News

  • September 5, 2017

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    NTID receives Motorola Solutions Foundation grant

    NTID received a grant for $30,000 from the Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Solutions Inc. Through the grant, NTID will support a new initiative to encourage students to enroll in NTID’s new mobile application development program.

  • August 8, 2017

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    NTID gets $2.6M to study language outcomes

    NTID was awarded a $2.6 million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health to study the neurological, linguistic and behavioral outcomes for deaf individuals after childhood—the first study of its kind with college-age adults.

  • August 3, 2017

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    Graduate finds strength through bodybuilding

    Deaf bodybuilder and fitness writer Alexandra Dunek ’14 is sharing her story of struggle and triumph to help inspire others who may be going through trying times of their own.

  • August 2, 2017

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    Book highlights deaf Americans in Civil War

    Harry Lang, NTID professor emeritus, will host a discussion and book signing on Sept. 6 for his latest book, Fighting in the Shadows: The Untold Story of Deaf People in the Civil War.

  • July 14, 2017

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    NTID gets $1M for deaf scientists-in-training program

    The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded a grant to RIT that is expected to provide $1.025 million in funding over five years to develop a Scientists-In-Training Program for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Undergraduates.

  • July 12, 2017

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    RIT/NTID names Student Life Team director

    Marvin “Tim” Albert has been named director of NTID’s Student Life Team and will supervise and oversee co-curricular events including clubs and Greek life for RIT/NTID’s 1,200 deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

  • July 11, 2017

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    NTID names director of diversity and inclusion

    Stephanie Smith Albert has been named the first director of diversity and inclusion at NTID. She most recently was the director of student life at Ohio School for the Deaf in Columbus, Ohio.

  • June 28, 2017

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    NTID names Gary Behm interim associate VP

    Gary Behm has been named interim associate vice president for academic affairs at NTID and will oversee NTID’s academic departments, curriculum, course scheduling, degree certification, communication services and assessment, and faculty/staff professional development.

  • May 16, 2017

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    N.J. teacher receives Scouten Endowed Internship

    NTID selected Katie O’Dell, a teacher at Neptune Middle School in New Jersey, for the 2017 Scouten Endowed Internship in English Literacy. Her internship took place in April at RIT/NTID.

  • May 15, 2017

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    Grad defines strength in the face of adversity

    Amie Sankoh came to the U.S. from Sierra Leone when she was 12 years old. The biochemistry student, who is deaf, will begin studying in August for her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.