With thousands of RIT students involved in performing arts expected in the next few years, plans are moving forward for a performing arts complex that will feature a 750-seat theater and eventually a 1,500-seat orchestra hall for larger audiences.
A fully online degree program designed to prepare students for careers in business operations and provide the fundamentals of business planning, communication, and critical decision-making skills offered by NTID is accepting students for the spring 2022 semester.
Chemical and Engineering News interviews Asma Sheikh '20 (biomedical sciences) about ASLCore, a group of interpreters and deaf students based out of NTID that has developed advanced ASL signs in several disciplines.
City Newspaper features Luane Davis Haggerty, principal lecturer in NTID's Department for Performing Arts; Eliza McDaniel, a fourth-year ASL-English interpretation student; and Sam Langshteyn, a fourth-year film and animation student.
The Department of Performing Arts at NTID has named Jill Bradbury as chairperson and professor. Prior to her role, Bradbury was a member of the English department faculty at Gallaudet University. She also taught at RIT/NTID in both the Department of Liberal Studies and Department of Cultural and Creative Studies.
Mia White, former standout player and captain of RIT’s women’s soccer team, has accepted an invitation to play in Europe for the Primera Regional Madrid league’s Sporting Club Madrid team, a pre-developmental professional academy formerly known as Football Academy Madrid. White will be the only Deaf player on the team.
WXXI features Kristi Love, interpreter and director of the Randleman Program, and JT Reid, senior admissions counselor at NTID and a board member of the nonprofit Partners in Deaf Health.
The Dyer Arts Center at NTID has acquired a collection of works by the late Deaf artist Harry R. Williams. Williams died of AIDS in 1991, and his work has rarely been seen since.
To help meet the increasing demand for qualified ASL-English interpreters in educational settings, NTID is introducing a Certificate in Educational Interpreting. The program will be taught exclusively online and will run from September 2021 to May 2022.
A venue for Deaf playwrights; an interpretation of a Tony Award-winning musical; performance by talented student dancers; and New Yorkers struggling with relationships and identity during the AIDS crisis are all part of a new collaborative season by NTID’s Performing Arts Department and the College of Liberal Arts.
A team of researchers, led by NTID, has discovered that improved guidance on COVID-19 management and healthcare navigation accessible to the deaf community is needed. The conclusion is based on studies that show a higher portion of deaf respondents reported challenges with accessing, understanding, and trusting COVID-19 information compared to their hearing peers.
The competition, held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, welcomed 66 deaf and hard-of-hearing middle school students from California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
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