Jenna Gorlewicz

  • Vanderbilt University

    Innovation Helps Teach Math to Visually Impaired Students

    A new Android app developed at Vanderbilt uses tactile feedback technology to help students with visual impairments to master algebra, geometry, graphing and other subjects that are particularly hard to comprehend without the aid of normal vision. Read More

    Jan 13, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Grad student demos tablet apps to aid visually impaired on Capitol Hill

    NSF Deputy Director Cora Marrett, left, chatting with Vanderbilt grad student Jenna Gorlewicz. (Christina West / Vanderbilt) Each May for the past 18 years, the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) has held an exhibition and advocacy day on Capitol Hill designed to illustrate how society… Read More

    May 24, 2012

  • tablet

    App turns tablet into math aid for visually impaired students

    A mechanical engineering graduate student has created an app that turns Android tablets into an educational aid for teaching mathematics to visually impaired students. Read More

    Mar 5, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    VUCast Newscast: Teaching Through Touch

    This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s weekly newscast  highlighting  research, experts, students, sports and everything Vanderbilt: Teaching through touch: How new technology is taking math to a new level Vandy students go inside ESPN What the mantra “no less” means to Commodore women’s basketball [vucastblurb]… Read More

    Mar 2, 2012