Thank you for making ISLAND 2024 a success!

Save the date! The 16th annual ISLAND Conference
will be held Sept 18-19th, 2025 at 701 Carnegie Center Drive, Princeton

Archived Schedule of Presentations for ISLAND 2024 – Princeton

*All times listed in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT/UTC -4)

Thursday, September 12, 2024

8:30 a.m. Zoom Room Opens

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast for In-person Attendees

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

9:05 a.m. Empowering Neurodivergent Student Persistence in STEM: AIESTEMPLOS Program Impact and Student Panel Discussion.

Presenters: Christin Monroe PhD, Anastacio Bonhomme, Jaden Clark, Gabby Woolgar, and Madison Wan.

Landmark College, Dummerston, Vermont.

9:35 a.m. Curriculum Made Accessible: The Importance of Inclusion.

Presenter: Ashley Neybert, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

10:05 a.m. Creating a Sustainability & Recycling Pre-ETS Curriculum for Non-Visual Students.

Presenters: Maeve Goldman* and Charis Glatthar

Independence Science, West Lafayette, Indiana.

10:35 a.m. Coffee Break (15 minutes)

10:50 a.m. Interpreting an Ancient Rock-Carving Using NASA-Supported Tactile-Art Representations of the Sun.

Presenters: Tasnim Alshuli^1*, Cherilynn Morrow^2*, PhD, John M. Keller, PhD³ , Nicole Johnson, PhD³, and Don Kolinski.⁴

^1*University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
^2*NASA PUNCH Mission & Lead author of Petroglyph Inquiry &
Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
³Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
⁴High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Colorado.

11:20 a.m. Artificial Intelligence and Captioning: Impacts for STEM Education.

Presenter: Thomas Logan, Equal Entry, Brooklyn, New York.

11:50 a.m. – Inclusio: Recent Advancements Toward Interoperability of Inclusive, Multimodal Graphics.

Presenters: Jenna L. Gorlewicz PhD*, Dan Gardner¹, Hari Palani PhD², Nicholas Giudice PhD³, Danielle Guzman-Orth PhD⁴, Amy Keith PhD⁵

*^,5St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.
¹ViewPlus Technologies
² ROUX Institute, Northeastern University, Portland, Maine.
³UNAR Labs, Portland, Maine
⁴Measured Methods Consulting

12:20 p.m. LUNCH and KEYNOTE (70 minutes)

Keynote Address – Cary Supalo PhD

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1:30 p.m. Making a Podcast with kids: An inclusive Tool for the Elementary STEM Classroom.

Presenter: Marshall Escamilla, Tumble Science Podcast for Kids, Massachusetts.

2:00 p.m. Ionic Bonding Made Simple (in UEB and Nemeth).

Presenter: Roseanne Hoffmann, American Printing House for the Blind, Louisville, Kentucky.

2:30 p.m. Facilitating Math Skills & Curriculum Access with the Abacus.

Presenters: Monique Coleman PhD and Kriten Witucki, MA

VISTAS Education Partners, New Jersey.

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break (15 minutes)

3:15 p.m. Accessible Forensic Chemistry Part 2.

Presenters: Annalise Diodato and Maeve Goldman

Independence Science, West Lafayette, Indiana.

3:45 p.m. Wolfram Syndrome.

Presenter: Ellie White, Ellie White Foundation for Rare Genetic Disorders, Centennial, Colorado.

4:15 p.m. Alternative Avenues for Accessibility in STEM.

Presenters: Jennifer Doran*, Ashley Neybert, and Andreas Schmittner PhD

Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

4:45 p.m. Sensing the future of laboratory independence for the blind.

Presenter: Greg Williams PhD

Independence Science, West Lafayette, Indiana.

5:15 p.m. Adjourn

5:30 p.m. Zoom Room Closes

6:00 p.m. Dinner for In-Person Attendees

Friday, September 13, 2024

8:30 a.m. Zoom Room Opens

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast for In-person Attendees

9:00 a.m. Welcome
Darren Hubbard
Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer,
Princeton University

9:05 a.m. The Role of Technology in My Life: Narrating the Evolution of Technology and Its Impact on a Blind Individual from a Developing Country.

Presenter: Shrirang Sahasrabudhe PhD, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey.

9:35 a.m. Opportunities and Challenges for AI as an Assistant in STEM Accessibility.

Presenter: Markku Häkkinen PhD, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey.

10:05 a.m. Enabling graduate students in STEM to understand the fundamentals of communicating across the senses to facilitate accessible communication.

Presenter: Helen Sullivan PhD, Rider University, New Jersey.

10:35 a.m. Coffee Break (15 minutes)

10:50 a.m. TSVIs’ Approach to Providing Accommodations for SVIs in Mathematics Education.

Presenter: Tasnim Alshuli, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

11:20 a.m. Using Audible Light Sensors for Laboratory Physics.

Presenter: Peter Walters PhD, Independence Science West Lafayette, Indiana.

11:50 a.m. LUNCH (70 minutes)

1:00 p.m. Round Table Discussion 1: How Higher Education is Improving IT Accessibility for Students with Disabilities.

2:15 p.m. Coffee Break (15 minutes)

2:30 p.m. Round Table Discussion 2: Making Science Education Accessible to Students with Disabilities.

3:45 p.m. Coffee Break (15 minutes)

4:00 p.m. Round Table Discussion 3: Students as Agents in Universal Access to Research Information.
Introducing the Topic of Accessibility to Students Without Disabilities so They Will Be Able to Present the Results of Their Work to a Wider Audience

5:00 p.m. Debrief and Closing Remarks
5:15 p.m. Wrap up

5:30 p.m. Zoom Room Closes