Evan Dewey makes friends everywhere he goes. He’s buddies with the Vonlane bus drivers who transport him and his father, Brian, from his hometown of Atlanta to the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine — the closest enrollment site for the worldwide ABATE study that is testing a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome.

Leah Broussard, a research scientist in the Physics Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the inaugural DOE Distinguished Mentor Award for Workforce Development. The DOE Office of Science announced the awards March 10, recognizing scientists who guide and support the next generation of researchers.

Vanessa Gumier, a researcher in the Translation for Audiovisual Media and Accessibility research group (TRAMA) at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, has created an audio description in Valencian and Spanish for the special-category Convento de Jerusalén–Matemático Marzal Falla in Valencia, enabling people with visual impairments to learn about the elements that make up the Fallas monument.

The audio guide, narrated by Francisco Campaña Romano, uses NaviLens codes, a technology that allows the code to be read without needing to focus so precisely and identifies it aloud. Over the past two Fallas campaigns (2024 and 2025), the researcher has applied a participatory action research methodology that includes observing accessibility in the monuments and conducting focus groups with blind people, accessibility specialists, Fallas artists and Fallas organisers.

Groups from ONCE have visited both the main Falla and the two 'ninots' that took part in the exhibition for the selection of the 'ninots indultats', and they evaluated the project through a survey. In addition, Vanessa Gumier is in contact with the Inclusión Fallera Association of Valencia, which last year launched a project to systematise the accessibility of Fallas monuments, involving 58 Fallas in Valencia.