Carol has worked at RIT for over 30 years and has been in the Center since it was launched as the National Sign Language Interpreting Project in 2002. She has an M.S. degree in Secondary Education of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and is a certified sign language and oral interpreter. Following an NSF-sponsored research program that focused on deaf and hearing students' allocation of visual attention in the classroom, her current research investigates deaf students' academic achievement in college classrooms through studies exploring cognitive and metacognitive foundations of learning.