non-profit work, he has applied this theory to the development of inexpensive, aesthetically designed prototypes, strategies, and products that enhance the ability of all people to engage in healthy behaviors. In the spring 2010, Gilson received funding to study campus architectures as symbols of campus cultural policy. He has also applied design and branding to the development of robotics for non-stigmatized augmentation of human function. Gilson is currently professor and co-coordinator of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the University of Maine and a principal of ASTOS Innovations, a non-profit corporation devoted to improving equality of access to community resources in local, national, and global environments. ASTOS Innovations designs and develops model access solutions. Gilson also holds an appointment as Senior Research Fellow. Ono Academic College's Research Institute for Health and Medical Professions, Kiryat Ono, Israel. Awards Guest Research Scientist. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Bethesda, MD. 1988-1991. Fellow. National Institute on Drug Abuse. Intramural Research Training Award. Addiction Research Center - Neuroimaging and Drug Action Section. Baltimore, MD. National Institutes of Health. Baltimore and Bethesda, MD, 1991-1993. Visiting Researcher Appointment, National Institute on Drug Abuse. Addiction Research Center - Neuroimaging and Drug Action Section. Baltimore, MD. Summer. National Institutes of Health. Baltimore, MD, 1995. CSWE Commission on the Role and Status of Women “Feminist Scholarship Award for 2000.” E. P. Cramer, S. F. Gilson, and E. DePoy – “Experiences of Abuse and Service Needs of Abused Women with Disabilities”. Allan Meyers Award for Scholarship in Disability, American Public Health Association, September, 2005. Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute in Israel, Society for Peace in the Middle East, Summer, 2008. Sponsored by Bar-Ilan University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Jewish National Fund, Media Watch International, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. 2008 University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (AUCD), Multicultural Council Award for Leadership in Diversity. 2009 University of Maine, Department of Psychology, Stanley Sue Distinguished Lecture Series, Diversity Lecture - "Now guess who is coming to the diversity dinner: Disability and beyond bodies and backgrounds". 2009 Society for Disability Studies (SDS), Senior Scholar Award. Selected works Selected Articles and Essays Gilson, S. F. & DePoy, E., (2005/2006). "Reinventing atypical bodies in art, literature and technology". International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 3, 7. Gilson, S. F. & DePoy, E. (2007). "Geographic analysis