News
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April 8, 2020
RIT/NTID wins coveted prize to create accessible books as part of global reading initiative
NTID is one of four international innovators selected to create cost-effective packages of high-quality accessible children’s books in languages children use and understand to serve regions of the world where children have few or no books for preschool or kindergarten.
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April 7, 2020
RIT/NTID announces winners of Next Big Idea entrepreneurship competition
Six teams of deaf and hard-of-hearing students from NTID adapted to a virtual presentation format for the annual Next Big Idea business competition. Student presenters from as far away as Dubai shared their ideas for new businesses that positively impact deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.
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March 31, 2020
RIT alumni hop on the craft-beer boom
Many RIT alumni have tapped into the craft-beer boom that has swept across the country in the past 10 years.
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March 18, 2020
Message from RIT/NTID President Gerry Buckley
A video message from RIT/NTID President Gerry Buckley and other members of campus leadership.
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March 16, 2020
How Deaf Advocates Won the Battle for Closed Captioning and Changed the Way Americans Watch TV
Time magazine features RIT/NTID professor emeritus Harry Lang.
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March 6, 2020
Design. Build. Publish.
Students in RIT/NTID's mobile app development program earn a competitive advantage in the job market.
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March 4, 2020
RIT’s new Disability Services Office director says disability should be embraced
Disability is an identity, not a deficit. That’s the message Catherine Lewis, director of RIT’s Disability Services Office, hopes people will remember.
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March 4, 2020
More people of color are needed as sign-language interpreters; RIT/NTID tries to help
WXXI talks to associate interpreter Kristi Love-Cooper and apprentice interpreter Cassandra Flores about NTID's Randleman Program, which aims to equip interpreters of color to meet the demands of interpreting in a postsecondary environment, while boosting recruitment and retention efforts for interpreters of color.
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March 3, 2020
RIT/NTID’s Dye named to NIH scientific review committee
Matthew Dye, an RIT/NTID associate professor and researcher, has been named a member of the Language and Communication Study Section at NIH's Center for Scientific Review.
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February 28, 2020
The art and science of employment
RIT/NTID works with students to assist with job searches and employers to encourage them to hire our students.
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February 28, 2020
Deaf Detroit rapper set to make chart history, debuting amid Eminem, Royce da 5'9"
Detroit Free Press features deaf musician Sean Forbes '08 (applied arts and sciences) and the release of his new album.
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February 26, 2020
POSTPONED: RIT’s nighttime community photo project focuses on women’s rights icon
Rochester, N.Y.’s notable histories as the birthplace of the women’s rights movement and photography will come together for RIT’s Big Shot next month. Organizers of the longtime community photographic project will capture a dramatic nighttime image of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison St., and surrounding neighborhood on March 22.