IDEA Center gets $5 million grant
Award continues funding of rehabilitation research on universal design
By PATRICIA DONOVAN
Contributing Editor, University at Buffalo ReporterThe Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center) in the School of Architecture and Planning has received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to fund a second five-year cycle of its Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD).
Although the IDEA Center is the grant recipient, in operating the RERC it now will collaborate with the Ontario Rehabilitation Technology Consortium (ORTC) and representatives from the design and disability communities nationwide.
Co-directors of the center are architect Edward Steinfeld, UB professor of architecture and director of the IDEA Center, who is nationally recognized as one of the early developers of the concept of universal design, and Geoff Fernie, vice president for research at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, a member organization of ORTC.
UB Reporter: IDEA Center gets $5 million grant
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