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WHEC-TV talks to Joshua Sitte, student interpreter at RIT, during the Deaf Day of Play at the Strong National Museum of Play.

WXXI talks to Keith Cagle, department chair, NTID Department of ASL and Interpreting Education, about the hands-on experience the event offered.

WHEC features the partnership between the museum and NTID.

The Democrat and Chronicle features RIT student Trent Gobble in its coverage about new ASL Video Relay Services available at local Spectrum locations.

WROC-TV talks to Jason Nordhaus, associate professor in the Department of Science and Mathematics, about interplanetary eclipses.

RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf has received $92.5 million for fiscal year 2024, which is level funding from 2023, with NTID’s Regional STEM Center receiving $9.5 million, as it did in fiscal year 2023.

The Embodied Podcast speaks to Joseph Hill, assistant dean of NTID Faculty Recruitment and Retention, about the research he and two other colleagues have conducted about BASL.

Rochester's City Magazine talks to Thomas Warfield, senior lecturer and director of dance, about the overlap of dance and astronomy.

The Democrat and Chronicle talks to Joseph Hill, assistant dean of NTID Faculty Recruitment and Retention, about the issue. (This content requires a subscription to view.)

NPR interviews Christopher Kurz, professor in NTID’s Master’s in Secondary Education program, about making American Sign Language more STEM inclusive.

The New York Times interviews alumnus Eric Epstein ’19 (software engineering).

Alexander Van Hook has been named to the board of the Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf’s Alumni Association. A staff attorney at the National Association of the Deaf, and admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, he self-identifies as a person with cross-disabilities (deaf wheelchair user).