August 5th, 2024
The Smith-Kettlewell Summer Institute is officially underway! This innovative program aims to equip blind and visually impaired students, recent grads, and early career researchers with advanced data skills crucial for STEM fields. Supported by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), with this program, we are addressing needs of the blind and visually impaired community and fostering a new generation of leaders in industry, government, and academia. Here’s to a productive and impactful summer!
Projects
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Empowering Data Vision: A Data Science Course for Blind Individuals Using R
The goal of the "Empowering Data Vision: A Data Science Course for Blind Individuals" program is to help people with visual impairments acquire advanced skills related to STEM subjects and careers.
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Empowering Data Vision: Data Science Course for Blind Individuals using Python
Call for Participation: Second Smith-Kettlewell Summer Research Institute, “Empowering Data Vision: Data Science Course for Blind Individuals using Python” The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are delighted to present our second on-line course dedicated to data science for blind individuals. Overview: This course, “Empowering Data Vision: A Data Science Course for Blind Individuals using Python,” will teach blind individuals the basics of using Python to interact with datasets. The course will be offered on…
Centers
Rehabilitation Engineering Research CenterThe Center's research goal is to develop and apply new scientific knowledge and practical, cost-effective devices to better understand and address the real-world problems of blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind...