News Stories
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March 28, 2022
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A CODA and her mother on 'CODA's portrayal of deaf culture
WHEC-TV interviews Lisa DeWindt-Sommer, senior counselor/academic advisor at NTID, and her daughter, RIT student and CODA Kaitlin Sommer, about the movie CODA.
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March 27, 2022
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'One of a kind': Community from RIT/NTID reflects on 'CODA'
WHAM-TV interviews Denise Kavin, assistant dean for outreach, placement and special projects at NTID, and RIT/NTID students about the movie CODA and their experiences as “children of deaf adults.”
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March 27, 2022
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How Robots Can Assist Students With Disabilities
The New York Times interviews RIT/NTID faculty researcher Wendy Dannels and human-computer interaction graduate student Roshan Mathew about assistive technology for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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March 27, 2022
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Video Games Offered My Son a Haven From Bullying
Essay co-written by Luke Whited, third-year game design and development student, published in Wired.
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March 24, 2022
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New data-sharing requirements from the National Institutes of Health are a big step toward more open science – and potentially higher-quality research
Essay by Stephen Jacobs, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media and director of Open@RIT, published by The Conversation.
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March 23, 2022
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Rochester man competing in new Fox game show
WHAM-TV talks to Jared Lyon ’01 (information technology), senior web developer/programmer, about his participation in the new Domino Masters game show.
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March 22, 2022
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The universe’s background starlight is twice as bright as expected
ScienceNews talks to Michael Zemcov, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about discrepancies in extragalactic background light.
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March 22, 2022
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Featured Image: A Cosmic Butterfly Spreads Its Wings
AAS NOVA features a Hubble Space Telescope image created by an RIT team led by Joel Kastner, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.
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March 21, 2022
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Strong Museum of Play, NTID partner for Deaf Day of Play
Spectrum News features the Deaf Day of Play.
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March 21, 2022
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RIT Dubai students unveil clean energy boat design at Dubai Expo 2020
The Gulf News features an RIT Dubai team's participation in the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge.
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March 21, 2022
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Environmental evolution: RIT part of the largest-ever study
WROC-TV talks to Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, about her team's research on white clover.
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March 21, 2022
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The pandemic has changed the way we perceive technology — and how we resist it
Essay written by Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, published by The Washington Post.
