745-9769 or via e-mail: mrosenth@med.wayne.edu

Dr. Harry Levitt, Principal Investigator of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Hearing Enhancement and Assistive Devices at The Lexington Center, Inc. (http://www.hearingresearch.com/) [Updated URL 12/22/98], received the Special Friends of People with Hearing Loss Award. The honor was conferred at the annual convention of the Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (http://www.shhh.org/) in June, 1996. The recognition is presented to organizations or people who have worked diligently over time to improve the life and circumstances of people with hearing loss. Dr. Levitt can be reached at (718) 899-8800, or via e-mail: lexrsch@transit.nyser.net

Dr. Gregg Vanderheiden of the Trace Research and Development Center (http://trace.wisc.edu/) was recently honored with the third annual Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Web Award (http://www.yuri.org/news-010798.html) [URL obsolete 06/07/01]. Dr. Vanderheiden received this award in April, 1997 at the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference in Santa Clara, California, for his contributions in promoting accessibility through technology for people with disabilities. The recognition from the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation (http://www.yuri.org/) includes a monetary award of $10,000.

Dr. Vanderheiden is Principal Investigator for two current NIDRR grant activities, Understanding and Increasing the Adoption of Universal Design in Product Design (a Research and Demonstration project) and the RERC on Adaptive Computers and Information Systems (a Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center). He is also a Co-Investigator for the RERC on Universal Telecommunications Access (http://tap.gallaudet.edu/prj5.htm) based at Gallaudet University. He can be reached at the Trace Center, University of Wisconsin, at 608-262-6966 or via e-mail: gv@trace.wisc.edu

The Consumer Assistive Technology Transfer Network (CATN) (http://www.rt66.com/catn.org/ NO LONGER ACTIVE 12/22/98) has been awarded the Non-Government (Lab) Organization Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) (http://www.federallabs.org/) [Updated URL 12/22/98]. The award was presented in July at the FLC Joint Conference of the Mid-Continent Region/Mid-Continent Technology Transfer Center Affiliates in Denver, CO. On hand to accept the award was Bill Newroe, CATN Project Manager. Mr. Newroe and the CATN can be reached at (505) 989-9408 (v), (800) 866-2253 (v/tdd) or via e-mail: catn@rt66.com

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